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: 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.