A blog about everything, by Jack Baty

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. ...

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Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World – On my Om: We’re living in the endgame. Algorithmic reality doesn’t just commodify interaction. It standardizes imagination. The algorithms squeeze creativity out of millions by showing them exactly what “works.” We don’t get unique. We get infinite variations of the same. I hate 90% of the internet, now. It makes me sad and angry.

I’ve been surprised to learn that I prefer KDE to Gnome

I’ve suddenly stopped caring about computing.

More about Mac vs Linux for me.

All-in with Linux? Some blogging minutiae.

Fighting unwanted critters in my reef tank by introducing more critters into my reef tank.

More on Linux. Film scanning.

I haven’t used Doom Emacs in a while. Thought I’d give it a spin. Besides, I still miss my vim bindings from back in the day. Evil mode to the rescue.

Tired of the internet.

Mulling over what to do about these daily notes posts. Hugo RSS feeds.

In How about some blogging stability for 2026? I wrote that I resolved to not change blogging platforms more than once a quarter. This would be an easy goal for most people. For me, though, it’s a bit of a challenge. I was bored this morning, which is never a good sign. For something to do, instead of changing platforms, I decided to change Hugo themes instead. Totally within the boundaries, right? ...

I’m typing this in NeoVim on the Framework running Fedora/Gnome. Earlier today, I fired up the Mac Mini and thought, “Man, this is how I want to do computing.” This, in direct opposition to how I’ve felt about it for the past few months. As part of the new year, I’d “decided” that I was putting the Linux experiment on hold indefinitely. I’d fired up Tinderbox for blogging at daily.baty.net as part of my new move back to macOS. ...

Over at Irreal, Blogging Platforms: For me, blogging is all about writing and sharing my discoveries. The last thing I want is to worry about is my blogging platform. I want it to be as transparent as possible so I don’t have to think about it. I just want to write my post in Org mode and push a button to publish it. Most days, this is what I dream of, too. Picking something and sticking with it would be good for me. So far, I’ve not been able to do that, even for a short time it seems. Maybe 2026 will be the year! :)

How about this for a resolution… Don’t change blogging platforms more than once a quarter. Ha! I sometimes wish playing with tools wasn’t so much fun. It would be better, I think, to write more, tinker less. Except that I mostly write about tinkering, so that’s sort of self-defeating, no? Let’s recap. 2025 was comprised of Kirby, Ghost, WordPress, Hugo, Zola, Eleventy, Blot, Tinderbox, Emacs, and TiddlyWiki. That seems like a lot, even for me. ...

Sooo, I thought I wanted a new theme but that didn’t work out, so I changed my mind and decided to go back to my old PaperMod theme. Trouble is, that theme was made for Hugo1, so I also had to move things back to Hugo. Had to! 😀 I like PaperMod well enough. It’s not the full-post-on-home-page I was looking for, but its excerpt handling is good enough for who it’s for. ...

Update: I went with something else :) Then again, maybe I want the previous theme instead ...

My daughter has been sending me adorable AI-generated images of her and my grandson in various Christmas get-ups. They’re so fun and cute and she’s having a blast. It makes me wonder, though, what happens 20 years from now when she’s scrolling back through her photos and sees these. Will she remember that they’re faked? How will she know what’s real and what’s not? How will my grandson? I worry that it won’t matter to her or anyone else that their pasts are imaginary. Well, it matters to me and it makes me sad.

My first serious foray into Linux was driven by how deeply I fell immediately in love with Omarchy. Omarchy made me realize that I could totally live in Linux. If I wanted to. The big draw of Omarchy for me was Hyprland and window tiling. I’ve tried a few other tiling window managers (e.g. i3) but they were either too hard to configure or felt janky. Omarchy’s version worked great, with great keybinding support. It felt good to no longer spend half my time in the OS moving and resizing windows. Omarchy’s rendition of Hyprland made it easy and fun. ...