Henry J. Webster

Now

My implementation of the "now page" concept by Derek Sivers.

Organization

updated

I haven't invested enough in organizing my stuff one year into my new apartment. The three main areas are: supplies, physical media, and clothes.

After seeing Neighbor Dave deftly navigate his garage for block party gear, and my own panicked search for bandages, it is time for a reset. I want to know where everything I have is right away.

We've amassed a decent collection of physical media. I need a way when I'm out to check if we already have a CD or a DVD. My ISBN-scanning utility will probably get extended past books into other media. Then, I can create a website to check my library on-the-go.

The closets in my apartment are particularly cramped and dark. Our small bedroom leaves no room for a dresser. What doesn't fit on the rack becomes a messy pile, ruining my sanity. This problem has to be attacked from multiple sides—new furniture, seasonal rotation schedules, getting rid of clothes—anything is on the table. I'm most reluctant to tackle it, but it's the most important.

Exploring Emacs

updated

While I have used Neovim for ~6 years, I started to get curious about Emacs over the summer. Experimenting with CHICKEN and GUILE Scheme, I had an itch to use more Lisp and Emacs is a great platform for that.

Working with tmux never clicked with me. A skill issue, but the arcane tmux commands left me convinced I was better off never learning them.

Meanwhile, Emacs has been very intuitive for my workflows. My only gripes have been instability on Wayland and the virtual terminal.

Because LLMs have lowered the up-front cost of customizing Neovim and Emacs, I feel better about switching between them rather than having to pick one.

Otherwise, I'm excited to check out Superlogical when it drops, so the experiment may be short-lived.

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