I blog so others can suffer too.Keep me posting
Daily notes that won’t necessarily happen every day. Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer.
Sunsets during Tucson monsoon season get pretty dramatic.
Almost immediately greeted by lightning, so I walked to a less obstructed view and used iOS slow motion video in hopes of some nice still frame captures.
Kinda wish I got a higher res image, but still. Pretty nifty sunset and the clouds saying “F this particular spot right here.”
I’m not even kidding, This spot. Yeah this one right here. F this spot.
Fading Audio is ROUGH on CPUs - YouTube
Another terrible aspect of the AI hypevolution is it’s not fun to anthropomorphize my tech anymore. Somebody out there might think I’m serious.
A polite request for RSS subscribers, on Antarctica Starts Here.
I appreciate your enthusiasm (I really do), but I only post once or twice a month. There’s no need to hammer the server quite so hard. Checking once a day would be ideal, I should think. If you can, if it supports it, would you please turn down how often you poll the feed you’re monitoring?
Morning phase was about making it more convenient to scan note lists.
.FuzzyWordCount so folks know what they’re in forThen a disproportionate chunk of the day moving files around so they’d be easier to move around again later.
Wrapped it up in the evening showing the newest quick note on the front page, and a link to my ko-fi in the site navigation. I’m not making dev salaries anymore. I have to remind myself to rattle that cup a little more often.
Today’s been a casual Sunday. A little vault maintenance for the site and assembling a new iteration of my Emacs config. My brain’s split between keeping the site content in Obsidian, migrating it all to Emacs + emacs-easy-hugo, and / or focusing enough to write my own PKM to manage everything. I can’t make myself commit to any of it, so I’ll keep puttering here. The end result is a cleaner and less Hugo-specific collection of source files.
Refining the idea I started 2025-08-15. That was “hey let’s just put my entire Hugo site in an Obsidian vault.” Today I put content and assets into a distinct vault, and will pull them as needed into my site project folder.
PEEK 10—20The biggest challenge at work—aside from keeping my mouth shut when folks bring up prison social structures because good god the urge for Zinn-style historical infodump is strong—the biggest challenge is the damn radios.
Yeah so I just turned the entire Random Geekery Blog into an Obsidian vault. I’ll share how I did it as soon as I figure out how I’m going to do it. Much of this is another attempt at being less precious about when I “should” update. I’m just enjoying myself. The pieces will get where they need to go.
Roughly what my main site looks today like when pulled directly into Obsidian.
Nowhere in the job title or description, but I somehow backed into a management role.
Described my approach—when the team is good—as setting some guidelines, then “step back and watch the water flow.”
I think maybe a little too Zen garden for the disruption crowd.
And it’s a lot more involved than that, of course. We’ve been talking about preferred processes and workflows for a couple few weeks. Shared effort in finding the best flow.
I’m just saying. If GitHub is dead to you too, maybe it’s time to try not just a different host, but a different SCM.
I’m partial to Fossil, since it bundles most of the flair we associate with projects (SCM, wiki, issue tracker, notes, chat) in a single executable. I have shared Fossil projects via CGI.
Chisel provides free Fossil project hosting. No it’s not GitHub, but maybe that’s not what we need.
06:00 Somebody boosted mention of GNU Taler, a “privacy-friendly” FOSS payment system, into my Fedi feed. By the time I’d finished looking it up and reading about it, the toot was long gone. Seems interesting, though.
https://www.taler.net/en/index.html
06:30 AC putting out a funny burned dust smell so it’s off until property management can come take a look.
Today’s forecast high is 36C / 98F. This will be fun. At least it’s cooler than the last couple weeks, which I’m pretty sure contributed to any HVAC issues.