Jack Baty

Logseq is so close

I've spent some time this week toying with the idea of using Logseq for my daily logging. I prefer writing in outliners and Logseq's outline-based blocks are handy and easy to deal with. Linking is fast and easy. There are queries for when I need to

Arc (Chrome) extension for copying text for TiddlyWiki

I used to have a bookmarklet that would take selected text on a web page and generate a quoted block and link in markup suitable for use in TiddlyWiki. Arc Browser doesn't support bookmarklets for some strange reason, so I (finally) converted my bookmarklet to a Chrome extension

Custom error documents for httpd on OpenBSD

The default error (e.g. 404) pages in OpenBSD’s built-in web server are super basic. I can live with that, but what I can’t live with is that they use Comic Sans. I kid you not. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a joke,

I've lost interest in everything

Please allow me to gripe for a moment. Over the past month or so, I’ve noticed that my reactions to things are generally, “Meh”. I used to eagerly fire up my RSS reader to see what fun, cool things I could learn about. Lately, I just scroll aimlessly through

Subscription changes

I dug through my list of subscriptions yesterday and made a few changes. First, a couple of smaller changes. I canceled Photomator and Photo Scan. Photomator is great, and I may come to regret losing it. But for now, I don't shoot much with my phone and if

Lightroom it is, I guess

I canceled my Capture One subscription this morning, before they charged me $180 for another year. I hadn’t planned to do this. The plan was to cancel my Lightroom subscription ($10/month) and run with C1 for the year. Capture One has more to offer, and I like the

Ending my OpenBSD experiment (Almost)

I did this fun thing from Derek Sivers because I wanted to play with OpenBSD and with Vultr for hosting. Well, I played with it. It was fun. I got to see how Dovecot works and I learned how to configure Relayd and the OpenBSD httpd server. I think I&

The care and feeding of my system

Yesterday, for some reason, the menu bar stopped showing when launching Emacs. Good grief. I had to add an explicit call to (menu-bar-mode) in my init.el. Why? Who knows. I'm sure I did something to cause it, but my commit logs don't point to anything

Formatting dates in org-capture templates

I track my weight in an Org-mode table. New entries are added using an Org-mode capture template. It was bugging me that the date format was a full-on Org-mode inactive timestamp like [2024-01-01 Mon]. I just wanted the YYYY-MM-DD portion, but Org's expansion templates don't have

Reduce & Simplify

If forced to come up with a theme for 2024, I'm going with "Reduce & Simplify".