stripping away every hindrance to work comes at a price. one must embrace plain-speaking. direct words and action that cut to the quick of matters.

honesty.

frankness.

representation.

everything else is a waste of time.

The bananas are dehydrating as we speak and the house is coming into order.

My work style is getting to be increasingly reductionist. Becoming something like this:

• photography - adobe
• video - adobe
• writing - emacs
• blogging - hugo
• painting - studio
• coding - emacs, pycharm, phpstorm, clion (needs to be reduced)

Media work remains in the proprietary world because of the tools that were developed for it being highly capable. Gimp is a great program but learning that and sticking with adobe for video, etc. makes flow uneasy since the commands, work flow, etc. are vastly different.

after much procrastination i’ve finally decided to sit down and learn the emacs.

i find myself less and less interested in a computer with smooth graphics and eyecandy. maybe i’m becoming an old?

regardless, i write this now in Kate (update 6/15/18 - see below) as I’ve given up on Atom. I loved Atom but the lack terminal integration was a hindrance to the hugo workflow and in the previous post about stations you’ll understand that this makes sense.

the working methods that i abide by, that rule me, are mercurial.

i appreciate sitting at a computer working until, suddenly, i don’t and nothing can make me continue.

the same goes for most anything else.

the biggest issue is not being able to begin work when the inspiration and/or desire strikes. any resistance to the process is akin to killing all together. this reality leads to the creation of ‘stations’. each station exists for the sole purpose of meeting the demand of inspiration.

• a computer is a tool, not a way of life.
• operating systems are technology’s corn mothers.
• platform lock-in is equal to being under arrest - you aren’t free to leave.
• (borrowed) the cloud is just another person’s computer
• silos are for grain not data
• the desktop website and mobile site are mirrors of the record album and cd.