Blog posts for November 2025

The Johnny.Decimal system 22 Blog
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I fall in to the YouTube or Reddit rabbit-holes sometimes. Not that they’re all bad all the time: I love watching a good music video with my headphones in. (That track is slow to start but seriously: watch it all the way. I dare you not to love it.)

But being sucked in to Shorts? Lazy-scrolling the Reddit feed? I know that’s not how I want to spend my time.

Well it turns out all of these things leave a trace, and you can use that trace to reveal your bad habits. I find this confronting. It causes me to change.

The trick is easy: just open your browser history, and search for the site you don’t love…

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I do this all day so I can remember what I did that day. I’m not senile yet. I just take medication that makes me forget stuff as a side effect.

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I understand the purging of files and stuff from my house. We keep buying crap we don’t need and I keep downloading everything I think is important. Especially because the government keeps deleting certain websites. My wife calls it being preparanoid.

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This sounds akin to the process of interstitial journalling (https://goodhartphotographyva.com/how-to-do-interstitial-journaling-with-or-without-notion-and-become-more-intentional-about-your-day/). Where do you put this in your Jdex?

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I think the eternal question here is whether you choose:

  1. A single central ‘journal’ note which references the rest of your system, or
  2. Many notes throughout your system, each of which has a ‘journal’ section.

I chose #2. If a JDex entry requires a ‘work log’, it gets a ## Work log header and the notes go there.

To find all ‘work logs’, I’d need to search across my system. But this isn’t my use-case. I don’t get to the end of the day and want to review all of my work logs. For me it’s more about returning to a specific item and picking up where I left off. In this case, the work-log-in-entry is more practical.

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I’ve been a bit slow this week, but luckily Lucy doesn’t take her foot off the pedal. Some great links here if you’re a small business owner.

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Begone the dreaded red timeline of confusion!

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Wait wait - dehydrating and rehydrating Syncthing folders? Keeping them on the server, and then re-synching them? Does Syncthing know about this? I thought this was Syncthing’s big limitation…

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I think so too, my current workaround is removing the sync and then re-share if needed. A bit clunky but works.

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Maybe I just need to practice a bit more. I seem to always make a mess of things when I mess with existing sync folders.

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It works great, but always makes me nervous.

I think – do your backups, don’t sue me, we have no legal relationship, I love you, and so on – that adding the name of the folder to the ignore list of the machine you want to delete it from, then waiting a minute, then deleting it from that machine, is the way.

Here’s the ignore file on my laptop.

.git
(?d).DS_Store
CacheClip
*(not synchronised)*
21.32 Workshop/43.11 Workshop video production // ignore this mongrel
500[0-6]*
50077*

At this point I could probably just make it 500[0-8] but I’m only at about 60% used disk space so I’ll leave it a while.

And so to be clear, I’m sync’ing the entire D25 Small Business filesystem, which is … lemme check … lordy!

Folder ID d25
Folder Path /Users/Shared/D25 Johnny.Decimal
Global State ~805 GiB
Local State ~49.2 GiB

805GB back at base, a tiny fraction of that here. I don’t share/unshare entire Syncthing folders; just subfolders, using ignore rules. Works great.

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:rofl:
Ok, maybe this is more doable than I thought! I will try it out. Everything backed up, of course.

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Love it!

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Well this is weird. I just lost an invoice, as in one that I was sure I had raised a couple of weeks ago. Here’s how I discovered it, and what I’ll do to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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