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Hello there red guy. Glad you’re enjoying the weather. Me? Eh. I think it’s back to the AC in a few. Keep it real. 📷

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Two Weeks, Two Projects

Two weeks deep into Emacs config and a book idea about blogging. The Emacs tweaks are going great… The book? Not so much.

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Been reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee by Patrick McGee 📚.

Surprisingly informative. In a way, it’s like reading some of the history of Apple and how they became this successful. It’s not too critical of Apple, at least not yet.

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Still working with Claude on my Emacs settings as a reference. Need to start a new session, so asked it to write a summary with instructions on how I like it to help me. It wrote this:

I know it’s complementing me on purpose, but that emphasized why? That’s why my blog is called this way 😉

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Say you go jump to a header in org-mode somewhere with C-c C-o. Did you know that you can go back with C-c &? And that it has history, so you can keep going back??

Years of isearch-backwards… wasted. Mind blown. 🤯

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A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference

Started reorganizing my Emacs config, and along the way, I finally learned how to use plain links and radio links. Here’s my quick-reference cheat sheet for the different link types I already have in my new config.

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Thought my Emacs init file needs a bit of cleaning - it contains configs from maybe 5 and 6 years ago. It’s a nostalgic learning experience. More fun than I thought. More to come soon 🤓

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Every time I go get coffee around West Village, I feel like I’m in a different city. The contrast between our quiet neighborhood with the trees and birds in upper Manhattan and this is striking and fun. 📷

Auto-generated description: A lively urban street scene features colorful flags, restaurant signs, outdoor seating, and pedestrians under a bright blue sky with trees lining the sidewalk.
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auth and curl

I couldn’t log into IndieWeb. Turned out the problem was me insisting on www.taonaw.com instead of taonaw.com. I know, duh, right? The redirect my browser handles silently every day made me forget that www is actually not a real thing. Claude showed me how to see it with curl, a tool I’d always noticed but never touched. Now I have.

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Is there a rule somewhere that says that if half your workday is spent in meetings, you can’t be expected to produce a whole day’s work? Just makes sense, right?

I’d go further and say, you can’t even do half a day of work after that. Meetings mean:

  • Can’t take a break (You have to mute yourself taking a piss, jeez)
  • Have to keep notes and track what is being said (unlike emails which you can come back to)
  • Have to follow up later on new issues that are becoming emails…

Yes, they’re needed. But oh boy. Now, if I could get a cent from anyone who agrees with me… 😆