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I have an urge to try building a version of this site using Eleventy. …

Nice Org HTML an improvement over Emacs' default HTML exports. …

Cross-posting every one of these little posts to RSS and Mastodon really does generate a firehose of randomness for the unfortunate people who follow me. …

Count me among the people who dislike when someone uses AI-generated images as covers for blog posts. …

I'm going to spend time this morning rebuilding my Emacs config from scratch. …

So, I'm looking at both of my blogs and thinking that this one at daily.baty.net does the best job of wrangling shorter and longer posts and has my preferred group-by-day format. …

I had configured a giant OpenGraph image for when one of these little posts gets shared on social media. …

DEVONthink has started crashing shortly after launch. …

Hey Dave, keep posting your moon photos. …

I still can't decide where and how to manage my photos. …

As an experiment, I'm going to try cross-posting from here to Bluesky (@baty.net@bsky.app). …

Tightly controlling and limiting news consumption is one of the best things I've done for my mental well-being.…

Honestly, I only watched this because he's a photographer. …

My entire process feels overwrought. …

Ignoring Tinderbox because it's weird and expensive is a costly mistake, in my opinion. …

I've exhausted my supply of internet today, so it's time to make our annual Thanksgiving Pizzas.…

I'm having so much fun with software right now, I can hardly stand it. …

I keep futzing with Ghost on baty.net because I can't seem to get completely comfortable using Ghost. …

If you post "Notes" on Substack, I'll never see them.…

RackNerd had good VPS pricing for Black Friday ($18.00/year for 2.5GB) so I ordered one. …

I love writing in paper notebooks, but at some point there's always a lull. …

As long as moving Mastodon instances doesn't bring my posts along, I'm thinking Bluesky is a safer long-term bet for my posts. …

In yet another example of worrying about something that hasn't happened... …

I would like to read more articles in which the authors stop doing so much throat clearing or sidetracking so that we all know that they know about something tangental and maybe they don't approve of it.…

macosxguru mentioned the golden-ratio emacs package, and it sounded useful, so I tried it. …

I get such a kick out of these movies. …

This movie always makes me happy. …

Johnny Martyr, who's blog I enjoy, writes: …

I'm seeing a lot of sync errors with my Tinderbox files and exports. …

My God I'm weary of the hand-wringing and navel-gazing on Mastodon about other networks. …

I've not been living in Emacs for a week or longer. …

I've switched the Search page to use Pagefind. …

Tinderbox has an export code that renders links to any other notes that link to the current note. …

My new LifeBook Tinderbox document is coming along nicely. …

I got way back into Tinderbox this week. …

All the hand wringing on Mastodon about Bluesky has been nominated (by me) for "Most Boring and Useless Topic" of 2024.…

I'm dizzy. …

I hate how good Obsidian is at so many things. …

I've re-enabled the RSS feed for full daily posts. …

Several years ago, I started a single Tinderbox file with the intention that it would be a personal journal, notebook, and blog, all wrapped up in one document. …

There are a million things I could be doing and a thousand things I should be doing. …

I'm not going to rail against the election here or on the blog. …

It occurred to me while I was once again working through issues with having Emacs run smoothly on both my Macs that there are too many things that I have to think about, just to do my thing every day. …

I still can't seem to consolidate the blogs. …

I am 70 pages into Gibson's "Neuromancer" and will probably stop there. …

I'm really digging for silver linings here, but one thing I appreciate about the election is that I no longer have to feel stressed about who's going to win and whether things are going to get shittier or better. …

I pulled the trigger this morning on my move to Ghost for baty.net. …

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It started late morning. …

This is getting old. …

For creating a static blog, it's hard to beat Hugo. …

I have written notes in three different apps and posted on three different sites. …

Some people, it seems, can look at the same app or two all day, every day, for years, and be fine. …

I have had the reMarkable2 tablet on two occasions. …

I find the Denote Emacs package to be just about perfect for keeping notes.…

Freddie deBoer …

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I watched a documentary called The Book Makers and now I want to make a book. …

This is a test post to make sure I'm not automatically syndicating from this RSS feed somewhere. …

20 years ago when I was feeling fancy, I bought myself a nice Maxwell Scott briefcase. …

I'm trying something. …

Every court ruling news headline sounds like this to me: …

Firing up my micro.blog again has confused things a bit around here. …

The new record from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds is called "Wild God" and it's fantastic. …

I just want to write it down and find it later. …

John P. …

I don't want to futz with things, but I still want the option to futz with things.…

OMG I'm absolutely catatonic about notes apps again. …

OK, so Obsidian and I have never gotten along well. …

I'm kind of tired of blogging today. …

Obsidian is the WordPress of note-taking apps: Ubiquitous, powerful, extensible, complex, free (or not), a bit janky, and with a repetitive community of people seemingly desperate to become influencers. …

I have moods during which I'd like to cancel all of my subscriptions to everything. …

We're all just looking for excuses to change apps, aren't we. …

Nick Cave wrote that his notebooks are "...predominantly a collection of failed ideas." …

Oooh, I can't wait to hear what all the newly-minted antitrust experts have to say 🙄.…

I remain infatuated with SilverBullet for many of my notes. …

I reached down to take the leash off Alice after our walk this morning and threw my back out so bad that I am having trouble walking or moving much at all. …

Some mornings it seems like everything is broken. …

The thing about building this blog with Tinderbox is that the whole thing is one nice, tidy outline. …

I finished reading Robin Sloan's new novel, "Moonbound". …

I had a headache from yesterday afternoon until, well, now. …

I got all fired up about, er, firing up a couple of my stalled blogs. …

I signed up for sewing classes. …

Whenever I change blogging platforms or domain names or simply post to several places, I feel a twinge of guilt. …

I can feel the pendulum swinging back toward complexity. …

With any luck, no one will notice this post. …

I am going to try limiting myself to one blog/one wiki. …

Just finished catching up on my RSS/Mastodon/Forum feeds. …

My wife called from the gym and wanted to know which plumber we'd called to replace our water heater. …

I still dream of only having one blog. …

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I've moved daily.baty.net, a static website generated using Tinderbox, to my new VPS at Hetzner. …

I keep installing the Org 9.7.x package and Org keeps reverting to 9.6.x. …

I wonder what it would be like to be someone who simply decides something, then follows through, forever. …

I look around and all I see are choices. …

Have I mentioned that I re-subscribed to Medium? …

Don't tell anyone, but I've been copying all of the new posts from Baty.net (Ghost) to my old Kirby CMS version of the blog. …

Yesterday I included a copy/pasted summary of my wiki notes for the day. …

Today in the wiki: …

If I were to complain about LLMs "stealing" my public writing, I worry that I'd just be wildly over-valuing my words. …

Another from Dave's post. …

Why meditate when you can spend money? -- Dave Rogers …

Kev Quirk and I exchanged emails throughout May as part of his PenPals project. …

I rewatch "The Lure" every so often when I feel the need for a Polish mermaid-stripper-horror-musical-comedy.…

I'm starting to think that I've wasted way too much time wrangling with the metadata/properties around my notes. …

As if there's not enough noise about Apple in my feeds, WWDC makes it all so much worse. …

> I know very little about anything. …

I'm not even supposed to be here today. …

Obsidian is a toy for notes. …

Now that I have moved baty.net to Ghost, I no longer have a good place to post daily notes. …

I spent an hour this morning working on tweaks to some Obsidian templates. …

I write about pens in my notebooks. …

I don't know if where I spend my time online is a bubble or not, but my god we sure do spend our time talking about the same things over and over and over. …

Last week we were all bitching about how Google's search results have become terrible. …

What if I put my Howm folder inside my Obsidian vault? …

I may as well post something here, too. …

Some people play video games. …

I took a digital camera to a family event recently. …

I can never tell if the process or workflow change I'm making is just a whim or an actual long-term improvement. …

I accidentally launched Capture One this morning and now I'm screwed. …

I'm trying to decide what I want in my Obsidian vault and what can just go into a set of folders somewhere else. …

I added a keybinding to my Emacs config which maps Command-p to the same thing as M-x (execute-extended-command) so that now Emacs works more like Obsidian. …

Something that's been bugging me is the time is always wrong when creating new posts on my [Kirby blog](https://baty.net). "now" is several hours into the future, so I've had to adjust it manually each time. …

Markdown is everywhere. …

I've been in my occasional "consolidate everything" mood, and that includes my blogs, so I've been posting daily notes over on baty.net. …

I had an idea today that I wanted to remember, so I wrote it in my notebook. …

I've decided to remove the Reply by Email link from the RSS feed posts. …

I'm trying something. …

I feel like hanging out over on baty.net. …

Dave Rogers mentioned the Nathan Macintosh special, Down with Tech, so I watched it. …

I've been using a CPAP machine for nine years. …

Right now Obsidian and Emacs are in a fight to the death in my head. …

I should have adored this. …

Now that I'm tinkering with Obsidian for managing my Blot blog, I'm all excited about writing there, so I'll need to think about how to divide content between there and here. …

I was about to head out of town this morning when I saw Keenan's post about the effort involved when trying to keep up with RSS feeds (among other things). …

This one, for example. …

I am unusually excited to have learned that both Remind and Wyrd are actively maintained. …

I thought this was a masterpiece when I first saw it. …

Jackie Chan does things with his body that are physically impossible. …

I bought a new typeface, Berkeley Mono. …

I develop and print my own film. …

This is not something I planned, but I am in the midst of organizing everything using the Johnny.Decimal system (with some tweaks) and then pointing an Obsidian Vault at it. …

Alice woke up at precisely 3:00 a.m. and was raring to go for a walk. …

I had a thought recently. …

I eagerly signed up for EchoFeed at launch, thinking it would help with cross posting from my blogs to Mastodon. …

After reading USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix, of course I had to fire up Gnus and start reading news. …

I've added a list of backlinks to each post (if any exist) at the bottom of individual posts. …

It occurred to me today that there are similarities between blogging and photography when it comes to which tools I choose at a given moment. …

I have to remind myself how dumb it is to spend time inventing a "use case" for a bit of software, just so I have an excuse to play with it. …

This was a lot of fun, and quite sweet. …

Everyone in this movie annoyed me. …

I'm kind of over courtroom dramas, but this was better than expected. …

I used to record the movies I watched in the same Tinderbox document as this blog, so there was some prior art scattered around for blogging about movies. …

Blood Simpleton …

Spent time working through a file reorg. …

I am not about to defend the CEO of Kagi here, but I don't think anyone responding to this Mastodon post actually read the exchange with anything resembling a non-biased attitude. …

Yesterday sucked, computing-wise. …

I bought the Johhny.Decimal workbook a few months ago and this morning I couldn't find it. …

I just fixed a post on archive.baty.net from 2015. …

It's weird that I thought I might be abandoning this blog, in light of my infatuation with Scribbles and Blot. …

When I was in my early 20s, I was invited on a deer hunting weekend with friends. …

I like my new Scribbles blog well enough. …

I'm mostly just avoiding applying for jobs on LinkedIn, which is what I should be doing right now.…

Dave has really been going to town with Tinderbox lately. …

Today's solar eclipse will reach 94% where I live. …

Once in a while it's good to exercise all the blogs, especially this one. …

I would rather switch to Windows and Android than read one more word about Apple and the DoJ or EU.…

I blog because it's fun. …

Site was down for a few minutes this afternoon. …

Monday: Clean up Tinderbox, write some agents and actions to help with getting images into posts. …

One point of friction when blogging with static site generators is getting images where they belong. …

I was looking for a post I knew I'd written, and finally found it on Medium. …

Last week I found myself, briefly, at a point where I felt like I was done thinking about taking notes and the processes and tools I use to do so. …

I don't remember when I actually started keeping a Daybook in Tinderbox, but I first wrote about Tinderbox as a Daybook in 2008. …

Well my Flickr Pro subscription automatically renewed yesterday. …

There are only 2 software tools I know of that usefully combine an outliner with long-form notes: Tinderbox and Emacs/Org-mode. …

Dave noticed he hadn't included a "Reply by Email" link in his RSS feed. …

Prediction: Whomever bans TikTok loses the election.…

"Global Town Square" my ass. …

I had a nice long discussion with Michael Becker about setting up a blog and using Tinderbox for large projects. …

The new M2 Mac Mini arrived and I've spent the past 12 hours working on getting it configured and it feel like I'm nowhere near complete. …

I'm feeling spread too thin, blogging-wise. …

Dave Rogers posted a few notes about the recent Tinderbox meetup about blogging with Tinderbox. …

It seems I'm still posting on four websites most days. …

So let's see, I wanted to write something about the complications caused by using too many different apps, even though many of them spark much joy. …

The video from last week's Tinderbox meet-up has been posted. …

I wrote a post, "Software that sparks joy". …

I have been carrying the little Ricoh GRII with me everywhere lately instead of the Leica Q2 or even the MP. …

After lamenting this morning that I didn't feel like figuring out how to add search to this blog, I've added search to this blog. …

This blog needs a decent search feature. …

I got to participate in today's Blogging with Tinderbox meetup. …

I forgot that I'd added a user attribute here named "IncludeInRSS" which does what it says on the tin. …

I've been neglecting Tinderbox this week, which is a mistake since I'm participating in the Blogging with Tinderbox meetup on Saturday. …

Server issues this morning have put me in a "No, you host it!" …

Just for fun, I recently put up a sort of landing page at jackbaty.com. …

I used to love databases. …

I'm still not working, meaning I have a lot of time my hands. …

I could easily (easily!) …

Why do I feel an obligation to software? …

I recently wrote about my upcoming Flickr subscription and whether I would renew after 20 years. …

Dave Rogers writes about a small update to Tinderbox made recently based on a conversation during a short video call between himself, me, Mark Bernstein (Tinderbox's author), and Michael Becker. …

It bothers me a little that moving the content here to any other platform would be a large project that I don't want to ever have to tackle. …

I need a change of pace, and I've been overthinking this blog, so I'll be posting over at baty.net today.…

What if it's not just nostalgia? …

I like too many things. …

One of Tinderbox's many little unsung features are the small note icons that appear next to each note. …

I've never been into anything hard enough to argue over what might be canon or not.…

When I like something, I tend to say, "It's really good!" …

I am sitting on the fence between plain text and GUI-licious tools. …

It's nice to have options, but right now I've got todos in Reminders, Things, OmniFocus, Taskwarrior, nb, org-mode, and a paper notebook. …

It's not great when one's biggest motivation to make photos is having only a few frames left on the roll.…

Proudly bragging that you don't follow sports doesn't make you better than anyone.…

There are many broken images in my blog archives. …

This blog takes about 20 seconds to fully render out of Tinderbox. …

In any extended online pissing match, both sides end up being wrong. …

I bet people are thinking, "Geez, Jack, just pick a blog, man!" …

My earlier post, It's the tools. …

Dave Rogers posted earlier about Blogging with Tinderbox. …

Here's the thing, the best way to build a website is to publish static HTML files. …

Mike Hall: …

This hit: …

I had this wild idea. …

I had somehow created the daily posts for the past few days in the outline for November, 2022. …

Scanning software has to be the most unpleasant genre of software there is. …

I almost forgot that I'd added a user attribute to my posts in Tinderbox called "IncludeInRSS" and it does exactly what it says. …

I've come to realize that I no longer enjoy these three foods: kale, green peppers, and zucchini. …

I wrote this today: …

It's my mom's 82nd birthday today. …

Just look at him go. …

I like vinyl because it's imperfect. …

I enjoy tinkering with note-taking apps. …

Surprisingly, doing nothing didn’t solve the problem. …

I have a shell script that grabs weather conditions from weatherapi.com. …

I spent a couple hours this afternoon updating the stylesheets and markup here on the daily blog so that they more closely match those on baty.net. …

One of the most compelling reasons I can think of to move to Linux/Android would be so that I could mute "Apple" on social media and not care about missing anything.…

So many nerds making such a fuss over Apple's phrase, "...users will be confronted with a list of default browsers..." in their DMA press release. …

I've had a lot of fun this week dusting off all of my blogs and then combining their RSS feeds into one big noisy MegaFeed for those people crazy enough to follow the firehose of whatever this is. …

Some days I feel more pointy-and-clicky than others. …

So now that I've got a combined RSS feed I feel like I can post any damn place I please 😆. …

So, remember yesterday when I suggested that If I could combine RSS feeds, I would? …

If I could combine RSS feeds for all my sites into a single giant feed, I would do that. …

I don't need a new blogging platform, but if I did, I'd certainly be looking at Prose.sh. …

I've got the Kirby-run blog working the way I like it, so there's no immediate danger of changing platforms over there again. …

I'm enjoying using Kirby to run baty.net, but I sure miss the collect-individual-notes-into-a-daily-post that I have built here in Tinderbox.…

One interesting thing that happened today was that I moved baty.net back over to Kirby CMS. …

It occurred to me that since I've been applying for a few positions recently, I should probably be more positive and helpful around here. …

I've been bitching about WordPress again this morning in posts "Themes" and "A simple WordPress edit?". …

Make marks on things. …

We attended my grandson's "Dedication" at their church yesterday. …

We didn't get as much snow as was predicted yesterday, which is ok by me since I'm not scheduled to have my snow tires on until Tuesday. …

I keep records of myself because no one else will.…

Reading John P. …

I honestly don't know why anyone follows me here or anywhere online. …

I write two types of non-project notes: personal journals and technical/process logs. …

One of my dilemmas is that some days I have no interesting in tinkering with anything. …

Today in Tabs: …

I don't like using Ghost for anything but actually writing posts. …

It's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. I'm pretty thankful for just about everything in my life. …

I stopped using Kirby for my blog 12 days ago and I'm already wondering why I stopped. …

Today has been full of odd things happening on my Mac. …

Ghost CMS practically forces one to "Build an Audience". …

After 5 days of breathless speculation and rumor, nothing changed. …

Sooooo, I moved baty.net to Ghost CMS this morning. …

Using TheBrain again has thrown another wrench in the already clogged gears of my workflow. …

This looks like a fun project from the .lol folks Web 1 Land. …

Two more sound-smart words I don't like: Sublime and Orthogonal.…

No matter how much I'd like to consolidate all my online stuff, I always seem to end up with three places: this daily blog, my wiki, and my main blog. …

One thing about tools like DALL-E and Midjourney is that now the giant, unnecessary, useless, irrelevant "featured" images on your blog posts are at least more interesting.…

I'm in such a foul mood this morning. …

Have you noticed that, with all the tools and workflows I have at my disposal, I don't actually do anything? …

Wrote a post about the value of TiddlyWiki for me: Philosophy of Tiddlers…

I sent my Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm Planar lens, and an A12 back to David Odess for a CLA in 2018. …

My photographic style could best be described as, "All of them."…

It's before 6:00 a.m. and already this morning I've: Walked Alice (1 mile). …

Let's see, so far this morning I've written in the Midori MD Notebook, Hobonichi, Leuchtturm1917, Org-journal, Tinderbox, and here. …

For when I inevitably tire of using WordPress: Blog.txt…

jwz sums up my impression of Oppenheimer perfectly: …

One group desperately wants AI to be A Thing and another group desperately wants it not to be. …

I'm still looking for a new job. …

Well now this is fascinating: …

I spent this morning dialing in WordPress over on baty.net. …

I got lazy when posting and tweaking and thinking about blogging so Baty.net is back on WordPress. …

I'm having thoughts of putting daily notes in Tinderbox again. …

Focusing a Hasselblad is hard. …

I need to try a new setup so that I can wean myself off Emacs.  …

I'll be posting everything, including daily notes, over at baty.net until further notice. …

As much as I love Tinderbox, I'm wondering if will continue to make sense long-term as a blogging engine. …

I shouldn't admit this, but I'm going to. …

The toilet in our upstairs bathroom is leaking. …

I've no use for this, but I want it anyway. …

Arc Browser's new Max features are the first examples of AI integration that actually make sense to me. …

I shouldn't spend time worrying about what people think of me. …

I've been clicking things on the computer at random all morning, with nothing to show for it. …

I spent a couple hours learning my way around Kirby CMS and feel that it might make a good base for a new baty.net. …

Dammit, @Kev! …

The useful thing about backlinks for me is not for some sort of "second brain" or for making "serendipitous connections". …

I'm starting to feel the absence of a search feature on this blog. …

Yesterday was an interesting day, blogging-wise. …

Some of the posts in my Blot blog were rendering as empty documents. …

I'm trying to figure out where I prefer posting stuff and why. …

Redumbdancy n. : Writing the same thing in several different places, just in case, because one can't decide which of those places is "correct".…

I've decided I don't get $110/year of value from SmugMug so I've canceled my subscriptions. …

I've uninstalled Lightroom Classic. …

The walls of this garden are quite lovely, actually.…

Ten years ago I would record the contents and camera/film information for each roll of film onto 3x5 index cards. …

It takes Tinderbox around 10 seconds to render this blog. …

Capture One Pro is adding AI masking, which eliminates (for me) the biggest advantage that Lightroom held. …

Almost no one needs "Breaking News!!". …

I wrote a shell script for getting the weather forecast via weatherapi.com: Grab the weather forecast using weatherapi.com…

I probably shouldn't type this out loud (potential employers please look away), but I don't think I want a job that requires or even involves the use of LLMs in any capacity.…

I gave it a couple days, but I've decided I don't like the "Always On" display on my new iPhone. …

I can't do it. …

I'm near Grayling, MI helping a friend store his boat and take out the dock.. …

I bought a new iPhone 15 Pro yesterday, after weeks of convincing myself that I would instead find a refurbished 14 Pro. My current phone was a 12 Mini, which is now three years old. …

I have a history of waffling between using Lightroom Classic and Capture One for editing my RAW photos. …

I made 10 images during today's walk with the Q2. …

As much as I enjoy using Blot for baty.blog, I can't have this many blogs. …

Too many modern photographs hurt my eyes. …

Post: RSS feeds as emails using Notmuch and rss2email (baty.blog and reposted to rudimentarylathe.org)…

I've spent too much time farting around with my notmuch config. …

When I first started using Denote, I cobbled together a bunch of borrowed lisp so I could use Denote for daily notes the way I used org-roam. …

Post: It's about what "easy" actually means: I'm in Easy Mode …

I worked at Burger King for a year in 1983. …

Post: Fixing a photo by pretending it’s shot on film…

That's not "portrait" mode. …

Obsidian is great, but I don't like it, so I just deleted it. …

Obsidian is probably the best solution for taking, keeping, and managing my notes. …

I keep posting to multiple places and I can't seem to stop. …

I use Forklift all day on my Mac. …

I posted to my old Blot blog for no particular reason today. …

My struggle with organizing my notes stems from the forced decision to use a file-first or note-first process. …

This book is meant to be placed strategically but casually behind me during Zoom calls. …

After a year of Hello Fresh, and before that HomeChef and before that Blue Apron, I'm trying Mosaic Foods. …

I fixed two toilets today. …

My goal in life is to decide where something goes and then leave it there.…

I had set the Q2 to shoot JPG for some other thing and forgot about it while wandering around by the lake this weekend. …

Apparently I'm the only person without very strong and barely-articulated-but-shouted-loudly opinions about TypeScript.…

Backlinks are cool, but do I need them? …

I spent a lot of time yesterday on rudimentarylathe.org's Davis theme. …

Good morning! …

I've been working on some complex Google Looker queries for a friend's company, and it has reminded me how great SQL actually can be. …

My experiment with going back to Alfred from (Raycast) lasted less than a week. …

I spent far too long this morning farting around trying (and failing) to get the Imagick module working on my DigitalOcean WordPress droplet. …

I see a lot of posts along the lines of "I don't want analytics to influence my writing so I don't use them on my blog." …

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Someone had a bad experience at a dog park so now all dog parks are Bad™. …

So, remember how I liked the Twenty Twelve theme on rudimentarylathe.org? …

I think what I like about the old-school Twenty Twelve theme I'm using at rudimentarylathe.org is that it tricks me into believing I don't give a shit about tweaking my blog's design and that I just want to write.…

I've been using the default Terminal app on my Mac rather than Kitty or iTerm. …

After a week of no reasonable offers for the Leica SL2, I've withdrawn it from sale. …

I'm playing with Obsidian Publish as a way to publish random notes. …

The Super Blue Moon this morning was the brightest I've ever seen. …

It's interesting how many people buy new devices in "an effort to use my devices less." …

I haven't visited Twitter in more than a month and I can feel it fading into oblivion, at least for me. …

I thought for sure that I would avoid using the WordPress editor at all costs over at rudimentarylathe.org. …

I spent a week using Spark Email instead of Mail.app or Emacs. …

I haven't worn my Apple Watch in weeks and I don't miss it as much as expected. …

I spoke on the phone last night with a gentleman who went to Spain with a new Leica M11 and 35mm Summilux and shot nothing but JPGs the entire time and was completely happy. …

I have an iPad Pro setup that I almost never use. …

My dad and I really enjoyed "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny". …

Well, it's happened again. …

I threw away a few boxes of ruined film and now I want to get rid of everything. https://rudimentarylathe.org/2023/unexpected-side-effects-of-throwing-away-ruined-film/…

Here's what I'm thinking writ baty.net. …

I felt like playing with WordPress but didn't want to deal with any content migration so I set one up at rudimentarylathe.org. …

Good Lord sometimes the FOSS crowd are more annoying the Big Corporate Whatever. https://tenforward.social/@guinan/110935624452199123 …

I still feel this way: …

Some days I just want to pay WordPress.com and be done with it. …

Storms and a tornado in the area took out our power on Thursday evening. …

Check this out, you can set a keyboard shortcut for toggling Stage Manager. …

Found some old college notebooks that pretty much demonstrate my process with everything.…

Just for kicks, I enabled the AI features in Spark Mail and asked it to write me a cover letter for a Scrum Master position. …

I woke up this morning feeling like wiping my mac and starting everything completely from scratch and not installing or configuring /anything/. …

Dangit, Spark Email was just added to SetApp so now I feel like I should try it. …

Polls on social media are nothing more than an engagement tactic. …

Every photo I see is one of these: …

The older I get, the more I prefer to move actual atoms around instead.…

I spent time this morning blockout out and scheduling my whole day and so far I've done almost none of them. …

This may be an odd take, but it might be a good thing that Google killed Reader. …

After several years, I canceled my subscription to Carrot Weather. …

Here's a take: Some people should absolutely be required to work in the office rather than remotely.…

Do I really need to read blogs, watch YouTube videos, or sift through reviews in order to know how I feel about something?…

I'm back in "don't automatically cross-post" land. …

Most of social media; …

I'm kind of digging the look from underexposed interior shots on expired color film. …

I sometimes forget that film is expensive. …

I found this very moving. …

I just started scanning a very expired roll of Kodak Gold 400 and I can already see we're headed straight to Magentaville.…

Autofocus strikes again.…

I was feeling that my Emacs config was getting a little heavy, so I checked, and at (only?) …

I finally figured out what was causing my Mu4e troubles. …

My wife bought a "smart" air freshener and it required an app, which is fine I guess. …

I honestly don't care which social media platform you choose to spend time on. …

Post: A new theme for baty.net …

I gave up waiting for a Fuji X100V to show up in stock so I bought a used Leica Q2. …

I moved this to a more prominent place on my bulletin board because me too, George.…

Suddenly (well, after a package update), Mu4e has stopped working. "error in process sentinel: mu server process ended with exit code 1". …

I canceled my Glass subscription. …

Gosh, remember the heady days of using Roam Research for notes? …

I love everything about the Lamy 2000 fountain pen, except actually writing with it. …

I sat down at the computer this morning thinking about setting up a WordPress blog again. …

I think I'd like to try one of these: NONS Camera Releases Instant Back for Hasselblad using Fujifilm Instax Square Film.…

My heroes used to be guys like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. …

Good morning.…

Nick Cave isn't having any ChatGPT: …

I understand both sides of the work-from-home debate, and there are two sides, but I hate the debate. …

I thought of something interesting to write about while walking with Alice this morning, but I've forgotten what it was. …

Petapixel: 10 Reasons Why Flickr is the Best Site on the Internet for Photographers. …

I've never loved the way Org-mode handles archiving subtrees to *_archive files. …

My daughter just sent me this text out of the blue and it made me tear up just a little.…

I have a darkroom because I like to make things with my hands and I'm shit at woodworking.…

I'm late to Nick Offerman, but the more I learn about him, the more I like him. …

Today strikes me as a Tangible Things kind of day. …

There are many things I should be doing right now. …

I wonder how many blog posts about, "Why I quit using [thing]..." are actually (subconscious?) …

I have mixed feelings about zoos, but I can't help but enjoy seeing cool things like this sleeping 'gator at the Detroit Zoo yesterday.…

I spent two hours this morning farting around in Emacs fixing Mu4e, tweaking Elfeed, and debugging more crashes. …

I've seen lots of comments about Wes Anderson becoming "too Wes Anderson". …

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to install WordPress again, if only to play with this: Create blog post in Wordpress from tinderbox…

This new Peak Design 6L Everyday Sling replaces my older 5L version. …

Now Playing: Pink Floyd, "Animals". …

I've mostly given up shooting color film. …

It took me too long this morning to find a note I knew I'd written. …

Well it looks like the Stylus Epic has decided to spring quite a light leak. …

It seems that discussions around AI/ChatGPT are either "It's a scam!" …

Well now, this looks interesting. …

I have more and better cameras than I could possibly need. …

The 2023 iPhone Photography Award winners continue to demonstrate that you don't need anything fancy to make great photographs. …

After reading Dave Roger's reaction to my post yesterday about not including things by default in my RSS feed, I realized that I'd been unclear. …

I've noticed that by automatically sharing my daily posts via RSS and therefore part of my Micro.blog feed, I've become more aware and self-conscious about writing. …

Dave Rogers is in a mood: Things I’m Too Old to Deal With.…

Speaking of fatigue, I'm wondering if maybe this is all a symptom of some kind of overarching "Digital Fatigue". …

I suspect that the reason I've been posting more at daily.baty.net than on my "main" blog is that I have Hugo fatigue. …

I saw this in a Wired article today: …

I have this posted above my desk. …

Mike Hall, in a post about Micro.blog, referred to what he called a "Product manager of Me" exercise and that phrase made my head spin. …

I see that Obsidian is adding Properties. …

There's a thread going on over on Micro.blog that I have thoughts on. …

A few weeks ago I ditched my Doom Emacs config and built my own from scratch. …

My original Ember mug died last year and I've been dragging my feet on paying for another one. …

I see that Arc went 1.0 today and there's no longer a waitlist. …

This LLM CLI tool from Simon Willison is cool. …

I would like to combine my various RSS feed into one "Everything" feed. …

I would like to build a gate for the deck today but I'm terrible at that kind of thing. …

I shouldn't use a focus/lighting dummy that is more handsome than me, as is the case with Handsome Squidward here. …

After a dozen years, I'm letting go of my Day One subscription. …

I have not done a good job with 4x5 film lately. …

After spending last weekend revamping my (vanilla) Emacs bindings, I'm a little sensitive to the usual advice to "Just change them to whatever you want! …

AI-generated art is a neat trick but it bores the shit out of me. …

Nick Cave on his notebooks: …

I'm really tired of talking about my notes and my process surrounding them. …

I'm quite happy with using Tinderbox for publishing these Daily Notes. …

For many years I've kept my notes using plain text files and have always used Git for tracking changes and as a sort of backup. …

Some days I'm tempted to go full-on Donald Knuth, but with social media rather than email: …

I've noticed that my affinity for a piece of software can be predicted based on the Youtube content about it. …

Now I'm thinking maybe I should use Bear. …

I've decided to use Vincent Ritter's Tinylytics for stats on the Daily Notes blog, replacing Plausible. …

Micro.blog prefers that short posts do not have titles when pulling them from an RSS feed, but I like having titles when using a "normal" RSS reader, so I made a separate feed just for Micro.blog. …

I was walking by the lakeshore yesterday with a film Leica around my neck. …

Who am I kidding? …

I've added a link to individual posts for replying by email. …

Writers of fan fiction are one of the groups complaining that AI is using their work as training. …

There's quite a kerfuffle on Bluesky around the fact that they weren't preventing the creation of inappropriate usernames. …

I've been a little twitchy about sharing everything I post here over to my Micro.blog feed. …

I've had an iPad since 2010 and I've still never used one for anything other than trivial tasks. …

I've restarted my Micro.blog subscription (again). …

And speaking of Dave Rogers, he wrote a nice post, addressed to me, about blogging, and linking and using Tinderbox. …

Thanks to a heads up from Dave Rogers, I've cleaned up the RSS feed metadata and fixed the links.…

An inaugural newsletter arrived in my mailbox this morning, and while it looks to be interesting and well-done, it's just more of the same. …

I've been testing Vincent Ritter's new analytics tool, Tinylytics. …

Since replacing my Synology with an old Mac Mini, I've been meaning to clean it up and prep it for sale. …

An attribute of software that is more important to me than its open-source status is how badly I'd be chastised if I stop using it.…

This blog is built by exporting a Tinderbox document. …

I've replaced the big, aging Synology with a $100 Mac Mini (2014). …

It's a little sad, but I suspect that once Threads adds ActivityPub support and a feed for just followers, Bluesky doesn't stand a chance.…

Bear, because I don't like being forced to use tags …

When I write more in my daily notes, I don't mind them being part of baty.net so much. …

I care less and less about the "Fediverse" with each passing day. …

It's happening already. …

I've been feeling very pointy-clicky this week and not very wall-of-texty. …

I don't write. …

Normal Person: “Is there a better way to do the things I need to do?” …

If y’all were born in the 50s or 60s you’d have done things exactly the same as we did. …

Speaking of Mike Hall, He recently posted about how he’s generating a searchable, static HTML version of his Denote notes so that he can look stuff up while on his phone. …

Blot.im has been down for going on two days now. …

Mike Hall is on a roll with his Denote setup. …

I'm not even supposed to be using this blog, but two things happened: …

The thing I forget about using Tinderbox to generate this blog is that it works exactly how I wish my "real" blog worked. …

For some reason, the 2023 calendar icons for June are missing. …

One concern I have with using Tinderbox for blogging is that export times are already becoming noticeably longer. …

I still don't enjoy posting my daily notes over on Baty.net's WordPress blog. …

Pssst, I don't enjoy posting my daily notes over at baty.net. …

👉 Let's try journaling at Baty.net/journal for a while, shall we? …

Some days I wonder if I'm reaching that age where the world is moving faster than I am willing to travel. …

While many wring their hands and whine about the failures of AI, millions are using it every day to do all sorts of useful, real-world tasks. …

If a company decides that it prefers to have people come into the office to do some or most of their work, that is a reasonable decision to make. …

Baty.net: Back to Org-roam …

It seems as if everyone is either wildly desperate for AI to succeed or absolutely convinced it will fail. …

I know, I'll run about a dozen queries in ChatGPT and then write about my wide-ranging, conclusive proof of whatever I wanted to be true about it in the first place.…

…

Baty.net: Renumbering my index cards …

I have anxiety around watching people who might suddenly embarrass themselves in front of a crowd, so I am unable to watch awards shows. …

I came this close to moving this blog back to Eleventy. …

Looks like Gowalla is back. …

…

Baty.net: Roll-103 (Leica MP/HP5)…

A boring photograph shot on film is less boring. …

Sometimes I'm reading the Tinderbox forums and just have to stop and marvel at how ridiculously clever it can be. …

I like rubber bands, push pins, paper clips, and pencils and paper. …

Our walk this morning was through 4-6" of fresh snow. …

A roll of 35mm film is in the scanner. …

What if I just automatically add a default title to each post using the current time? …

I used to find Kevin Kelly's relentless optimism to be refreshing. …

I've written 3 daily notes today, on three different blogs. …

I have Tinderbox configured so that each individual entry here is a new node, where the text becomes the post. …

I came close today, once again, to moving this blog back to either Drummer or Eleventy. …

I am working toward spending more time offline than on. …

I'm enjoying one of those days during which I try to decide, once and for all, whether I will be using Denote or Org-roam for my notes. …

I don't know how to limit the things I pay attention to. …

Baty.net: An Arc browser boost for a better Twitter experience …

Hard rain mixed with snow during my 3:45 am walk with Alice this morning. …

Increasingly, I find that spending time online has a diminishing, corrosive effect on my psyche. …

I continue to struggle with deciding what to post here and what to post over on the main blog. …

…

I just want to do the things I'm interested in the way I want to do them. …

Baty.net: A fix for backlink display with Org-roam and Doom Emacs…

…

I'm still undecided between Tinderbox and Eleventy for this blog. …

 …

Thank god everyone has an uninformed opinion about AI that they just can't wait to publish.…

I don't read descriptions, I just look at the photos on Amazon and press "Buy Now". …

I was watching a Nick Cave documentary last night. …

I've removed the (Plausible.io) analytics script from this site. …

I've added a little icon to the navigation which links to my Mastodon profile, like this:

I remain firmly in the camp that thinks SPAs and React were a bad idea: The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era…

baty.net is back on WordPress and I don't want to talk about it. …

I wrote in my other blog this morning: …

Here we go again. …

Refusing a phone call because, "It's so rude!" …

You may have noticed that I stopped managing my daily notes blog using Tinderbox because I was first re-living my time with Drummer and then learning to use Eleventy. …

I'm most impressed by the people I've never heard of.…

Forgive me, but I'm going to try doing this daily blogging thing over at my Drummer blog for a minute. http://oldschool.scripting.com/jackbaty/ …

I didn't realize that screen readers struggle when hashtags are written all lowercase. …

Dave's blogging tool, Drummer, will be affected by Twitter's pending (free) API shutdown. …

I see that I was a little crabby yesterday. …

I say we start publicly shaming anyone driving a giant-ass truck or SUV that isn't either hauling a load of lumber, pulling a boat, or transporting 6 kids somewhere.…

I swear if I see one more post explaining why Mastodon isn't Twitter and "That's OK!…

Dockhunt looks cool, but it forces Twitter access so I can't use it. …

I was grumbling to myself this morning about how I don't enjoy working in WordPress. …

I'm tired of software. …

I have got to do something other than putz around with Emacs today. …

Aha! …

I'm happy that I've moved my websites where they belong, but I still haven't solved the problem of Too Many Blogs. …

As hinted at yesterday, I've moved this blog from baty.blog to daily.baty.net. …

I've been wondering if using the domain baty.blog for this website is a little misleading. …

The thing I see in AI-generated artwork is the "Artificial" part. …

Compare Tinderbox's author Mark Bernstein's ideas, experience, and history with, for example, some of the #RoamCult folks and it should help determine which tool to invest your time with. …

I have a subscription for both Micro.blog and Masto.host. …

I've noticed that my Mastodon feed has become more caustic recently. …

I have three Leica M cameras and yet I hardly ever leave the house. …

I was all excited about using my Blot blog for "typecast" (scanned, typewritten pages) posts, but I realized that there's no way to do that and also include alt/text for accessibility and that feels wrong.…

If "blocks" are the future of the way we experience editing text, you can keep your stupid future.…

I would like some form of AI browser extension that filters my social media feeds and removes every post that's bitching about something.…

Everything is now about short-term gains and we're all suffering, or will soon be suffering, because of it.…

I've decided to include most of the individual posts here in the allposts.xml RSS feed. …

I'm starting to think that showing off our over-stuffed boxes of index cards isn't any better than people sharing their over-linked bubble graphs from Obsidian.…

I should learn to create WordPress themes. …

I often think about selling, say, the Leica MP and buying 100 books of photographs with the money. …

Why is every YouTube video either too long or too short? …

Some days I feel like writing everything where lots of people will see it. …

I can feel the sharing pendulum swinging rapidly back toward under-sharing. …

After a number of false starts, I went ahead and moved my Mastodon presence to my own instance at baty.social. …

I don't know if anyone else feels this, but I just grabbed a Map view of my blog posts here in Tinderbox and this is what it looked like with no input from me at all. …

I wrote a post about my Evernote 2023 Experiment. …

I don't need to read more. …

I thought I could move the things I post here over to my microblog instead, but I'm finding that I still want to post things publicly that aren't automatically shared on anyone's feed (RSS notwithstanding). …

Last night I dreamt that I was giving a presentation in a large auditorium. …

I'm pretty good at using Tinderbox, so I made this blog with it. …

I'm in another one of those moods in which I am nearly catatonic over where to put things, and what to put them there with. …

The thing that most improved my enjoyment of shooting/developing/printing film was to stop worrying about the details. …

I was considering a move of this blog's domain from baty.blog to daily.baty.net (which means it would replace the Hugo-based blog already there). …

I have yet to muster any interest in AI-generated artwork. …

I've been reading a lot of online articles recently about all sorts of different topics. …

I'm doing this again: My new note-taking system: Don’t take notes.…

I happily blurt out whatever I'm thinking about here. …

I keep trying various ways of microblogging. …

I saw that masto.host was once again offering new instances, so I signed up for one. …

Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium | Hazel Weakly Good lord, it’s no wonder I hated hosting my own instance, and I didn’t even need to worry about scaling yet.…

I don’t know what’s happening, but after spending too much time yesterday figuring out some export codes in my Tinderbox-driven blog, I started wondering if it makes sense to focus on fewer tools. …

It's not just me, then: Old Man Yells at Cloud…

I know, I said I was tired of talking about taking notes, but... …

I'm so tired of talking about note-taking. …

Just for giggles, I've added calendar icons for each day's post. …

After recently being absolutely certain I was going to be using Lightroom Classic from now on, I deleted Capture One Pro from my Mac. …

You know, maybe instead of spending all day dicking around with my photo library, I should go out and take more photos.…

I've decided that I hate camera straps and so I'm going to start carrying a bag with strapless cameras instead. …

I spent a lot of time yesterday tweaking the way I use Emacs and Org-mode because of course I did. …

This is how every photo ends up when someone has too much time and a copy of Photoshop. …

I've noticed that the most significant disadvantage of digital note-taking tools is that I'm continuously playing with my notes rather than using them. …

I notice that I've been posting photos based on the roll number. …

I'm not sure how I feel about this future of ours in which most of what we do involves teaching machines to do things for us. …

Many criticisms of AI complain that "AI doesn't know how to handle words that mean more than one thing" or "It's wrong about this specific topic I'm an expert in." …

Whenever I spend time using paper for doing something useful, my brain feels better.…

I would recap all of my "most popular" content from 2022 but no one needs to go through all that again.…

I'm having a bit of a "losing my religion" moment around shooting film. …

I've deleted Capture One Pro from my machine. …

It's a new year. …

If you write why you loved a book on a hand-written card beneath the book on a shelf in your bookstore I will buy that book.…

Can you imagine the luxury of not having any idea what's going on? …

I'm typing this in Tinderbox, one of my favorite apps. …

I spent yesterday in Obsidian again. …

I'm trying to run a Time Machine backup but my new hard drive randomly unmounts itself. …

The only time I use the word "tonality" is while looking at photos made with a 4x5 film camera. …

Reducing the number of apps I use regularly is a good plan. …

Nearly every day I have thoughts about switching to Linux. …

I'm pretty bad at writing. …

I spent a few days posting my little quips and quotes on a self-hosted GoToSocial instance, thinking it could replace this blog. …

Do I need this .blog? …

I have no control over my own attention.…

I've been thinking about whether I should change my "official" fediverse address to @jack@social.baty.net. …

I'm frustrated with film photography. …

It's happening! …

I don't find it funny or otherwise amusing watching what's happening with/to/on Twitter. …

I've been tweaking things in the theme I'm using on baty.net and it's getting to a point where I don't hate it. …

He's a petulant child. …

Digital notes are more efficient to search, faster to write, and simpler to correct and distribute. …

I spent a lot of time yesterday futzing with my various blogs. …

My Raycast Stats for past year: …

Crap, I've been chatting with Alex this morning about blogs, tooling, curiosity, etc. and now I want to bring back my Hugo blog.…

Halfway through the NYT's "‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes" I forgot I wasn't reading an Onion article.…

Over the past few months, I've blogged using TiddlyWiki, Tinderbox, Hugo, Ghost, and WordPress. …

Up at 3:30 am with Alice. …

I have nothing useful to say about ChatGPT, DALL-E, or other AI tools.…

Eastgate has released a nice update to Tinderbox. …

I think my mood this morning could best be described by the word "melancholy". …

I love MailMate, I really do. …

The word "toxic" is overused…

The best way to handle organizing my digital archives is to not save so much stuff in the first place.…

A few months ago, someone wrote me and asked if I would link from one of my blog posts to one of their articles. …

Most of the things I write here are simple one or two-sentence posts that could more easily be posted to Mastodon or Micro.blog or whatever. …

My god, can you imagine the number of hours people are wasting on Obsidian's new Canvas thing?…

Remember that time I promised myself I wouldn't change the platform behind baty.net ever again? …

I was admitted to the Readwise Reader beta this morning. …

Yesterday I was a little grumpy, sorry. …

For the record, and this will not make me many friends, but I agree with Basecamp's decision a year ago to ban political discourse at work. …

Post: The return of my "Pipe Guy" avatar…

90% of the internet could run happily with Caddy reverse proxying to a Go binary that uses SQLite for storage. …

The best part about a site like this one is that it's "anti-social media". …

So this site is kind of a microblog, right? …

One nice side effect of not following every trail of outrage I see on social media is that now maybe I'll be able to order a Raspberry Pi and get it in a reasonable amount of time.…

I may be the only one left, but I hate that I have to use Docker for things that absolutely shouldn't require that entire goddamned stack. …

I've moved baty.net back to WordPress. …

Once every year, around this time, I open a Tinderbox document and find that my license has expired. …

I'm not sure why I'm still posting here. …

“Intellectual Honesty” is too often a cover for cruelty.…

Am I really so creatively barren that I can’t even think of interesting AI prompts?…

I know, I've posted the same stuff here today as I have on baty.net. …

I’m a latecomer to AI, but I just had my first real AI revelation moment while using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. …

I’m giving up on scanning film with a digital camera. …

There are times I grow weary of using Emacs (and any plain text) and start looking at prettier, pointy-clickier alternatives. …

I'm having one of those days where I want to burn my whole process to the ground and start over. …

Markdown is great for people who can't stick with a single editor.…

Sorry it's been quiet here. …

Can you imagine how good I'd be at the old things if I would stop constantly moving to the new things?…

I'm feeling rather pointy-clicky today. …

Do you ever tire of things breaking for no obvious reason and then having to debug them for hours? …

If I'm going to only have one blog, which should it be? …

I continue struggling with the decision between keeping separate blogs or putting everything in one place. …

I have thousands of saved PDFs and web pages in my DEVONthink "Library" database and I never look at or use any of them. …

I'm in that mood again where I want to use as few apps as possible to run things around here. …

I have mixed feelings about all the gatekeeping going on by Mastodon "old-timers". …

I'm using Tinderbox to generate this website, so RSS feeds are not a gimme. …

When I grow frustrated with indecision around my note-taking process, I seek refuge in paper notebooks. …

I keep trying to enjoy using Obsidian, but I still don't like using Obsidian. …

It's Thursday, November 17, 2022, and I still have too many blogs.…

"Blanding": Why everything looks the same…

I would be tempted to use Obsidian Publish but at $20/month I feel it's wildly over-priced.…

I've been a fan and proponent of NASA since I was a kid. …

Well, here we go again, I guess. …

I hope this will be my one and only comment around recent developments at Twitter …

I don't know how much more I can take from Leica people. …

Alice has always been an early riser. …

I had intended to try and avoid being distracted from my goal of printing every missing contact sheet. …

I have decided I am going to go back through my film archives and print all missing contact sheets. …

I killed my Mastodon instance. …

I recently moved baty.net to a nicer, well-maintained Hugo theme (Congo). …

The race for "Main Blog" is neck and neck between baty.blog and baty.net. …

I was glad to see Hookmark is now included with my SetApp subscription. …

I'm feeling rather pointy-clicky today. …

It's mid-term election day and I would be lying if I didn't say I was mildly terrified. …

Mondays are for thinking about how I'm going to improve the situation for myself, family, and friends. …

Paul's dipping his feet in Mastodon. @ftrain@tilde.zone. …

Will AI relieve us of the necessity to curate our digital stuff? …

I'm coming to you from Tinderbox today, still, and somewhat surprisingly. …

Good morning. …

Markdown may be better supported, but Org-mode is simply better.…

I don't know if what's happening with Twitter and on Mastodon will be some sort of tipping point, but it feels real this time. …

I sometimes wish that I didn't have enough time to post here so much. …

I experience a small glitch when rendering the site this morning after installing the latest Tinderbox beta. …

Just when I thought I had settled on platforms and themes and content for my blog, I've somehow managed to end up once again fractured and confused.…

I quite like how this Tinderbox-generated blog works. …

I was tinkering with 2 of my Hugo-based blogs this afternoon and loving it. …

I once again have accumulated too many blogs. …

I am enjoying the process of running this blog using Tinderbox, but I worry about it not being portable. …

Back in the early 1990s I started a BBS. …

Can you imagine how fun it would be to suddenly discover some unknown photo album with all the photos you'd never taken but should have? …

Good morning. …

The best way to lose something is to first over-think where to put it.…

I believe web development has become mired in such complexity as to render it untenable. …

I was trying to find some information about my favorite new browser and clicked a link to an article that looked like this... …

Using Tana can feel like data entry, and that's not how I want to write or take notes.…

I keep wondering if I've missed yet another boat with AI and ML. …

This is fun. …

I'm pretty much done thinking about "tools for thought". …

I wish every app wasn't trying to be a fully-formed todo app. …

I find it rather easy to not use TikTok.…

When faced with the choice between Obsidian and Logseq, I always seem to choose Emacs.…

I'm very tempted to not admit this, but I have this weird feeling that I'm more likely to use Twitter post-Musk than pre-Musk. …

This makes me want to spend the weekend with my iPad …

I'm seeing lots of long-time Mastodon users trying to "guide" recent Twitter refugees on the proper way to use Mastodon. …

The drama around Twitter only matters for people who care about the drama around Twitter. …

I have decided that I am going to give Obsidian a bit more time. …

But what about Tana? …

My experiment with Obsidian has been more successful than expected. …

Some days I want to just withdraw from every online service, subscription, and community. …

10 rolls of HP5 from B&H runs nearly $100. …

Development of the amazing Curio app began Twenty years ago. …

I'm happy to be blogging again using Tinderbox. …

I've added the ability to include a "featured" image at the top of each daily container. …

Good morning. …

So I guess every movie from now on has to be either a horror movie or "based on the graphic novel..."?…

I'm indexing my test Obsidian vault in DEVONthink. …

I've always like working in Tinderbox, because it can be anything. …

It looks like I'm fighting a small Tinderbox bug in the most recent beta. …

I don't want another blog, but I seem have one anyway. …

His name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes? …

I believe that Tana is the next evolutionary jump in the world of note-taking tools. …

Good morning. …

Wow. …

Tinderbox is such a deep, rich, powerful bit of software. …

I've been testing the hot new Tana app for the past week, and I'm exhausted. …

And speaking of "writing where you like to write", I like to write just about everywhere, depending on my mood. …

WordPress is fine. …

Good morning. …

I wrote a little about plain text files …

I keep telling myself I'm never again going to change the domain name on an establishes website. …

I'm still thinking about this. …

I canceled my Micro.blog subscription today. …

Good morning. …

Part me still wants to be here. …

Good morning. …

Hi there. …

My wife asked me if I was getting bored with not working. …

👋 …

I recently wondered How long before I am back in Emacs. …

It's so prevalent that it mostly goes unnoticed, but the entire internet is a cacophony of people and companies yelling, "Please engage with me!"…

Wireless things always stop working eventually.…

What do I get in return for all the time and thought I put into taking notes? …

It's 4:15 am and I'm pretty sure I'm not getting enough sleep.…

I'm learning that I avoid anything that requires a significant amount of rigor. …

I am surrounded by creative vehicles: Cameras, film, paint supplies, drawing tools, notebooks, pens, a darkroom, typewriters, and so on. …

I recently (accidentally) spit on my SL2-S's sensor while trying to blow some dust off it. …

What would I do with my time if I only allowed myself two hours at the computer each day? …

After spending a week getting this Tinderbox-generated blog configured just so, I started tinkering with Emacs and ox-hugo again yesterday. …

Good morning. …

A frequent mistake we make is to believe that we can know the intentions of others.…

This is how I like software to be built: …

Yesterday, I canceled my Readwise subscription because, although it's cool, I wasn't getting much tangible value from it. …

Good morning, we're halfway through January already. …

Paul Ford continues to write wonderful things that I love. …

You know that pretty much anyone can get a Substack, right?…

I would like pricing pressure for software to go up, but for subscriptions to go down. …

Suffering a serious bout of Subscription Fatigue today, so I decided to cancel all non-critical subscriptions. …

DHH is off the rails and, in his latest, reveals with his "both sides" argument that he doesn't understand science either. …

After Reviewing my current blogging options, I've gone with "B", with a twist. …

I'm already not digging my crosspost-everything-to-copingmechanism idea. …

Occasionally, the internet becomes littered with some latest fad, meme, or topic. …

I've tweaked the design here just a little. …

Early last November, in Welcome back, I guess, I wrote this: …

I wonder how long it'll be before I'm back to daily blogging with Hugo and Emacs. …

Hi there. …

Each month I look forward to Khoi Vinh's summary of movies he watched the previous month. …

I wish more people blogged like me. …

Took my blood pressure this morning. …

Good morning. …

I see that Dave Winer has a small financial stake in Logseq. …

Ok, so after implementing my new idea of consolidating posts via RSS over at copingmechanism.com, I've decided that this blog can once again live at daily.baty.net. …

There is an ongoing conflict between my love of trying new blogging/publishing tools and the idea of having One True Blog™. …

I'm definitely experiencing Tinderbox Fatigue this morning. …

Good morning. …

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The rewind knob on my Leica MP is difficult to turn when film is loaded. …

Good morning. …

I've renewed my subscription to Micro.blog at times, so I guess that helps answer the question Should I crosspost to Micro.blog? …

I find myself missing Micro.blog at times. …

I came a hair's breadth this morning from moving this blog back to org-mode and Hugo. …

I'd never intended for the new daily notes site to live at daily.baty.net. …

Given that the spec sheet of the new Leica M11 has been leaked a week early, I thought I'd check out the Leica forums. …

I built this site's RSS feed so that it only includes the big daily posts, one per day, but that post is appended to throughout the day. …

The URLs in this site's RSS feed were broken, sorry. …

What a great post by Moxie Marlinspike. …

Over the past several years, my interest in shooting film has regularly ebbed and flowed. …

They say as you get older that you want things to stop changing (Do they say that?) …

I made some structural and content changes here this morning; …

TL;DR: I'm back to a combination of Capture One Pro and Photo Mechanic Plus, with a dash of Apple Photos. …

Good morning, it's 5:00 am and I'm freezing my nads off. …

Wordle is stupid. …

I get bored...…

Damn you 750 Words for importing my old content into the new site. …

Yesterday, at about this time, I said that I wanted to move my photo editing back to Capture One Pro. I later spent a few hours doing just that. …

Good morning, it's 5:45 am. …

I feel it's time for me to stop talking about social media. …

I'm trying to improve my use of lighting. …

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Good morning. …

I see Phil having similar thoughts as me around mobile access to Mac-only information. …

I use a 32-inch monitor on my desk at home and I love it. …

If the solution you've chosen isn't boring you've probably chosen the wrong thing.…

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I have been trying a meditation practice using Sam Harris' "Waking Up" course. …

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I have nearly 100,000 photos in Adobe Lightroom (Classic). …

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I've updated the Movies listing to use a table rather than a list based on each note's $DisplayExpression. …

Good morning. …

Whatever I end up doing next, It's not going to be what Eric Floberg is making excellent fun of in this video: …

I took a photo of the dog against a bright background using the Leica SL2-S with the Sigma 24-70 f/2.8. …

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I bought my first Hobonichi Techo in 2013, and I've used one every year since. …

Publishing this blog using Tinderbox is certainly complex, but is it also too complicated? …

Good morning. …

Nifty File Lists looks like it could be handy, especially in a Tinderbox context.…

I made a few small changes around here this morning: Don't include partial image paths in templates, Added link to Movie template, and Replaced header background image with primary theme color.…

When I think about diving back into the workforce I try to remember that quote.…

Good morning. …

I bought my first Leica, an M6 TTL in 2004. …

While looking up information for creating My Leica Camera Timeline, I ended up in a bunch of old Tinderbox documents, dating back to 2008. …

I prefer creating content in Ghost to WordPress. …

2021 was a year of personal exploration that didn't really end up going anywhere. …

I'm reviewing my lens situation. …

I hate the fact that I still have two (active) blogs. …

Note: This was originally posted over at copingmechanism.com but I thought it belonged here instead. …

Good morning. …

Tinderbox is an expensive piece of software, no doubt. …

I'm rebuilding my Tinderbox "Dashboard" for the new year. …

Tinderbox has a feature that watches a folder in the Finder, Apple Notes, DEVONthink, and even Tot. …

I think I've fixed the RSS feed's date. …

I have a top-level Agent in my Tinderbox daybook named "Today". …

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Year: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 99% …

It's weird how much I avoid clicking the "New Post" button in WordPress, yet I love just hitting Return and adding to the outline here. …

I've used some version of Leica M camera since 2004. …

I wrote up how I'm logging my weight in Tinderbox. …

Looking over at copingmechanism.com, it's obvious I still have two blogs. …

Good morning. …

This sure is a comfy way to write.…

I didn't think I'd want to install DEVONthink on my new Mac. …

I continue to feel that perhaps the Leica M10-R is not the right camera for the way I take photos. …

It snowed overnight, so I finally got to use my new snowblower. …

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I want only one blog. …

At times, I feel embarrassed about sitting here and writing for so long every day. …

I sometimes attend an event and take deliberate photos with a serious camera. …

Tinderbox does this cool thing in outlines where the icon changes based on the age and size of each note. …

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This week started out with the intention of building a Rails app, but ended with the creation of an entirely new Tinderbox Daybook and blogging system. …

Bringing the little Polaroid today.…

I've added a ChangeLog to record structural changes I'm making here.…

I'm still working through the differences between this site and the blog at baty.blog. …

I learned about a new note-taking app, /tap, so of course I gave it a spin. /tap is about creating short, "smart" notes. …

Good morning. …

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Woah. …

I love this image so much. …

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If you're reading this, the site is now managed using my Tinderbox Daybook document and rendered to static files hosted on my Digital Ocean instance. …

Good morning, it's 4:26 am. …

This looks worth a look: https://www.tatatap.com …

Do cars get any cooler than this? …

Funny that Alex mentions Tinderbox, since I’ve been keeping up with my Tinderbox Daybook for a week or so. …

I'm still feeling guilty about buying the M10-R. …

We lost Chris Locke this week. …

For someone who’s recently claimed that “owning” and managing music was no longer interesting, I’m sure spending a lot of time today editing metadata of my local library in Roon.…

I’m still planning to spend at least a few hours each day this week on my little Rails project. …

Alex reminded me about this blog, so I just had to open Tinderbox and play with it. …

There are several ways to approach images in ox-hugo. …

I was all over rebuilding this blog yesterday. …

Have you ever been to a bookstore? …

I've been thinking a lot lately about getting a Leica M10 Monochrom. …

I have been avoiding news sites, mostly successfully, for a while now. …

Adding social or collaborative features to an app invariably makes that app worse. …

I've been writing in my wiki at rudimentarylathe.wiki for over three years. …

Phil asks: …

And what if it worked the same way? …

I've been mentally hedging my bets around Drummer and wondering how difficult it would be to morph this Tinderbox-generated blog into something much more Drummer like. …

If I want a "Featured Image" on a post here, I just paste the URL in the "Image" attribute of the post and the template puts it where it belongs. …

For years, I'd tell you that typing in a native Mac app is by far the best way to write anything. …

I'd long ago abandoned notes.baty.net as a place for this Tinderbox-rendered blog. …

One thing that attracted me to Cloudflare Pages for static site hosting is they offer built-in traffic analytics. …

If I'm being honest, I'll admit that this is just an excuse to play with some old toys and experiment with new ones. …

My interest in blogging varies with my mood. …