Jack Baty

How long can I go without SetApp?

My SetApp subscription was scheduled to renew today, but I didn’t let it. I figured that if I buy the apps outright that I actually use, I’ll spend around the same amount as I would on a 1-year SetApp license for both Macs. The purchased apps would either

Asking ChatGPT to do things I used to think were fun

I’ve been testing a version of Johnny Decimal using folders and org-mode files. While doing this, I found myself frequently wanting to create a new .org file in the current (Dired) directory with the same name as the directory (long story). In a past life, this would have been

Micro.blog revisited

It’s been a couple weeks since moving my blog back to Hugo and, surprisingly, I’m perfectly happy with it. However, I’m not as sure about these daily notes posts. I often manually crosspost from here to Mastodon, and wonder if maybe I’d prefer having that happen

Roll-174 (Leica MP. HP5.)

This roll is mostly uneventful. It’s meaningful to me only in that there’s a few photos from my mom and dad’s 62nd anniversary this week. The rest are mostly just me plinking around the house. I mean, there’s a photo of a cheeseburger on my desk,

Roll-173 (Hasselblad 500C/M. Tri-X.)

I spent the afternoon with my parents to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary. This roll of Tri-X was taken with the Hasselblad 500C/M and the 80mm Planar.

Roll-172 (Nikon F100. Kodak 200)

A roll of Kodak Gold 200 was languishing in the Nikon F100, so I used it up taking photos of Alice on our deck. Turns out that’s what I did with the first half of the roll, too :) Processed C-41 in the JOBO and scanned on the V850 using

Clean Google search results using Lucky in Safari

I’ve been trying to hang on to using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, but the DDG results have become less and less useful for some reason, so I frequently head over to use Google search. Which, blech. I’ve been back to using Safari as my default browser,

Sooo...Hugo again?

Remember that time (last year) when I was still using Hugo for baty.net? Well, it’s back. Kirby CMS is great, and has been a blast to learn, but I’m kind of in a static-site mood right now. The old site’s repo was still on Github, so

Roll-169 (Hasselblad 500C/M. HP5)

A portrait session with my aunt and uncle’s family. Taken using the Hasselblad 500C/M and 80mm Planar. HP5.

Book: The Overstory

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in