I had Google’s Gemini 3 write a little CLI tool for writing and publishing posts and notes from the command line. It’s nothing fancy. Basically some template files that get loaded up into NeoVim so I can write posts. Then saves and let’s me publish via options wrapped around git commands. I keep trying to reduce the friction for writing in hopes that the easier it is to publish a post on this blog, the more I’ll be likely to publish more.

I like the way Dave Winer handles his blog. He posts stuff throughout the day that all show up a single chunks of his blog grouped by day. Each input has it’s own permalink and then each day has a link (which he sends out in a nightly email or RSS feed). I’m trying to structure my blog more like that to encourage more frequent posting throughout the day when I have a thought.

New year, new posts? Hopefully. The blog has been down for the last 2 months because I broke it trying to modernize the editor I host to edit posts in the browser, merge that into my Hugo blog directory and combine the installation of both blog and editor into the same YunoHost install script. Long story short, I broke it real bad and have finally given up and gone back to what works.

Been getting through a good bit of reading lately. Mostly working my way through The Will of the Many which I’m really enjoying. It has influences from the Red Rising series around the structure of the world and it’s hierarchy. The magic system is also interesting. It feels a little bit like The Stormlight Archive in how it is used but how it is sourced is very unique and adds a much heavier feel to its usage.

I’ve spent a bit of time recently refactoring and modifying the codebase that I use as a web editor for this blog. Mainly using different LLM coding assistans to see how well they can handle making changes and adding features.

I added some simple analytics to this site finally. So now I can prove that I’m the only one reading it :). Mostly it was just wanting to check out self hosting Umami analytics. Following Jack over at baty.net makes me feel better about all the tinkering I do with this setup. He’s much more active at moving and reconfiguring things than I am.

One thing that I just realized my new scribbling setup doesn’t currently support is physical media. I don’t often get a chance to sit down and listen to a record but I did get some good ones for Father’s Day this year that I’ve been listening to.

I’m sure I can manually add listens but I’ll have to look into a way to do it automatically. Although I’m not sure how it would be possible with an analog setup like a record player.

I read Filterworld by Kyle Chayka last year and have been trying to be more mindful of where algorithms are influencing my consumption. Music is probably the biggest portion of that consumption. For the last 10 years or so I have largley moved away from listening to albums or making specific playlists and just relying on generated “stations” in YouTube Music. Part of this is due to the fact that all of my friend group uses Spotify so I can’t connect and share with them as easily for recommendations. The other part is it’s just easier when I’m working or commuting to just click a single button and zone out to an endless, themed playlist.

Did some research into why physical writing is linked to so many memory and learning benefits. More of the brain is activated when physically writing. Including many of the “hubs” that are important for memory formation. The act of deciding what to write and thinking that through also helps to activate brain regions important for memroy.

I tried to get Pages CMS set up on my server to publish to this Hugo-based blog. I was unable to get it working. I use Yunohost to handle a lot of the stuff I run there including LDAP. I think the auth redirects are causing the issue.