Saturday, 21st December, 2024
I’m debating if I should combine this site with my main one, or merge them together somehow. I start thinking it’s a good idea but then get into details of how it would look or work and I start to doubt that idea.
I like this site, I like editing it with 1Writer on my phone. But perhaps I shouldn’t spoil it by making it something else. I should just stick to my original plan of redoing my main site. Although I’m tempted to copy the design from here.
Or I make the main site just a landing page. Also Tiddlywiki. 👀
2024 is nearly done. I’m sure I wrote something about what I should do. Or made a list or the usual. I found a list in Dynalist:
- Write a plan of how to achieve, measure and hold myself accountable.
- Sleep regularly
- Exercise - what and when?
- Writing
- Projects
- Some level of finance tracking and written plan with goals to achieve FI by 50
- Radio things
I’ve cut the subbullets out but those are the top topics I had. Tbh it’ll be the same next year.
However one thing I’d like to do, that Jack suggested, was to make a list of things I won’t do or things I’ll stop. That should help achieve the things I do want to do or at least make me feel better. Feel like I’ll have to be brutal with them though.
As I debate if I’m going to migrate these two sites into a new 11ty powered static site - and probably waste away this evening faffing about with it - I want to comment on a new keyboard I have.
A few days ago I spilt tea on my keyboard on the main computer. This a Goldtouch, tentable, scissor switch keyboard that I got from work and had for ages. I really like using that keyboard and was annoyed when the tea seemed to some how break Q, A and Z. I did take it apart and try and clean it but only managed some of it. Now that it’s broken I might try again and go even further with the dismantling. So I needed a replacement. After years of building random mechanical keyboards, I don’t actually like them, and did want something slim and scissor key’d again. Browsing the internet, I came across several comments about the Microsoft Surface keyboard. This is a standalone keyboard that is probably meant to be used with the Surface all in one desktop - it’s very similar to the mac keyboard. It’s not sold anymore so I looked on ebay and made a few low ball offers. One was accepted and new board was on its way! As it’s bluetooth, I haven’t used it on the main computer but on the laptop station set up that the kids usually use. Well today I was on that computer and had a chance to use this keyboard for the first time.
Well, I must say I do enjoy using it and it’s nice to type on. It’s a full size board, so has numpad too, which is maybe nice. I should look up the manaual and see what else it might do but I’m now thinking of looking for a second one as a backup or for use elsewhere. Maybe with my distraction free writing setup that I can’t decide what it is or how to build it, but this keyboard would be nice for it (with an iPad mini?). It is nice.
Actually, I’d thought about a surface Go, one of the old models from ebay, as my distraction free setup. Get linux on it (or openbsd or SG2), and then type up stuff there. Although it is just a laptop in a different form factor, so would I really type stuff or just browse the internet like a regular computer…it’ll be fun though…let’s see how much they are on ebay first.
I do want the OneTrueBlog™️to work…
I started with 11ty, and it is very clever but phew! more to figure out. I thought it was a good time to stop and think what do I want? What do I enjoy and what should I stop for 2025? I actually think I’d be better without the main blog. If I do ever want to write something more than just journal style posts, I can add them here. So I’m thinking of moving my main site to just a landing page, with links, about, contact, perhaps a page or two e.g. books any whatever else, but no posts, and then have this site. I might make some tweaks here as well. Add a bit more navigation or something. My CSS is a bit janky, I do wonder if ChatGPT can tidy it up…
