I had Google’s Gemini 3 write a little CLI tool for writing and publishing posts and notes from the command line. It’s nothing fancy. Basically some template files that get loaded up into NeoVim so I can write posts. Then saves and let’s me publish via options wrapped around git commands. I keep trying to reduce the friction for writing in hopes that the easier it is to publish a post on this blog, the more I’ll be likely to publish more.
This is a test from the cli
Had a great afternoon/eveninf with the family. Got out to our local art museum and spent an hour coloring, crafting and reading. Then we went to the a nearby arboretum to see there new changes post Christmas event. After that grabbed some BBQ from a local shop. Messy with the kids but the food was great as always. Overall a pretty awesome way to wrap up the weekend.
Had a great afternoon/eveninf with the family. Got out to our local art museum and spent an hour coloring, crafting and reading. Then we went to the a nearby arboretum to see there new changes post Christmas event. After that grabbed some BBQ from a local shop. Messy with the kids but the food was great as always. Overall a pretty awesome way to wrap up the weekend.
Didn’t realize this was Edgar Wright. There’s hope for it.
Testing some changes that should trigger automatic commits when new notes/posts are published.
Well I stayed up way too late finishing the new Running Man. It was better than I expected. But it also seems like they were setting it up for a sequel which I’m not particularly excited about.
Didn’t realize this was Edgar Wright. There’s hope for it.
The new Running Man movie is out on Paramount+ now. Just clicked play. There’s no way this is as good as Arnold’s. Still need to read the book too.
Used Google’s Antigravity to spruce up the editor I use to write blogposts. I went for something that emulated the simplicity of the WriteFreely editor. It’s about as simple as it gets. Just a mostly blank page with some simple commands to manage saving and publishing. It did a really good job of quickly wiring up what I was asking on a new route so I could keep my existing flow and trial this new flow.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/where-are-the-democrats More great work from the Garbage Day team.
<![CDATA[I like the way Dave Winer handles his blog. He posts stuff throughout the day that all show up a single chunks of his blog grouped by day. Each input has it’s own permalink and then each day has a link (which he sends out in a nightly email or RSS feed). I’m trying to structure my blog more like that to encourage more frequent posting throughout the day when I have a thought.
New year, new posts? Hopefully. The blog has been down for the last 2 months because I broke it trying to modernize the editor I host to edit posts in the browser, merge that into my Hugo blog directory and combine the installation of both blog and editor into the same YunoHost install script. Long story short, I broke it real bad and have finally given up and gone back to what works.
Been getting through a good bit of reading lately. Mostly working my way through The Will of the Many which I’m really enjoying. It has influences from the Red Rising series around the structure of the world and it’s hierarchy. The magic system is also interesting. It feels a little bit like The Stormlight Archive in how it is used but how it is sourced is very unique and adds a much heavier feel to its usage.
I’ve spent a bit of time recently refactoring and modifying the codebase that I use as a web editor for this blog. Mainly using different LLM coding assistans to see how well they can handle making changes and adding features. I really don’t need any of the changes and it’s a lot of fluff or replacing existing features with another package or style that does the same thing. Claude Code is definitely the best I’ve used so far for this.
I added some simple analytics to this site finally. So now I can prove that I’m the only one reading it :). Mostly it was just wanting to check out self hosting Umami analytics. Following Jack over at baty.new makes me feel better about all the tinkering I do with this setup. He’s much more active at moving and reconfiguring things than I am. I completely understand the impulse to try new things as well as optimize.
One thing that I just realized my new scribbling setup doesn’t currently support is physical media. I don’t often get a chance to sit down and listen to a record but I did get some good ones for Father’s Day this year that I’ve been listening to. I’m sure I can manually add listens but I’ll have to look into a way to do it automatically. Although I’m not sure how it would be possible with an analog setup like a record player.
I read Filterworld by Kyle Chayka last year and have been trying to be more mindful of where algorithms are influencing my consumption. Music is probably the biggest portion of that consumption. For the last 10 years or so I have largley moved away from listening to albums or making specific playlists and just relying on generated “stations” in YouTube Music. Part of this is due to the fact that all of my friend group uses Spotify so I can’t connect and share with them as easily for recommendations.
Did some research into why physical writing is linked to so many memory and learning benefits. More of the brain is activated when physically writing. Including many of the “hubs” that are important for memory formation. The act of deciding what to write and thinking that through also helps to activate brain regions important for memroy. I tried using Google’s Gemini Deep Research to get info on this topic. I think it did a pretty good job collecting information from reliable sources and citing them where appropriate.
I tried to get Pages CMS set up on my server to publish to this Hugo-based blog. I was unable to get it working. I use Yunohost to handle a lot of the stuff I run there including LDAP. I think the auth redirects are causing the issue. I ran into what I believe to be the same problem trying to deploy ntfy. All my notification attempts from the command line using curl commands failed with redirections.