Jack Baty

Writing a blog using Tinderbox

Tinderbox is an unusual, powerful, quirky, and amazing piece of software. I don’t understand why more people don’t use it for everything. Maybe because it costs $298 and that’s expensive by today’s app store race-to-the-bottom pricing situation. It’s worth every penny, though. Before Emacs came

How I'm using Lightroom

Lightroom it is. After a long period using Capture One, then a shorter period using Lightroom Classic (LrC), I’m once again trying the new Lightroom. I left Capture One for LrC partly because Capture One’s catalog features feel weak compared to LrC. LrC has everything and does it

Losing interest in organizing things

Putting everything where it belongs has always been a pleasure for me. “Mise en place” and all that. I find comfort in knowing that a thing is where it should be and that I know where that is. Recently, though, I’ve noticed that I dread deciding where that place

Speed is my enemy

My handwriting isn’t pretty. It’s not even always legible. I’ve realized that this is because, when writing by hand in a paper notebook, I start writing one of the letters from later in the word, before finishing the one I’m on. This means I spend half

The gravitational pull of Emacs

I want things to be simple and without distraction. I want to avoid futzing all the time. To this end, I often try to move away from using Emacs for everything. Emacs is not simple, no matter how hard I try to force it to be simple. So I pull

Roll-153 (Nikon FM2n/HP5)

This is the first roll (of HP5) from my new Nikon FM2n. I'll have more to say about the camera once I get used to it.

I'm already tired of Ghost

It's been, what, three days of moving my blog to Ghost(Pro)? I'm already off it. The whole idea was that I no longer want to worry about hosting or building or managing my blog. I want it easy and pleasant. I want an editor that

Roll-152 (Leica MP/HP5)

The last few rolls from the MP have been pushed to 800, and I'm finding that I like them just fine. It's mostly an indoor camera, so I can use all the speed I can get. This roll didn't have anything great, but anything

Posting with iA Writer

Ghost's post editor is quite nice, but it's not on the same level as a native, well-designed, dedicated writing app like, say iA Writer. iA Writer is a dream to write with, and it can post directly to Ghost. The down side is that it'

Here we go again, with Ghost

It's a long, tedious, repetitive story and you should probably skip it. The short version is that I've moved baty.net to Ghost...again. Building and/or hosting my own stuff has become less interesting to me lately. I'm finding managing git repos and