Happy Thanksgiving from here in NYC all. It’s going to be a chilly day, with temperatures rising about 50 while the sun is out. I wanted to write another update on my recent work while the coffee is still hot.
After working on my wiki for a couple of weeks straight, I’m starting to calm down a bit. I’m thinking of what I write, and where.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been brainstorming the idea of converting this website into a fork of a wiki, particularly, TiddlyWiki. I went full circle from using the tool to builing a static website, back to the original, single-file java script supported version. Here are some of my thoughts.
Ash, the admin of mastodon.technology, is shutting it down. Mastodon Technology has been my instance (server) for the last couple of years - it has been my introduction to Mastodon in general. He wrote about it on his blog.
I just zapped a bunch of tags on this blog. Apologies if this messed up your rss feeds. There were just too many tags! Some tags were created for one post, in hope of writing more about the topic in the future, while others were repetitions of already existing tags.
I tried folks, I really tried, but for now, I can’t use Emacs for my technical writing, as much as I’d like to. This is far from over though. I’m planning a comeback sooner than later… Here are some of my thoughts so far.
As more of my work functions shift toward Technical Writing, I sat down to evaluate my Emacs workflow. Most of the Knowledge Base (KB) articles will be written in ServiceNow, and I thought only minor tweaks will be needed. As it turns out, the devil’s in the details.
The other night I woke up around 3 in the morning. This happens more often than not, and I’m learning to make peace with it as much as I can. One of the ways to do that is to play an immersive video game, one that will occupy my mind enough to hopefully get another hour of sleep or so. One such game is Elite Dangerous, which I picked up again recently.
New people, new ideas. I ran into Tom on Mastodon. He introduced himself as a programmer, an Emacs enthusiast, and as it turned out, a digital gardener.
I read a good argument in a NYTimes opinion piece by Laura Vanderkam in favor of flexible work hours.