∞ Bezuinigingen, wantrouwen: in de VPRO-familie is het niet zo gezellig meer - NRC
Goede artikel over de achtergrond van de situatie bij de VPRO. Lees het wel met pijn in het hart, veel van de programma’s zijn echt waanzinnig sterk. Misschien niet voor een groot publiek, maar altijd relevant.
Moving my personal blog back to Micro.Blog. Dabbled a bit with Hugo on Cloudflare Page. Result in tinkering to much and not writing enough.
Gradually moving my online presence towards the Fediverse. Main website -here- on micro.blog, microblogging via Mastodon, reading updates on Bookwyrm and busy moving my photography to Pixelfed.
Took a few days off writing on my blog. Just to enjoy the holidays. But reading a post from Seth Godin inspired me to pick up writing earlier than planned. Kicking off the next year writing instead of starting writing again in 2021. A minor difference but important to me.
Few days late to the party but moOde audio v7 (v7.0.1 to be exact) is available. Very solid upgrade, looking forward to using the 12-band Parametric EQ.
It’s quite a different Christmas this year, but me and my girlfriend are fortunate to be both in good health and able to just enjoy these days together.
Finally a Brexit-deal. We will need to see how this will work in practice, but I guess it’s good that it’s done.
As the year is ending things normally wind down at work. A good time to pick up the last remaining tasks and chores just finishing the year with a clean slate. This year is not so different except in two important ways. There are many loose ends all taking way more time than I expected.
Getting around to finish my photography portfolio site. I am happy with the move to Adobe Portfolio, it’s free (with a creative cloud subscription) and syncs with Lightroom. Although the selection of images is still a bit messy as I did have sync issues to resolve.
Great interview with Art Adams from Arri talking about cinema lenses. I’m not shopping for >$25k Arri Signature prime lenses, but there is a ton of information about the general challenges when designing lenses and how to overcome them (which also applies to photography).
Had some sync errors with Lightroom tonight, spend most of the evening solving 9 errors. It turned out that there was an issue with the metadata and you should fix errors with syncing paused. Gladly it’s resolved. Editing has to wait until tomorrow.
11:02 AM this morning marked the start of the winter. And as much as I believe each season has its beauty, I am looking forward to having a bit more daylight.
Today marks my 50th-day streak. The process of blogging every day has been a great experience so far. I do not feel limited by the subject of my writing anymore. My blog has turned into a public diary, but I am ok with that.
Finally got around to decorating the house a bit for Christmas. As every year, it’s something that gets postponed to the last few days before the actual holiday starts. We do keep things quite minimal, but still, it brightens up the house.
Yesterday I splurged a little on a warm mid-layer for my winter hiking trip1. Usually, I would pack a super light fleece, but that won’t cut it in winter conditions.
Got the Fjallraven Keb Fleece Hoodie. Expensive -even with a discount- but the quality is excellent. The G-1000 Eco patches on the shoulders will be super helpful when carrying a pack. And the fit is perfect for me. Overall the Keb hoodie seems to strikes a balance between warmth, comfort (breathability), and durability. Let’s see how it goes tomorrow on a longer training hike.
I also specifically looked at light jackets. Using a jacket as a mid-layer seems to be the new trend in hiking/mountaineering. I’m not a fan. I like the flexibility of something that breaths better as I can always put more layers over it when I need to. Trying to get one mid-layer for insulation and when on the move will end up being too warm for active or too cold for inactive use.
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Still questionable if such a trip would be possible at all. But training and preparing is half the fun. I’m now aiming for late in the season. With the added benefit of better/warmer weather. But after having to skip hiking the Kungsleden Sweden and with just two weeks to go having to cancel my Tour du Mont Blanc (backup) plan. It would be nice if I can make something work (solo hiking should be safe in the current situation, it’s the traveling that poses a problem). ↩︎
Day three of the more stringent lockdown in The Netherlands. With the holiday season around the corner, we could have been in a much better position. I expect the start of 2021 to still be rough. Fortunately we are moving nearer to the end of it all.
Today I installed Solarized as a theme for Obsidian. All instances switched automatically as they are setup to pull the Github repository which includes the notes as well as the Obsidian setting files. Sometimes small things can make your day.
Obsidian with automatic GitHub syncing
Some updates running Obsidian with automatic GitHub syncing.
I ditched my homegrown solution1 for the Obsidian Git plugin. Both approaches are based on this article by Bryan Jenks.
Using the plugin I got everything running on all my systems in a few minutes spend on each one. On Windows it took a little more time due to user error. Reminder for my future-self (and other Cmder users 2), don’t forget to also install regular Git for Windows.
For backup purposes, I’ve cloned the repository to my NAS (Linux) and updating it using an hourly cronjob. A bit unnecessary as the files are already stored on GitHub, 2x OneDrive (work/private), and iCloud. So this exertion was purely in the name of science ;-)
I ran into one issue when working on the same document on two systems at the same moment. Not a regular use-case for me, but will need to look into how this solution handles potential file conflicts. But other than that the process is running very smoothly. Besides purely syncing Git is also bringing version control. This is a huge plus to me for my every growing notes library.
On iOS I have WorkingCopy and iA Writer working the Obsidian repository. iA Writer and WorkingCopy integrate well and this already is a solid solution. iA Writer can access the files in WorkingCopy via iOS’ Open in Place feature. No need to transfer files between both apps. And the built-in diff tool is great. One (minor) downside is that WorkingCopy doesn’t offer automatic syncing. You need to push/pull changes from within the app. GitJournal should offer automatic syncing but I’m running into problems. I’m only seeing one file from the repro, but this could well be due to my setup. I do have an exotic file naming structure to keep things organized inside of Obsidian. But until I solve this issue I’m more than happy using iA Writer and WorkingCopy.
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Albeit the plugin is running cronjobs it’s much easier to maintain as settings are also synced between devices (so changing the commit interval to more/fewer minutes will be synced to all devices running Obsidian) ↩︎
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If you’re like me and missing a proper console in Windows Cmder is your savior, just don’t forget that Git is not installed system-wide ↩︎
After a day off I’m back in my home office. The Obsidian Github sync works like a charm. All notes, todo’s are in perfect sync and stored at Github. Also found a community plugin which makes the whole process, even more, user-friendly. Tonight adding my RPi NAS and desktop.