A blog about everything, by Jack Baty

I’m feeling like a break from all this SSG-ness. I’ll see you at my WordPress blog at baty.blog for now.

How I’m pulling my Fastmail calendar entries into Emacs diary entries.

So many options. So little patience.

⚠️ Note that this doesn’t work properly. There’s a “nil” at the end. Howm has a handy menu for viewing tasks and notes. One thing I wanted to add was my Emacs diary entries for the current date. This took 3 things: First, I created a function for inserting the day’s entries from Emacs diary in the current buffer. (defun my/insert-diary-entries-for-today () "Insert diary entries for today at point." (interactive) (let ((diary-list-entries-hook nil) (diary-display-function 'ignore)) (let ((diary-entries (diary-list-entries (calendar-current-date) 1))) (if diary-entries (dolist (entry diary-entries) (insert (cadr entry) "\n")) (message "No diary entries for today"))))) (and by “I” I mean Claude, mostly) ...

It makes no difference what software I use.

More Framework. Ocular migraines.

The Framework 13 laptop arrived a day early, so I spent the afternoon setting it up. I’ll post more later with some details. This is so much fun I can’t stand it. I don’t want to think about how much of my life I’ve spent moving windows around a computer screen. Those days are over, I think.

I had better be right about this.

this is a question, not a manual

I really really want to reduce my blogging footprint to a single place. see here. My new Framework laptop shipped sooner than expected. It’s estimated to arrive Tuesday, but I see that it’s already in Grand Rapids. BRING IT TO ME! “He was a father and a husband.” People keep repeating this as if any of those things requires you to be a decent human being. Lots of vile people are fathers and husbands. ...

It’s been a minute since I’ve added one of these daily notes. I thought I was done with them, but here we are. The reason might not make much sense to many. Linux, or at least the one I’m using, doesn’t have Emacs bindings everywhere, the way macOS does. I’ve been slow to get used to it. I may never get used to it. In the meantime, the one place that does have Emacs bindings is Emacs, so that’s where I’m spending as much time as possible. The blog is Hugo and I’ve got a whole Emacs setup for publishing here. For now, that’s what I’m doing.

I got a new keyboard.

I got a different new cassette deck and it’s pretty neat. Weird, but neat.

i run arch btw

Remember that time I was trying Linux “for real” and even created a blog to write about it? It was more an excuse to play with the clever BSSG blogging engine, but still. Well, I’m doing it again. This time with Omarchy, so I dusted off the BSSG blog and pushed a quick update. But, but, Omarchy! | Jack Tries Linux. Don’t expect much. This usually lasts about 3 days before fizzling out, but it’s always a fun-but-frustrating 3 days.

New old stereo gear is wonderful

Sometimes I think I should quit shooting film. But I never do.

I’ve tried to make Mylio work a few times. Maybe this time it will.

In case you’re wondering, I’ve been posting over on the wiki and daily.baty.net this week. I was in the mood for a change of venue. Also, I kind of got spooked by a small surge in traffic here. For someone who posts in public every day, I still don’t like being watched. So, I write in places that fewer people know or care about. It’s weird, I know.

YouTube video about how hobbies aren’t fun anymore