• Visualising vision correction

    I’ve been trying out contact lenses for the first time. Multi-focal lenses provide different focal lengths to the eye at once, and you can have different prescription lenses in each eye (as long as they don’t differ by too much). This means the brain is getting signals from the eyes, each providing potentially multiple focal…

  • Searching Logseq by Concept, Not Keystrokes

    Logseq is great for dumping daily notes, but finding them again later can be a pain. If you’re looking for notes on a “connection timeout” but originally wrote “increasing the socket keepalive”, a standard keyword search will give you nothing. You end up having to guess the exact phrasing your past self used. I wanted…

  • Logsqueak: Rescuing Insights from the Logseq Journal

    Turn your Logseq journal from a “black hole” into a structured knowledge base. Logsqueak uses local AI to extract, refine, and file journal insights directly into your permanent pages, while keeping your data completely private.

  • Patchutils 0.4.5 released

    I have released version 0.4.5 of patchutils and also built it in Fedora rawhide. This is a stability-focused update fixing compatibility issues and bugs, some of which had been introduced in 0.4.4.

  • Zettelkasten on a Supernote

    I love the Ratta Supernote e-ink devices. They are a delight to use for writing, planning and all sorts of things. Writing things out by hand helps me connect with them on a deeper level because I need to choose the words more carefully than I would when typing, simply because of the speed difference.…