2025 Posts
✦ March
Five weeks with the Nikon Z f
I bought the Nikon Z f thinking it would replace my Leica SL2, since the Nikon is lighter, newer, cheaper,
Jack Baty
2025 Posts
✦ March
Listing today's notes in Denote journal entry
While tinkering with Obsidian recently, something I liked was having a daily notes template with a Dataview query showing the
2025 Posts
✦ March
Listing today's notes in Denote journal entry
While tinkering with Obsidian recently, something I liked was having a daily notes template with a Dataview query showing the
2025 Posts
✦ March
Espanso again
I've gone back to using Espanso for text expansion. As powerful as Keyboard Maestro is, every time I
2025 Posts
✦ March
Toggle hidden files in Dired buffers
The more time I spend in Emacs' Dired mode, the more I want to tweak things. I wrote about
2025 Posts
✦ March
Denote and Howm, sitting in a tree
Long story, short: I'm using both Howm and Denote for notes in Emacs. But why? Below are some
2025 Posts
✦ March
Fixing the terrible scrolling behavior with Logitech MX Master on macOS
Scrolling with the Logitech MX Master in Safari sucks out of the box. The following from this Reddit thread helped,
2025 Posts
✦ March
I printed a mousepad
I like having a felt pad on my desk, but I don't like how it sometimes causes mouse
2025 Posts
✦ March
Ladybird (web browser)
Ladybird:
Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render
2025 Posts
✦ March
Using Gnus for email
A week ago, I toyed with the idea of using Gnus for reading Email in Emacs.
As expected, I hated
2025 Posts
✦ March
Digg is coming back?
Hang on a sec...
{{< youtube -vNS62f-ino >}}
digg reboot
I'm here for this!
2025 Posts
✦ March
I went a little nuts with Remember mode in Emacs
I went down a rabbit hole with the built-in Remember mode in Emacs today.
Persistent Scratch with remember-note
The Emacs
2025 Posts
✦ March
Denote-search, a simple search utility for Denote
lmq-10/denote-search
This package provides a search utility for Denote, the simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking tool for Emacs.
The
2025 Posts
✦ March
Keeping the Leica SL2, for now
When I bought the Nikon Z f recently, the way I intended to offset the cost was to sell the
2025 Posts
✦ February
Org mode capture template for creating Howm TODOs
My use of Howm has continued to grow organically. In other words, I don't set out to use
2025 Posts
✦ February
Mike Monteiro on drawing
We are born with hearts that want to leave a mark on the world. This ability is not lost, it
2025 Posts
✦ February
Journal vs Post
Currently, my blog has two types of posts, Journal and Post. Journal entries are comprised of things I collect or
2025 Posts
✦ February
Morning pages with the AlphaSmart Neo 2
I started free writing again a couple weeks ago, but this time I'm doing it digitally, using the
2025 Posts
✦ February
I think I have to go back to Mu4e
I "settled" on using notmuch for my email, but now I'm reconsidering that decision.
Notmuch is
2025 Posts
✦ February
Mundane film vs digital photos
The other day, while bored, I shuffled around the house and burned through a roll of film, just for something
2025 Posts
✦ February
You are all a bunch of sick freaks (selfh.st)
You are all a bunch of sick freaks.:
The worst part is how you enable each other. "Hey guys,
2025 Posts
✦ February
Giving people GAS
Heh, Dave noticed that I bought a new camera and now he's thinking about new cameras.
A friend
2025 Posts
✦ February
The Nikon Zf
In a desperate attempt to spark some enthusiasm for photography, I bought a Nikon Zf. I know, this is not
2025 Posts
✦ February
Linus Torvalds on being woke
Linus Torvalds (Mastodon):
I'm a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman's right to choose is very
2025 Posts
✦ February
Removing journal posts from the RSS feed
I've decided to exclude "Journal" posts from the RSS feed. Thing is, I like how it
2025 Posts
✦ February
Writing about tools
I wish I'd stop writing about the tools I use to write about the tools I use.
2025 Posts
✦ February
Roll 202 (Nikon F100)
I was so bored today that I grabbed the first camera I saw with a partially used roll (the Nikon
2025 Posts
✦ February
A few things I like about TiddlyWiki
I got big into TiddlyWiki around 2018, when I created my Rudimentary Lathe wiki. For a few years there, I
2025 Posts
✦ February
Turning Markdown files into emails
Now that I've solved my Notmuch sync problems, I'm more inclined to move ahead with converting
2025 Posts
✦ February
An improvement to org-goto from James Dyer
I hesitate to use org-goto in my Org mode files because I find the UI for it to be confusing.
2025 Posts
✦ February
Hello again, Hugo
You'll notice that baty.net is back to using Hugo[1]. I really like Kirby, but every time
2025 Posts
✦ February
Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows
When I have two Emacs windows split side-by-side in a frame, calling org-todo opened a full-width window at the bottom