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I made the pilgrimage to B&H. Don’t want to leave! @jack @alexjj
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2021-10-31T14:33:49-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/10/31/i-made-the.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/09/18/i-dont-understand.html", "content_html": "I don’t understand how to use blocks vs. pages vs. documents in Craft. I may just need to use it more, but right now it’s not clicking, and is making Roam and org-roam look simpler in comparison. Will keep trying, though!
\n", "date_published": "2021-09-18T19:26:25-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/09/18/i-dont-understand.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/09/15/well-thanks-a.html", "content_html": "Well, thanks a lot @jack - Now I’ve opened the Pandora’s box of Craft. ;)
\n", "date_published": "2021-09-15T16:09:53-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/09/15/well-thanks-a.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/06/15/im-and-have.html", "content_html": "I’m 50 and have been typing “incorrectly” for 38 years, ever since I got a TI-99/4a computer. All this time I’ve been using nine of my 10 fingers. When I pay attention, I can get up to around 65 WPM. Is it worth learning to touch-type now?
\n", "date_published": "2021-06-15T23:42:08-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/06/15/im-and-have.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/06/12/wow-jack-i.html", "content_html": "Wow, @jack – I can’t believe I waited this long to get a fountain pen! Bought a red Lamy Safari (and a Rhodia Reverse Book) today and I love it. Thank you for the push. 😊
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2021-06-12T22:48:57-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/06/12/wow-jack-i.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/30/a-palm-zire.html", "title": "A Palm Zire 72 time-capsule has lessons for today", "content_html": "I dug my 2004-era Palm Zire 72 out of a drawer the other day for the first time in years. I thought I’d lost all the data on it until I remembered that I always used to back it up to the SD card which was still sitting in it. I restored the entire contents from that card and everything came back within a few minutes. DateBk5 calendar and to-do data, months of DayNotez journal entries, Pocket Quicken ledgers, blurry 1.2-megapixel photos, and all the varied other project plans and shopping lists that lived in the stock apps and databases. So many tasks that never got done. It was a complete snapshot of where I put the bulk of my day-to-day data for a couple of years.
\n\nI noticed that the built-in global search in Palm OS works way, way better than the one on iOS. The Palm having much less data to sift through is probably an advantage here, but it’s still much faster and more elegant at surfacing what matches the thing you’re looking for and its context, and then taking you through a worm-hole directly to the record you tapped on.
\n\nAs I paged through DayNotez and the cute little post-it note icons that meant “more details here” in so many stock apps, I saw names of people I’d since forgotten. I wished I’d written more journal entries. I wished I’d made more art and worked on more music projects. And for all the fixating I do on note-taking now, for the first time I did not wish I had taken more notes back then on things like trivia, politics, media, news, quotes, apps, etc.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-30T23:34:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/30/a-palm-zire.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/05/now-this-looks.html", "content_html": "Now this looks fun, and an excuse to buy a not-that-expensive photo printer:
\n\n\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2021-04-05T17:55:59-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/05/now-this-looks.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/03/thanks-to-tgray.html", "content_html": "Why do it myself instead of using a printing service? That paper, for one. I’ve never found a single shop that offers paper I like for small prints. But also because, as I said earlier, for me, the joy comes from creating these, slowly, on my own time. It feels like craftwork and connects me to the printed images.
\n
Thank you to @tgray for sharing his presets and knowledge about how to make photos from the Ricoh GR look even more amazing in Lightroom. The camera arrived yesterday and it is definitely the right one for me.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2021-04-03T21:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/04/03/thanks-to-tgray.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/03/16/one-thing-i.html", "content_html": "One thing I don’t know how to address in Johnny.Decimal: Where to put things along the spectrum of widely available/low security <—> reduced access/high security. Oh, and also the small capacity <—> big capacity continuum. Like, I have a small pile of non-sensitive random files in Google Drive that are mostly there to share with people, a bunch more less-random stuff in Dropbox that stays there because it’s easy to sync with and edit on mobile and I pay for lots of space, and a ton of more sensitive documents only on my MacBook and an external drive where I have gobs of space and certain tools only available on the laptop. I don’t think I’m supposed to duplicate all of the same folders across all these storage platforms, but I guess any categories + IDs that do make it to those platforms are supposed to stay consistent, even if the platforms hold different pieces of the entire J.D universe of files?
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-16T23:41:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/03/16/one-thing-i.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/01/13/to-think-about.html", "content_html": "To think about something other than the news for a minute, this thread from The Museum of English Rural Life is delightful and right up some M.b-ers’ alley: twitter.com/TheMERL/s…
\n", "date_published": "2021-01-13T13:13:52-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2021/01/13/to-think-about.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/12/25/this-looks-like.html", "content_html": "This looks like loads of fun. Just wish I had seen it a few days ago!
\n\nAlan Roe’s Guide to 2020 Holiday Broadcasts on Shortwave (Version 5 Final) | The SWLing Post
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-25T10:29:05-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/12/25/this-looks-like.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/12/12/ok-fine-ill.html", "content_html": "Ok FINE. I’ll pronounce it “soo-doo”, since the dude that invented it (Bob Coggeshall) says it that way. youtu.be/LaAwl3HN5…
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-12T20:09:16-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/12/12/ok-fine-ill.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/11/10/using-ios-shortcuts.html", "title": "Using iOS Shortcuts to horizontally combine photos", "content_html": "Sometimes today’s notes in the Field Notes bullet journal are split across pages and it takes more than one shot to get them in the iPhone. Depending on where the day starts and ends on whichever paper pages, I might end up with two square images to capture the day’s scribbles. I’d rather see those in Roam side-by-side instead of as images stacked on top of each other. I made a Combine Images Horizontally iOS Shortcut to accept one or more selected images in the Photos app, combine them horizontally, save them as a new photo, and then go to the most recent photos in the camera roll to get out of the “image selection” mode. Here’s what it looks like:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-11-11T00:39:35-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/11/10/using-ios-shortcuts.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/11/03/id-love-a.html", "content_html": "I’d love a journal app with built-in limitations on the number of lines per day, the way Tot is limited in its total number of notes. Give me 10–12 lines/day and I’ll fit all the “this happened today” bullets in. Roam is great for notes, but it gives me almost too much freedom.
\n", "date_published": "2020-11-03T23:34:48-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/11/03/id-love-a.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/10/15/an-email-to.html", "title": "An email to Andrew about Roam", "content_html": "My friend Andrew emailed me the other day to ask how I was liking Roam Research now that I’ve gone all-in on it. It turns out, I had some thoughts. :) He gave me permission to share my lengthy reply to him. It helped me think through some stuff, and I hope it’s useful to others!\n
yyyy-mm-dd daily notes
draft in Drafts and that’s where I lob links and quotes and random thoughts in Markdown format. (I never add stuff to Roam on the phone. I may be superstitious, but I think that’s asking for syncing trouble.) I paste that Daily Notes draft into Roam once or twice each day on my MacBook and clean up formatting and add wiki links where they’re needed. The rest of the notes I just write directly in Roam while thinking out loud when I’m processing that stuff or grabbing a few extra links from Safari.\n\nI was on org-roam (in Doom Emacs) for a nice little bit, and it’s still just amazing and I miss the tactility of it, but the mental overhead with Emacs was too great. Org-roam was the best at dealing with filenames and aliases, though. It’s so smart about removing the worry about filesystem-safe characters, and its method of item aliasing makes it so easy to refer to one thing by many names.
\n\nThen I went with Obsidian for a long time for a few reasons:
\n\n>
character and treat it like a blockquote like every other Markdown-based app in the world.What finally pushed me over the edge and back to Roam was that:
\n\nAlso, that push from Jack and Kevin on Micro.blog to make a public Roam DB helped. :)
\n\nNow that I’m back in it, here’s what I think:
\n\nRoam is so good at everything else that I don’t care that it’s stored in the cloud, I don’t care that much anymore about the blockquotes, and I can live with how it isn’t good at aliases at all. Once I really started using it for everything, I just got addicted to the lack of friction. I don’t create many “pages” anymore. I just add stuff to Daily Notes and nest it under whatever page-like tag, or add a hashtag to the end. It makes Obsidian feel primitive and it makes my dear TiddlyWiki feel clumsy (where you have to worry about opening and closing tiddlers and making sure you don’t lose a draft of a tiddler).
\n\nRoam is even good enough that I have a whole separate private database that everything goes into first. 95% of what’s in there ends up copied to the public database, but because it’s all Roam, I don’t have to reformat anything to get it from private to public.
\n\nI’m still brand new to Readwise, so I’m figuring it out as I go and haven’t pasted those pages into the public DB. I like what I’ve seen other people use it for, though.
\n\nThe biggest things that make me believe that Roam is the right app for me now are:
\n\nI’ll admit that when the Roam dudes were tossing around the idea of charging $30/mo for it, I was seriously doubtful that I’d hang in there for that. I still don’t know if I’d be using it if it were that expensive. When they announced $15/mo, our lizard brains were so collectively relieved that that seemed like a bargain in comparison.
\n\nI suspected for a while that I’d probably end up back in Roam anyway, and I also knew that I couldn’t think my way through it without trying it again. And here I am!
\n", "date_published": "2020-10-15T23:20:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/10/15/an-email-to.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/10/08/i-wish-my.html", "content_html": "I wish my wife and I could go to the library again and just hang out and browse and read, without masks or worry.
\n", "date_published": "2020-10-08T21:57:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/10/08/i-wish-my.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/09/20/when-adding-a.html", "title": "When adding a new drive to Backblaze in Mojave, you may need to revoke and re-grant Full Disk Access", "content_html": "While trying to add the new Samsung T5 SSD (formatted with APFS) to the Backblaze Backup preference pane on macOS Mojave, I got this error message:
\n\n\n\n\nBackblaze could not create a read-writable ‘.bzvol’ directory on that hard drive.
\n
Permissions on that drive are 774, and for that .bzvol
folder they’re 777. Also, the drive is set to “Ignore ownership on this volume” anyway, so I didn’t think it was permissions.
Hmm. A Backblaze rep answered a Reddit question and their answer had all kinds of terrible-looking workarounds that I didn’t want to try yet. But this responder had the same symptom I have:
\n\n\n\n\nI have this exact same circumstance. Claims it can’t create it, but when I examine the disk there is a folder named
\n.bzvol
present with permissions set to 777 owned by me. I should note that the drive does have theIgnore ownership on this volume
set (which macOS seems to do by default when you init a new drive or partition). Perhaps that’s the problem?
Your External Drive Is No Longer Backed Up – Backblaze
\nNothing helpful there.
ERROR: Backblaze could not create a read-writable ‘.bzvol’ directory on that hard drive – Backblaze Help
\nThat page was from 2015, and I’d already done some work on files moved to the drive, so I wasn’t going to change it to HFS+. Plus, you’re supposed to use APFS on SSDs anyway.
Allowing Backblaze to Back Up External Drives - MacOS Catalina – Backblaze Help
\nWell, I’m not on Catalina yet, and I didn’t see a bzbmenu
app or preference pane to give access to.
But I did of course see Backblaze in the Security & Privacy window with Full Disk Access already:
\n\n\n\nSo I wondered what would happen if I removed Backblaze from the list, locked the preference pane, unlocked the preference pane, re-added Backblaze, and locked the preference pane again.
\n\nI did all that and went back into the Backblaze Backup preference pane > Settings > Select Hard Drives to Backup, clicked the new SSD drive, and it worked.
\n\nHow do normal people deal with this?
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-20T12:43:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/09/20/when-adding-a.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/08/28/for-me-turntables.html", "content_html": "For me, turntables are the Emacs of audio: effort + research to understand what at first looks simple, endless tweaking, lots of variables and settings, inefficient, require manual work, glorious once they’re tuned, easy to obsess about, and more fun than any other similar tool.
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-28T08:28:22-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/08/28/for-me-turntables.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/30/keychron-k-keyboard.html", "title": "Keychron K2 keyboard", "content_html": "Five days into the Keychron K2 and here’s what I think. It’s definitely a good “starter” keyboard for someone who has only used membrane keyboards, or last used a mechanical 30 years ago (me).
\n\nThe good:
\n\nThe not so good:
\n\nTweaks:
\n\nI know I could avoid a lot of these tweaks by just getting a Happy Hacking Keyboard or a Leopold FC660C, but the former has no arrow keys, and the latter is always out of stock. And to scratch the itch of needing 1.) a new toy to play with and 2.) stuff to research and obsess over, the K2 is doing the job well!
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-30T00:55:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/30/keychron-k-keyboard.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/22/when-your-macbook.html", "title": "When your MacBook Roon endpoint shows up as a green dot", "content_html": "This post is for Kevin on Micro.blog, who is having issues where his MacBook endpoint in Roon shows up as a green dot.
\n\nThis Roon page about signal paths explains what the green dot means:
\n\n\n\n\nWhile the Mac software mixer does not do anything too gross, it might be performing software-based volume adjustments or sample rate conversion before playing the audio. As such, we can’t guarantee that the output quality is lossless, so we label it as “High Quality”.
\n
So, it might be lossless or it might not. Roon can’t be sure. The solution is in this Roon community post: Os mixer problem with new Mac mini
\n\n\n\n\nYou have used System Output rather than Built-In Output under Settings > Audio.
\n
To fix it, disable the “System Output” device on your Mac in your Roon settings (under “Settings > Audio” as the post describes). You want to enable the “Built-in Output” (which I renamed to “MacBook Built-in Output” in my Roon settings).
\n\n\n\nAnd then in the Device Setup for that output, be sure to set Exclusive Mode to Yes.
\n\n\n\nNow when you use your new “Built-in Output” device to play music, you should see purple (lossless) all the way.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-07-22T13:31:00-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/22/when-your-macbook.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/18/last-weekend-we.html", "content_html": "Last weekend we were cleaning out and rearranging. I collected all the journals I could find and managed to fit every one in that blue tub. I love that these are all sprawled out on the kitchen floor in this decidedly unsexy, un-minimal photo. What a glorious mess!
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-07-18T01:58:21-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/18/last-weekend-we.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/05/i-cant-believe.html", "content_html": "I can’t believe I didn’t care about seeing “Hamilton” sooner. I watched it (for the first time) along with the rest of the world on Disney+ on Friday night. I didn’t expect historical accuracy or the full context of everything else going on at the time, so I’m ok with it being an incomplete picture of Hamilton’s virtues and flaws, and a rosy, shallow picture of the American Revolution. But as an artistic feat of vision, acting, singing, craft, composition, lyrics, dance, and set design, it’s utterly perfect. Overwhelming, even. I just don’t know enough about theatre to have any idea of how all those facets of a production can come together so perfectly and in the right sequence to pull off a show like this, but watching it gave me a sense of what’s it’s like to experience a bunch of Broadway luminaries at the top of their powers. Wow!
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-05T19:56:11-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/07/05/i-cant-believe.html" }, { "id": "http://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/06/20/well-thats-done.html", "content_html": "Well, that’s done! @canion
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-06-20T09:55:48-04:00", "url": "https://twelvety.micro.blog/2020/06/20/well-thats-done.html" } ] }