Right now, my bookmarks are a mess. Most of my content that I save for reading later comes from FreshRSS, so I have about 500 “bookmarks” or starred files there. I also have my browser bookmarks that aren’t nearly as bad as I’ve kept them very organized. I also use linkding for a read-it-later service. So, my bookmarking situation is kind of all over the place and I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it.

I’ve been doing so well. I’ve been blogging every day now for over a month. But today, it has been a long day, and my brain is empty. I have a list of posts I want to do, but no ambition to actually write them. Instead, you get this. Me blogging about blogging, again.

At a certain point, the daily bloggers out there must run out of things to talk about, right? I’m sure tomorrow, I’ll be able to come up with something more better than this one, betterer. As is, instead, I’ll just say that blogging every day has been great. For the most part. But sometimes, I don’t want to blog, but I also don’t want to ruin the streak. Which feeling is stronger? Well, here’s 200 words of nonsense. I guess that’s the answer.

I’m one page away from filling up my first little field notes notebook. I wrote about a month ago about my attempt at using field notes as an supplementary note taking method. I’ve talked since then in a video about how this has become a little bit of an obsession and how it has kind of changed the way I do things.

Lists

The first thing that has changed is that I’ve moved a lot of my “to do” list items out of my digital task manager and into my notebook. The repetitive stuff that I do every day ends up in the digital world, but anything that is more unique or even a little more important, ends up on a list in the field notes. I love the physical nature of actually crossing something off the list. I’ve always liked clicking the button in Todoist or TickTick, but doing it with my favorite pen is so much better.

Not a long post today. Just me crying about my football team being horrible. We won the Super Bowl last year. We shouldn’t be so bad the year after that when we have so much talent. But they’re losing to the lowly NY Giants who are playing a rookie QB and don’t have their best WR. It’s sad.

Six weeks into the season and I’m calling it: this season is over. Ah well, Basketball season is almost here.

The answer is no, but goodness does this look good? Now a few days ago, I talked about the themes that I added to the site. You can still see them if you’re on desktop, there’s a little menu in the lower right side. My favorite so far has been ayu, but they’re all pretty damn good. What’s your favorite?

With that customization done, though, there were a few sore spots. First, I wanted to make sure that the scroll barmatched the theme. Now it does. Even on mobile, you get a nice colored scrollbar. It should work in all browsers, even, so job done. It looks amazing, and I’m more than a little proud of it.

Beware those who tread here, for there be MAJOR Spoilers ahead.

Stephen King has never written an ending I’ve really enjoyed. I’ve read many of his books, most of them from his younger days, and I’ve never really left any of his books satisfied. There is a fundamental disagreement Mr. King and I have. I truly believe that the ending of the book should never make the journey feel worthless. What I mean, is that you should never write an ending that makes the reader feel like they’ve wasted their time, and with almost every King book I’ve read, I’ve felt that the ending just didn’t quite make the story worth my while. The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze, as they say.

I’m a keyboard guy, we all know this about me. During my time as a “keyboard guy” I’ve tried out several different layouts. Everyone uses qwerty, but there are benefits to some of the other, less popular layouts. I’ve tried Colmak (dh and regular) and Dvorak. I’ve always failed at this transition. I can write about 100WPM on qwerty, depending on how bad my dyslexia is handling the day, but that drops to the low 20s on other layouts. Now, as with anything, the way to improve is to practice. But I’m not good at sticking with things when it impacts using my computer. And switching layouts does that because all of my keybindings for my text editor, my window manager, and many other things are all done with the expectation that I’m using qwerty.

Yesterday I talked about some of the things I’ve done on the blog. Well, today, I’ve been under the weather a little, so I decided to go ahead and tweak my blog some more.

If you’re on desktop (i.e. not on mobile), look down at the lower right hand corner. See the theme name? Click that. Change to one of the provided themes and BAM! You get a new theme on my site. Honestly, the hardest part was adding in all the hex codes. The JS was fine, really just a redo of my light theme switcher. I did finally make all my css colors variables, so it will be easy to add more themes in the future, should I choose to.

More updates have happened on the blog. I have a new “link” post type, that will allow me to share links to things I find interesting. This was fun to set up, and took a fair bit of doing. I wanted it to appear in the main hugo feed, and I wanted the posts to appear a bit different. At first, I thought about having a different background, but that didn’t look right. What I did instead, was make the post underline and the metadata a different color. If you go to the home page and scroll down, you’ll see my first attempt at this. I like it, though I will probably tweak it a bit in the future.