"README-driven development" is a phrase Simon Willison used and it's kind of perfect.

I'll never understand why people get such a boner over ridiculing someone else's code. It's not a good look.

I've been using macOS exclusively for about a week and I'm a little embarrassed to admit how smooth things have felt. Not because of macOS specifically, but because I don't need to worry about keeping things set up and synced on Linux, too. I've been worrying about it a lot lately. More than that, I've spent a dizzying amount of time on it and taking a break from all that has been a relief.

The advantage of using macOS is that all of the comfort food software I love is there. I get my photo processing workflow the way I like it. I get all my little utilities like PopClip and Keyboard Maestro and Alfred. I get Tinderbox and DEVONthink. I get dead-simple sync via iCloud and backups using Time Machine. Trying to replicate this is an unrealized dream for me when using Linux.

There's a lot of friction introduced by managing two OSes on two or three computers. I don't enjoy it and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

The benefits I get from Linux are real, but they are more about philosophical alignment than about practical day-to-day computing. I'm convinced that one day I'll switch fully to Linux, but I'm not quite ready yet.

I'm spinning today. I want to do everything at once.

One of the things I did was completely revamp my Obsidian vault, with Claude Cowork's help. I wouldn't have done it without the help. Made the whole thing consistent, easy, and complete. Don't ask yet why I'm even looking at obsidian.

Last week I impulse-ordered a FiiO Echo Mini because it's cute and isn't expensive.

I've been listening to it daily. It's a fun and rather good audio player for the price, but as a device it is nowhere near in the same league as the iPod Classic. Maybe I'll pair it to the car and use it on the road. For around-the-house listening, the iPod wins.

Much of yesterday was swallowed by converting this blog from Hugo to Eleventy (Like Twitter, I'll probably never call it Build Awesome 🙄). I wondered if I'd wake up today feeling like I'd made a mistake. So far, I don't miss Hugo. It's only been a day, though. Whether I continue to like the design is another story. I meant for it to be basic and simple, then decided to put everything on the home page. I like the individual pages, but home is pretty messy. That's probably OK, since most people read this via RSS anyway.

It has been 0 days since I changed blogging platforms on baty.net.

Today has been a whirlwind of indecision. It started with wanting to write a daily post (you're soaking in it), but I couldn't decide which blog to post it on. There are three good candidates. I'm choosing this one.

And then there's Emacs. I've spent a lot of time tidying up my config and it's still kind of a mess. It's starting to wear on me. Sometimes I want things to be clever and cool, but sometimes I just want it to be easier. I launched Obsidian yesterday, if that tells you how bad it is. Thankfully, I've come to my senses and I am typing this in Emacs. Phew!

Sometimes I like to use Ghost, okay?! Yes, I know, I know, but I've been doing it anyway.

See copingmechanism.com.

Sorry not sorry.

After posting about having four blogs and a wiki, I felt guilty that things were scattered all over the place. There are a handful of people who actually want to follow all of my posts, and I've been making it difficult for them.

Given my proclivity for tinkering with publishing tools, it should come as no surprise that I now have four active blogs and a wiki.

Early AI photography tools like automatic masking and object removal were a miracle. Then came "Replace Sky" and it's been downhill ever since. The better generative AI gets and the easier it becomes to use, the more inclined I am to do the opposite and never touch the stuff.

What if I started posting from scratch at a completely different blog, but didn't tell anyone about it?

Whenever I test a new blogging tool or return to an old one, I'm reminded that there are things I need to relearn or rebuild. Everything has specific requirements. Doing this can be fun. It makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something. Or, more precisely, it helps me pretend I'm accomplishing something. This Hugo blog has been feature-complete for a while. Creating and editing posts with Emacs is a no-brainer. I've got little functions and helpers and snippets for everything I need. So, while blogging using various platforms is fun and reduces boredom, it's anything but productive. I get tired of both Emacs and Hugo sometimes, but I'd love to stick with them and be done with it. If only, right?

...10 minutes later... https://baty.blog/im-so-moody-when-it-comes-to-blogging

The photo for this post was taken using a Leica M4. This one...

It had M3-style levers, a recent and expensive CLA by Sherry Krauter, custom framelines, and it worked perfectly. I sold it because I wanted the money for some stupid digital camera that I no longer have. This was a terrible mistake. Never sell a Leica unless you absolutely have to.