2025 Posts
✦ February
Self care
Sometimes what looks like selfishness is really just self care.
Jack Baty
2025 Posts
✦ February
Sunday, February 2, 2025
I wasn't planning to put journal posts here. I don't like how they fill up the
2025 Posts
✦ February
Zoxide and Fish Shell
I'm happy using Fish for my shell. One thing I'd not gotten around to after switching
2025 Posts
✦ February
When everything is a Post
I've spent a lot of time over the past couple years forcing various blogging platforms to behave the
2025 Posts
✦ February
Mistaking what the thing is
The Social Media Sea Change - by Anne Helen Petersen
We have mistaken others’ recognition of a thing for actually
2025 Posts
✦ January
Adding Pagefind search to Hugo
Pagefind makes me happy. It is a static search library that is so easy to configure and use that I
2025 Posts
✦ January
Links browser
Twibright Labs: Links
It's a Lynx-like web browser. I don't quite understand why I would want
2025 Posts
✦ January
Book: Gaslit ★☆☆
An absolutely gripping psychological thriller packed with a twist you won't see coming
Do you know why I
2025 Posts
✦ January
Unplatform
I wish I could quit social media. This seems like a good cause:
The definitive guide for escaping social media
2025 Posts
✦ January
Erin Kissane on social networks
The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance,
2025 Posts
✦ January
Robin Sloan on government waste
The time to snoop around for “waste” is when everything else is going so great you’re getting sort of
2025 Posts
✦ January
Moving to Hugo?
I came this close to moving my blog at baty.net back to Hugo. Even worse, I considered archiving all
2025 Posts
✦ January
Fixing my duplicate email fiasco with rmlint in Maildir
Remember my recent email fiasco, during which I ended up with tens of thousands of duplicate emails? I remember it.
2025 Posts
✦ January
Bringing Apple Passwords into Pass
I have a soft spot for Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager, but Apple's new Passwords app has
2025 Posts
✦ January
An email fiasco
All I wanted was to use notmuch on my MBP to manage email, just like I do on my Mac
2025 Posts
✦ January
Journaling changes
Reading Jeremy's post about keeping his personal journal helped clarify some of the thoughts I've been
2025 Posts
✦ January
Vanilla to Doom to Vanilla
I'd been happily using Doom Emacs until just over a month ago, when I decided to start from
2025 Posts
✦ January
Roll 195 (Hasselblad 500C/M)
Sometimes I just need to blow through a roll when I'm bored. This is from the Hasselblad 500C/
2025 Posts
✦ January
2025 Roll 194 (Olympus OM-2n / HP5)
Here are a few images from the first roll I ran through the Olympus OM-2n after having it overhauled by
2025 Posts
✦ January
Adding weather to my Fish welcome message
For some reason, I always want to know the weather conditions. I barely go outdoors, but I still like to
2025 Posts
✦ January
GoAccess and HTTP Protocols
Using GoAccess to process my web server logs is going fine. It's nice not paying for an analytics
2025 Posts
✦ January
Blog Questions Challenge (2025)
I was tagged by Kev Quirk to complete a "Blog Questions Challenge", so here we go.
The questions
2025 Posts
✦ January
My first 3D print
Back when I regularly maintained a "Spark file[1]", I wrote the following on Aug. 26, 2012:
Do
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✦ January
Trying Ghostty
Ghostty is a new, platform-native terminal app from Mitchell Hashimoto. I've been alternating between Ghostty and Apple'
2025 Posts
✦ January
Handling Kirby content vs code
One of the things that frustrated me about Kirby last year was handling code/template changes vs content changes. I
2025 Posts
✦ January
The Notebook Situation for 2025
It's the same old story. I don't know whether I want to use one or multiple
2024 Posts
✦ December
Reduce & Simplify - Redux 2025
On this day, one year ago, I wrote a post titled "Reduce & Simplify". In that post, I
2024 Posts
✦ December
Emacs from scratch once again
I've been happily using Doom Emacs again, but I missed the feeling of having built things myself. I
2024 Posts
✦ December
I have deleted all my PikaPods
Yesterday, I had three "pods" on PikaPods: Ghost, Actual Budget, and Linkding. Today, I have none.
Deleting Ghost
2024 Posts
✦ December
Roll-189 (Olympus Stylus Epic)
A roll of HP5 through the Olympus Stylus Epic.
2024 Posts
✦ December
From Hugo to Ghost and back again
I can hear you all giggling. Ha ha very funny, Jack changed his blog again. I get it. Most normal
2024 Posts
✦ November
Testing Aspect for photo management
Some former Nik Software people are building a new tool for managing photo libraries. It's called Aspect. I&