I switched my default mail provider to iCloud, instead of this domain name. Back in time, I guess. This way I can manage my emails using Neomutt or Apple Mail (via IMAP), depending on my mood, and everything keeps sync’ed. I needed to convert my archives folder from Maildir to Mbox but Neomutt failed me when I used the following command:

neomutt -f ~/.mail/archives -e 'set mbox_type=mbox; set confirmcreate=no; set delete=no; push "T.*<enter>;s/Users/chl/tmp/archives.mbox<enter><quit>"'

I believe this doesn’t handle multiple aliases for sender correctly. However, this Python module worked like a charm and I was able to get 10k messages with correct threading in no time at all.

/me is listening to “Flesh Dance” by Gothic Tropic

I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s gorgeous!

Tip of the day: To rename a bunch of photos on your HD according to the original date, the following works well: exiftool '-filename<CreateDate' -d %Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S%%-c.%%le -ext jpg -r ..

/me is listening to “I Can’t Be” by Sally Dige

Musing with three types of backup systems on my old Macbook: Arq, Borg and Kopia. I was able to mount every backup folder correctly. Now I just need to put the years end-to-end!

With that damn machine crash last week, I’m in the process of retagging my music library (after re-downloading some albums from YT for the second time), and soon everything should be ready to join my iTunes library, neglected since 2016. The last title I bought from Apple was the Glenn Gould album, BTW.

Currently rebuilding my iTunes library. Back in 2016 it wasn’t the time to switch to Apple Music and TV. I’m on an unsupported laptop and OS right now, but it feels so good. Yet, congrats to Apple because I can retrieve all my data in just two or three clicks. #apple

I’m not in the mood of writing a full blog post to summarize my recent comeback to OS X. It’s still OS X on my machine, but I know it evolved as something else since 2018. I don’t know if I’m ready to buy a new Macbook with the accompagnying OS. I liked and I still like Mojave so much. Yet it was pretty painful to resurrect this laptop: Homebrew has no “bottles” for oldy software, which means I had to recompile everything from scratch for 60% of the software I reinstalled. I got into trouble with GPG, GitHub https auth, zsh misbehaving on OS X for no reason, minor annoyances with the Linux -> OS X switch, and so on. Finally, I’m close to the end of the migration process. It took me 5 full days! And I had to somehow relearn macOS shorcuts. Muscle memory helped in most cases, but still… So long, Apple #apple

TIL that TERM=xtermm on Darwin behaves like TERM=xterm-mono on Linux. That was helpful to force Neomutt or Cmus to use mono color by default. Moreover, if you use TERM=vt100 for Neomutt, it behaves more smoothly when fetching new mail with mbsync. #apple