diff --git a/content/blogette/1.md b/content/blogette/1.md index 457317e..37c1f8f 100644 --- a/content/blogette/1.md +++ b/content/blogette/1.md @@ -123,6 +123,50 @@ johnny bravo is the *only* cis character. everyone else is queer or in denial. +--- + +## 2025-11-14 johnny bravo is cis but that's not the joke + +correction to previous post: I have been informed that the joke is not "he's cis and confident", it's more like "he's a narcissist" and yeah that might be a better read. thank you for the callout. you can absolutely be cisgender and not a narcissist (and vice versa). + +--- + +## 2025-11-14 fix for modded balatro on arm linux + +Balatro is written in Love2D, an engine which runs natively on linux. but the steam version just uses Proton to emulate the Windows version, so you may never have used the native Linux version before. + +If you're trying to run Balatro natively on Linux (e.g. Portmaster) and the mods aren't working: it's because of the [Windows Newline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Issues_with_different_newline_formats) problem. Convert the mod .lua files to linux newlines and it'll work again. Hope that helps! + +--- + +## 2025-11-14 bullen't journal + +I recently found out that [PocketMod](https://wiki.c2.com/?PocketMod) got a massive downgrade. You have to log in, and most of the templates are missing. DIYPlanner is basically dead, all the old templates are [on the wayback machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315074619/http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official), thank god. Bullet journal still exists but the [good blog posts](https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/faq/) with the "one page simple logging" stuff are buried under a mountain of front-page fluff to sell their book. + +Why do I care about this? Basically, back in the early 2000s there was this book called [Getting Things Done](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_things_done) by David Allen. It's about how to use any tools at your disposal to create order from chaos, and I feel like it's specifically targeted at ADHD people because it spells out a lot of things in great detail that a "normal person" might be able to guess intuitively. Things like: + +- you should write down things you're not doing, so you don't worry about forgetting them. +- if something needs to be done at a specific time, you should write it on your calendar. +- if it _doesn't_ have a specific time slot, then _don't_ write it on your calendar! it will become clutter! +- sometimes you need to wait for someone else to act on a project. you should write down who you're waiting for, and check on them every week or so. + +seriously the book is cover-to-cover full of excellent tips like that, I'm not gonna summarize them all here, I highly recommend you find a copy and read it, or at least look at the pictures! there's two editions: the original one uses words like "Microsoft Outlook" and "[Rolodex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex)", the revised edition is more flexible and works with *whatever software you already have* (but if you're looking for something new, may I recommend [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/)?) + +anyway I suspect that the existence of the GTD book is the reason for PocketMod, DIYPlanner, and Bullet Journal to exist. David Allen proposed that "writing things down on paper is good actually" and a lot of people were excited to share the method that works best for them. + +I want to share the method that works best for me, too. And I can do it without selling you a book. Although, if you _want_ to send me money, my email is right there on the homepage :P + +I should probably write a proper page about this one. When I do that I'll migrate this blogette post and put a forwarding link. Meanwhile here's some loose ideas I want to do: + +- make my own printable template. I remember the pocketmod template I used the most was a title page on the front, a two-page weekly review, a two-page monthly review, two pages of blank grid paper for notes, and then a sudoku on the back. At the time this was done with the Silverlight plugin (now deader than Flash) but maybe I could rewrite it as a JavaScript app. + +- write my own revised "bullet method". I have a thing I'm calling "widgets" because it's a funnier word than bullets, but fundamentally a widget is just a bullet point inside a checkbox. + +- download all the old pocketmod and diyplanner stuff I can get my hands on and put up a mirror, because the wayback machine is awesome but nothing is forever. + +- write an essay about my "deadline avoidance" problem and all the tricks I've come up with to circumvent it (the big one: don't buy journals with a calendar pre-printed in them! its vitally important that your journal does not 'expire'!) + + --- {% for p in collections['blogette-pages'] %}{{loop.index}} {% endfor %}