New post: Exporting references from Zotero to Tiddlywiki.
In which I expand on the rabbit hole that @jack opened up!
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.
After reading about HEY World, I had a whimsical idea to use it to write a series of love letters to the natural world. I’ve no idea if I’ll keep it up, but the first couple of letters are here. You can subscribe to it as an email newsletter, or get the RSS feed.
I had forgotten how hypnotic this track is. I haven’t listened to it for a while, but I’m celebrating getting my RasberryPi DAC connected back up again after some wifi issues.
Part of my digital de-cluttering has been to rationalise multiple email accounts into 2 hey.com accounts. I tried the service when it launched, but it didn’t click with me at the time. Now I really like it. It is making me feel more in control.
I don’t know why, but over the past week or so, I’ve been in a frenzy of digital de-cluttering and simplifying, and DIY fixing of long-standing issues in our house (busted pendant light fittings, wonky hinges, that kind of thing). It can be hard to know when to stop!
New post: Re-visiting poetry
On which I think about the way that the meanings of poems change throughout our lives.