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Speciation
Speciation Not as polished as I’d want it to be, but not terrible for my first real (read: non-hacky phone video) videography project.
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This was like my first photography editing passes: somewhat painful and amateurish but I quickly learned there were things I could do, both while editing and while shooting, that would make the process easier in the future.
Q3 2026
Still in limbo Our large project will stretch into next year…close to a two year project. There are plenty of other distractions as well, some self-inflicted. HOWEVER, I am proud to say that I am well into…
Draft 6.5 I outlined the trilogy, including various arcs from planned followup books, to the point where I felt comfortable diving back into drafting book 1.
I re-started the sixth draft, similar to how I re-started the second draft after significantly changing the outline.
Q2 2026
Chasing focus time It’s all about making the time. Not about waiting for it to appear.
I had pinned my hopes on a magical date. A milestone at the apex of the craziness, after which we could take a breath. Recover. And I would be able to dive back into the book full time.
But we kept hitting new complications. Maybe I had misjudged, and we needed to hit the milestone after.
SSH and chawan
SSH browser For whatever reasons, I’m back to SSHing into my laptop via Tailscale for some quick hacking. Between neovim and tmux, it almost feels like I’m hacking locally. This has historically provided a single challenge: my Hugo web server only works on localhost and I can’t be bothered to spend the time to fix it, so I’ve been pushing blog changes without testing.
Then I started adding test coverage to markdown-novel-tools.
iSH, vim, and Obsidian
iPhone writing environment Tl;dr: I think I have a way to write and edit my book via terminal and vim on my iPhone.
The problem and various failed solutions My ergonomic desk setup has been, and will be for the next number of months, unavailable for Reasons. To adjust for this, I picked up a pair of XReal Ones. They work well with various devices, whether I’m working, consuming content, or gaming, and I can sit, stand, or recline with no issues.
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