Wednesday, November 26, 2025 →
Eeesh. A nasty day. High winds. Cold. Feels like 3ºF as a result. A smattering of snow so far. Roads seem OK for now. It’s going to slow down holiday travel a tad.
Grandson Aydrien is driving down this evening. If the winds die down a bit he should not have much trouble.
Finally looking at getting a really good office chair for the home office from the Steelcase dealer in town. It will replace the stool I’ve been using for 2½ years. My neck says “thank you!”.
I have been back and forth between Safari and Dia. I am leaning Dia. It feels lightweight compared to Safari and it seems to strike a nice balance with AI features. I wonder if it will ever be cross platform or even if it will survive against the likes of Atlas.
Spent most of the day at the Mayo Clinic accompanying Ann. Sometimes on wheelchair duty and sometimes just keeping pace with her walker. Covered a fair amount of ground for her being 5 weeks post-op. As the PT folks say “Motion is Lotion”. Recovery progresses.
Not a bad day so far. Mass. Some cleaning. A decent lunch. Some work on the clippings site. Learning new CSS tricks. Ordered a Daylight DC-1. Balanced bank accounts. Guests this evening.
Getting close with the clippings blog and Zola. I like what I’m getting so far.
Just watched Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost. Funny in spots, thoughtful, very interesting.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Got a few things off the list today but still a lot more to work on with Zola. The clippings blog has over 1600 posts which Zola gens in about 6 seconds. Not too bad. Still thinking of how best to do a photography site. I may end up back here at m.b. Farmer’s Market tomorrow. I’m buying for Thanksgiving. No turkey this year; pork shoulder instead for pulled pork ragout over egg noodles.
Back to using the micro.blog cross-posting to Day One.
I’m finding the IFTTT thing I built to be too unreliable. In general I am finding the IFTTT triggers (RSS feed, clock, button) to be a bit iffy.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Attempting to move my clippings site to Zola SSG. Lots of styling to do. Continue writing articles for my company’s site. One more attempt at using an SSG for a photo portfolio. SmugMug does the trick but just feels crazy expensive for how I use it. Housework, shopping, and “nurse duty” for Ann who is recovering from back surgery.
My daughter got married to her long-time boyfriend on Friday. Both of my kids chose minimal courthouse weddings. Neither wanted anything big. I wonder if this is a thing these days?
Playing some more with IFTTT. It’s both fun and frustrating.
Checked out the new Day One cross-posting. It works fine, but I’ve gotten used to the little scheme I worked out with IFTTT and I’m sticking with that.
The beginnings of a squash and bacon soup!
I’ve tried living on Linux for about a month. I like the idea of being free of the behemoths, but it is a constant search for software that isn’t half-baked. I’m not afraid of the terminal, but geez, I don’t want to spend my life in the terminal.
I’m consolidating my fediverse presence down to micro.blog. I’m doing all my following, replying, and discovery from here. I’m now off of mastodon. Non-fedi platforms are all read-only. No more posting on them.
After a brief flirtation with tiling window managers I’m back to my old UI setup which is pretty much out-of-the-box for both Pop!_OS and macOS. I turn off the automatic edge tiling since I work on wide displays and it’s just wrong there.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 →
Biked 17 miles today. Not bad. I’m on a mission to drop about 60 lbs this year. I want to get back under 200. Bad habits must be broken.
The new reMarkable Paper Pro Move was an instant purchase. The size is perfect for toting around. Now if Apple could replicate that screen feel in an iPad mini I’d be very tempted, but I don’t see that happening.
Bringing my Tinderbox skills back up to snuff for my Oakes Folks web site. It’s the best tool I’ve found for this work. Let’s me organize the way I want.
Had the slow leak repaired in my bike’s back tire. Road 15 miles. Time for my G&T.
I use Tot pretty regularly. Nice to see an update!
Hoping to release this week. Much remains to be done, but I still hope to take tomorrow off to get to the best state fair in the country: the Minnesota State Fair. My camera is calling me.
Friday, August 22, 2025
I consider myself a moderately heavy user of AI. I have subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, and whatever magic Dia has under the hood. Questions/conversations fall into a few different areas: Coding – mostly syntax help and some interlanguage conversion, but also to develop skeletons to be fleshed out/rewritten; queries about topics of interest (e.g. what’s the general opinion of Neil Young’s guitar playing); and product reviews and comparisons (e.g. camera X vs camera Y).
Pedicures are my favorite indulgence.
Hmmm. Things are going well. Too well. I’m suspicious.
I’m going back to my favorite scripting language: Ruby. So long Python, you can’t say we never tried.
Builds finally going smoothly. Lots of itty bitty details. I have to find a better way to automated this.
Music in my head: The Comedians Suite by Dmitry Kabalevsky. Hey, I heard it yesterday and it’s 4am. It could be worse.
When I have the radio on (MPR’s Your Classical) the “Music In My Head” turns off. I guess that’s not surprising.