Art by Amanda Domagala, on Tumblr Amanda says, Make bad things, instead of making nothing Something similar that’s been drummed into my head innumerable times over the years, by many mentors: If you cannot do it well, do it badly. : If you love doing something, if you want to do something .....

   via Diane Duane I’m almost , and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted. I’d...

   My Reading Life

   Lose something every day.

   What I took away from Scott H Young’s article

   If you’re ever feeling guilty about not cooking a fresh home cooked meal, a reminder that people in cities historically either had cooks or ate at food stalls, going back to Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt, too, although since everybody ate bread, beer, and onions, less of a thing. It’s a weird quirk...

   Land of the Dawn Lit Mountains

   The title says it all.

   My old style slow notetaking process. Replaced now with Elipsa Annotations, which then move along with my thoughts into Org Roam Notes. Click to see bigger Cal Newport recently did a deep dive on his podcast, on a minimalist note taking system for various areas of your life. Video’s on Youtube, if...

   Courtesy dothegreenthing, CC BY NC . , on Flickr I have this amazing urge never to leave well enough alone. The blog uses an amazing theme, called PaperMod. And ofcourse, like I said, because I can’t leave well enough alone, I’ve customised it heavily. The fonts are different, there are various...

   Converting the library to flacs mp s because they let me add multiple duplicate tags

   Narrow to focus, widen to review and plan. tldr: C x n s to narrow and C x n w to widen

   Never lose sight of why you’re doing all of this.

   Mark your place. Log. Summarise. Review.

   Quotes from Kuang and Gibson about inequity and privilege

   Go, work

   Publish your work Show up and show your work, as consistently as you can

   To create anything, you need to have a well to draw from

   I thought I’d get blocked, if I try to write everyday. I don’t

   I should focus more, and not get in to rabbit holes

   An update on the Elipsa e, six months later and how it has influenced my reading.

   Various things, when rooting around for help in Emacs

   Your life, your experience, your scars make you who you are

   I got my greedy paws on a Raspberry Pi last month. Probably the Pi after this, will be the one at which I will say these are good enough and stop my get ’em as soon as they are available manic buying spree over the past few years. I use it as a music jukebox with Jellyfin , as a place to host...

   Courtesy, NASA JPL Caltech UCLA MPS DLR IDA, Public Domain, via Wikipedia I just finished Tamsyn Muir’s Nona, last month. And of course, I’m now stuck along with the rest of the world waiting for Alecto to come along. In the meanwhile I’m having fun with the rest of the world, dissecting the old...

   Whenever I post a link to one of my posts on the fediverse or share it with my friends on Signal, I just get a plain vanilla link box I wanted those rich embeds, other folk seemed to have, on the same mediums, that I would share my links on. Looking around for how to go about doing this, led me to...

   I want to write better. And the best way to do that, is to write more. Thinking about which, immediately kills the urge to write, because I take really long to write anything. And the actual writing, is very arduous to me. So what to do I guess I need to just lower the bar. Do less. More...

   I’ve been living a little dangerously when posting stuff on the blog. While it’s true that I compose my posts locally on my desktop, with a locally installed Hugo, I always catch a ton of things that I miss, after I publish a post. Nearly every single time. So the process then becomes ... Open the...

   I kept wondering why Syncthing releases on one of my Pis would lag behind my other one. The big difference between the two is that one runs Raspbian and the other, Manjaro . This wouldn’t happen earlier when they ran Arch and Manjaro. And today, I head slappingly remembered, that it did lag and I...

   Short Booklet. Very Taleb esque writing. Very entertaining. Tells us there are lots of stupid people, with a really precise definition of stupid; those folks that would cut their nose to spite their face, or like the book would say, stupid folks are they who would cause losses to other folks, even...