👋 Hi, I'm Jack Baty, Director of Unspecified Services.
Amateur photographer, blogger, and curious nerd. This is my blog about everything (since 2000).
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Where was everyone yesterday? All my feeds were very quiet. Not silent, so it I don't think it was a technical problem. But just really quiet. RSS, email, Fediverse, all sparse. It was boring. I'm typing this in Ghost's editor, which, as web editors
My updated computer setup
The new M4 MacBook Air arrived, and it changed how I have things set up around here.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Another journal post today? I thought we weren't doing that.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Freddy deBoer: So is Everybody Giving Up On, Like... Doing Things?: ...this culture valorizes work as an abstract demonstrator of value but has no actual intrinsic respect for work, itself. For effort, for struggle, for exertion. If you click a #hustle hashtag on Instagram you are very likely to find
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
I spent an hour this morning dealing with an error when updating dblocks in Emacs. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to just use Apple Notes for everything. Except that once it was fixed, things were awesome again, so there's that. And that'
