Don MacAskill, Reddit: But Flickr isn’t Instagram and, under my watch, it won’t ever be. Flickr is all about a long-lasting, deep, abiding photographer community. It’s not about showing a photo to quickly gather some likes & comments today, only to never have that photo be seen again. It’s about engaging in visual storytelling that lasts forever. … I’m not interested in competing with Instagram and Snapchat, so if that’s your definition of “social” then my answer is no.

I started receiving meals from Blue Apron five years ago today. For someone who’s been living alone, meal delivery services are wonderful. I hate shopping, I never know what to shop for anyway, and I’m not a great cook. When I do shop I’m forced to buy more than I need and things get thrown away. Or I just buy hot dogs and stuff to make nachos and desserts.

The more I use Bastian Bechtold’s Org-journal the more I like it. For the past few years I’ve kept a sort of “Daybook” using a datetree in a single Org-mode file. This works pretty well, but it’s always felt more suitable for shorter entries. I wanted something that would work with longer entries, so I tried Org-journal. Org-journal uses one file per day. I first thought that this would make browsing my journal difficult, but it doesn’t.

Last year, while looking for ways to create a blog using Org-mode, I ran across ox-hugo. It was clever, but I was uncomfortable with yet another layer of abstration between the source text and the rendered HTML. I may have gotten over that fear. I’m slowly standardizing on using org-mode files for all of my writing. I’ll hate myself for this if I ever decide to stop using Emacs, but I’ll deal with that then.

<img src="/img/2018/2018-05-20-syncthing-logo.svg" alt=“Syncthing”" width=“300”/> I’ve been testing Syncthing as a replacement for Dropbox and so far it’s been great. I am currently syncing over 25,000 files in 5 directories across two Macs and one Linux machine. It has worked nearly without a hitch. I say “nearly” because after changing the case of a few filenames those now show as “out of sync”. They synced fine but show as unsynced. I assume this is due to case-sensitive vs case-insensitive file systems.

I write nearly everything /except/ blog posts using Org-mode. Wouldn’t it be nice to write blog posts with Org-mode, too? It would. I was perusing the README for [[https://github.com/masasam/emacs-easy-hugo][Easy Hugo]] and I’ll be darned if it doesn’t support using .org files automatically. All I need to do is use .org for the filename when creating a new post. Very nice.

baty.net is back to being built and deployed using Netlify. I moved everything to Amazon S3 a couple of months ago as a way to figure out how to do that. I still think S3 is a great way to host static sites that don’t change often, but I haven’t liked it quite as much for hosting a site that is updated frequently, like my blog. Using S3 required a combination of sync scripts, invalidations, keys, cloudfront distribution configuration, etc.

Org-mode has time tracking built in. Of course it does. I have been trying to consistently track my time spent on projects. This encourages me to decide what I should do next. It also makes me reconsider my priorities when I notice I’m not doing anything useful. As I tend to do, I have configured a few Capture Templates to help with this. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 '(("t" "Todo to Inbox" entry (file+headline "~/org/tasks.

Nuage v0.1 release brings a lot of the sweetness that makes org mode awesome without denaturing it or trying to reinvent it but rather by making it available to any touch based devices: On Github

We were promised an open web, federated information, and utility to save humanity. Instead we have become a culture of lottery and glory, of celebration of buyouts and capital, of obsession with numbers like millions and billions Source: In Silicon Valley, Software Uses You – Standard Journal

For some reason I enjoy recording what and where I eat. Usually I do this in a paper notebook, but I decided try it using Org-mode files instead. To make entry as easy as possible, I created a new capture template. 1 2 3 4 5 ... ("F" "Food Log" entry (file+datetree+prompt "~/org/food.org") "* %?\n%t\n%^{Meal}p%^{Type}p") ... Now, I can type C-c c F to bring up the capture template and quickly fill in details about a meal.

My photos have become a disorganized mess. For years I’ve known where all of my photos were. I kept them in dated folders, period. Sometimes the specifics of how I organized things changed, but I could always count on any given photo being in something like ~/Photos/2018/04-April-2018/ThisIsANicePhoto.jpg. Then the iPhone and Apple Photos came along. Initially, nothing changed. I would plug my phone into the computer, copy the photos from it, delete them from the phone, and move them to the proper folder, where they belonged.