iām glad youāre not leaving the cafe, but i completely understand re-prioritizing your life. especially after your wifeās illness. itās good to have balance in all things, and i see what youāre doing as a symbol of growth rather than abandonment. <3
(also, itās very clear you and your wife love each other so very muchāitās really lovely to see.)
I think a lot of what I had been feeling lately is delayed reaction. I was keeping together while Cat was in the hospital, but now that sheās home and obviously feeling better and back to her usual routines, itās like I can finally fall apart and let my morale sink into Tartarus for a bit.
But Iām really tempted to take all of the material that was on my website, convert it from HTML to Org Mode, rearrange it, and start using Emacs as a static site generator. Iāve dabbled with Org before, but a lot of stuff that hadnāt clicked before the last time I read the manual is starting to make sense.
Among other things, Org has a sweet include function that comes into play when exporting files. It was actually getting a bit tiresome to do everything with HTML; I was taking on grunt work that I could have left to the damn computer.
And if Iām not happy with how the built-in HTML exporter for Org Modeās publishing tools work, maybe thatāll be an excuse to learn enough Emacs Lisp to hack on it and make it my own. 
If Iām reading the OPML 2.0 spec correctly, you can build up the global one really easily by using includes to pull in the category feeds.
Guess Iād better clear up a few concernsā¦
Yes so the problem is that I first need to go through all the 600+ entries and add the correct categories. Because I imported everything form the old site but there are things I want to tweak, make categories a bit more useful, tag with multiple categories and all that.
So thatās gonna be step one. Once thatās done, the tech side is easy, I can set up custom routes and filter the list based on the url.
That said, I just coded a first version of the global OPML. You can find it here Ye Olde Blogroll ā All the entries if you want to go nuts and import everything all at once
I answered some silly questions for fun. I welcome anyone else interested to also answer these silly questions on their own blog 
I finally hit all 4 topics of my website! Coffee, beer, lasers and history! Who thought I could ever cram all of them into a single post :D
I also did the silly questions (with less cute art than @Semper has):
Woa two blog posts in a row that mention my rainbow site, thank you @Semper and @CaffeineAndLasers !
Semper: You should totally make a site/pages about deserts!! Its a great way to learn more about your topic of interest and organize what youāve learned :3
CaffineAndLasers: Iām not a beer enjoyer, but it was cool to learn a little about the kind of traits important to measure beer!
I think you should totally do a shrine on deserts! That would be so cool! 
Very cool! The colourimeter sounds very much like the densitometer I used to measure x-ray film density. 
Nice! I did not know that about deer 
Thatās fascinating. Also Haumea mention! Of the Kuiper Belt bodies my favourite is Quaoar. Itās also squarshed, but not as much as Haumea. Haumea is pretty iconic.
Iām taking this to heart. Iām starting on the shrine this weekend. Thank you both for the votes of confidence. I have sooo much to say about deserts. They are my favourite kind of biome <333 
(omg I love the desert emoji so muchā¦)
Congrats on getting a quadruple hit! I love how a lot of science came out of domestic concerns, especially related to food. Itās important work! This was an interesting read.
As time goes by, waiting in line increasingly feels like a waste of time.
Donāt you think?
very short one abt something thats kinda been on my mind
Yeah, I agree with this. Thereās nothing on my websiteās about page that explicitly says that people who think the US should be a theocracy or a monarchy shouldnāt contact me. My disdain for conservatism, capitalism, and organized religion ought to be implicit from what I write on my website. But if somebody does email me, and their email is full of nonsense cribbed from the output of a LLM trained on Fox News, I will simply blackhole their email address.
Healthy people might have boundaries, but I have an A.T. Field ā and Iām under no obligation to give people advance warning of my intolerance for bullshit. Besides, social media profiles donāt provide much space; why waste any of it by rolling out a red carpet for trolls and assholes? What have any of them done for me that I should make their lives easier?
Yeah, while the term āVirtue Signalingā has been stolen by fuckwits, I do think that the entire concept of a DNI list feels pretty close to the original meaning of the term
To me, DNI lists are a neon sign that flashes āI demand to feel aggrieved.ā
Because if your DNI list includes ālibrariansā (for example), and I see that and quietly move on, you have no idea I did that. You donāt know I exist.
But if I see it and decide to go full sea lion on you (āexcuse me, what has every librarian in the history of librariankind ever done to you?ā), now youāre upset. Now you have fodder for the ragebait machine.
When your āboundaryā works you donāt know it, and when it fails you suffer. Not a great system for you.
I canāt imagine not wanting to interact with librarians . I should add a āPlease Interact Listā with Librarians andā¦ I dunno, cats
Spoken like someone who returns their books on time 
Iām on an international trip at the moment, and I specifically timed my last trip to the library to ensure I will get home on time to return them on time 