This is just a geek announcement that my exploration into FFMPEG the other day paid off: a screencast of 27 minutes and 2.8 GB shrunk to 75 MB. Yep. It’s a bit fuzzy but still very readable and easy to follow. I 💙 FFMPEG.
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{{ end }}I’ve just updated my emacs configuration to include an important fix for org-refile, in case you’ve adopted Vertico and Orderless (like I did) and org-refile stopped working for you. This is also in Vertico’s documentation.
Memories
A few things: February
A few things that kept me occupied this month:
Playing around with TinyTheme Denote public information notes Pushing my comfort zones
TinyTheme: I can see why so many folks like TinyTheme. It’s slick and good as is, but at the same time, it’s built thoughtfully and makes customization easier. The best part yet: Matt is very responsive and helpful, and when I got stuck, I got an answer and learned new things at the same time. I like how my single CSS sheet for TinyTheme looks like, whereas in my current theme, I have several hacks scattered about. The new theme will be ready for prime time soon!
Denote: Going ahead with switching from TiddlyWiki to org-mode notes is a good idea. It’s all about laziness at the end. GitLab renders org files just fine, but there are a few hiccups in how Denote creates links: GitLab doesn’t understand Denote’s linking syntax. I reached out to Prot for help, and he created a function that converts Denote links back to org-mode links. This is almost working, but the resorting links contain absolute paths (which lead to a folder on my computer) and not the relative link needed on GitLab.
I enjoy “talking” to Prot back and forth in video recordings. I’m learning a great deal. I said it once, and I’ll say it again, if you’re an Emacs user, Prot is worth every single penny for his coaching. Give it a try!
Comfort Zone Stretching: This will come as a shock to y’all, but I can be a bit grumpy and prefer the company of my warm coffee over strangers. Realizing this is all good and fine but it won’t do much to expand my circle of friends, I’m trying to say no a bit less to social hangouts.
I had a great time in Long Branch NJ last weekend (this is where I took this picture) with my partner and a couple of friends, and it might have been the first time I saw snow on the beech first hand.
More of this stretching is happening in baby steps. It comes back to the little conversation with @Anne about dating apps recently: it’s up to us humans to get out there and develop the skills we’ve had for centuries but neglected in favor of our phones. We’ll see how this goes.
A corner in NYC. 📷
If I found a backup of an old blog of mine in XML format… what can I do with it to make it more readable and potentially restore some of the posts? Asking for a friend >.>
Test post with items
Testing an unnumbered list with a title to match:
- this is one item
- this is another
- yet another
Testing a numbered list on the main page:
- this is one item
- this is another
- and yet another
Why doctors in America earn so much
TLDR: the article claims it’s a closed market geared at profiting a small group of surviving insiders.
More than 100 million people today live in an area without enough primary-care doctors (the problem is particularly bad in rural areas)
And:
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have been given responsibilities typically reserved for doctors, such as writing prescriptions. Foreign-trained doctors have filled some of the gap too.
Yet, the length of training and the cost of becoming a licensed doctor in the US makes it impossible for many.
Mille-Feuille Bakery.
Porto Rico Importing Co..
With text test
Hudson Heights.
I haven’t lookeded at my photos in too long. At some point after returning from the last vacation I decided most of the pictures I took were crappy and hadn’t really bothered since. Maybe my Italy trip is to blame when I took some amazing shots.
Linden Terrace.
Watching Beau is Afraid 🍿. My mantra throughout the movie so far: “this is good, I can’t. This is good, I can’t. This is good, I can’t…