Black and white film photo of womans legs near water

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

More Framework. Ocular migraines.

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Framework 13 laptop before assembly

Monday, September 22, 2025

The Framework 13 laptop arrived a day early, so I spent the afternoon setting it up. I’ll post more later with some details. This is so much fun I can’t stand it. I don’t want to think about how much of my life I’ve spent moving windows around a computer screen. Those days are over, I think.

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Pot of water boiling on stove

Sunday, September 21, 2025

I really really want to reduce my blogging footprint to a single place. see here. My new Framework laptop shipped sooner than expected. It’s estimated to arrive Tuesday, but I see that it’s already in Grand Rapids. BRING IT TO ME! ā€œHe was a father and a husband.ā€ People keep repeating this as if any of those things requires you to be a decent human being. Lots of vile people are fathers and husbands. ...

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Grilled cheese sandwich

Friday, September 19, 2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve added one of these daily notes. I thought I was done with them, but here we are. The reason might not make much sense to many. Linux, or at least the one I’m using, doesn’t have Emacs bindings everywhere, the way macOS does. I’ve been slow to get used to it. I may never get used to it. In the meantime, the one place that does have Emacs bindings is Emacs, so that’s where I’m spending as much time as possible. The blog is Hugo and I’ve got a whole Emacs setup for publishing here. For now, that’s what I’m doing.

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Friday, August 22, 2025

I’m considering removing the /notes section and just rolling everything into the main feed. Let’s try ā€œEverything is just a postā€ for a while. Sure, it’ll be messy and too noisy for some, but it might help prevent the ā€œis this a note or a post?ā€ thing every time I start typing. I’ll be happy to talk to machines once I no longer need to learn their language in order to do so. ...

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

I don’t want to even think about anything, let alone overthink everything.

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Black and white photo of book with dog in background

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

I see Zed just received $32 million from Sequoai because ā€œthis investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.ā€ Well, never mind, then. I want nothing to do with ā€œcollaborative editingā€, nor the inevitable decline of anything touched by VC money. Thank goodness there’s BBEdit. I’m running immich on the Mac Mini via Docker and it’s been working great. It’s fast and simple to use. Hosting has (knock on wood) been a breeze so far, too. I like it.

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5 cases of Diet Coke in my car

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Suddenly, two copies of the weather were showing on journal posts here. I have no idea how that happened. I’ve cobbled together a fix, but sheesh. This is another thing with Hugo…I don’t get how most of it actually works. There’s magic going on and I just piggyback off it with a lot of copy and paste and guesses. This is no way to run a website, is it? Cool, there’s now a Lightroom Classic plugin for Glass.photo ...

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Black and white film photo of cameras and notebooks

Monday, August 18, 2025

What goes here in daily notes and what goes into separate /notes? No idea. Maybe I should kill the idea of /notes and just make everything a regular post. Messy for readers, but cleaner for my brain? Dunno. I spent hours today making sense of my wiki content using Claude Code and it was a frustrating blast. Sorry, I brought up AI, again. I’m not supposed to do that.

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Black and white photo of a Dish Network dish

Sunday, August 17, 2025

All I wanted to do this morning was to add a class to an image in Hugo. At first I thought I needed to override my theme’s image-render hook, but then I learned that could use the built-in Markdown attributes. It required a new setting or two1, but worked great for adding a style to images in a single post. In lists, however, the styles are applied to the paragraph above the image, even with wrapStandAloneImageWithinParagraph set to false. I couldn’t figure it out, so I just put the paragraph after the images. Not a solution, but solved the problem in this case. This will happen again, I’m sure. Normally, I’d just use raw HTML for this, but the image pipeline in Hugo ā€œbundlesā€ wouldn’t work, and I need that. ...

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Black and white film photo of child running on beach

Saturday, August 16, 2025

It’s all just bunnies on a trampoline, now.

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Black and white photo of woman in hat in profile

Thursday, August 14, 2025

I would like to quit social media completely, but I’m addicted to validation. I tell myself that I actually suffer from FOMO, but the reality is that I’m looking for ā€œlikesā€ and comments and, well, validation. Maybe it isn’t validation so much as it is feeling like I’m being seen. I mean, how else can one know they exist in the world? So many people that I like are starting to share opinions that I don’t like. ...

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Black and white photo of woman waving on a pier with wave crashing behind her

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

I sat down this morning, looking to journal a bit about the past few days with extended family, but Emacs threw an error on launch. I fixed that. Then, I couldn’t find a note I’d written earlier. Sometimes I would just like to write stuff, take a few notes, and find things later when I need them, but without all the fuss. I don’t know how to get there.

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photo of making a selfie from the self's perspective

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Good morning. What shall we wring our hands about, today?

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Lawn dart

Saturday, August 09, 2025

I am off social media for a bit. Whenever I feel myself doing nothing but scrolling or looking for likes or thinking of something ā€œlike-ableā€ to say, I know it’s time for a break. I’m not cross-posting to Mastodon at all anymore, either. So now, whenever there’s a lull in the action of my life, I feel lost. That’s the feeling I want to get rid of. I spent time this morning working (with Claude Code) on displaying full content on the current daily post, but it ended up fighting what the theme wants, so I decided it wasn’t worth it. Just for grins, I’m now theme shopping. ...

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Audio tape unwound on the floor

Friday, August 08, 2025

I’m realizing that my enthusiasm for Hugo reflects my current mood about Emacs. When I’m all-in with Emacs, Hugo is my favorite way to manage a blog. When I’m ā€œoffā€ Emacs, I find other ways to blog because my whole Hugo workflow is built using Emacs. The problem right now is that I’m oscillating rapidly between Emacs and not-Emacs, so I post in multiple places. It’s fun having options, but I dislike making decisions. šŸ˜µā€šŸ’« ...

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Black and white film photo of toddler

Thursday, August 07, 2025

I continue to overthink everything related to my blog(s). I want specific things for specific posts, depending on my mood that day. It’s exhausting. The dream of course is to have One Blog. I have 4 active sites right now. That’s more than one, for those who are counting. The new baty.photo blog that I’ve set up just for posts about photography feels like the right move. That one stays. I like using Ghost for that. ...

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Wednesday, August 06, 2025

I’m not even supposed to be here today.

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Old photo of barber shop interior

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

I’m a little tired of all of this. Blogging, I mean. I’ve been writing about the same things on repeat for 25 years. Aren’t we all sick of hearing about blogging tools and software and tech and bla bla bla? I am. Maybe I’ll open a barber shop, like my great grandfather did.

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Black and white film self-portrait in mirror

Sunday, August 03, 2025

I don’t feel much like writing full-on blog posts, so I keep spouting off little bits and bobs over on Mastodon instead. It’s not ideal. I mean, I just added the /notes feature here, so why not use that? I honestly don’t know. There’s something about it I don’t like. I made the font here a bit smaller and a bit less black. It looked chunky and amateurish to me, somehow. Anyway, it’s different now, which might be all I wanted.

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