Jack Baty

A (small) improvement to photo display on Glass.photo

I don’t like the way Glass shows images in a desktop browser when the browser window is wider than around 1,000 pixels. I prefer the layout in narrower windows, but I never have mine that narrow. This means whenever I’m browsing Glass, I have to shrink the

From MacBook Pro to Mac Mini

This morning it took over 30 minutes to copy a 70MB file from my MBP to the Synology over WiFi. The wait resurfaced my thoughts about having an always-on computer on my desk with some fast, attached storage. I just ordered an M2 Mac Mini (Pro) with 16GB RAM and

Nuke & Pave - the half-hearted edition

"Nuke & Pave" typically means wiping a computer's hard drive and installing everything from scratch. That's not what I'm doing (although it is tempting). What I'm doing is more like a precision strike. (I'll stop using military analogies,

Whatever happened to my junk drawer?

In a post from 2013, Digital Recordkeeping, I summed up my tools like this: Tinderbox is my notebook. Evernote is my junk drawer. DEVONthink is my filing cabinet. I was onto something back then. It has occurred to me is that I no longer have a dedicated tool to use

Creating a WARC web archive using wget

I’ve been tinkering with keeping offline copies of websites (mostly mine), and have always used either wget or httrack. I wasn’t aware of the WARC format until recently, so I thought I’d try creating a few WARC archives. wget, as it happens, has WARC support built in

Additional backups

Derek Sivers posted about how he handles backups and it got me thinking about how I handle backups. I feel like I'm mostly covered. I use Backblaze on my MacBook Pro for continuous, off-site backups of both the internal SSD and the attached "Media" drive containing

No longer keeping my notes in a Git repo

For many years I’ve put every new folder full of anything into a new Git repo. I never questioned it, I just did it because that’s what you do. I’m thinking about no longer doing this. This morning I was daydreaming while waiting for a folder to

Feelings about baty.net

I'm having those feelings again where I don't want baty.net to be my blog. I want it to be my "website"... a combination landing page and hub. I want it to be completely static. So basically I want to have a permanent place

Software that sparks joy

I’m just coming off a week using Obsidian. Obsidian is really good and powerful and easy to use and extensible and probably the correct answer to the question, “Where should I keep my notes?”. I love Obsidian for a minute because of what it does and the fact that