One of the things I realized (again) on this staycation: I am curious and my hunger for technology didn’t go anywhere. It was just squished under layers of workload.
I’m relying increasingly on Journelly to save quick links and notes. It’s swift, and it’s easy to add to org-mode as a project or the agenda
Warfare, 2025 - ★★★½
I decided to watch this on a whim today, and I'm glad I did. This is a difficult movie to watch, not just because of the subject matter but also because there's no real plot or story. I think that's part of the point.
This is an authentic story (as much as I can gather) of one of many instances - and just that, one moment (well, a 90-minute-long moment) of the war in Iraq, with all its horrors. It was created as a memory, like a journal note, of how things were back then for the people who were there; it's not the kind of movie you watch in a theater, eating popcorn.
What I appreciate about this movie is that it doesn't attempt to draw politics in. There's also no attempt at heroism or really any symbolism. It's a simple movie that makes a simple delivery.
Emacs' windows navigations and some Emacs zen
Turns out I didn’t know and forgot about all sorts of built-in fucntions in Emacs that help you navigate windows better. A bit of help from System’s Crafters video and I wised up quite a bit.
Windows in Emacs probably come to you as second nature now, as it does to me, but imagine how it looks to people from the outside for a minute:
Look at the diagram on the screen. Read the explanation. Look at the “huh?” expression of David of System Crafters (awesome channel for Emacs learning by the way)… Need I say more? 😂
I love Emacs, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to managing its windows…
A blog check list
A checklist (in org-mode, but it doesn’t have to be) I use to keep my blog perrrrrty. (ok, yes, I need to actuall use it now, I know…)
We started watching Severance, episode 1 of season 1. I only vaguely know what it’s about, but it’s intriguing, so I want to keep at it.
Emacs window management tweaking
Tweaking Emacs’ window management as a way to get tired and go to bed again.
Today I had a switch flip in my brain: what does it take for /me/ to realize that things have gone to shit, and I need a backup plan? I thought about it more calmly over a shower, and I think I’m going to come up with a list.
I just uninstalled the Reddit app again. I use Reddit it and enjoy the community ,but the official Reddit app is a disgusting ads billboard coated with politics I didn’t ask for nor can I block affectively (they come back). On the desktop, there are extensions that work better.