Writing about life and my small opinions.https://martilama.com/https://martilama.com/blog/a-keyboard-headphones-a-book/https://martilama.com/blog/a-keyboard-headphones-a-book/The handful of physical objects I actually reach for every day, and how short that list turns out to be once I'm honest about it.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>I tried to make a list the other day, of the physical things I actually touch on a normal day. Not the things I own, not the things I like the idea of owning — the things my hands genuinely find without me thinking about it. The list got embarrassingly short.</p> <p>A keyboard. A pair of headphones. A book.</p> <p>That’s most of it. There’s a phone in there too, and a mug, and the computer the keyboard is connected to. But once you separate “objects I use” from “objects that are around,” the working set is small enough to count on one hand.</p> <h2>The honest part</h2> <p>I think the honest part is that I expected the list to be longer. I have a 3D printer that hasn’t run in more than eight months,<span>Wanting to use a thing isn’t the same as reaching for it — the printer is pure intention.</span> a small shelf of board games, a drawer of cables I keep meaning to sort. None of that made the list. Wanting to use a thing isn’t the same as reaching for it.</p> <p>The keyboard I reach for because the day is mostly typing. The headphones I reach for because the day is mostly typing <em>and</em> I’d like to choose what’s in the room with me while I do it. The book is the one that surprised me a little — it’s there because at some point in the evening I want the screen to stop being the answer.<span>It’s a Kindle, technically, loaded from a Calibre library I drift through most evenings to pick what’s next.</span> I count it as a book because that’s what the hands and the eyes are doing.</p> <p>I don’t think a short list is a problem. I think it’s just what an honest day looks like when you stop counting the props. Most of the objects we accumulate aren’t tools, they’re intentions — a thing we bought because we wanted to be the kind of person who uses it. That’s fine. But the three or four things that actually do the work of a day are worth knowing by name.</p> <p>Mine, this week, are a keyboard, headphones, and whatever book is currently half-finished on the bedside table.</p> https://martilama.com/blog/hello-world/https://martilama.com/blog/hello-world/First post — what this blog is and why it exists.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>This is the first post on my new blog.</p> <p>It’s built with <a href="https://astro.build/">Astro</a>, a static site generator, and deployed on Cloudflare. Every post here is a Markdown file in a git repository — when I push, the site rebuilds itself.</p> <p>There’s also an <a href="https://martilama.com/rss.xml">RSS feed</a>, so you can follow along in a feed reader like Newsboat without checking back manually.</p> <h2>What to expect</h2> <p>No fixed theme — this is just a place to write about life in general and the small opinions I pick up along the way.</p> <p>More soon.</p>