I'm glad you're here!
STATUS: Desperate to make Darktable work for me
PLANS: Errands. Avoiding the AI discourse as much as possible
WATCHING: "The Baltimorons (2025)" ★★★★
What do you want, Jack?
I like that this part of the blog doesn't "go out" anywhere. No RSS, no cross-posting. It's just a website. There's something calm about that.
If I sit here and just click random shit all day, I won't have to actually /do/ anything. Good plan.
STATUS: Tinkering with Kev's new blogging tool
PLANS: Definitely not moving baty.net net or this blog to Pure Blog. Definitely.
OK, yeah, I've no idea where to put stuff. Happy now, Jack?
STATUS: Brrrrr.
PLANS: I dunno, probably (re)organizing stuff that doesn't need organizing.
WATCHING: "Dust Bunny" (2025) ★★★★
It seems I've fixed the Kirby blueprint for new posts. I used to have to manually create the month's folder on the server. Sure, it was only necessary once a month, but it bugged me.
STATUS: A quiet morning at home. Good coffee.
PLANS: Do something with all the crap I have lying around here.
READING: "Dungeon Crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman
Some days I just can't be bothered with any of it.
Do you feel like every social media post and most blog posts are all about the same things lately? Has it always been this way?
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
But something else was true too. When you were using the software, you were alone with it.
This is Linux's biggest draw for me. I feel like it's just me and my operating system.
STATUS: Driving to the lakeshore in the worst, icy conditions
PLANS: Survive the drive.
STATUS: Neck deep in macOS
PLANS: Remove all the cruft from my life
I'm not fond of complaining about software that I love, but NetNewsWire, which I've used for many years, just released version 7.0. Here's the lead from the release post:
The big change from 6.2.1 is that it adopts the Liquid Glass UI and it requires macOS 26.
Here's the first thing I saw...
I hate what Apple has made good developers do.
STATUS: Gutting every system I have
PLANS: Living with gutting everything
Oh hello. Are we back? I'm not sure yet.
I predict that we're going to be embarrassed some day about liking Geese so much, but right now, I really like Geese.
"THERE'S A BOMB IN MY CAR!"
If your book review starts with something like...
...this cutesy and simplistic tale reaches Bertolt Brecht levels of pedagogical impetus paired with Bewilderment heights of righteous undercomplexity.
...then your opinion doesn't matter to me.