Over the course of writing this blog, I've come to view writing as an important activity, like meditation. And like meditation, I find my motivation comes in fits and spurts. One thing I found helpful with this site is the "don't break the chain" method. Simply create the expectation and the space that you will … Continue reading Boxing Time & Losing
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cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2022 Why Ergo? Forecasting a Cryptocurrency's Price Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary Installing LineageOS on a Samsung Device The Asshole Filter Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux A Quick Introduction to … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
You may have noticed that I have been posting to cafebedouin less lately. It is partially because I have been more involved in using Twitter. Why? One thing I like about Twitter is that it is a larger, socially constructed version of the kind of thoughts that we have moment to moment. Reading the timeline … Continue reading Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
Get Blogging!
"Your easy guide to starting a new blog. A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes." -https://getblogging.org/ I've been blogging since January 2017. In those five … Continue reading Get Blogging!
Online Techno-Polymath Guy
"I was discussing with Sam the “genre,” so to speak, of the Online Techno-Polymath Guy. You know this guy. He (and it’s usually a he) has his own website, probably hand-crafted in Kirby, Github, or WordPress, as well as a well-regarded, personable Twitter presence. He keeps track of everything he reads, writes pithy blog posts on esoteric subjects. … Continue reading Online Techno-Polymath Guy
Streak 1, 600 Days
It seems like a long time, and yet, not long at all.
Smol Pub
Smol Pub is tiny blogging service.- Web interface and CLI to manage your posts. - Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.- Storage for your images.- Write custom CSS for web.- Attach your custom domain with SSL.- Export your posts.- No JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology. On the back of My Writing Advice post from yesterday, … Continue reading Smol Pub
cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2021 Why Ergo?Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryInstalling LineageOS on a Samsung Device (updated in December 2020)Forecasting a Cryptocurrency PriceSeedvault: Encrypted Backup for AndroidBook Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton WilsonMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrcA Quick Introduction to StumpWMThe Asshole Filter Posts That Deserve More Visibility … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Write: More Frequently, Less Long
"I don’t care what it is. Blog posts. Novels. Google docs. Articles. Wiki pages. Write more of them, but make them shorter."-Mike Crittenden, "Write 5x more but write 5x less." critter.blog. October 2, 2020. This is probably the best writing advice I've heard. Maybe you've noticed. I tend to write long. I'll try to make … Continue reading Write: More Frequently, Less Long
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
"It’s the writerly act of organizing and assembling inchoate thought that seems to helps me. That’s what I did with this blog; if I blogged something for “Beyond the Beyond,” then I had tightened it, I had brightened it. I had summarized it in some medium outside my own head. Posting on the blog was … Continue reading Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
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