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A Blogful of Indecision...

Until the Coffee gets Cold

My "new" journal-routine is turning out quite nicely. I have been journaling for quite some time, but consistently daily in one form or the other for a couple of years, since 2019 I guess. Since I am,...

100DaysToOffload, journal, stationery

My "Summer-Reading" for 2025

Having a plan might help me to stay on track with my reading in one way or the other. The other day I finished reading Ernest Hemingway's classic "The Old Man and the Sea" and enjoyed it a lot and sin...

100DaysToOffload, reading

"here I go again"... AKA: re: re: The Last Move

In which I again drive myself crazy, and do the exact opposite of what I intended to do in the first place. And yes, after a couple of months happily blogging from my desktop with Hugo, and having had...

100DaysToOffload, journal

Towels

Towels are incredibly useful. The great Douglas Adams has long since taught us about that[^1] long time ago. But I figured that a good towel also makes for a great sneaky gift. I was once gifted a tow...

100DaysToOffload

An Addendum to the Theme Toggle Snippet

Recently I wrote about a little function I wrote to toggle between the light and dark theme in KDE - Plasma and switching my Emacs theme in the process. I still wasn't quite satisfied and tweaked it a...

100DaysToOffload, emacs, linux

A Mono-spaced Rabbit Hole

Over the course of the past week I have managed, yet again, to spent a stupid amount of time in trying to find a "nicer" (whatever that means) mono-spaced font, and in the process learned that the set...

100DaysToOffload, fonts, journal

Exit Song - Season 1

The other day we have played the last Kinky Boots show of the spring season, and as during all the previous shows, we had a blast again! Now there will be a break over the summer vacation and shows wi...

100DaysToOffload, journal

'G-G' - Gnus find of the day

After switching/re-installing/upgrading my OS I have deliberately chosen to not set up Notmuch in Emacs again, as the whole idea of my new setup rather is to be as simple and minimal as possible and t...

100DaysToOffload, emacs

A possible Solution to my 'blurry-fonts' issue on KDE

The other day I wrote about my switch to SWAY due to some issues that I had with KDE's font rendering and some issues with Emacs's PDF scrolling which had become painfully sluggish. As neither of the...

100DaysToOffload, linux

Oops, I did it again!

And here I am again, typing happily away in Emacs in my nicely set up Sway WM. The trained eye might already have spotted in my previous post that the pictured editor is of course not Obsidian, but my...

100DaysToOffload, emacs, journal

Sway!

Today's win would be that I, after happily running KDE-PLASMA for a while, again switched window-managers and installed  SWAY-WM today, needless to say it solved the issues that I had run into while u...

100DaysToOffload, linux

Ballroom Dancing

It was fun performing at this ballroom-dancing, or swing dancing to be correct, yesterday. We had fun and the dancers seemingly/hopefully as well. We performed Swing classics from Glenn Miller, Stan K...

100DaysToOffload, journal, photo

Using Obsidian as my Blog editor

The other day I ran into an older post by Obsidian's developer Steph Ango on Mastodon showing how he is using Obsidian and it's new-ish web-viewer to built and preview his blog and I realized that thi...

100DaysToOffload, obsidian

Trying a Blog Challenge for a Change: 100 Days to Offload

I like to blog! I'm doing this at the least since since 2008 (the beginning are bit foggy by now), and since then I have been more or less continuously blogging. Sometimes more, sometimes less - which...

100DaysToOffload, journal

Scratching an itch: Switching my KDE-Plasma themes globally

In a recent post I wrote about how I, somewhat spontaneously, changed my desktop environment and am overall using the Solarized theme now everywhere I can. Looking at the themes that are around nowada...

emacs, linux