I just got back from work and a little vacation in the Seattle area. I took my Canon R10 but ended up grabbing a used Canon 5D Mark IV from a camera shop there, and couldn’t put it down!

For 2025 I’ve decided to make a reading list for myself, with a resolution to read a book a month. I used to get through a decent amount each year, but without much of a commute to work I haven’t had as much time to listen to audiobooks. Paired with a bad habit of doomscrolling or watching endless TikTok videos before bed, reading has pretty much fallen to the wayside. I’m going to kickstart a new habit and change up my routines this year.

I think I touched on it briefly in an earlier post, but if anyone has any doubts about my opinion I’ll make it clear: I think LLMs and AI in their current form are a plague.

I think I found a satisfactory solution to moving markdown docs from my writing tool to hosting server. It’s roundabout and complicated, considering Flatnotes and Hugo sit on the same raspberry pi, but at the end of the day it works.

I’m trying out a new platform for hosting my writing. Ghost was nice, in that it was simple and easy to write down a post, make it look clean, and had some convenient integrations/embedding tools. What I didn’t like was a lot of the focus on Substack-style newsletter audience building and monetization. Not what I want to be doing here. Modifying themes was kind of a pain too.