Weeknotes 9: Day One, Easy Mode, music, links, etc.
Day One again
I’m still absolutely re-obsessed with Day One. I have Journelly to thank for this. Journelly reminded me how useful it is to get into the habit of logging things without thinking too much about it. But I missed the easy calendar view and various other niceties Day One has: multiple journals, easily adjusting the location metadata on a post, On This Day, the ability to hide certain journals from On This Day, the possibility of making a book (someday). Also, the talk about Easy Mode vs. Hard Mode had an effect. Not that Journelly is anything like Hard Mode, but I need Emacs to make it fully work, and Emacs is Hard Mode with a capital H.
Bye, Linkding?
I get such a charge out of seeing other people link to random stuff in their weeknotes that I think I’m going to get rid of the (wonderful) Linkding and just start sharing links here again. Drafts makes it easy create a running weeknote and add links to it as I run across them. No reason to have another bucket sitting out there.
Music
Tropical Fuck Storm: Live at Le Guess Who? – So this is what it’s like to be the best band in the world.
Laura Stevenson – I Want to Remember it All – Her new album sounds confident and sprawling. I especially like this urgent track.
Found
The Day One podcast – Kristen Webb Wright does such a quietly great job as the host, making each guest and topic relatable and approachable. Her love of journaling and the app come through in every episode.
Winnie Lim » platforms, attention spans, paragraphs – Part of the joy of reading Winnie’s blog is the personality the website has. She thinks deeply about how to structure it. Makes me want to make an actual effort with this here blog.
Mike Hall: Just me, my list, and a day with no meetings – I will not download Taskwarrior. I will not download Taskwarrior.
WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: June 23, 2025 — Lori Emerson, author, “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook” – I’m a Lori Emerson fan and this is one of my favorite WFMU shows. Just ordered her book.
Platform reality | Robin Sloan
On an internet crowded with creators eager to obey each platform’s demands, follow their Best Practices (which harden into mandatory genres: quick-setting concrete), there is, I believe, an incandescence to stubborn specificity.
The Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better episode of the Optimist Economy Podcast:
So, $185 billion for immigration enforcement dwarfs the just over $2 billion that we spend on labor law enforcement. So, $185 billion going to keep 11 million people out of the country who don’t have legal authority to be here anymore, versus $2 billion to keep 170 million working Americans protected by the labor laws that Congress has enacted.