I love the color of this new Leuchtturm. It’s almost new notebook day!

I spent most of last week back in Flagstaff, my first trip there since we moved more than a year ago. I have so many thoughts and feelings about visiting that town — where I lived for nearly twenty years. I went for a lot of photo walks and revisited some favorite places, including this lovely corner that holds a lot of memories. Pizzicletta has expanded to a small empire but this original location is special (and next door to my favorite bike shop, too).

Exploring the waterfront in the summertime, we checked out the Seattle Aquarium for the first time this week.

My family was skeptical of my breakfast plan, but steel cut oats with mango, chunks of Canadian bacon, some dots of habanero sauce and a sprinkle of chunky sea salt was really delicious.

It would be cool if Discord had a public client API so I could read through just a list of new posts in subscribed channels.

Huh. It would be cool if Discord was basically web forums with RSS. “Look at what they took from us etc.”

I’ve been trying to clean up and organize my old catalogs of photo files from across a couple of iPhoto and Lightroom catalogs, and every time I begin, I just get absolutely stranded in memory.

Oh gosh am I really crossing the streams this morning: Trying out the nvim org-mode plugin to tinker with my Journelly org file on the Mac desktop.

I’m having a great time using Journelly. It’s an org-mode based journaling tool built for iOS, which ticks some big nerd boxes for me. Journelly stamps metadata into the header of each entry, like weather and location, and then the app nicely renders that info on display in the app. And creating new entries is as frictionless as making a new note in Drafts or another editor – but with the bonus of living in a tidy, appealing timeline that Álvaro Ramírez calls “tweeting, but for your eyes only.” (By comparison, most of my time-and-place notes that I put in Drafts never make it out of the inbox, not since my long-ago slow blog over at my tilde.) Since Journelly’s data is stored in org-mode, it’s interoperable with emacs (see nice write-ups and usage notes by Mike, Jack, and Ellane¹. Journelly’s developer also runs the new blog platform lmno and builds some other cool org-based tools.

Using the iPhone-based Journal app in recent iOS versions hasn’t stuck for me, despite being well-built and elegant, and of course it’s tightly integrated with the operating system. But I think I’m somewhat deterred by the fact that it only lives on the phone. I’m attracted to Journelly in part because it overcomes this limitation. I’m not doing it yet, but it’s easy to point the iOS app’s storage to an iCloud location and access it from anywhere you can run emacs, which opens up new ways to write and edit posts, but also to eventually publish or convert into a book or archive via Pandoc — so many possibilities.

Instant writing, with a powerful engine under the hood for a ton of flexibility, make Journelly a very neat little tool, one I’m happy to continue adventuring with.

I’m spending more time tooling around Flickr lately, and realized quite suddenly just how much of my history is there. Different homes, at least two careers, friends and family and a whole lot of just life is in pictures that I shared there.

Shooting around with the camera, I realized that it was set to a slight crop and I couldn’t figure out why. I have no earthly idea how I turned on “sports finder” mode accidentally, but am sure glad this reddit post perfectly answered my question.