I’d been fighting with what I thought was a bug in easy-hugo, but when I stopped posting with Hugo I sort of forgot about it.
Now that I’m back I finally dug in and tried solving the problem.
The solution was simple but took me hours to find. I had put the following in my config.toml file…
newContentEditor = "vim"
Posting with Emacs/easy-hugo would obviously (in hindsight) not care for that.
I’ve been trying to use Lightroom CC exclusively for managing and editing photos. The intention was to go all-in for a while and determine if I could live there.
I don’t think I can.
This is me just thinking out loud after a few weeks of giving Lightroom a fair shake.
Overall, Lightroom CC is fine. It’s missing some “power user” features from things like Lightroom Classic or Capture One Pro, but it’s easy to use, fairly powerful, and “nice”.
After meaning to read Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land for years I made the mistake of actually doing it. I tried, but couldn’t make it more than about half-way before giving up.
Does this mean I lose my sci-fi fan club membership?
Well this was a terrible idea.
I learned a lot, but, with apologies to Emacs purists, there’s just no way using Emacs keybindings makes sense for me as long as Evil-mode is available. I’m hardwired for modal, Vim-like editing, and can imagine no benefit that would make it worth the necessary rewiring needed in order to switch.
But, I don’t want to go all the way back to Spacemacs so I’m once again giving Doom-emacs a shot.
Jean MacDonald invited me to be on the Micro Monday podcast recently. It was fun. We talked about blogging, of course, and at one point I said something like “My goal in life is to have only one blog”. We both got a chuckle out of that, because we both knew I’m practically riddled with blogs.
Not anymore.
Today, I burned down my WordPress blog at jack.baty.net and my Blot.im blog at baty.
I recently had an epiphany about Emacs key bindings…
The most compelling reason I’ve found yet for switching to the “normal” Emacs keybindings is that many of the same bindings work everywhere on a Mac. This just occurred to me and now I have to decide if I want to lose weeks of my life to making the switch.
So now I’m re-reading Mastering Emacs with the goal of building everything from scratch and learning the “Emacs Way” of doing things.
For years I’ve written dates using the One True Date Format, YYYY-MM-DD, but that may be about to change.
I’m thinking of changing it to YYYY.MM.DD.
I tend to prefix everything with a date and the dotted notation results in a narrower date (when using proportional fonts) and makes it easiest to scan. “2019.01.09” looks like a single text object, while “2019-01-09” looks like three things, hyphenated. It’s hard to explain, but given its space-saving and list-scanning properties, I’m going to try the dotted notation for a while.
Rands:
Lastly, and most importantly, yes, I’m an adult, and I can use my words. But each emoji I use is an email not sent.
It took me a while to get on board with emoji, but I’ve grown to not only love them, but to practically rely on them
Hobonichi Techo and Moleskine Sketchbook My notebook configuration looks nothing like I planned it just a week ago. I had intended to keep things just like last year but nope.
I bought a couple new Leuchtturm Bullet Journals and prepped the first of them for the coming year. I was thinking that, as adorable as it is, I’d leave the Hobonichi Techo out of rotation.
What’s actually happening is that I’ve ended up with an A4 Moleskine Sketchbook and I’m using the little Techo instead of the Leuchtturm.
I keep reading that people love Notion.so, and I don’t mean to rock the boat, but I don’t get it. I tried kicking it around a few times and almost nothing about it clicks for me. Notion strikes me as one of those things that tries to do everything but ends up doing nothing well.
I can’t imagine using it with a team and them being able to keep track of what’s used for what and why.
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