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title: "Miscellanea for 2025-05-19"
date: 2025-05-19T23:59:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/19/miscellanea/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [miscellanea]
---

# Miscellanea for 2025-05-19

- Hello world!
- "[Log Lady Look-Alike Contest Photos](https://www.portlandmercury.com/photo/2025/05/19/47791648/log-lady-look-alike-contest-photos-shes-got-the-look-and-the-log): She’s Got the Look (and the Log)" 
	- I love this city.
- Interesting bugs here in my Rube Goldberg blogging machine involving Syncthing and Obsidian, where sync conflicts become clashing ghost entries 🤔
- I should tweak support for a `draft` flag here, so that posts that I'm still editing don't get published automatically. This flow is almost *too* frictionless, at this point.
- I've been using Obsidian for about 5 years now for my daily notes. I've been tempted to take another swing at writing my own notebook, because I barely use any of Obsidian's fancier features. I mainly like that's it's a good cross-platform Markdown editor with a few plugins that I've settled on for regular use.
- I have a vague notion to make a USB or wifi interface for an old Atari Video Touch Pad. Could use it as a Stream Deck (if I ever stream again) and / or hook it up to Home Assistant.
  
  ![[attachments/2025-05-19-video-touch-pad.png]]
- I need to find a better way to insert images like this 😅