This may come as a surprise if you haven’t noticed my Mastodon posts about woodworking here and there in the past 2 years, but I’ve picked up hand-planing wood to the delight of our toddler – the shaving are just too fun to play with. There’s this weird old (German) silent movie with high magnification that shows how a plane creates these shavings I want to share because that kind of stuff just isn’t filmed anymore, it seems:

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Today is 2025-12-02, and in four days, 2025-12-06, EmacsConf will happen! My talk will be “Zettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackers” (I already uploaded some ‘attachments’, but: Spoiler Warning!), for which my pitch is: you need to create your own thinking environment, because that’s absolutely not a solved, copyable problem, but a deeply personal one.

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