This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job.

That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, after all that effort to make sure you'd have the perfect environment for uninterrupted writing sessions, installing tmux so that you'll be able to do multiple things at a time.

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dnnddidiej 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

A good test of your focus on writing is if you can use a boring tool like Substack, Wordpress, Blogger or Github pages (vanilla out of the box ssg setup) and just write.

That said this one did write something. But I'd say for anyone else writr 10000+ words on whatever before a single word on your setup.

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infinet 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[delayed]

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michaelbuckbee 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

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crimsontech 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But then they have something to write about as their first post.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But how am I supposed to be productive writing blogposts unless I can copy my favorite Clojure templating library into Nix first, so I can have completely statically and reproducible blog posts building from markdown together with the nicest type of templating?

	▲	bigyabai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If we're all being honest, I'd rather read the Clojure/Nix templating blogpost instead of the 10,000th "why human interaction is important" bearblog essay.

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eichin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yeah, part of my current writing push was made more successful by two things:

* I am not allowed to use a blogging system I wrote. (Really, I've written three or four at this point and need to stop, and there are plenty of existing systems that still align with my idiosyncratic constraints.)

* The blog must not have any meta content about blog tooling.

(I cheated a little on the latter by having an extra "site" blog for that - which lets me get the words out but doesn't "count" for the writing goal. A useful outlet, but it meant an extra month or so before "real writing" outnumbered meta writing :-)

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yjftsjthsd-h 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's very convenient to have a first project all ready to blog about, fresh in your mind and everything:D

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cortesoft 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it is great to combine two personal projects into one!

For me, I can't learn anything unless I actually have a purpose for it. So if I wanted to learn how to write a static site system, I would also need to think of a reason I need one!

	▲	em-bee 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		one of my goals is to work on the server platform that i am using for my websites. i want to write a blog, but i am using that desire to push myself to work on the platform, so i need to complete that blog interface first.

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Shellban 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

*whistles innocently*

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cultofmetatron 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel so called out ^_^

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phyzix5761 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's how most of us started blogging lol

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samch 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/974/

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coreyzzp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]

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Waterluvian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a thing I see everywhere. It’s the carpenter who mostly just builds jigs and french cleats for their workshop. Or the programmer who spends far too much time obsessing over what keyboard and font to use.

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katzgrau 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Yak shaving”

It’s a classic move.

Start a new diet, so you join a gym and or buy a bunch of workout stuff.

I won’t knock it though. An important minority of my yak-shaving endeavors have led to long term positive outcomes.

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shoopadoop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You want to play some old classic games so you spend five days getting a Raspberry Pi set up just right with Retroarch and then when it's setup just right you do something else.

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cgriswald 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I went with paper and pen precisely because there was always more I wanted to do with my computer work flow.

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nine_k 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I need to write something, and I have a computer, and something is inconvenient, I can quickly (well, within minutes, maybe 30 of them) alter it to my liking, and return to writing.

When I only have a pen and paper (which I used extensively for writing at school), many things may be inconvenient, but there's no way to fix it. This may turn into a source of a low-key stress, and interfere with my writing much more than tweaking a computer would.

I use Emacs, an ultimate tweaker's tool, for writing every day. Last time I had to tweak something in it was a few weeks ago, and it took maybe 2-3 minutes. It's a small price to pay for a tool that just does what you need, when you need it, with zero mental load, and zero frustration.

	▲	cgriswald an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For my two main uses pen and paper has two opposite effects. For creative writing it is freeing because it isn’t the last stop but I don’t have to worry about format or placement or anything. I can just go. Typing has a sort of “technical” feel for me, probably due to code, email, and to some degree comments. For notes during study pen and paper are constraining and force me to organize the thoughts in my mind first and then commit them. Mistakes needing to be corrected here is good: It reminds me what I misunderstood. But, like the sibling poster, the writing goes onto the computer for later editing.

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obsidianbases1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pen and paper for writing. Computer for editing.

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sixtyj 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Paper notebook. I wouldn’t recommend loose sheets of paper. :) After 15 years of writing notes on loose sheets I would start differently :)

Go Tim Ferris way - notebook where the first page is left for the table of contents, and number all even-numbered pages as first step.

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obsidianbases1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My thoughts are so all over the place that I've settled on 3x5 note cards. It also makes the transition to the computer much easier, because I can re-arrange them in a way that is somewhat organized before taking a picture that gets transcribed

	▲	SanjayMehta 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You might want to check out Scrivener (Mac and Windows). I use that in lieu of note cards. The cork board function lets you re-arrange text and media to your hearts content and then compile the final output to Word, PDF whatever. It's designed for non-linear writing. https://literatureandlatte.com

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cortesoft 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate handwriting with a passion. I have my whole life. I have horrible handwriting and my hand gets sore 5 seconds after I start writing.

I am sure it is because I don't hold my pen/pencil correctly, but I think after 43 years I am not going to suddenly fix that.

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syntheticnature 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You sound likely to have dysgraphia, based on the fact I have all the same aspects and a dysgraphia diagnosis.

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NathanielK 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am similar. If I physically write a couple times a week, my hand adapts though. It's a skill like any other.

Fountain pens are nice too since you don't need any pressure.

My writing looks a lot better if I just force myself to slow down and be deliberate, but honestly it's a constant battle. I'd definitely benefit from practicing penmanship on it's own.

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dv35z 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Worth mentioning - for a long time, I found my handwriting messy AND my hand would tire out. When I was about a teen-ager, I decided to write in call-caps, very clearly. I've been doing that for a long time now, and worth giving a try.

	▲	gnabgib 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		teen-ager? call-caps? Cursive (several hundred years old) fixes this.. all-capitals(caps) or block-caps makes writing more laborious, possibly easier to read (which is why it used to be requested on hand-written forms?)

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laweijfmvo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

how did you decide which pens to go with?