Notes

Keeping a plain-text archive that survives migrations

March

Every few years a tool I depend on either disappears or changes shape enough that the old files stop opening cleanly. The archive that keeps working is the boring one: dated folders, plain text, and a single index file maintained by hand.

Notes on repairing an old mechanical keyboard

February

Two switches had gone intermittent. Desoldering them turned out to be the easy part — the difficult part was finding replacements with the same travel and weight.

A slower approach to reading long papers

January

One pass for structure, one for argument, one for detail. Slower on paper, faster in practice, because the third pass no longer requires re-reading everything.