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.