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I plan to avoid most news and all social media for a week. It's to the point where, between the daily barrage of horrible, incompetent people doing stupid, horrible things and the incessant misinformed chatter about all of it on…

Jane Bown is one of my favorite photographers. She commonly used an Olympus OM-1n with the Zuiko 85mm f/2 lens. I happen to have that exact setup, so I went Jane Bowning with a roll of HP5.

I'm no Jane Bown! As much as I love the viewfinder in the…

Alan Jacobs on the Iron Laws of the Comment Section:

6. Those who have read and understood the post, whether they agree with it or not, will email you if they have something to say.

All of the rules sound right, but that last one nails it. It's one reason…

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Tonight I will work on my denote package. There is a feature branch I implemented this morning and am now ready to continue refining the code. The immediate goals:

• Update unit tests that are still calling deprecated functions.

"README-driven development" is a phrase Simon Willison used and it's kind of perfect.

I'll never understand why people get such a boner over ridiculing someone else's code. It's not a good look.

I've been using macOS exclusively for about a week and I'm a little embarrassed to admit how smooth things have felt. Not because of macOS specifically, but because I don't need to worry about keeping things set up and synced on Linux, too. I've been worrying about it a lot…

There were only one or two other patrons seated with a warm drink on this cool morning. For the first time in a few weeks, I got my favourite table. I’m not sure why it is my favourite, but it is the one I gravitated toward when the place opened.

I'm spinning today. I want to do everything at once.

One of the things I did was completely revamp my Obsidian vault, with Claude Cowork's help. I wouldn't have done it without the help. Made the whole…

Last week I impulse-ordered a FiiO Echo Mini because it's cute and isn't expensive.

I've been listening to it daily. It's a fun and rather good audio player for the price, but as a device it is nowhere near in the same…

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B.…