Notes

We went to the mall. Later, I bought an app.

We went to the Apple store. I played with a new iPad Pro. Tried hard not to like it, but it was a really pleasant experience.

The demo iPad had a great note-taking app that could help my search for an app that let me handwrite notes and then search through their content later.

Been messing with Windows and WSL 2 more lately. So we went to the Microsoft store too. I tried hard to like it, but everything felt a little clumsy and disappointing after the smoothness of the Apple devices.

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Chunky Bacon

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Seriously. Chunky. Bacon.

Outlining a post about my notes experiment. Learned that _why coined Tumblelog, which is sort of what the notes are. And then I wanted to make this note. With the foxes. But I couldn’t find a nice big version. So I made a nice big version. It’s Attribution-ShareAlike, just like the original. You can use it.

Go read the Poignant Guide to Ruby when you have time. I put CLOSURE on my list. s

Added a Hugo note archetype

Moved into a new apartment. Waiting for Internet on Tuesday. It’s Sunday.

Continuing to work slow but sure on my notes experiment. Today: a Hugo archetype that includes a full ISO 8601 timestamp, via dateFormat.

    ---
date: "{{ dateFormat "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" .Date }}"
hashtags:
-
---

SAY SOMETHING
  

And yeah, hashtags are related to but distinct from tags. Basically, I have a particular protocol for tags and posts. I can be more informal with notes and hashtags. The silly name reminds me they’re supposed to be fun.

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A quick note

So hey. Just a quick note to say I’m adding quick notes to the site. Get my microblogging off Twitter, basically. Though it will likely have more in common with a Tumblelog.