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A blog about everything by Jack Baty 👋

Category: Journal

Sunday, December 01, 2024

Oh dear. It’s OK, though. What happened was that I started to feel twitchy about having my posts and photos locked up in Ghost. “Locked up” is an exaggeration, of course, but you know what I mean. It’s better when everything is in a nice, tidy set of folders on my hard drive, in Org or Markdown format. So here we are, back in Hugo.


I’ve noticed a drop-off in interaction on Mastodon the past week or two. Is it because people are leaving? Maybe they just don’t find me interesting anymore.

Tuesday, November 05, 2024

I hope you’re voting for Harris today. Other than that, I’m shutting my political brain down for the rest of the day. My heart can’t withstand this level of sustained anxiety.

I have a lot of anxiety around flying, so before and during a flight, my brain and body sort of shut down and go into internal, primary-systems-only mode.

That’s how I’m reacting to the election.

This is mostly because of two things:

Monday, November 04, 2024

Do you ever feel like your life’s wake is littered with missed opportunities?


I spend so much time looking backwards that I don’t pay attention to what’s ahead.


I don’t understand people who post overconfident, often controversial posts on social media, and then say things like “This is NOT an invitation to debate!…”. I mean, where do you think you are? I’ll tell you where, you’re in a place where everything is an invitation to debate, whether you like it or not.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

I’m so mad at Emacs right now. It’s so frustrating when something stops working for no reason I can fathom. I sync everything related to my Emacs config via Syncthing, and the Emacs version is identical, and yet doom-modeline fails to load on the MBP but works fine on the Mini. It’s crazy-making and I can’t figure it out.

UPDATE: I had to re-install the “f” and “shrink-path” packages for no apparent reason. I still hate not knowing why things broke in the first place. Makes me want to throw in the entire Emacs towel.