I particularly enjoyed "The Great Bay" by Dale Pendell. It's a collection of short stories that are linked through the next 16,000 years of Californian history after a 2021 global pandemic and subsequent environmental catastrophe.
I'm using orgmode as well on my emacs install under macOS. By using a simple org capture template bound to SPC-o-j (space, org, journal) a time stamped entry into my journal.org file is relatively painless. Really loving using emacs on macOS too, once I figured out the home-brew installation and configuration.
I'm a relative emacs noob, and have just switched from Doom emacs to rolling my own with a literate config file. I started noticing more and more ~ backup files in all my working directories. Needless to say this is a great tip for those of us who don't understand emacs defaults.
I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Zathura to view the newly compiled document as it automatically reloads upon a successful compilation. I think that may cover what you're looking for?
Yes to this! Bamboo root structure (rhizomes) can be broken down into two basic types, leptomorph and pachymorph. Bamboo that belong to the leptomorph rhizome group can grow many feet over a growing season, and have buds along their length that will grow into new rhizomes or culms (shoots). These are the classic runaway bamboo that folks worry about. Bamboo that have pachymorph rhizomes will (each one) grow into a culm and are thus much slower to spread around your garden. More like a clumping bush.
I grow bamboo as a hobby in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, and currently have about thirty bamboo plants of 10 different types growing in pots in my yard. I'm waiting to plant them in the ground at my next house for when I have root barriers to prevent the leptomorphs from spreading too quickly!
If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree package.
I've been using it for about 6 months now, backing up my home directory 3-4 times per week to an external HD. Would also agree that it's fast, easy to use, and also easy to recover files. I'd add that the documentation is really well written.
I've germinated a few seeds (P. edulis 'Moso' & Fargesia Jiuzhaigou IV 'Black Cherry') purchased on AliExpress (very inexpensive). I planted about 200 seeds in July of last year and achieved a germination rate of about 5%. My understanding is that bamboo seeds are not viable for very long, but it could also be that I didn't get my seeds from a very reputable dealer.
Ugh! As a former Apple fanboi, this is the reason I no longer own any Apple equipment. Apple products are beautiful, and very well designed, but so is a rhinestone straitjacket.
I'm a big fan of using vim and asciidoctor and an organized notes directory. I quickly jot down notes about certain projects or ideas using vim, then go back and format the notes at a later date with asciidoc markup. Then I run it through the asciidoctor chain to create personal html pages. https://asciidoctor.org/
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. Helped me to understand the language of architecture. What works and why, and what doesn't work and why. To this day I can still pick up this book, turn to a random page and get lost for hours in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language