I’m resisting buying a new keyboard.

I have promised myself that my need to collect new keebs is over, and I can be happy with what I have. I tell myself that at least once a day. I have a problem.

The thing that is prodding me towards breaking my “no new keyboards” streak, is that my current dactyl doesn’t have enough keys. It does, and I could easily use layers, but my brain thinks it needs more keys in the thumb cluster. It would be nice, but it’s not really necessary.

I’m filling up my Field Notes notebooks quickly, so I’ve been on the lookout for my next set. I figured I would go cheaper this time, since Field Notes (it’s a brand) are quite pricey. I found some generic A6 size notebooks on Amazon that looked nice and have about 10 times the number of pages as the Field Notes.

I’ve been scribbling in one the last couple of days, and I realize that I don’t care for them as much. They’re too thick. They’re not as easy to write on, nor do they feel as nice to write on as the Field Notes.

The other day on The Linux Cast, we talked a lot about security, and one of the things that we talked about was changing your password. Now, I use a password manager for the things that matter, so it’s quite easy to change passwords when needed.

For the stuff on my computer, however, I’m not as dillgent as I should be. Namely with my ssh and Linux passwords. I used simple easy to type passwords. Not ‘password’ or ‘123’ or anything like that, but still, simple. The conversation the boys and I had, however, got me thinking about how I should probably change the ssh passphrase at the very least.

So, a few days ago, I wrote about how my bookmarking system is a mess. I’m still thinking about what to do about that, but I’m still slowly going through my saved RSS articles, my bookmarks, and my notes. I’m weeding things out in the hopes that when I get a new system, I will have less to transfer over. Even if I end up sticking with what I have, not having so many saved things is the right thing to do.

Back in June, I wrote a post about how I had started keeping track of certain habits. These were things I wanted to improve upon by doing every single day. I’ve done a somewhat good job of actually doing this since then. First, as I said in that post, I used an Obsidian daily note to track these habits. Obsidian, with the use of some plugins, would help me track and graph my progress.

I like Discord. I also kinda hate Discord. The problem I have with it is that there are a lot of people there. The thing I like about it is that there are a lot of people there. It’s a mixed bag.

You will find a lot of great things on Discord, but I have also had my worst experiences on social media on Discord (which makes Twitter jealous). Something about the real time nature of the chat seems to remove the filter from some people’s mouth.

I’ve had some blog stats available on my About page for a while, but I wanted to see if I could make my script a little more robust. For one, I wanted more stats, but I also wanted graphs.

What I had before was a simple bash script that would post the total number of posts and the total word count. Every time I would publish a post, Hugo itself would run the script and output to a shortcode. It was janky and didn’t really count things accurately.

Back when Twitter was fun and Tumblr was new, the idea of posting small blogs, or “micro blogging”, caught the public’s eye. For those of us who found regular, long-form, blogging to be too overwhelming, posting a little thought here or their on our micro blog would allow us a foot in the door without the stress of WordPress. It also allowed for much easier community building when all the bloggers were on the same platform.