Post: WeatherAPI.com (September 26, 2023) I wrote a shell script for getting the weather forecast via weatherapi.com: Grab the weather forecast using weatherapi.com…
SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE ai IS NULL (September 25, 2023) 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.…
Always on is off (September 25, 2023) I gave it a couple days, but I've decided I don't like the "Always On" display on my new iPhone. …
A couple days up north (September 24, 2023) I'm near Grayling, MI helping a friend store his boat and take out the dock.. …
New phone, who dis? (September 23, 2023) 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 lost some edits (September 22, 2023) I have a history of waffling between using Lightroom Classic and Capture One for editing my RAW photos. …
Post: notmuch and rss2email (September 19, 2023) Post: RSS feeds as emails using Notmuch and rss2email (baty.blog and reposted to rudimentarylathe.org)…
Messing with email (September 19, 2023) I've spent too much time farting around with my notmuch config. …
Denote Journal Extras (September 18, 2023) 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: Easy Mode (September 18, 2023) Post: It's about what "easy" actually means: I'm in Easy Mode
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Paul Christy on Obsidian vs Tinderbox (September 16, 2023) [Paul Christy on Obsidian vs Tinderbox](https://forum.eastgate.com/t/obsidian-launches-properties/6962/4)
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daily.baty.net as a hub (September 16, 2023) I keep posting to multiple places and I can't seem to stop. …
Forklift 4 (September 16, 2023) I use Forklift all day on my Mac. …
Baty.blog (September 15, 2023) I posted to my old Blot blog for no particular reason today. …
Files first or notes first? (September 15, 2023) My struggle with organizing my notes stems from the forced decision to use a file-first or note-first process. …
The Power Broker (September 14, 2023) This book is meant to be placed strategically but casually behind me during Zoom calls. …
Mosaic Foods (September 14, 2023) After a year of Hello Fresh, and before that HomeChef and before that Blue Apron, I'm trying Mosaic Foods. …
Toilets (September 13, 2023) I fixed two toilets today. …
Leave it (September 11, 2023) My goal in life is to decide where something goes and then leave it there.…
Accidental JPGs (September 11, 2023) I had set the Q2 to shoot JPG for some other thing and forgot about it while wandering around by the lake this weekend. …
TypeScraps (September 10, 2023) Apparently I'm the only person without very strong and barely-articulated-but-shouted-loudly opinions about TypeScript.…
Google Looker (September 7, 2023) 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. …
Back to Raycast (September 6, 2023) My experiment with going back to Alfred from (Raycast) lasted less than a week. …
WordPress hosting (September 6, 2023) I spent far too long this morning farting around trying (and failing) to get the Imagick module working on my DigitalOcean WordPress droplet. …
Blog analytics (September 4, 2023) 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." …
Whining about Dog Parks (September 4, 2023) Someone had a bad experience at a dog park so now all dog parks are Bad™.
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Never mind the theme thing (September 3, 2023) So, remember how I liked the Twenty Twelve theme on rudimentarylathe.org? …
Ugly is a feature on the lathe (September 3, 2023) 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.…
Terminal (September 3, 2023) I've been using the default Terminal app on my Mac rather than Kitty or iTerm. …
SL2 Withdrawn (September 2, 2023) After a week of no reasonable offers for the Leica SL2, I've withdrawn it from sale. …
Obsidian Publish (September 2, 2023) I'm playing with Obsidian Publish as a way to publish random notes. …
Supermoon (August 31, 2023) The Super Blue Moon this morning was the brightest I've ever seen. …
Less is more (August 30, 2023) It's interesting how many people buy new devices in "an effort to use my devices less." …
Twitter (August 30, 2023) I haven't visited Twitter in more than a month and I can feel it fading into oblivion, at least for me. …
Gutenberg (August 30, 2023) I thought for sure that I would avoid using the WordPress editor at all costs over at rudimentarylathe.org. …
Spark Email (August 30, 2023) I spent a week using Spark Email instead of Mail.app or Emacs. …
Apple Watch (August 29, 2023) I haven't worn my Apple Watch in weeks and I don't miss it as much as expected. …
M11 and JPG (August 29, 2023) 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. …
Needing an iPad Pro (August 29, 2023) I have an iPad Pro setup that I almost never use.
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Indiana Jones (August 28, 2023) My dad and I really enjoyed "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny". …
Ruined film (August 27, 2023) 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/…
Blogging like it's twenty twelve (August 27, 2023) I felt like playing with WordPress but didn't want to deal with any content migration so I set one up at rudimentarylathe.org. …
FOSS (August 26, 2023) Good Lord sometimes the FOSS crowd are more annoying the Big Corporate Whatever. https://tenforward.social/@guinan/110935624452199123
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AI Cover Letter (August 24, 2023) 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. …
Reboot (August 24, 2023) I woke up this morning feeling like wiping my mac and starting everything completely from scratch and not installing or configuring /anything/. …
Spark Email (August 24, 2023) Dangit, Spark Email was just added to SetApp so now I feel like I should try it. …
Engagement (August 24, 2023) Polls on social media are nothing more than an engagement tactic. …
Atoms (August 23, 2023) The older I get, the more I prefer to move actual atoms around instead.…
Supposed to be doing stuff (August 23, 2023) I spent time this morning blockout out and scheduling my whole day and so far I've done almost none of them. …
Goodbye Carrot, Hello Weather (August 22, 2023) After several years, I canceled my subscription to Carrot Weather. …
Remote? Nope (August 21, 2023) Here's a take: Some people should absolutely be required to work in the office rather than remotely.…
Dictating my feelings (August 21, 2023) Do I really need to read blogs, watch YouTube videos, or sift through reviews in order to know how I feel about something?…
Magentaville (August 18, 2023) I just started scanning a very expired roll of Kodak Gold 400 and I can already see we're headed straight to Magentaville.…
The Leica Q2 (again) (August 16, 2023) I gave up waiting for a Fuji X100V to show up in stock so I bought a used Leica Q2. …
Quote: Failures of Kindness (August 15, 2023) I moved this to a more prominent place on my bulletin board because me too, George.…
Mu4e is broken (August 15, 2023) Suddenly (well, after a package update), Mu4e has stopped working. "error in process sentinel: mu server process ended with exit code 1". …
Roam Research (August 14, 2023) Gosh, remember the heady days of using Roam Research for notes? …
Lamy 2000 (August 13, 2023) I love everything about the Lamy 2000 fountain pen, except actually writing with it. …
Static? (August 13, 2023) I sat down at the computer this morning thinking about setting up a WordPress blog again. …
NONS Instax back for Hasselblad (August 11, 2023) I think I'd like to try one of these: NONS Camera Releases Instant Back for Hasselblad using Fujifilm Instax Square Film.…
Heroes (August 11, 2023) My heroes used to be guys like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. …
Remote (August 11, 2023) I understand both sides of the work-from-home debate, and there are two sides, but I hate the debate. …
Almost interesting (August 11, 2023) I thought of something interesting to write about while walking with Alice this morning, but I've forgotten what it was. …
Tangible day (August 8, 2023) Today strikes me as a Tangible Things kind of day. …
Should (August 8, 2023) There are many things I should be doing right now. …
Excuses (August 6, 2023) I wonder how many blog posts about, "Why I quit using [thing]..." are actually (subconscious?) …
Sleepy gator (August 6, 2023) 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.…
Oh Emacs (August 6, 2023) I spent two hours this morning farting around in Emacs fixing Mu4e, tweaking Elfeed, and debugging more crashes. …
Too Wes Anderson (August 5, 2023) I've seen lots of comments about Wes Anderson becoming "too Wes Anderson". …
Posting to WordPress from Tinderbox (August 5, 2023) 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…
Peak Design 6L Sling (August 4, 2023) This new Peak Design 6L Everyday Sling replaces my older 5L version. …
TiddlyPWA (August 1, 2023) Well now, this looks interesting.
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I want a new camera (July 31, 2023) I have more and better cameras than I could possibly need. …
iPhone Photography Awards (July 31, 2023) The 2023 iPhone Photography Award winners continue to demonstrate that you don't need anything fancy to make great photographs. …
More on syndicating posts (July 31, 2023) 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.
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Fewer of these posts will be included in RSS (July 30, 2023) 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's in a mood (July 30, 2023) Dave Rogers is in a mood: Things I’m Too Old to Deal With.…
Digital fatigue (July 29, 2023) Speaking of fatigue, I'm wondering if maybe this is all a symptom of some kind of overarching "Digital Fatigue". …
Hugo fatigue (July 29, 2023) 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. …
Use what you have (July 29, 2023) I have this posted above my desk. …
Product Manager of Me (July 29, 2023) 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. …
Obsidian Properties (July 28, 2023) I see that Obsidian is adding Properties. …
Talking about social media (July 27, 2023) There's a thread going on over on Micro.blog that I have thoughts on. …
A bad Emacs hair day (July 27, 2023) A few weeks ago I ditched my Doom Emacs config and built my own from scratch. …
New Ember mug (July 27, 2023) My original Ember mug died last year and I've been dragging my feet on paying for another one. …
Arc Browser 1.0 (July 25, 2023) I see that Arc went 1.0 today and there's no longer a waitlist. …
My focus dummy is cooler than me (July 23, 2023) I shouldn't use a focus/lighting dummy that is more handsome than me, as is the case with Handsome Squidward here.
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Day One subscription ending (July 23, 2023) After a dozen years, I'm letting go of my Day One subscription. …
Changing Emacs key bindings is not trivial (July 22, 2023) 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 boring (July 21, 2023) AI-generated art is a neat trick but it bores the shit out of me. …
Talking about notes (July 19, 2023) I'm really tired of talking about my notes and my process surrounding them. …
Tinderbox blogging is fun (July 19, 2023) I'm quite happy with using Tinderbox for publishing these Daily Notes. …
Git is there just in case but I never use it (July 18, 2023) 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. …
Going Donald Knuth (July 18, 2023) Some days I'm tempted to go full-on Donald Knuth, but with social media rather than email:
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Judging an app based on Youtube content (July 18, 2023) I've noticed that my affinity for a piece of software can be predicted based on the Youtube content about it. …
Kudos (July 17, 2023) I've decided to use Vincent Ritter's Tinylytics for stats on the Daily Notes blog, replacing Plausible. …
Micro.blog and titles (July 16, 2023) 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. …
Nice camera, is it an MP? (July 16, 2023) I was walking by the lakeshore yesterday with a film Leica around my neck. …
AI and Fan Fiction (July 16, 2023) Writers of fan fiction are one of the groups complaining that AI is using their work as training. …
Bluesky community is unreasonable (July 15, 2023) There's quite a kerfuffle on Bluesky around the fact that they weren't preventing the creation of inappropriate usernames. …
An option for the RSS feed (July 15, 2023) I've been a little twitchy about sharing everything I post here over to my Micro.blog feed. …
Micro.blog at times (July 14, 2023) I've restarted my Micro.blog subscription (again). …
Speaking of Dave (July 14, 2023) And speaking of Dave Rogers, he wrote a nice post, addressed to me, about blogging, and linking and using Tinderbox. …
A fix for the daily RSS feed (July 14, 2023) Thanks to a heads up from Dave Rogers, I've cleaned up the RSS feed metadata and fixed the links.…
More of the same (July 14, 2023) 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. …
Tinylytics (July 13, 2023) I've been testing Vincent Ritter's new analytics tool, Tinylytics. …
I accidentally plugged in the Synology (July 13, 2023) Since replacing my Synology with an old Mac Mini, I've been meaning to clean it up and prep it for sale. …
Don't chastise me for my software choices (July 13, 2023) 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.…
Synology -> Mac Mini (July 12, 2023) I've replaced the big, aging Synology with a $100 Mac Mini (2014). …
Goodbye Bluesky (July 12, 2023) 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.…
Complexity (June 15, 2023) Normal Person: “Is there a better way to do the things I need to do?”
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I'll Boomer you, young'n (June 14, 2023) If y’all were born in the 50s or 60s you’d have done things exactly the same as we did. …
Even more Mike Hall tweaks (June 14, 2023) 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 is still down (June 14, 2023) Blot.im has been down for going on two days now. …
Why are we even here today? (June 13, 2023) I'm not even supposed to be using this blog, but two things happened:
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The thing about this Tinderbox blog (June 13, 2023) The thing I forget about using Tinderbox to generate this blog is that it works exactly how I wish my "real" blog worked. …
Icons are missing (June 13, 2023) For some reason, the 2023 calendar icons for June are missing. …
Tinderbox exports (March 23, 2023) One concern I have with using Tinderbox for blogging is that export times are already becoming noticeably longer. …
4:54 am (March 21, 2023) Pssst, I don't enjoy posting my daily notes over at baty.net. …
Baty.net/journal (March 17, 2023) 👉 Let's try journaling at Baty.net/journal for a while, shall we? …
Keeping up (March 17, 2023) Some days I wonder if I'm reaching that age where the world is moving faster than I am willing to travel. …
The quiet victory of AI (March 16, 2023) 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. …
Remote can be better but (March 16, 2023) 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. …
Needing AI to happen or not happen (March 16, 2023) It seems as if everyone is either wildly desperate for AI to succeed or absolutely convinced it will fail. …
Chatting to conclusions (March 15, 2023) 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.…
The Oscars (March 14, 2023) I have anxiety around watching people who might suddenly embarrass themselves in front of a crowd, so I am unable to watch awards shows. …
Almost back to 11ty (March 14, 2023) I came this close to moving this blog back to Eleventy. …
Make SSG-ing easy (March 13, 2023) This is what happens when you choose to use an SSG for your blog and then decide to make it "easy" to publish. …
Trying (March 13, 2023) And remember, you can't fail if you don't try!…
6:15 am (March 13, 2023) I'm just sitting here staring at my big, beautiful computer screen and wondering whether computers still make me happy.…
A sense of humor (March 12, 2023) If your only moderation rule is: "1. …
Single-user Mastodon (March 12, 2023) I'm realizing that I never think about my single-user Mastodon instance at Masto.host. …
6:06 am (but really only 5:06 am) (March 12, 2023) I went to bed late, so when I woke up and looked at my Apple Watch I was pretty excited that Alice had slept until nearly 5:00 am before begging to go for a walk. …
The Spark File (March 11, 2023) Ten years ago, Steven Johnson wrote [The Spark File](https://medium.com/the-writers-room/the-spark-file-8d6e7df7ae58), in which he describes his process for keeping track of hunches, ideas, etc. in a single text file.
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Markdown in Tinderbox (March 11, 2023) I'm experimenting with using Markdown as markup for my Tinderbox posts. …
Starting over every day (March 11, 2023) Each new day I reset everything and begin again, from scratch. …
Gowalla is back (March 10, 2023) Looks like Gowalla is back. …
Film is not boring (March 10, 2023) A boring photograph shot on film is less boring. …
Tinderbox is clever (March 10, 2023) Sometimes I'm reading the Tinderbox forums and just have to stop and marvel at how ridiculously clever it can be. …
I don't like staples (March 10, 2023) I like rubber bands, push pins, paper clips, and pencils and paper. …
4:52 am (March 10, 2023) Our walk this morning was through 4-6" of fresh snow. …
3:19 pm (March 9, 2023) A roll of 35mm film is in the scanner. …
10:04 am (March 9, 2023) What if I just automatically add a default title to each post using the current time? …
Kevin Kelly's optimism (March 9, 2023) I used to find Kevin Kelly's relentless optimism to be refreshing. …
Variations on a blog (March 9, 2023) I've written 3 daily notes today, on three different blogs. …
Titles are friction (March 9, 2023) I have Tinderbox configured so that each individual entry here is a new node, where the text becomes the post. …
Close, but still Tinderbox (March 8, 2023) I came close today, once again, to moving this blog back to either Drummer or Eleventy. …
More off than on (March 8, 2023) I am working toward spending more time offline than on. …
Org-roam and-or Denote (March 7, 2023) 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. …
Limited attention (March 7, 2023) I don't know how to limit the things I pay attention to. …
The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era (March 2, 2023) I remain firmly in the camp that thinks SPAs and React were a bad idea: The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era…
Phone calls (February 20, 2023) Refusing a phone call because, "It's so rude!" …
Fighting with Eleventy (February 19, 2023) 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've never heard of you (February 5, 2023) I'm most impressed by the people I've never heard of.…
Drummer again (February 4, 2023) 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/
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Drummer (February 3, 2023) Dave's blogging tool, Drummer, will be affected by Twitter's pending (free) API shutdown. …
Better mood today (February 3, 2023) I see that I was a little crabby yesterday. …
Truck off (February 2, 2023) 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.…
Masto-splaining (February 2, 2023) I swear if I see one more post explaining why Mastodon isn't Twitter and "That's OK!…
Dockhunt (February 2, 2023) Dockhunt looks cool, but it forces Twitter access so I can't use it. …
Ah, WordPress (February 2, 2023) I was grumbling to myself this morning about how I don't enjoy working in WordPress. …
Well crap, I still have three blogs (January 31, 2023) I'm happy that I've moved my websites where they belong, but I still haven't solved the problem of Too Many Blogs. …
daily.baty.net (January 31, 2023) As hinted at yesterday, I've moved this blog from baty.blog to daily.baty.net. …
Moving to daily.baty.net (January 30, 2023) I've been wondering if using the domain baty.blog for this website is a little misleading. …
The A in AI (January 30, 2023) The thing I see in AI-generated artwork is the "Artificial" part. …
Early Tools for Thought, Mark Bernstein (January 30, 2023) 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.
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Micro.blog vs Masto.host (January 30, 2023) I have a subscription for both Micro.blog and Masto.host. …
I'm not using my Leicas (January 28, 2023) I have three Leica M cameras and yet I hardly ever leave the house. …
Typecasting accessibility (January 28, 2023) 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.…
Blocks (January 28, 2023) If "blocks" are the future of the way we experience editing text, you can keep your stupid future.…
An AI to detect bitching (January 28, 2023) I would like some form of AI browser extension that filters my social media feeds and removes every post that's bitching about something.…
Short-term thinking (January 27, 2023) Everything is now about short-term gains and we're all suffering, or will soon be suffering, because of it.…
Change to RSS defaults (January 27, 2023) I've decided to include most of the individual posts here in the allposts.xml RSS feed. …
Showing off (January 27, 2023) 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.…
WordPress themes (January 26, 2023) I should learn to create WordPress themes. …
Camera vs Books (January 26, 2023) I often think about selling, say, the Leica MP and buying 100 books of photographs with the money. …
Some days (January 26, 2023) Some days I feel like writing everything where lots of people will see it. …
Under-sharing (January 23, 2023) I can feel the sharing pendulum swinging rapidly back toward under-sharing. …
My own instance (January 20, 2023) After a number of false starts, I went ahead and moved my Mastodon presence to my own instance at baty.social. …
Tinderbox map of blog posts (January 19, 2023) 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.
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Evernote in 2023 (January 18, 2023) I wrote a post about my Evernote 2023 Experiment. …
Speaking of blogging platforms (January 17, 2023) 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). …
A Dream about HTML (January 17, 2023) Last night I dreamt that I was giving a presentation in a large auditorium. …
I'm super confused right now (January 16, 2023) 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. …
Less fuss equals more fun (January 15, 2023) The thing that most improved my enjoyment of shooting/developing/printing film was to stop worrying about the details. …
Staying here for now (January 15, 2023) 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). …
AI Yawn (January 15, 2023) I have yet to muster any interest in AI-generated artwork. …
References don't make you smarter (January 15, 2023) I've been reading a lot of online articles recently about all sorts of different topics. …
social.baty.net (January 10, 2023) I saw that masto.host was once again offering new instances, so I signed up for one. …
Scaling Mastodon (January 10, 2023) 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.…
Fewer tools would be easier (January 10, 2023) 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. …
Old Man Yells at Cloud (January 10, 2023) It's not just me, then: Old Man Yells at Cloud…
Health logging... (January 9, 2023) I know, I said I was tired of talking about taking notes, but...
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Capture One Pro subscription (January 9, 2023) After recently being absolutely certain I was going to be using Lightroom Classic from now on, I deleted Capture One Pro from my Mac. …
Instead of tinkering with my photo library (January 8, 2023) You know, maybe instead of spending all day dicking around with my photo library, I should go out and take more photos.…
Going strapless (January 7, 2023) I've decided that I hate camera straps and so I'm going to start carrying a bag with strapless cameras instead. …
Emacs all the time (January 7, 2023) I spent a lot of time yesterday tweaking the way I use Emacs and Org-mode because of course I did. …
How every photo can end up (January 5, 2023) This is how every photo ends up when someone has too much time and a copy of Photoshop.
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Playing with notes instead of using them (January 5, 2023) 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. …
Roll-based photography (January 5, 2023) I notice that I've been posting photos based on the roll number. …
Teaching machines (January 4, 2023) 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. …
Is AI stupid? (January 3, 2023) 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." …
Paper makes me happier (January 2, 2023) Whenever I spend time using paper for doing something useful, my brain feels better.…
Recap (January 2, 2023) I would recap all of my "most popular" content from 2022 but no one needs to go through all that again.…
Not enough good photos (January 2, 2023) I'm having a bit of a "losing my religion" moment around shooting film. …
Deleted Capture One (January 2, 2023) I've deleted Capture One Pro from my machine. …
Recommending books by hand (December 30, 2022) 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.…
The joy of not knowing (December 30, 2022) Can you imagine the luxury of not having any idea what's going on? …
I love software (December 29, 2022) I'm typing this in Tinderbox, one of my favorite apps. …
I can't do only Mastodon (December 25, 2022) I spent a few days posting my little quips and quotes on a self-hosted GoToSocial instance, thinking it could replace this blog. …
Watching Twitter die (December 19, 2022) I don't find it funny or otherwise amusing watching what's happening with/to/on Twitter. …
Dialing in WordPress (December 18, 2022) 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. …
It's the pause that makes the difference (December 17, 2022) Digital notes are more efficient to search, faster to write, and simpler to correct and distribute. …
Raycast stats (December 16, 2022) My Raycast Stats for past year:
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Dammit Alex (December 16, 2022) Crap, I've been chatting with Alex this morning about blogs, tooling, curiosity, etc. and now I want to bring back my Hugo blog.…
The Luddite Club (December 15, 2022) Halfway through the NYT's "‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes" I forgot I wasn't reading an Onion article.…
Don't keep everything (December 13, 2022) The best way to handle organizing my digital archives is to not save so much stuff in the first place.…
Where did my edits go? (December 13, 2022) A few months ago, someone wrote me and asked if I would link from one of my blog posts to one of their articles. …
Why here and not Mastodon? (December 11, 2022) 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. …
Canvassing for nought (December 11, 2022) My god, can you imagine the number of hours people are wasting on Obsidian's new Canvas thing?…
Readwise Reader (December 10, 2022) I was admitted to the Readwise Reader beta this morning. …
I feel better today (December 10, 2022) Yesterday I was a little grumpy, sorry. …
DHH is almost always wrong (December 9, 2022) 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. …
Caddy to Go (December 9, 2022) 90% of the internet could run happily with Caddy reverse proxying to a Go binary that uses SQLite for storage. …
Anti-social media (December 9, 2022) The best part about a site like this one is that it's "anti-social media". …
Is this a microblog? (December 8, 2022) So this site is kind of a microblog, right? …
Head in sand (December 8, 2022) 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'm not using Docker (December 8, 2022) 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 always come back to Emacs (December 1, 2022) There are times I grow weary of using Emacs (and any plain text) and start looking at prettier, pointy-clickier alternatives. …
Doing the old things (November 23, 2022) Can you imagine how good I'd be at the old things if I would stop constantly moving to the new things?…
Points and clicks (November 23, 2022) I'm feeling rather pointy-clicky today. …
Weary of debugging (November 23, 2022) Do you ever tire of things breaking for no obvious reason and then having to debug them for hours? …
But which one? (November 22, 2022) If I'm going to only have one blog, which should it be? …
I still want just the one blog (November 19, 2022) I continue struggling with the decision between keeping separate blogs or putting everything in one place. …
My unused DEVONthink library (November 18, 2022) I have thousands of saved PDFs and web pages in my DEVONthink "Library" database and I never look at or use any of them. …
Seeking refuge in paper notebooks (November 17, 2022) When I grow frustrated with indecision around my note-taking process, I seek refuge in paper notebooks. …
Obsidian doesn't click with me (November 17, 2022) I keep trying to enjoy using Obsidian, but I still don't like using Obsidian. …
Too many blogs (November 17, 2022) It's Thursday, November 17, 2022, and I still have too many blogs.…
Blanding (November 16, 2022) "Blanding": Why everything looks the same…
Election day (November 8, 2022) It's mid-term election day and I would be lying if I didn't say I was mildly terrified. …
Democracy (November 7, 2022) Mondays are for thinking about how I'm going to improve the situation for myself, family, and friends. …
Mastodon tipping point (November 6, 2022) 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. …
@ftrain@tilde.zone (November 6, 2022) Paul's dipping his feet in Mastodon. @ftrain@tilde.zone.
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AI and Curation (November 5, 2022) Will AI relieve us of the necessity to curate our digital stuff? …
Markdown and Org-mode (November 5, 2022) Markdown may be better supported, but Org-mode is simply better.…
Too much time (November 4, 2022) I sometimes wish that I didn't have enough time to post here so much. …
Tinderbox glitch (November 4, 2022) I experience a small glitch when rendering the site this morning after installing the latest Tinderbox beta. …
The blogging platform carousel (November 4, 2022) 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.…
But it isn't Emacs (November 3, 2022) I quite like how this Tinderbox-generated blog works. …
Hugo options are tempting (November 2, 2022) I was tinkering with 2 of my Hugo-based blogs this afternoon and loving it. …
Use it or lose it (November 2, 2022) I once again have accumulated too many blogs. …
The risk of unusual blogging tools (November 2, 2022) I am enjoying the process of running this blog using Tinderbox, but I worry about it not being portable. …
M.O.B.I.U.S. BBS (November 1, 2022) Back in the early 1990s I started a BBS. …
Imaginary photo album (November 1, 2022) 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? …
The best way to lose something (October 30, 2022) The best way to lose something is to first over-think where to put it.…
Web Development (October 30, 2022) I believe web development has become mired in such complexity as to render it untenable. …
Hero images turn me off (October 30, 2022) I was trying to find some information about my favorite new browser and clicked a link to an article that looked like this...
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Data entry with Tana (October 30, 2022) Using Tana can feel like data entry, and that's not how I want to write or take notes.…
Missing the boat (October 30, 2022) I keep wondering if I've missed yet another boat with AI and ML. …
Every app a todo app (October 30, 2022) I wish every app wasn't trying to be a fully-formed todo app. …
TikTact (October 29, 2022) I find it rather easy to not use TikTok.…
Emacs vs everything (October 29, 2022) When faced with the choice between Obsidian and Logseq, I always seem to choose Emacs.…
More Twitter? (October 28, 2022) 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. …
Some Elite iPad Usage (October 28, 2022) This makes me want to spend the weekend with my iPad
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Mastodon gatekeeping (October 28, 2022) I'm seeing lots of long-time Mastodon users trying to "guide" recent Twitter refugees on the proper way to use Mastodon. …
Twitter drama (October 28, 2022) The drama around Twitter only matters for people who care about the drama around Twitter. …
Obsidian for now (October 26, 2022) I have decided that I am going to give Obsidian a bit more time. …
Speaking of where I like to write (March 6, 2022) And speaking of "writing where you like to write", I like to write just about everywhere, depending on my mood. …
Good morning (January 18, 2022) I recently wondered How long before I am back in Emacs. …
Engage! (January 17, 2022) 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!"…
Good morning (January 17, 2022) It's 4:15 am and I'm pretty sure I'm not getting enough sleep.…
A deliberate lack of rigor (January 16, 2022) I'm learning that I avoid anything that requires a significant amount of rigor. …
Vehicles for creativity (January 16, 2022) I am surrounded by creative vehicles: Cameras, film, paint supplies, drawing tools, notebooks, pens, a darkroom, typewriters, and so on. …
Sensor cleaning (January 16, 2022) I recently (accidentally) spit on my SL2-S's sensor while trying to blow some dust off it. …
Two hours a day? (January 16, 2022) What would I do with my time if I only allowed myself two hours at the computer each day? …
Using what I have (January 16, 2022) After spending a week getting this Tinderbox-generated blog configured just so, I started tinkering with Emacs and ox-hugo again yesterday. …
Org-roam's future (January 15, 2022) This is how I like software to be built:
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From Readwise to org-roam-node-random (January 15, 2022) Yesterday, I canceled my Readwise subscription because, although it's cool, I wasn't getting much tangible value from it. …
Good morning (January 15, 2022) Good morning, we're halfway through January already. …
Trying to cancel subscriptions (January 14, 2022) Suffering a serious bout of Subscription Fatigue today, so I decided to cancel all non-critical subscriptions. …
DHH is off the rails (January 14, 2022) DHH is off the rails and, in his latest, reveals with his "both sides" argument that he doesn't understand science either.
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It's settled then (January 14, 2022) After Reviewing my current blogging options, I've gone with "B", with a twist. …
You're going to laugh (January 11, 2022) 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. …
Combining RSS feeds for everything (January 11, 2022) There is an ongoing conflict between my love of trying new blogging/publishing tools and the idea of having One True Blog™. …
New blogging engine fatigue (January 11, 2022) I'm definitely experiencing Tinderbox Fatigue this morning. …
Renewed my Micro.blog subscription (January 9, 2022) I've renewed my subscription to Micro.blog at times, so I guess that helps answer the question Should I crosspost to Micro.blog?
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Leica M11 Specs (January 8, 2022) 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. …
New RSS feed for all posts (January 8, 2022) 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. …
Shooting film when I'm in the mood (January 8, 2022) Over the past several years, my interest in shooting film has regularly ebbed and flowed. …
Stop changing (January 8, 2022) They say as you get older that you want things to stop changing (Do they say that?) …
Some housekeeping (January 7, 2022) I made some structural and content changes here this morning;
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Photo processing workflow update, Jan 2022 (January 7, 2022) TL;DR: I'm back to a combination of Capture One Pro and Photo Mechanic Plus, with a dash of Apple Photos.
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Good morning (January 7, 2022) Good morning, it's 5:00 am and I'm freezing my nads off. …
750 Words (January 6, 2022) Damn you 750 Words for importing my old content into the new site. …
Capture One Pro (January 6, 2022) 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 (January 6, 2022) Good morning, it's 5:45 am. …
Talking about social media (January 5, 2022) I feel it's time for me to stop talking about social media. …
Self-portrait (January 5, 2022) I'm trying to improve my use of lighting. …
Change to movies listing (January 3, 2022) I've updated the Movies listing to use a table rather than a list based on each note's $DisplayExpression. …
What's up guys... (January 2, 2022) Whatever I end up doing next, It's not going to be what Eric Floberg is making excellent fun of in this video:
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I still miss the APO Summicron-SL 35 (January 2, 2022) I took a photo of the dog against a bright background using the Leica SL2-S with the Sigma 24-70 f/2.8. …
NIfty File Lists (January 1, 2022) Nifty File Lists looks like it could be handy, especially in a Tinderbox context.…
Some site changes today (January 1, 2022) 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.…
Quote: Riding out the clock (January 1, 2022) When I think about diving back into the workforce I try to remember that quote.…
Seeing my notes (December 31, 2021) While looking up information for creating My Leica Camera Timeline, I ended up in a bunch of old Tinderbox documents, dating back to 2008.
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Yep, still have 2 blogs (December 30, 2021) I hate the fact that I still have two (active) blogs. …
Weight logging with Tinderbox (December 30, 2021) Note: This was originally posted over at copingmechanism.com but I thought it belonged here instead.
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Good morning (December 29, 2021) Year: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 99%
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Reluctant to post in WordPress (December 28, 2021) 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. …
Note icons on the archives page (December 26, 2021) Tinderbox does this cool thing in outlines where the icon changes based on the age and size of each note. …
Speaking of distractions (December 26, 2021) 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. …
Added a ChangeLog (December 25, 2021) I've added a ChangeLog to record structural changes I'm making here.…
Should this site be at baty.blog? (December 25, 2021) I'm still working through the differences between this site and the blog at baty.blog. …
Trying a new app, /tap (December 25, 2021) I learned about a new note-taking app, /tap, so of course I gave it a spin. /tap is about creating short, "smart" notes. …
We are live! (December 24, 2021) 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. …
Futzing with Roon metadata (December 22, 2021) 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.…
More project (December 22, 2021) I’m still planning to spend at least a few hours each day this week on my little Rails project. …
Remember this? (December 8, 2021) Alex reminded me about this blog, so I just had to open Tinderbox and play with it. …
Today (November 23, 2021) There are several ways to approach images in ox-hugo. …
This has no title (November 17, 2021) And what if it worked the same way? …
What if I built Drummer out of Tinderbox? (November 17, 2021) 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. …
It's about where I like to type (November 6, 2021) For years, I'd tell you that typing in a native Mac app is by far the best way to write anything. …
Image Test (November 6, 2021) 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. …
notes.baty.net (November 5, 2021) I'd long ago abandoned notes.baty.net as a place for this Tinderbox-rendered blog. …
Cloudflare web analytics (November 4, 2021) One thing that attracted me to Cloudflare Pages for static site hosting is they offer built-in traffic analytics. …
Welcome back, I guess (November 4, 2021) 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.
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