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I don't even want to think about how many hours I've spent over the past week or two in and around Emacs. I can't decide if it's fine, because I love Emacs and I'm just having fun with it. Or, am I wasting too much of my life dicking around…

For a year or so, I've been working to wean myself from as much macOS-only software as possible. The idea lurking behind this move has been, "What if I move to Linux?". I can't shake the thought, even though it would be a terrible idea. As a counter, now I'm…

All I wanted was to use notmuch on my MBP to manage email, just like I do on my Mac Mini. The only viable solution I found was muchsync. There's no macOS installer for it1, so I figured I'd compile it myself. A few years ago I promised myself that…

Even though I’m not a photographer I always enjoyed the act of capturing moments using a camera. These days my photos live primarily here on the blog—they even have a dedicated RSS feed—but also on my separate photos archive. I’m very casual when it comes to taking pictures, I do…

What do coffee, Seinfeld, and Google all have in common? They are the topics of this blog post! I was on a call yesterday where the topic of coffee in sitcoms came up. I was curious: what television show spoke about coffee the most? We noted the lack of coffee…

One of the topics of discussion at the 32-Bit Cafe Web Weaving Workshop this week 1 was credits and acknowledgement pages on personal websites — how do you give credit to people whose assets you use on your website? Acknowledgement pages are appropriate for acknowledging resources you use across your…

We all know that corporations do weird shit. In their never-ending quest to maximise profits, they’re happy to exploit us and try all sorts of wacky shenanigans. We’re all aware of this. We all know that they try to use all the weaknesses of our monkey brains against us. And…

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It looks like TikTok is off the air. This doesn't affect me because I've never used TikTok. On one hand, I feel bad for the millions of people love it. On the other hand, maybe go outside instead or at least find something useful to do that doesn't involve scrolling…

My main TODO for the day was to buy coffee beans. I am running low. Rather than order online, I decided to visit the coffee shop from whom I most recently bought coffee. The coffee has been delicious. The coffee shop is a bit out of the way, but I…