The creators of Smalltalk: Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, et. al. have my admiration. Simple, elegant, and useful in its time. I go to the Squeak implementation every so often and sigh.

I’ve never played a Mario game in my life but somehow this just seems right. It’s-a-me, Mario’s shoe: Red Wing makes boots inspired by video game character Mario - MPR News

How did I not find out about Standard ebooks until a week ago? I’ll be reading forever.

Why is it that the days you feel too tired to journal are the days when everything happens?

THERE IS NO ONE TRUE APP FOR HANDLING NOTES

I’m trying to limit the number of apps I have bits and pieces of knowledge stored in, but there is no one true app. Some notes require diagrams, some require tables, some require databases that can be analyzed for patterns. Well-organized folders and tags help with the multiplicity of formats. I’m moving to plain text when its the right medium, but sometimes it is not. For example, I had a scheme for moving all of my OmniFocus items that were not immediate to TaskPaper format and managing that separately, but found as I started moving stuff that I really like having all the project tasks in one spot.

At DeBine brewery in Palm Harbor next to the Pinellas Trail. Informal survey seems to be Half e-bike to regular bike. E-bikes have exploded in popularity over the past two years.

Attempting to wrest control of my OmniFocus database from the clutches of entropy.

Dad had a TAVR surgery yesterday. Looks like it went well. This means he’ll still beat me at golf.

My dad is 95. He still beats me in golf. Yes, he’s that good and I’m that bad.

Found Pins for Pinboard. That should help a bit. I’ve been looking for a better way to get stuff into pinboard. This seems to be it. This should pair nicely with Omnivore.

Pinboard or Raindrop? Decided to stay with Pinboard for now, but it desperately needs some housecleaning.

Should be Crimson King Court.

Now using Omnivore to collect long form posts that need some time to digest. Such as this one: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.

Ripping through the feeds this morning. Followed a bunch of folks on Mastodon last night. Unfollowed some of them this morning. Just managing the firehose.

Lattés from 9th Bar coffee in Palm Harbor. Pretty dang good and a much shorter line than the Starbucks down the block.

Still on the road. Central Illinois is flatter than North Dakota.

On the road again … 🎵

I was thinking of using Chat GPT as a way to break writer’s block – kind of like morning pages but on a particular topic. Something to grease the skids. But $20/month for Chat GPT Plus is a bit steep for that.

📚I’m about 2/3 of the way through the audiobook “Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field” by Nancy Forbes, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. I thought it was going to be a bit of a slog, but it has turned out to be quite entertaining.

I’ve moved from mstdn.plus to universeodon.com. It not only matches my interests a bit more, but mstdn.plus has been a bit unreliable. I could see how this could be a problem with a set of independent federated instances. Hopefully my new one will be a tad better.

After eluding traps for two days the pantry-raiding rodent has been finally been dispatched.

Experimenting again with Linux on my little System76 box. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried this and always end up asking myself “Why?”. I crave its simplicity, but I curse it for the same reason.

One of the perils of living in the country - mice - pantry raiding mice. Grrrr.

Posting here should crosspost to my mastodon instance. Right?

I’m happy that Jason Kottke is back publishing at kottke.org.