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🔗 Creating files in macOS List View

I've chosen List view as my go-to Finder view in recent months. It is a good fit for how I like to navigate folders, being able to keep several within view, but drop in and out of the contents of each, without changing the overall directory level. I was formerly a Column view person, navigating via the arrow keys, but I've found that using multiple Finder windows spatially, a window per List view folder, works even better, and allows me to better keep my bearings.

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🔗 Cormac McCarthy’s Archive

Someday I'll get around to actually reading Cormac more. But seeing the giant mess of his house is enough for now.

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🔗 How to make a website

It's always useful to be reminded of how elemental writing on the web is supposed to me. Keep it simple stupid.

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Recent Writing

Now

This is a now page. Essentially an answer to the question, “What have you been up to recently?” I update this page as the focuses of my daily life ebb and flow.

Feeling

Last time I updated this page I wrote about Wordle. Since then I cultivated a 65 game streak, then pared back my committment to "I play on occasion when I feel like it," then finally down to "I quit and I'm tired of this game." I still regularly receive updates from people on their daily scores, which I entirely ignore—but which also might rope me back in to the game this summer when things are more relaxed.

I am feeling accomplished and nervous. I've spent a big chunk of time since December renovating this website and its guts. It is now working almost exactly as I always wanted, including RSS and JSON feeds. Now the hard part is finally beginning: the actual production of words and stuff. What I truly believe about myself is that I like to tinker with ideas and systems, but when it comes to having something to say, I shrink and never take the first step. I'm the nosy neighbor who won't live their own life. That changes today.

Thinking

I don't have a single thought these days except Let's try to finish these website projects. Get back to first principles and find the simple things you enjoy. Maybe that is actually a thought I have: I am trying not to be seen wearing AirPods around the house or in the company of others. I am listening to fewer podcasts, and two little tweaks are improving my focus on everything I do.

Watching

  • Evil—spooky one feat. Ben from LOST. The will they/won't they plot lantern is too heavily leaned into, but the religious vibes are fun.
  • Severence—watched this with multiple household members. Rewatching is rewarding for this one.
  • House of the Dragon—took the plunge on the GoT universe last year and blazed through it all. This is why watching TV is dangerous; what a thrilling and soapy timekill.

Listening

Visit my listening page for the most up to date cataglog.

  • Elliott Carter's Violin Concerto
  • Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto
  • End of the Middle, Rich Dawson
  • Antigone, Eiko Ishibashi

Reading

  • The New Yorker
  • The Story of the Lost Child, Ferrante

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Recent Notes

I don’t like the word “Please.” I don’t very actively teach my kids to use it at all costs. Have you noticed that “Please” has become something more command-like or a word indicating fake appeasement? Or bureaucratic malaise?

Discovering the Aphex Twin oddity “Drukqs” after it has been in my album collection for many years. Always had bounced HARD off of it; too abrasive. Now finding a path into its peculiar melodies and it’s a rewarding listen when you can meet it on its terms.

Open source projects - such as Drupal - have a built in advantage in the era of LLM bots scraping the entire web: namely, that the LLM's know just about everything there is to know about open source - enabling "Ambitious site builders" to get a lot done they otherwise couldn't have.

The new site is officially UP and running - except for my Shortcut to make posts. But that should be the easiest part.