A blog about everything, by Jack Baty

I’ve been experimenting with Pure Blog and liked it so much that I made a new blog with it. I’ll be posting there for a spell, if you’re interested. ☛ baty.blog or subscribe to the RSS feed.

D’ya ever grow weary of thinking about blogging and blogging software and blogging workflows and blogging culture? No? Me neither. Not normally, anyway, but it’s happening now. I’ve been having a blast testing Kev Quirk’s new blogging platform, Pure Blog. He’s done a great job of nailing the basics. It’s easy and fun to use. So fun, in fact, that I’ve been teetering on using it for this blog at baty.net. Sometimes I just want a CMS. ...

Remember when I said I wouldn’t change blogging platforms? It’s still (mostly) true. So far.

A day with family

I’m giving the Feishin music player a go on Linux. It’s full-featured and very Roon-like, but streams from my Navidrome instance. It’s an Electron app, which some people can’t stomach, but it doesn’t bother me much. It’s a minor ick to suffer for a music player I might actually enjoy using. If it turns out to be too much, then there are dozens of other options. I learned about Feishin from the post, The state of Linux music players in 2026, which was linked to here which was linked to by Andreas’ always interesting Link Dump.

Posting to the photo blog.

Why am I not making photos?

I like being able to create new Org mode tasks from anywhere, via a simple keyboard shortcut. This probably doesn’t justify a whole post, but here’s how I did it. Create a script at ~/.local/bin/orgcapture.sh Here’s the script: #!/bin/bash emacsclient -c -F '((name . "capture") (width . 80) (height . 34))' -e '(progn (org-capture) (delete-other-windows))' In my Emacs config, I have a hook that tidies up the new frame: (defun my/org-capture-finalize-hook () "Close frame after org-capture if it was opened for capture." (when (and (> (length (frame-list)) 1) ; More than one frame (frame-parameter nil 'client)) ; Frame created by emacsclient (delete-frame))) (add-hook 'org-capture-after-finalize-hook 'my/org-capture-finalize-hook) In KDE’s Settings, I added a new command in the Shortcuts settings that point to that script. I assigned it to F3. ...

Linux is nice so I’m using that today.

I finally started to become comfortable in KDE, so I decided to try Gnome again.

One True Blog?

AI bots have made site analytics less useful

Waffling. Home page layout wishes.

I’m back to using a Leica Q2. The constraints are a relief. For now.

Good grief it’s cold out

I’ve been alternating between Linux (Fedora/KDE) and macOS since the beginning of the year. I’d describe Linux and the software running on Linux like this: Less polish, more power. What I find challenging is that sometimes I want the power, other times I want the polish. Surprisingly, I am starting to prefer being in Linux than being in macOS. Linux feels like it’s mine and I like that feeling. Everything in the OS makes me believe it was done with me mind. “Me” being “the user”. Even when things are frustrating, I usually understand why. macOS used to feel this way, but has drifted from it. It’s not all Tahoe’s fault, but it certainly hasn’t helped. ...

My pens all skip. Convoluted publishing workflow.

ox-hugo for journal posts, too? Well this is unnecessary.

Using an SSG for building a blog isn’t complicated enough, so I added a layer of Org mode atop mine.

I’ve been running Navidrome on the NAS for a few weeks as a way to avoid figuring out how to use Roon on Linux. Navidrome is no Roon, but it’s fast and simple and works well enough for my purposes. Navidrome’s web UI is fine, but I thought I’d look for a “real” (Linux) client for it. Navidrome’s API is compatible with the OpenSubsonic API, which apparently is quite popular, so there are many options. I’ve started with Supersonic. ...