Random Geekery
Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life
2018
Posted a little more than 2017, mainly by letting myself mix in personal stuff like sauntering and little late night stream of consciousness processes.
Dec 31, 2018 (Updated Feb 16, 2019)
Marginalia · personal ·
Writing these late night thoughts is as close as I get to making resolutions.
Dec 1, 2018
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
tl;dr: Use the
start,stop, andactiveTaskwarrior commands to manage what you're doing right now.
Nov 20, 2018
I continue building my hat knitting knowledge!
Nov 11, 2018
I made another hat! This time I learned how to make a hemmed edge.
Nov 10, 2018
I put my frequently used links in a Hugo data template to cut down on copying and pasting between posts.
On Modesty And Imposter Syndrome
Oct 21, 2018
Marginalia · personal ·
Take a deep breath. Relax. You got this.
Sep 30, 2018
Marginalia [sauntering] · exploring ·
Last weekend I wandered the trails of Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park.
Sep 9, 2018
Marginalia [sauntering] · exploring ·
I sauntered up the main trail of Mount Si this weekend.
Aug 30, 2018
A short post noting Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts for virtual desktops
Aug 19, 2018
Marginalia [sauntering] · exploring ·
Island Center Forest contains roughly ten miles of trails. I walked about six of them yesterday. Today my feet hurt.
Aug 7, 2018
Marginalia · music · seen ·
Dog and I saw a Pearl Jam logo tag while walking near Easy Street Records this morning.
Aug 4, 2018
I knitted a pair of the fingerless Beer Gloves from Son of Stitch 'n Bitch. This involved a couple new techniques and several new mistakes.
Jul 8, 2018
Marginalia [sauntering] · exploring ·
Today I explored Fauntleroy Park, a 28 acre park in West Seattle with some nice trails.
Jul 1, 2018
Took a break this weekend with a quick yarn project.
Theme Change and Pieces Section
Jun 29, 2018
Marginalia · site · buy me · drawing ·
Yeah I switched the theme back — with some changes. May take a bit for the CDN to catch up. Also still experimenting with how to organize things I want to sell.
Buy My Stuff At Design by Hümans
Jun 12, 2018 (Updated Jun 26, 2018)
Craft · drawing · infinite painter · hugo · buy me ·
Jun 10, 2018
Marginalia · personal ·
I stopped smoking cigarettes two weeks ago. For now I vape instead. Time to put down some notes about what other habits I had to adjust.
May 26, 2018
Programming · site · ruby · hugo ·
May 17, 2018
Craft · drawing · sketchbook mobile · celtic · zentangle ·
Spent over a week on this, which is quite the marathon for me.
May 13, 2018
Marginalia · site ·
Apr 27, 2018
I knitted myself a slightly silly stocking cap which I quite enjoy.
Mar 27, 2018
Marginalia · links ·
As mentioned on Twitter:
An hour and a half for a fifteen minute interview of which they used ten seconds for their two minute bit but OMG I'M ON TV
(and they finally stopped showing my number in the clear)
Mar 18, 2018
I crocheted another "Boy Beanie" from Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet. This time I followed the pattern!
Setting Task Dependencies in Taskwarrior
Feb 19, 2018
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
I'm not done reading a book until I finish the exercises. Taskwarrior can help me remember.
My Sloppy Floppy Fingerless Mitten
Feb 17, 2018 (Updated Feb 17, 2018)
Craft · knitting · glove · hugo ·
I knit a fingerless mitten. Mistakes were made. I also figured out some stuff about Hugo Page Bundles and image processing.
Feb 8, 2018
I crocheted two hats from Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet over the last week or so.
Feb 7, 2018
I made myself a snug beanie hat by knitting in the round.
Feb 4, 2018
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
I manually applied tag filters to keep task listings relevent in my previous Taskwarrior posts, but Taskwarrior provides contexts to apply filters automatically. Let's use those instead.
Feb 2, 2018
Still catching up with the backlog of finished knitting. Finished these a couple weeks ago. Like Rainy’s Mish-Mash Gloves, these started from a fingerless gauntlet pattern in Sally Melville’s The Knitting Experience Book 2: The Purl Stitch. I stayed closer to the original pattern this time, only adding a couple of stripes. Impressively, I also managed to stay close to the recommended gauge. How? Went a size up on the needles.
Jan 28, 2018
Finished this last month, but the blog fell behind a bit.
Jan 2, 2018
Tools [Taskwarrior Babysteps] · taskwarrior ·
I checked out some library books again. Time to correctly record their due date in Taskwarrior.