When I wrote about Journelly the other day, I didn’t expect the guy who makes the app to find me and my post, and answer my post on his own blog. It surprises me every time I get an email or a response because I don’t really think anyone really reads this blog.

It makes sense that some Emacs folks on Fosstodon would find me, sure, we’re all crazy for the same thing after all, but then I also get email from people who take the time to write in length and open up more, and I just feel this semi-guilt of, “hey, why are you reading my stuff, I’m just talking nonsense.”

My most popular posts (I use TinyLytics to track traffic, it’s by an independent developer, and it just tracks the essentials, like general geographical location and browser used to read what pages) are Emacs and org-mode related, without a doubt, but there are other posts here as well. As time passes, I open up about more things in my life, or I care less about what people think, or probably a mix of both - and I’m also getting comments about those here and there. That’s especially exciting to me.

First, there’s some sense of vindication in that (if you grew up being somewhat on any social spectrum, you’ve probably experience enough of “you are wrong and you need to do X because X is what the rest of the world is doing” kind of thing). Second, these communications are always more personal and human. Emacs communications is great too, but it’s more of the thrill of learning a new thing.

Back to Journelly. I owe both Irreal and Álvaro an apology. Not that what I said was negative criticism in any way (and if it was, I didn’t mean it that way) - it’s just that I didn’t do enough research to learn about the app. I just read the review linked from Irreal, which didn’t really highlight the fact that the app is based on org-mode. That’s a big DUH, folks! Álvaro also created Plain Org, which I’ve used, among other useful Emacs surprises!