New post: Ginger jeans 4.
In which I make my fourth pair of Gingers on my new Pfaff sewing machine, and manage to pull the slider off the zip (again).
New post: Ginger jeans 4.
In which I make my fourth pair of Gingers on my new Pfaff sewing machine, and manage to pull the slider off the zip (again).
Finished reading: Underland by Robert Macfarlane 📚. So lyrical and curiously moving in places. I don’t read much non-fiction, but this was a page-turner.
Getting there. The complicated bits are done. 🧵
Ah, Sunday morning. Chopin nocturnes on the speakers and a new pair of Ginger jeans under the needle of my new (to me) Pfaff. Bliss. 🧵
New post: Apparently I collect sewing machines now.
I’ve added another machine to my accidental collection, and it’s a Pfaff. But I can stop any time!
New post: Exporting references from Zotero to Tiddlywiki.
In which I expand on the rabbit hole that @jack opened up!
I blame @jack for pointing me to Soren Bjornstad and his Grok TiddlyWiki book. I’ve been messing around with TW to see if I like it better than org-roam. This weekend I wrote a Go/Keyboard Maestro workflow to export references and import with metadata as Tiddlers. Geeky fun!
Finished reading: London Rules by Mick Herron 📚
This is the 5th book in the Jackson Lamb series, which I have devoured. Jackson Lamb is my favourite anti-hero of all time. Herron is a fantastic thriller writer and these books tread a perfect line between action and comedy.
New post: Singing with nightingales.
We finally got to attend a Singing With Nightingales event, and it was an incredible and magical experience.
While in an interminable tailback on a motorway today, I spotted a sticker on a white van that made me laugh: “No pasties left in this vehicle overnight”.
New article: Creativity.
In which I reflect on the effect of deadlines on me in an attempt to better equip future me to cope with them.
I’ve just had most of my hair cut off for the first time in more than a year, and I can’t tell you how good it feels. I feel like myself again.
TIL (via Kate Davies), that in the 16th Century, the City of London had sock police, described as “sad and discreet” persons, who would go around checking that no-one was wearing the wrong kind of socks, as laid out by the sumptuary laws.
New article: Learning Go
After having fun building my Alfred Workflow for Johnny.Decimal systems, I’m really getting in to Go. It’s a lovely programming language which is friendly for beginners, but powerful enough to do some very impressive things.
I got us a tree tag for our wedding anniversary lately through a charity (Heart of England Forest) which is planting a new public forest. While we were looking for our tag, I found this one which brought a lump to my throat. What a lovely thought ❤️
Johnny.Decimal fans on macOS: I’ve just realeased the first public version of my Alfred workflow, alfred-jd! 🎉🥳
It’s still very new, so make sure you have backups before using - nothing bad should happen, but safety first 👷♀️🥽🧯
I know there are some Johnny.Decimal fans here, so you may be interested in an Alfred workflow I have been developing. I’ve been having huge fun with Go to write it!
New post: Digital spring clean
In which I talk about switching banks to one that doesn’t have an online banking system fossilised in the 1990s, and setting up a Johnny.Digital system for my personal files.
Hornbeams.
There’s a house near us which always has spectacular Christmas decorations. This year, they have left the tree and sleigh out and decorated it for Valentines Day and now Easter. Eggs and bunnies hanging on a Christmas tree is confusing!
Oh, nice! Ulysses also lets you make scheduled posts to Micro.blog, as well as saving to a draft.
Great to see that Ulysses now enables you to post to Micro.blog! I also like using MarsEdit for that, but it’s nice to have options, particularly as this means you can post from Ulysses iOS.
Woohoo! I got my first COVID-19 vaccination today. I had to resist the temptation to high five the nurse who gave it to me 🙌 😷
My latest letter to nature: Falling tree.