Jack Baty Daily

02 January 2026 (Friday)

Jess and Katie on New55 Instant 4x5 (2015). Crown Graphic

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Someone wrote, "AI will not be the next big thing." as if AI isn't already the next big thing.

01 January 2026 (Thursday)

My old Thorens (Jan 2016). Crown Graphic

Well, here we go. I hope your 2026 is better than your 2025.

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The older I get, the more I feel like not having things is even better than having them.

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I seem to be all-in with macOS-only apps so far this year. Tinderbox, BBEdit, DEVONthink, OmniFocus. It feels good in a way that discovering new stuff for Linux didn't.

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I knew Tinderbox and I went way back, but I didn't know how far, so I asked. I licensed Tinderbox for the first time December 10, 2004. Tinderbox 2.3. It's been a spell, eh?

31 December 2025 (Wednesday)

Yeah, I'm probably going to just stick with macOS for now.

30 December 2025 (Tuesday)

Had to deal with this fella today. He wasn't happy about it. Hope he's OK.

Can you tell I'm on a Mac today? Yesterday I was planning to shut the Mac down and put it in a closet. Today, I'm thinking I'll just keep living here. I am beyond hope.

29 December 2025 (Monday)

If I move to Linux full-time, using Tinderbox for this blog won't be an option. That would make me sad.

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22 December 2025 (Monday)

There's something nice about publishing things that don't get cross-posted anywhere and are not included in RSS. They're like private public thoughts, if you know what I mean.

21 December 2025 (Sunday)

Wind chill was 3° this morning, so here's something warmer

Tinderbox isn't necessarily meant for blogging, but with a little cajoling, it can be quite good at it.

20 December 2025 (Saturday)

It occurred to me that I could treat this Tinderbox-generated blog as a personal journal that I also have the ability to publish as HTML.

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I want one so bad. Some of my earliest computer memories are around playing Zork on a Commodore. Trouble is, I no longer play video games, so it's almost certain this would end up languishing on a shelf after the initial thrill wore off.

24 November 2025 (Monday)

Back and forth. Back and forth. I may need to just walk away for a while.

Sunday, November 23, 2025

I'm still on the Mac today. It occurred to me that Linux doesn't let me do anything new on the computer except tweak the hell out of anything and everything. For me, that way lies madness.

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Aaah, Tinderbox and daily.baty.net

One of the macOS-only apps I don't want to live without is Tinderbox.

I've been using Tinderbox for so long it's become second nature. It's phenomenally powerful and fun to use. I stop using for periods during which I'm feeling like everything should be plain text. When I come to my senses and just want my stuff to be useful, I bring Tinderbox back into rotation. One of my favorite things to do with Tinderbox is generate this blog.

I did that this morning. We're back to using Tinderbox for this blog. I cherry picked the stuff from Kirby to copy over. Sorry for any disruptions to your RSS feed.

Thursday, November 20, 2025

I'm unlikely to do anything with this, but I like Tinderbox so much that I'm typing here anyway. I stuck with Kirby for a while now, and it's been great. Still, it bugs me that it's not static, like when using Tinderbox.

27 October 2025 (Monday)

I've started adding weather and date info to the daily images. Originally, I used Darktable's export options but have since discovered that the Batch Queue in digiKam can do it as well, and can be saved as a Workflow, which is what I'm using now.

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Perhaps (perhaps) we don't fear action so much as we fear feedback. As long as our model stays in our head, it can be perfect. The moment we test it against reality, we have to confront our wrongness. And for highly analytical people, being wrong feels like a moral failing rather than a normal part of learning.

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Third, and this is harder, you have to learn to metabolize feedback differently. When reality contradicts your model, it’s not a failure signal; it’s data. Neutral, immutable data. That's the whole point of making models in the first place, to test them against the world and update them. But you can only get that data by acting. The model serves the movement, not the other way around.

Joan Westenberg, The Map Is Not the Territory

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One time about a year ago used ChatGPT for something and it was wrong, so now I know everything there is to know about LLMs and am totally qualified to tell you what they can/will can't/won't do forever...

People on the internet. Too many of them

5 September 2025

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Just the wiki and the blog and the other blog and that's it. That's all I need!

1 September 2025

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I spent time today working on a decent workflow between Lightroom (Classic) and Immich. After wrangling Mylio for a few days, I decided it was a nice-but-unnecessary part of my process. Also, it's too expensive. There's an Immich plugin for Lightroom and it seems to work well. I'm still tweaking things, but I'll try and write up a summary once I've gotten it all dialed in.