Not going to lie to you folks my artistic productivity has gone off the cliff. I am in pursuit of some other priorities to try and make my life a little more stable. A little bit of sacrifice now for the greater good but honestly it feels pretty gross to not be doing art stuff. It’s probably the first time in my life that I’ve almost put a full stop on things for a while.

Despite swearing by ranger for quite a few years I am a recent convert to the very similar lf file manager. It just feels a little lighter, faster and simpler and lets me fly around my system super fast. Today I finally got image previews working and very nicely too. I can do away with Ranger and the no longer maintained ueberzug for terminal image previews. The answer for me was that I needed to install chafa.

I was recently asked to record someones short performance at a gig on my phone. I obliged of course but I’ve got to admit dealing with video footage on phones is not all that fun to me. Mostly because of the huge file sizes. Then we’ve got to work out how we’re going to transfer it to a computer for some post processing and send it on. The piece of video in question was around 5 gigs in size.

I’ve been giving Logseq a really good go since the beginning of the year. I love the way it works actually but the thing that has made me return to Obsidian is VIM. Logseq lacks decent vim motions and all of those indented bullet points are not all that useful if you want to access your markdown elsewhere. I recently discovered the project obsidian.nvim and it really bridges a gap for me.

Introduction If your first thought on this is “Urrggh, really Emacs??.. Not for me..It’s ancient, bloated, complicated, full of features I don’t need..just give me a simple plain text editor“. Well that was me too. I was very much the Vim user because I’m a bit of a minimilist. I enjoy terminal based applications and like a lean setup. Actually - I still Vim all the time, especially for quick edits.