Matt Anderson

Got to join both my kids' elementary schools today for their Halloween parties. Fun to see how the different schools have their own twist on things. Both were fun, though my 3rd grader’s school had a parade which was a new one for me!

Ran across this simple, customizable, camper/teardrop alternative that sits on a normal 8x5 utility trailer. Freedom Campers

I’m intrigued at the flexibility here and am considering this as an option to support me when I travel for trail races.

Testing the Obsidian Journals plug-in… So far it hadn’t added much value for me. Going to give it a good couple week trial.

Good reminder this morning from the Finding Mastery course I’m taking:

Stress:

• is required for growth
• represents opportunity
• is a resource for performance

Stress is part of good health. None is bad…so is too much. Balance is key.

Wow, about $1 later, I have several more quality of life features. Quite satisfied!

For anyone interested…here’s the source: mathyousee/mb-quickpost-omarchy

I’m testing a new multi-line version of my micro.blog posting tool.

Cumulative active time spent building these variations…about 10 minutes.

wow, now I used my default agent to create a simple quick-post to micro.blog feature, I’m up and running in under 5 minutes! This could be addictive…

Test, this is only a test

On my Omarchy setup, I found that each time I restarted I was opening email apps on one virtual desktop with the scrolling option (Super + L) and and resizing them to take up most of the screen width. Once I realized this I had my default agent store and set those defaults so that’d be automatic.

Gophs win!

Watched: Crystal Lake Season 1 🍿

Origin story… Had some great moments and overall worth the watch.

I often look at AI solutions being shared broadly and ask myself, “is this helping solve a real problem?”. Tim Ferris summarized my rationale for this in a very succinct way:

Technology tools and AI in particular are accelerants. They make more of whatever it is. And if you do not first identify the critical few, the very, very limited set of things that stand a chance of making a huge difference, AI, and so on, simply multiplies the useless and multiplies the unimportant, the trivial, the distracting, and you can end up then trying to automate all of those things.

Tim Ferriss #887

Continuing my Linux as personal daily driver experiment. Today I took a few minutes to get fonts and printing sorted out. The default font used in Obsidian on Linux looked pretty bad printed out. Much better now that I’ve set liberation-sans as the default font there.

I’ve wasted too much time (twice) updating the default calendar in Omarchy to use Monday as the first day of the week.

Turns out you can just click the “W” in the calendar view.

That updates a setting in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json:

{
  "id": "omarchy.clock",
  "weekStartDay": "monday"
}

I think my favorite season is Haralaon Apple season 🍎