I know it’s probably wrong. The whole point of 4x5 film is making giant enlargements. That’s not what I do. I make contact prints from 4x5 negatives onto 5x7 paper. There’s no cropping, and they are sometimes a little crooked, but I love them.

My previous post was mostly a way to test updates to how I handle images and publish posts using Org mode and ox-hugo. New posts are created using the following Org mode capture template. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 (with-eval-after-load 'org-capture (defun org-hugo-new-subtree-post-capture-template () "Returns `org-capture'template string for new Hugo post.

Always has been (I never tire of this meme)

Dr. Drang: Honestly, it’s the “not thinking” part that’s the best. Over the 35 years I’ve been a computer user, way too much of my time has been spent thinking about the “right” software to buy. Some of this has been forced on me—when an app or service stops working, there’s no way to avoid thinking about the alternatives—but a lot has been self-inflicted. It’s nice to have one part of my computing life that’s stable and should continue to be stable for years to come.

When using writing modes such as Org or Markdown in Emacs, I use visual-line-mode and prefer that vertical movements (using j & k) operate via visual lines and not logical ones. This does not seem to be the default behavior of Doom Emacs. Of course there’s a setting for this and of course I needed to look it up; evil-respect-visual-line-mode. I tried adding the following to my config.el… (setq evil-respect-visual-line-mode t)

Neglected tools on my desk One down side of my love for tools and toys is that I can’t use them all at once. In fact, some don’t get used for weeks or months at a time and that’s a shame. My paper notebooks and fine pens have languished while I’ve been amusing myself with Roam. My favorite typewriter hasn’t annoyed my family with it’s slapping sounds for months.

Internet Archive: I asked a few questions about the nature and story of this office, and based on those answers, I said something that I honestly don’t get a chance to say that often: “We will take all of it.” I wouldn’t mind at all if my next career involved working with Internet Archive.

I did an internet search and clicked on a result and ended up here at baty.net. I liked the way the page looked. I liked how simple it was and how quickly it loaded. The whole thing reminded me that using Hugo and the Jane theme made for an enjoyable reading experience, even it’s a more difficult publishing experience. This made me wonder if I was still able to build and deploy the site.

Dante Stella | The Machine Planet: The real danger is not time, or technology, or the elements, or phlogiston. The real danger is that the work will fall into the hands of someone with no interest in it You might find in the end that your time and money is better spent on life experiences than making the record of it last just a couple more years longer.

Sometimes a new thing comes along and replaces the old thing. I truly love my rudimentarylathe.org wiki, built with TiddlyWiki. TiddlyWiki is a wonderful, flexible, powerful bit of software. My use of TiddlyWiki has changed over time, and lately my wiki has become the only thing I’m using it for. In order to publish the wiki, I need a few things. I need a web server. I need to use Firefox with the Timimi plugin or TiddlyDesktop in order to easily save my edits.

Starting a new book. Watching a movie I haven’t seen. Listening to a new album. Trying a new restaurant. All of these things start with the question: Am I going to like it? My new default answer is, “Yes, I am. I’m going to love it.” I give it 5 stars and I haven’t even tried it yet! And it’s fine if it turns out otherwise. I’m allowed to not like things, too.

At some point recently, most of the files in my Digital Print Archive went missing. I started keeping the archive in early 2019. The idea was that I’d have a _permanent_collection of curated and edited files, “burned” as JPG files so that if anything ever happened to my RAW processor, I’d always have a copy of the edited files. Suddenly, most of those JPGs are gone. The folder structure remains, and all of the matching .