I generally can’t be bothered to pretend I know what I’m doing.
I expect other people to pretend I know what I’m doing, especially if they expect me to do shit for them.
Otherwise, I’m content to say, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m damned well going to do it anyway.”
I’ve posted my 2024 retrospective to my blog.
I’ve also posted my look ahead. So much to look forward to this new year!
I also have a not Twitter page where I drop on my tiny thoughts and it scrolls forever and nobody can comment on it. I’m so happy to see other people are doing that! I feel in some ways that I was trained to express myself that way because Twitter came into my life at a certain point, so now I feel like I really need that kind of outlet. easy, send one thought, no context. I like the format for the media, but not the social aspect with angry harassing commenters. I’ve also had a lot of similar thoughts that you had about joining forums and finding out that there are nice people online and not everyone is trying to be right all the time.
Good on you for continuing to create and express yourself online in the ways that serve you, despite your past experiences.
Got a couple this weekend.
Maybe I’ll manage a post about Black Sabbath’s 1994 album, Cross Purposes, tonight, too.
Another Emacs enjoyer here! I used to do everything on Emacs – elfeed, erc, eshell and all that jazz. However, I eventually went with Neovim full time because 1) I was personally more aligned with a fully terminal-based workflow (ie, do work on the command line, open editor, close editor, do work), and 2) I got tired of fiddling with making Evil work with the rest of the Emacs ecosystem.
These days I removed Evil and still use Emacs for EWW, to work on Lisp-related projects, and for Org. You’re certainly using Emacs for a lot more things than I did!
I like that all of us were inspired by Protesilaos Stavrou in some way.
i had wanted to take a break from blogging, but i had something happy to write about, even though it is mental health related still. i thought i owed myself a brighter post on my blog for once, and a celebration of expression is perfect i think
https://blog.hypertext.city/2025/01/05/youre-allowed-to-take-care-of-yourself/
No joke, I kinda cried seeing you express that you’ve been taking care of yourself. I felt immense joy seeing those press-on nails on your fingers and expressing how happy it made you.
it has been a very long dark road i’ve walked this time around. but i think the sun is finally starting to come out. it is nice to feel warm is about the simplest way i can put it
I’m very happy for you for taking steps to take care of yourself and find ways to express yourself the way you want to. I can sense your joy with the press-on nails. 
The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted! Links this week are about toxin detecting clams, paper movie films and DOOM in an art gallery. Also, I’m reading some books and watching and listening to some stuff. As usual!
i loved NOVA as a child. I had a VHS set on thunderstorms and lightning from them. it was super cool stuff!
erc? I forgot about that one; it’s been a while since I last used IRC.
I’ve been tempted by neovim, but haven’t bothered with it much since my vim config is much more minimalistic than my Emacs config and doesn’t use any packages.
I do use buffers in vim, though, and instead of closing my editor I’ll background it with CTRL+z and then use shell job control to get back to it. 
Nothing wrong with that; you should use your Emacs your way.
Right now I’m trying to figure out how to make backspace delete backward in Emacs when I’m running it in a text console instead of X11. I really don’t want to get in the habit of using C-Backspace.
More blogging about my interests: heavy metal, Unix, and Emacs.
I participated in the blog questions challenge after @hedy tagged me for it:
I was also tagged by @hedy 
This is the first challenge I’ve taken part in, and I surprised myself by how much I enjoyed it. Unfortunately I didn’t feel comfortable tagging anyone else, so if anyone reads this and wants to answer the questions as well, please let me know—I’d love to read yours!
I did that blog questions challenge, too.
I wrote about the snow squall and the snow storm that came a few days later. It’s mostly just a fanpost about snow. Also, a little praise for the process of taking photos using an actual camera and not my phone.
Just my usual defiance.
https://new.starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/then-i-shall-make-noise/index.html
keep making noise, i’ll do the same