“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” — Malcolm Forbes
Bahahaha. I was gonna write about something from before from a post before or something like that.
I did not do that.
Instead I learned just how much I fucking hate Day One’s current export options.
And by hate I mean very much dislike.
I mean… the rest of the application is pretty great.
Except its data portability.
All year I’ve been thinking about how to automate the exporting and transforming of posts in a formatting that pleases me. Mostly thinking. But I decided that I’m really sick of the stupid manual things I’ve been doing to get stuff posted.
It’s annoying.
I’ve been poking around with the JSON data that Day One will export.
Staring at walls of JSON objects is soul crushing.
But… I’ve finally put my butt in the seat after I had a moment to take a break and think about things.
… or the treadmill desk. My feet. Walking. Not my butt on the treadmill. Just in case you thought that’s what I meant.
And I’ve managed to get something to do something with some sort of snek whispering. I am very much a Python amateur.
So I’ve created the absolutely terribly named but accurate in functionality piece of code.
And I get to play with Gumlet. Which I’ve been meaning to test.
It’s been a fun-ish thing to do. Frustrating. Yet rewarding. In some ways. I guess as with many things in life.
🤷
And now I’ve got yet another idea for something to do something to make money.
I wonder if people would pay for something that’ll build static sites from journal entries on the affordable.
I think that’s something that’s absolutely tenable.
Hmm.
IDGAF about that for now really. I really just want something to automate the export of my Day One entries into the formats that I fucking want it to.
And on a totally related tangent, I’m grateful that I’ve had the upbringing, resources, and that whole ability to hyper-focus thing seasoned with a life full of questionable decision making. But with a relatively positive outlook on life.
Ish. My time management skills are anxiety inducing. I want someone else to run my schedule and make sure I’m places. Yeah. That’d be cool. Theoretically. It’s probably one of those be careful what you wish for kind of things. Dunno.
It’ll be pretty neat having that script setup to automate the creation of Markdown that works with Hugo in the way that I want it to.