Could I just scroll your web page without shit moving all over the place, please?

The last couple days have been a whirlwind of changes to my Emacs config. I have to admit that Claude Code made quick work of things I've been avoiding for too long. My config is now cleanly cross-platform. I've removed hundreds of lines of unnecessary lisp. I removed the complexities around using the minimal-emacs starter kit. My fonts work correctly. I cut startup time in half. Tons more. I'm pretty happy with it.

I was going to post something cool I did with Claude Code's help on Mastodon but the Never LLM! hoards would scold me and I don't want to deal with it.

Someone mentioned org-roam and it reminded me how cool it is. I moved away from org-roam a couple years ago, shortly after denote was released. Denote felt lighter and less dependent on Emacs-ey stuff. Denote is great and I'm happy with it, but that didn't stop me from digging up my old org-roam config today, just to play around with it. That was 3 hours ago and I've not slowed down. I may need to revisit Using both Denote and Org-roam.

The dog's surgery went well yesterday. She had several large masses removed from her skin. This is the third time we've had to do this. The vet convinced me to send a sample out for a biopsy, even though the aspiration looked benign and cyst-like. The fact that they regrew on the same scar line as last time is concerning. Alice is recovering, but is in a lot of pain. It's killing me to hear her whine. She never whines. It'll get better, slowly.

I am (mostly) down to two blogs. I've spent a lot of time recently dialing things in with both of them. I'm enjoying both of them equally, which means it's hard to decide which one to use at any given moment. Been here before, many times. After De-ghosting my Ghost theme, I quite like that one. This one is static and has a fresh redesign. Now what?

There won't be much time for farting around today and I'm already feeling twitchy about it.

People who can do stuff like this are not the same species of human as me. Redbull downhill urban biking POV

It's not that I'm unhappy with what I'm using or doing with it. It's that I want to try something new, like, every day.

I was able to prove my ownership of a copy of DaVinci Resolve Studio so they finally sent my activation code. That was A Whole Thing, but B&H and Black Magic came through. Now to properly test the new RAW editing features in v21.

I thought I would get along fine with Ubuntu, but I've found it unreliable on my Framework 13. Same with Mint. Anyway, I'm back to Fedora/KDE, which I've come to prefer anyway.

I should probably write a long, excuse-riddled blog post about it, but I have been committed to using Obsidian on macOS for nearly a month. Thing is, I have not been able to let go of either Emacs or Linux. I can't quit them. Using macOS again has been nice. It has the software I love and, Tahoe aside, the macOS is great. What's weird is that I prefer using the Framework 13 instead of the M4 MacBook Air, so I tend to grab that when away from my desk. The final straw has been that Linux doesn't (by default) use Emacs key bindings system-wide, like macOS does. I can't live like that, so I dragged Emacs along and here I am, writing this post using Emacs on Linux.

I am rebuilding the old jackbaty.com. I've been hand-editing the HTML but I think I'll go back to using Markdown and building using Pandoc. I'm updating the Leica timeline to make it easier to update. I'll cleanup up old attempts and abandoned ideas.

I was reminded today by a mention in the JTR interview at People And Blogs that I've been neglecting daily.baty.net ever since I rebuilt this one. This is not a surprise to anyone, but I feel badly about leaving things hanging like that.

Being snarky is lazy and you should avoid doing it.

Hoping the slight changes to <hr> elements within posts and the dividers between posts helps when scanning the page. They were so similar before that I didn't bother with separators within posts, but I didn't like the way different topics within a daily post look all smooshed together without them.

eBook readers should not have touch screens.

I've been alternating between 1Password and Apple Passwords and you can probably guess what the problem with that is.

There are a lot of things I should be doing today, but I don't feel like doing any of them.

Speaking of not feeling like doing something. Taxes are due today. I have a service take care of the heavy lifting, which is great. All I needed to do was write checks, put them in envelopes, and get them to the post office in time. I owed much more than expected, and the 2026 estimates are shocking. I felt blindsided, but looking through the documents I can see why. Then, while putting the paperwork away, I noticed that the copy of the check (yes, I still send them checks) was missing the dollar amount. I wrote the long form, just not the number in the box. That's going to come back and bite me. Time for some bourbon.

I just noticed that I forgot to annotate today's image. It's fine. Day's nearly over, anyway.