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Today's Status: Doom Emacs, Org-roam, Kirby, Elfeed, Notmuch, Capture OneYesterday: Vanilla Emacs, Denote/Howm, Kirby, NetNewsWire, MailMate, Lightroom Classic.Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

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When I told my daughter I got a 3D printer she said, "Ooh, make me something!" I sent her to Makerworld and she sent me a link to a set of cups to use in her bathroom for holding a toothbrush, etc. I...

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Oooh, my CLA'd (by John Hermanson) OM-1n and OM-2n and lenses are out for delivery so will be back home today. Maybe this will entice me to take some photos, which I've not been doing much of.#Photography

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I got my Doom Emacs config caught up with the latest changes to my from-scratch config yesterday. It's embarrassing how good Doom is, because it makes me feel like I've wasted my time writing my own...

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The OM bodies and lenses are back! Bodies cleaned inside and out. New foam, adjusted speeds and meters, repaired meter mask and needle on 1n, converted 1n battery to modern voltage. Lenses cleaned in...

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I'm syncing things. Some with Dropbox, some with iCloud, some with Syncthing, some with Git push/pull. Dumb. I'd love to clean this mess up, but hooboy would that ever screw things up for a while.

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Bumped the font size (Berkeley Mono) from 14 to 16 in #Emacs and it feels like I'm using an entirely different app 😄

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I would like a version of something like Dogsheep (https://dogsheep.github.io) that puts everything into notmuch instead of sqlite. Is there anything like that? #Emacs

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Printed this fun Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone holder. Never thought to check if it worked with a case. It doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Seems like every year I try keeping up with a ledger-cli file for all my banking/fincance records. I usually last a few months before the tedium sets in and I quit. This year, I'm trying hledger...

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I started the "scan grandpa's photo albums" project too many years ago, and only got through 2 albums. Need to keep going, because it's got stuff like this photo of my grandmother in it, which I think...

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It seems like I've given up on photography as a creative pursuit.

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Things change so fast that I jotted down where they are today, system-wise. Some unexpected changes have happened ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://baty.net/journal/2025/01/14/system-status-january-2025

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Went to look at my email setting on Pixelfed and was quickly reminded why normal people might not flock to Pixelfed.

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A coworker made this fake GQ cover on which I am named "Mr. Analog 2015", and boy oh boy he knew me.

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I had an electrician over to estimate putting in a transfer switch and outlet for a portable generator. His quote was so much less than expected that I feel like he misunderstood the requirements (he...

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I've been reading RSS feeds and managing email entirely within #Emacs (Elfeed and Notmuch) for a couple of weeks, and it's been...pretty good. It's less convenient when I just want to "check my mail...

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Remember when I had that HowTek drum scanner for a while? I got it for so cheap on Craigslist I couldn't resist. It was such a pain to use, and the results I got weren't /that/ much better, so I sold...

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I looked it up. I got the Scanmaster 4500 and the PowerMac 9500 and a copy of Photoshop in 2010 for....FREE! The 4500 alone cost $50,000 (in today's dollars). Sometimes I miss the days when everyone...

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