Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life
So many posts! 36 is by far the most I ever added to my site in a single year. Drawing, knitting, crochet, wrestling with Disqus, exploring Emacs, then going back to Vim and the command line, with tools like Taskwarrior.
Dec 25, 2017
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
Merry Christmas! Time to organize my Taskwarrior tasks.
Dec 16, 2017 (Updated Dec 22, 2017)
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
I ended up with a mess after half a year trying to use every feature of Taskwarrior. It's time to focus on building solid knowledge one step at a time.
Dec 15, 2017
Craft · drawing · Procreate · celtic · zentangle ·
Nov 19, 2017
Took me less than a week. I like that. On the other hand, I established for certain that when I knit fast my gauge loosens up. The hat fits looser than it should. I like that less. On the other other hand, I already wear it most of the time. It feels nice.
Nov 7, 2017
Craft · drawing · Infinite Painter ·
Oct 31, 2017
I found Wellington, a Sass compiler written in Go.
Sep 20, 2017
Marginalia · site ·
Trying to add Disqus comments once again. I adjusted permalinks, since the old /:section/:year/:title/
structure seemed to confuse Disqus. Here’s hoping. I assigned aliases to content so that old links should
work.
Sep 3, 2017
Craft · drawing · Procreate · Infinite Painter ·
Aug 17, 2017
Marginalia · books ·
What have I been doing with my spare time? I've been reading books. Not too much. Mostly tech.
Aug 6, 2017
I rushed through that post about logging money with org mode, and didn't take much time to edit it. This
bothers me. Today I went into writegood-mode
to catch my sloppiest writing mistakes.
Jul 31, 2017 (Updated Aug 5, 2017)
I am setting up Emacs org mode to track how I use my money. This is a healthy habit, which I applied in the past with a little paper notebook. This needs to be as easy as that little notebook, or I will never use it.
I only want to see how I use my money. This can eventually become part of a budget, but all I want today is the ability to make quick money notes.
Stuff like that. Let’s see what I come up with.
Backing The Flask Mega Tutorial Kickstarter
Jul 9, 2017
Marginalia · python ·
Miguel Grenbergs’ Flask Mega-Tutorial and book helped me understand using Python’s Flask microframework. Well, somewhat. My understanding would improve if I used it more. Haven’t taken advantage of the opportunity yet. Anyways - of course I decided to back his Kickstarter for updating the Flask Mega-Tutorial.
My Stripes (And Stripes) Forever Scarf
Jul 6, 2017
This is my version of the “Stripes (And Stripes) Forever Scarf” from Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. It came together quickly. The only real challenge was getting the first row of single chains in.
Jul 1, 2017
I try out archetype templates from the Hugo static site generator, smoothing the whole thing into my workflow with a bash script.
Jun 28, 2017
Ended up knitting this one twice. Tried the large size first, and it ended up way too large for my taste. Frogged and restarted the smaller size, making a new set of mistakes. But the hat fits now and I’m not starting again!
Jun 14, 2017
Marginalia · site · disqus ·
Jun 3, 2017
Craft · drawing · Procreate · Infinite Painter ·
May 26, 2017
Notes on saving screenshots in OS X, so I don’t have to look it up again.
Amazon Donates Space For Mary's Place Home
May 11, 2017
My main code hobby project is for Mary’s Place, a local homeless shelter network in Seattle. It was immensely satisfying to see their director’s face when I visited Amazon this morning.
Apr 22, 2017
Craft · drawing · Infinite Painter ·
Apr 11, 2017
Programming · perl · site · mojolicious ·
I wrote a Perl script using utility features in Mojolicious to check all of the links in my Hugo site.
Mar 28, 2017
Marginalia · personal · site ·
New Twitter Account Just For The Site
Mar 18, 2017
Marginalia · site ·
Follow @randgeekery if Twitter is your news feed.
Mar 17, 2017
Marginalia · site · disqus ·
Maybe Ration My Time In Hot Take Land
Mar 13, 2017 (Updated Mar 15, 2017)
Marginalia · personal ·
I dunno, folks. Over the years I have seen so much outrage - sincere or feigned - on social media. Then there’s the echo chamber problem. Yeah. Nice thing about an RSS feed is that I’m guaranteed to see everything I subscribe to, but there’s no personal insult in unsubscribing.
I think maybe I could spend less time on Twitter and Facebook. Not give them up. They remain a source of great conversation. But this nonsense takes up brain that I just can’t spare. Some of my online friends cut themselves out completely, and they like it. Perhaps I should follow their example. Besides, each of them that moves on means one less bit of signal in the noise.
There is so much noise.
Feb 25, 2017
Programming · perl · perl 6 · music ·
I have ignored my MacBook Pro for a few months. Now my iTunes and Rhythmbox music libraries are out of sync. The Rhythmbox library includes a handful of Ogg Vorbis files. Because iTunes does not support Ogg by default, I will use FFmpeg to convert those files to MP3. For the sake of novelty, Perl 6 is the glue language for the task.
Jan 17, 2017
Jan 8, 2017
Jan 1, 2017
TL;DR: Cinnamon screenshot and recording shortcuts are in Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> System.