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Blog Posts

  1. Hello Mister Blue Jay

  2. Setting Aside Reading “Quicksilver”

    Shaking my head at a lazy two word description of a likely backdrop character. And from there setting aside the book, recognizing that there are so very many books I want to read and that available time to read is my constraint.

  3. Renaming Files Using Denote Schema in a Dired Buffer

    A quick walk through of a dired function to loop through marked files and prompt for how to rename them.

  4. Revisiting the Side Note Enhancement for My Blog

    Further refinement of an accessibility feature I added to my website, with a brief mention of the aria-expanded and aria-controls HTML attributes.

  5. Writing a JavaScript Progressive Enhancement for My Sidenotes

    I write a bit of background on a reported usability issue. I then provide a bit of JavaScript I wrote to resolve the reported issue.

  6. Adjusting My Time Tracking Again

    A walk through of changing how I track time; first paying attention to some friction and then making some incremental changes to my time tracking by creating a new Org-Mode capture template and functions.

  7. Ruby and ImageMagick to Fetch Tiled Images and Reconstitute

    A quick walk through of using a Ruby script and ImageMagick to convert numerous image tiles into one image.

  8. Reflecting on "My Position on AI (for future reference)"

    Exhuming a draft blog post that captures my sentiment on LLMs and “AI” as of August 2023. tl;dr This generative crap is metastic.

  9. The Fog of Winter

    A personal lament of the loss of winter, a small part of the climate crisis, through the voices of coyotes hidden amongst the fog.

  10. Creating an Emacs Command to Rename Files per Denote File Naming Schema

    A quick introduction to the Denote file naming convention, then a function to rename any file using the Denote naming convention.