Random Note #987346
(reviving an old draft) A blog shouldn't be a series of posts. What if I want to change an older post? A blog should be a graph of posts, and the "chronology" should be a series of dif…
Tools
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Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
Nix is (still) unusable
I first tried out Nix in 2018. The second round -- I went through "Nix Pills", which helped get a better idea of what was going on -- was in 2020. I heard NixOS getting some popularity (yo…
Keyboard Maestro FTW
I have recently -- belatedly! -- been adding more "focus time" slots in my calendar. This is also part of an experiment to use the calendar more ... but that's a whole separate topic.…
Chat-enabled Wolfram Notebooks
If you have a slight hobbyist interest in Math or "computational thinking", Wolfram Mathematica is an excellent investment. They recently added an LLM input layer to their already-very-prof…
An unexpected hallucination
(Bard, today, 6/22/23)…
"Blogging" vs "writing about blogging"
This image (from a great webcomic) brought a smile to my face, and if you've procrastinated by blaming your tools, it might for you too.…
Visual Thinking
Watching this Youtube video by the excellent Beck Tench. Cataloguing some of what she mentioned, for reference People Dave Gray Brandy Agerbeck (Twitter) Books and Mindsets Cartooning by Ivan…
Dotfiles & Vim
My “dotfiles” repo is a decade old now, and it has been interesting to see a progression through * .vimrc (ye olde days) * init.vim (“modern” vim) * init.lua (All-in on Lua with NeoVim) (is t…
Observe
I had the opportunity to use this excellent tool/service/platform over the last month. I won’t go into details about features etc (maybe later?) but the part that impressed me was how the core concep…
Tools for Thought
If you like “this sort of thing“, you should watch this talk by Mark Bernstein. It talk isn’t a TED talk, it isn’t on StrangeLoop, but it might be the best overview of this area yet. Touches on lost…
Looking within the lens
As seen at "Museo Camera"…