I’m still here. I’ve transitioned my Blot blog into my micro.blog site. Both are still up and running but I see micro.blog as the canonical online place for my words now. I will probably keep up my subscription for Blot since it’s cheap and I have it linked to a unique domain name. I need to decide what purpose it can serve.#

I haven't Drummed in over a month. I've been busy. I've been doing other things. I've been realising that I already have too many places to type stuff, and a memory that can never remember where I typed said stuff.#

Here I am once more, though, typing. I don't want Drummer to die, but I don't have the bandwidth right now to be highly invested.#

The glossary feature in Drummer is so great. It's like Textexpander for blog publishing. I've only got a few entries in there - which is probably for the best - but it's so clever.#

A new episode of NBL Pocket Podcast has been recorded and released. I’ve been into Australian basketball since 1987. This passion is entirely different to my other more nerdy pursuits.#

The latest episode of Hemispheric Views has been released. In this episode, we interview Adam Newbold who built omg.lol and introduce the idea of Nostalgic November. Find it in your favourite podcast player of choice, or listen on the web.#

I found something interesting on the web which prompted me to recall something I had earlier saved into Readwise via Instapaper. I saved this new interesting thing into Devonthink, Instapaper and Readwise. I also wanted to link the thoughts together. I loaded Obsidian to get the synced Readwise data, then captured my distilled thinking into a note in Craft. This workflow is bonkers. Next thing I see Phil referencing an article by Steve Berlin Johnson about designing an ideal knowledge-app workflow. How fortuitous, I'll subscribe to that Substack newsletter. Until I see the price is US$50. Nope, I'll find my own way.#

Back when the Internet was ruled by geeks it was possible to search for something and find a useful how-to guide. Now, all that such a search returns are a bunch of listicles where the final recommendation is “buy our product” and random YouTube videos that all start with, “Hi Guys!”. I miss the old Internet for its problem-solving powers.#

So if somebody could go ahead and tell me what I should put on here, compared with my micro.blog site, compared with my Blot site, that would be great. Thanks!#

I've reinstalled YNAB4 and updated it to 64 bit. It's like revisiting an old friend. YNAB4 is still lovely, and in so many ways I prefer it to the current web app.#

Paid work is the thing that gets in the way of the stuff you really want to do.#

I'm recording Hemispheric Views right now.#

One thing I have noticed in using Drummer is that it feels lonely. More to the point, I think I've become so used to the back and forth that can happen on micro.blog after posting something. We don't get that on Drummer. There is also no formalised commenting engine (not that I'm asking for one). Is there a method whereby webmentions would work? Drummer is true to its old school roots here, with no obvious way of achieving conversation.#

I spent a bit of time setting up my home loans in the new Loans management feature of YNAB. Then I spent some more time unwinding all the changes to get rid of it. The feature is undercooked. It doesn't support any loan situations which are quite standard features in Australia, such as fortnightly payments, offset accounts, daily interest rate calculations, and interest-only loans. They really do seem to pitch their product at the fat part of the curve, that being an American with a few very basic assets and liabilities. We're also still waiting for direct bank connections on this side of the world...#

I’m thinking about fresh installing my iMac. It’s been migrated many times. It’s customised to the hilt. Why am I thinking about this that will deliver me pain?#

I found the link to the guide for creating a 'build my blog' icon.#

Pretty certain Dave was talking about me. I appreciate what he is saying, and agree that it’s not _difficult_ in Drummer, rather I still think keeping my hands on the keyboard and typing some []() is quicker and easier than using a pointer and a GUI. Especially on iPad, where graphical text selection isn’t ideal. But I recognise that it’s easy to cast stones from afar and much harder to build software.#

I had one of our semi-regular calls with friends tonight on Jitsi. It's always nourishing to talk stupid talk with friends I've had for decades. Nothing is out of bounds; nothing is too silly or crass. That level of stupidity is nourishing for the soul.#

Andy Sylvester has kindly added this Drummer to his Drummer River.#

I would love for Drummer to support at least a very basic subset of markdown - mainly for links and code blocks. I can live without text styling markdown, but inserting links using the GUI is brutal.#

The Drummer date publishing issue continues - these entries for October 27 are not being rendered.#

I got new computing hardware today, which is exciting. Less exciting is the realisation that my home Ethernet is no longer up to the job. I need to rewire and upgrade. I don't want to do that job. I might have to throw money at the problem...#

Part of the transition to the new computer was moving my Thunderbolt drive array to it. Now I have Photos.app in some unknown state of sync on the new machine, trying to sync the previous library. And I've transferred my Backblaze license to it, because I want that drive array backed up. But now Backblaze is also going crazy doing checksums against everything. I hope I can go to bed, wake up, and find that the computer has done its thing.#

I've installed the Getting Post URL in Drummer script by Amit. I should now be able to link to another node. Yes, I can link to yesterday's post about the Hemispheric Views live watch.#

The Hemispheric Views live watch event for our Patreon supporters went off without a hitch, and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. I’m immensely proud of the small but impressive community of people we have built around our podcast. It is a great example of finding, and building, your tribe. The people we have in our corner are smart, creative, accomplished people and yet they share their precious resource of time with us. What an incredible honour.#

With the build bugginess, my copious notes of October 22 appear lost to the void of the homepage, although they do exist! I wonder if trying a build today will see it resurrected?#

They were resurrected, but now October 21 is playing a disappearing act.#

Hmm, now this very day is not appearing.#

So coding for dates is not easy, as noted by Dave Winer. I think this means I need to park my use of Drummer for a while. This does make me appreciate micro.blog even more.#

I wonder if this image of my head will work. I've used Dropshare to host the file, because setting up my own storage was too confusing for a mere mortal such as myself.#

Amit has drafted an amazing guide to using Drummer.#

Using Craft to take notes is lovely. I’ve also used Latex to craft a mathematical formula for the first time ever.#

Do I start each new entry within a node at the bottom, as if it were a document, or at the top, as if it were a blog? Probably doesn’t matter, as long as the choice is consistent.#

It’s impressive to see what Jack Baty has done with his Drummer blog already. He now has it living on its own domain.#

I did a lot of playing around with the Tufte theme on micro.blog today. It’s gorgeous, but fiddly. It uses custom Hugo tags as well which leads to a lot of breakage if I move away from the theme. I’ll have to do some thinking as to whether its worth keeping. I probably won’t ever use most of the tags, anyway.#

Another 4km walk knocked over today. The only way I’m going to have a chance at losing any weight is to keep plugging away with exercise. My knees, hips, ankles and shoulders won’t permit exercise much beyond walking so I’ve got to make the most of it. It’s also great for my mental health which is something I have to monitor carefully.#

I��ve been digging into my new ID site https://canion.omg.lol powered by omg.lol.#

I walked to the other end of my neighbourhood and back: just short of 5km.#

This is where I realise that the Dave Winer approach to outlining is more old-school than my OmniOutliner-inspired approach to outlining. I want to use the Escape key to switch modes, and I want to be able to split lines.#