Non-weekly jumble
Well I thought I might do this weekly, but my last one was a month ago! Time flies. Here’s today’s jumble.
Though I bounced off of Linux, my terminal quest continues because I like it. For example, I’m still using Neovim for a lot of my text editing and Taskwarrior for my nerdier tasks and work projects. The rest of my tasks still go into Things 3.
The unique thing about Taskwarrior is its urgency metric, which is quite customizable. I’ve been curious whether I can use that at work to more easily decide what to do next among the sea of potential tasks. I also made a script that will create a Markdown file for a Taskwarrior task so I can quickly hop into verbose notes for any task. That’s been super useful so far. See nullteilerfrei's post, The Eisenhower Matrix in TaskWarrior, for another idea on how to get carried away with Taskwarrior customization.
With all the Linux and CLI stuff I’ve been doing, I’ve been really interested in the notion of tinkering, and I’ve collected a couple links on the topic:
- ro's If you don't tinker, you don't have taste (found via HN):
Acquiring good taste comes through using various things, discarding the ones you don’t like and keeping the ones you do. if you never try various things, you will not acquire good taste.... Question the status quo, experiment, break things, do this several times, do this everyday and keep doing it.
- Chris McLeod's Sometimes, Whimsy is Enough:
No, it doesn’t do anything useful. What it does do, is take a date and time, and convert it to the date format used by the Imperium of Man in the game Warhammer 40,000. Why? Because sometimes making something silly, just for the sake of it, is enough to make you feel a little bit better about everything.
I discovered Robb Knight via Manu's People and Blogs. I dug Robb's post, The Web is Fantastic, which is loosely related to (and better than) my old post about the internet being fun. I always appreciate when someone points out some good parts of the internet instead of insisting that everything's broken and horrible, as internet denizens so often do. Cheer up, denizens!
I nodded vigorously to Kev's post, Stop Explaining What Things Are.
I found Mitchell Hashimoto's blog when I was trying out Ghostty. He's the HashiCorp guy. His post, You Have to Feel It, made me ponder. There's not much at work these days that gets me "feeling it." Maybe that's what I'm searching for in my terminal adventures. (I landed on Wezterm, btw. The Lua config is great fun. But I'll keep an eye on Ghostty.)
I read Screw it, I’m installing Linux, also found via HN, and vibrated in resonance. I did the same thing after Windows 10 refused to let me upgrade my gaming rig to Windows 11 for thoroughly unclear reasons. Linux has been great for my Steam games!
I found Simon Willison's blog via and thought I'd share his 2022 post, What to blog about. Cheers to bloggers that encourage the reluctant or stymied to get writing!