Waking up to good news hasn't happened much, lately, so this morning's election results were a wonderful surprise. But, let's not gloat so much. Use that energy to fix things.

I know, it's been quiet here lately. I'm having fun over on the wiki instead.

When it comes to note-taking software, I prioritize usefulness over longevity. I prefer plain text (e.g. .org and .md files), I prefer having both, but I'm not going to reject an app that makes my notes useful today, due to some kind of functional "lock-in".

I think I need to teach Claude about TiddlyWiki...and Tinderbox.

EMACS turns 50 | MIT Technology Review

Wow, that's a long time.

I hate to admit this, but I kind of miss Lightroom Classic. It was nice having a very good RAW processor and capable catalog with a large ecosystem and all of my photos in one big library. I've spent so much time trying to concoct a non-Adobe workflow that I've forgotten why I bother. :). Plus, Negative Lab Pro.

orgo · orgo

Org is the source language, not an inconvenient input to be normalised into markdown.

I'm pretty content with 11ty right now, but how am I not going to at least try this?l

I need to do something about how or if I continue to participate on Mastodon. The unrelenting flood of discourse around LLM use, although often ethically relevant, is more often intellectually dishonest and exaggerated to the point of silliness. I'm bored by it. Y'all have fun.

I'd buy an iPhone Duo just to run this (via Daring Fireball)

Community – Marco.org

And as I grow, I’m learning to declare fewer absolutes in a complex, imperfect, and constantly changing world.

Someone on quxnet had their Gemini capsule listed, so I opened Lagrange for the first time in a while. Gemini space is so calm and consistent! On a whim, I set up my own server. It's at gemini://gemini.baty.net. I'm not going to do any sort of HTML-proxying. Everything there is gemtext only.

For the past two days I've automatically reached for quxnet via the CLI (quxterm). I didn't expect this.

I've been wondering about Mastodon, lately. It seems that no matter how I aggressively I cull my feed, it remains saturated with tiresome and repetitive takes and topics that I'm tired of talking about. Going back to Twitter has been A Thing recently, but that's not happening with me. It might just be time for a break.

I miss out on a lot by constantly going online to see what I've missed out on.

I was planning to stay away from computers today. I've been partially successful. I'm staring at my notebooks and thinking that I'm doing it wrong. I recently bought the gorgeous and expensive Plotter, but I don't know how it fits. Or if it fits. I wish I needed it, but I don't think I do. Great, more $$$ down the tubes on a just-in-case.

On a positive note, season 4 of The Diplomat is out and I love it. There's something about smart people doing difficult jobs as best they can.

I wrote software for a living for a long time. Speaking for myself, I can confidently say that Claude Code writes code that's so much better than mine that it's embarrassing. I've gotten over it. I'm not a craftsman. I wish I was, but honestly I just want to tell the computer what I need done and have it do it. I suppose that's really all I've ever wanted. Now I can, and it's thrilling.

That Tesla Roadster demo was a pretty cool stunt. Cool, but dumb. And only a stunt.

The answer to "What can [famous person]'s [something] tell us about [some other completely unrelated thing] is always, "nothing".