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This morning, I ended up on chsmc.org’s “Applying Pixar’s rules of storytelling to writing” post. At the bottom, he quotes:

No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.

I knew I had to…

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frank Chimero, whose blog can be found at frankchimero.com.

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Creating blog posts from Emacs is my prefered method. I had a whole setup built around doing this for Hugo, but since I just switched to Zola I needed to move things around.

Here’s where I ended up:

(defun jab/zola-new-post (title &optional

I use Zen Browser on Linux. While playing around with LazyVim (I know, I know) I learned about Tridactyl which is a plugin that let’s you manipulate Firefox (or Zen) using Vim-like key bindings.

It feels weird and I keep tripping over myself, but I feel like once I’m used…

A recording of Alors on danse, news of a new exhibition of Michelangelo’s work, an event on creative writing, and information about art history courses all exist side-by-side in the ever-changing landscape that is my browser tabs. Every one is a train of thought: the tabs on music often recommendations…

Every so often, I open up a blank HTML document and work on a concept design for my website. Sometimes I have a theme, like my blueprint-inspired design, whereas other times I play around and see what I can make.

Today I thought: what would my blog look like…

Ego is one of those words that’s difficult to parse. I find language to be an imperfect tool in the quest to describe the inner workings of the mind, because in there, things tend to be fuzzy, while words are often sharp, pointing to distinct concepts that are seldom found…

It’s weird how I spend a few days relaxing in WordPress, then I wake up one day and think, “Maybe I’ll generate my whole website with Org-mode and Emacs!” I probably won’t do that, but I sometimes consider it.

I don’t want photography be just another kind of file to…

At some point, for some reason, Zen changed the New Tab behavior when opening new tabs:

NEW TABS HAVE BEEN REMOVED, instead we are opting for opening the URL bar and then pressing enter to open a new tab (‘zen.urlbar.replace-newtab’ to false in about:config to revert)

https://zen-browser.app/release-notes/#1.7.5b Features section.

I…

Thing is, I prefer using an SSG for my blog, but I’ve been posting using WordPress over at baty.blog for a few reasons:

• I sometimes like a change of venue
• I like the Twenty Twenty Five theme
• It’s nice having built-in comments and analytics
• If I wanted to change themes,…