Jack Baty Daily

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These are my daily notes about everything

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Black and white photo of a black Leica M10-P camera
Leica M10-p (2020). I should have kept it.

First morning with the new daily.baty.net. The script for creating new posts uses $EDITOR, which I usually have as nvim but sometimes it's "emacsclient -c" and that was failing. I just pasted the error into the robot and it fixed the problem in about 5 seconds.

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I had so much fun converting this site to Eleventy yesterday that it has me thinking about doing the same thing with baty.net. I prefer static sites, but Hugo has always been tricky to deal with. I like 11ty, but it means building a new theme and I'm not good at that. But Claude Code is. Trouble is, once I do that, what's stopping me from rolling some of the features here over to that blog? Does that mean One True Blog™? I doubt it, but it's interesting to think about.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Wall art in waiting room (2026)

I'm kind of giddy about the work I did with Claude Code, today, but I'm afraid to talk about it for fear of being scolded. At some point I'm going to stop worrying about it.

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I woke up this morning wondering if Claude Code could build me an Eleventy version of daily.baty.net blog. Turns out it can (You're soaking in it). It was much easier than expected. Say what you will about LLMs, they've gotten damn good and very useful to me.

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I knew nothing about this going in. What a strange, funny movie. I had a blast.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Field with birch trees in winter
At the park
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Just a test note to verify multiple notes render on a day page.

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One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.

— Charles M. Blow