Jack Baty

Roll-151 (Hasselblad/Portra)

I am still working through the bag of expired film in the fridge. This is a roll of Portra 400 that expired in 2014. It seems the Hasselblad has a couple of issues. First, both sides of each frame show a minor light leak. Second, my exposures seem underexposed by

Reduce & Simplify - Bear app

Bear is one of those apps that either clicks with you or it doesn't. Unless you're me, for whom sometimes it clicks and sometimes doesn't. I'm trying to follow through on my promise to Reduce & Simplify this year, so for the

Small company blogging tools and the Lindy effect

There are times I don't feel like blogging the hard way (e.g. Kirby, Tinderbox, etc). When that happens, I look to simple, hosted, CMS-based blogging tools. Recently, I've been experimenting with Pika and Scribbles. I like both of them. They are both simple, clean, easy,

Obsidian and Johnny Decimal

👉This post first appeared on foofaraw: 🌎 Where in the World is Jack? Vol.3 A theme for the past month has been, "Wrapping my Obsidian vault around Johnny Decimal." Johnny Decimal is "A system to organise your life." It's a structured system for keeping

Botched a roll of Portra

I botched a roll of film while processing yesterday. After the pre-wash step, instead of emptying the water from the JOBO tank, I just poured the developer in with it. This of course diluted the developer. I thought it was odd that some of the dev ran out of the

QR codes and index cards?

When I write a quote or note on an index card, I try to record some version of a reference. Most often this is just a title, author, and date of the article or book. When I need to revisit the source, I then need to look it up based

I've already stopped using Hey email

After a time away from Hey email, I impulse subscribed again. And once again, after a short time, I already don't want to use it. I have reasons. When Hey (hey.com) email was first launched, I signed up immediately. It was a fresh take on email and

Today's software installations

So far today, (as of 9:57 am) I have installed three apps that I had deliberately avoided installing on the new Mac Mini. MailMate because I just quit Hey but still wanted something different to play with. I've used MailMate on and off since sometime in 2013

Howm reminds me of TiddlyWiki

Something I've always liked about TiddlyWiki is that I'm never forced to decide where something goes or what it's named. I can simply click on the new tiddler button, type something, and hit save. Links, tags, or other organization can be applied later, but

Even having one blog requires too many decisions

I wanted to write something here. So far, so good, since deciding which blog is "correct" for a post is usually where I end up derailed. The thing I was writing about wasn't worth an entire post, so I figured I'd put it here