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Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by debesyla »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

Or when I wanted to write a novel and went into world-building fantasy enciclopedia for two years... I didn't even pass the page 2 of the novel, lol. Now it's all forgotten.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by ycombinete »

wolvoleo wrote: post #198
chunkyks wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife bought one of these: https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler Reviews are wildly polarised. * Some folks find it to be the best thing ever [long battery life, the new patch makes the eink surprisingly fastly responsive, decent keyboard, no distractions] * While others find it terrible [it's still eink, that's a lot of money for a device that doesn't actually do much] You can find a selection of al…

Looks great but the price is pretty insane, and really the eink should be a lot bigger. So much wasted space on the bezels.

For some reason writerdecks almost all insist on having tiny little screens.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by rglullis »

bigyabai wrote: post #115
embedding-shape wrote: post #89

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But how am I supposed to be productive writing blogposts unless I can copy my favorite Clojure templating library into Nix first, so I can have completely statically and reproducible blog posts building from markdown together with the nicest type of templating?

If we're all being honest, I'd rather read the Clojure/Nix templating blogpost instead of the 10,000th "why human interaction is important" bearblog essay.

There is a false dichotomy here.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by LAC-Tech »

I've wanted to do this for general productivty; if I could find a good LLM to give me links I could forgo even a TUI web browser. perfect dev machine.

The default linux TTY is pretty barebones though. No unicode, and lots of TUI apps expect 256 colours. KMSCON looks like an interesting solution.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by theodric »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

They don't want to blog, they want to have blogged

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by volemo »

rglullis wrote: post #214
bigyabai wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we're all being honest, I'd rather read the Clojure/Nix templating blogpost instead of the 10,000th "why human interaction is important" bearblog essay.

There is a false dichotomy here.

"Clojure/Nix templating, or why human interaction is important" /j

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by drakonka »

em-bee wrote: post #79
drakonka wrote: post #43

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Hahaha I missed that completely, sorry. ...Now I kind of don't want to fix it :D

make the "r" a link to this discussion thread. btw you made the typo twice :-)

Great idea, done.

I fixed the second one normally because that's just embarrassing. I guess at least we know it was really written by a human? ;)

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by klondike_klive »

crimsontech wrote: post #143
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

But then they have something to write about as their first post.

Reminds me of getting a new pen and notebook for Christmas and all I could think of to write was "this is my new pen"

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

troad wrote: post #200

It's interesting to me how few people seem willing to just turn off notifications. I'm all on board with setting up a retro machine for fun, but if one wants to focus on writing, there are ways to achieve this that don't require the sacrifice of good font rendering, comfortable colours, etc. The fact that the Music app notifies you of the new song is not some immovable law of nature...

That still leaves the browser a couple of keypresses away which is too close for many.
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