I ended my Kagi subscription

I’ve been using my new MacBook Air for a few days. I just now did a search (using Google, by default) and noticed that I’d not yet installed the Kagi extension. If I didn’t notice, I must not have missed it, so I canceled my subscription.

June 29, 2025 · 46 words · Jack Baty

Back to Qobuz

Tim Bray’s post about Qobuz got me thinking. I have a lifetime subscription to Roon, and Roon integrates smoothly with Qobuz. The problem has been that I already subscribe to Apple Music, so Qobuz felt redundant. However, after recently freeing up $10/month by

June 29, 2025 · 43 words · Jack Baty

Power switches

I hate not knowing how many times I’ll need to press the button in order to turn a light off. Power on/off switches should be separate from brightness controls.

June 11, 2025 · 29 words · Jack Baty
Self-portrait with Rolleiflex

Yet another test

When including these “Notes” on my daily journal pages, I forgot to deal with cover images. This here is a test of this morning’s fix for that.

June 11, 2025 · 27 words · Jack Baty

Notes on the journal pages

I’ve changed my Hugo template so that any “Notes” I create on the same day as a daily journal are included inline in the journal post. No titles, just text. They’re still on the /notes page, too, so I can see them all at once. I’m also still cross-posting them to Mastodon, for now.

June 10, 2025 · 54 words · Jack Baty
If you think photos are important now, wait until they are all you have left

All you have left

I think about this a lot. Whenever I read it I usually make a few prints.

June 7, 2025 · 16 words · Jack Baty

100 on the nose

It happened again and it was so satisfying.

June 7, 2025 · 8 words · Jack Baty

Boring suburb

I want to just walk around the seaside village all day, making small watercolor paintings of things I observe. I would do that, but I rarely leave the house in my boring midwestern suburb and I can’t paint for shit.

June 5, 2025 · 40 words · Jack Baty
Tag list from my blog

Tag insanity

It’s gotten out of hand.

June 5, 2025 · 5 words · Jack Baty

A roll's worth

I took a roll’s worth of frames today, but on four different film cameras, so I still don’t have anything new to process.

June 4, 2025 · 23 words · Jack Baty

Kazuyuki Hiraoka on taking notes

Kazuyuki Hiraoka, author of the Howm Emacs package: If you don’t organize notes, it’s wearisome to read them. If you try to organize notes, it’s wearisome to write them. got that right.

June 3, 2025 · 32 words · Jack Baty
Color film photo of toddler playing with water table

Lincoln and new water table

I know people throughout history have successfully used Rolleiflexes for all kinds of documentary photography and photojournalism, but have they ever tried following a toddler around?

June 3, 2025 · 26 words · Jack Baty
Double exposure self-portrait

Getting the hang of the Rolleiflex

I’ve not quite gotten the hang of the Rolleiflex, apparently. This is expired Kodak Portra 400 (Expired 2012).

June 2, 2025 · 18 words · Jack Baty
Black and white photo of trees. There's a hole in the negative.

Hole in the universe

Looks like I accidentally took a photo of a hole in the universe. (Either that, or there’s a problem with the film negative.)

May 31, 2025 · 23 words · Jack Baty

Now Playing, Rush - Roll the Bones

I can’t explain why I like listening to my old cassettes so much. All I can say is that I’m having a blast. Now Playing: Rush, “Roll the Bones”

May 30, 2025 · 29 words · Jack Baty
Black and white photo of a spring

Spring

In 2010 I would walk around with the Hasselblad and a roll of Tri-X and take photos of just about anything. This is a spring from a train car. I like how it turned out.

May 30, 2025 · 35 words · Jack Baty

YouTube again is a mistake

I spent hours yesterday watching YouTube videos about photographers. Ernst Haas, Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Irving Penn, Tish Murtha, etc. I loved it, but so help me if I don’t get out and make some of my own pictures soon what am I even doing?

May 29, 2025 · 44 words · Jack Baty

Stupid YouTube thumbnails

What happens if a YouTube thumbnail doesn’t include someone making a stupid face and pointing? I assume there’s a fine involved.

May 29, 2025 · 21 words · Jack Baty

Weird, but sweet

In Junior High, I asked a girl I had a crush on to sign my yearbook. She wrote, “You’re weird, but sweet!” I was a teeny bit offended at the time, but I like to think I’ve stayed true to her summary ever since. It now feels like a compliment.

May 28, 2025 · 50 words · Jack Baty

Notes on Baty.net -> Mastodon via EchoFeed

I’ve set up EchoFeed to “echo” the content from the new /notes area on Baty.net to Mastodon. No link, just the content. If you can read this, it worked.

May 28, 2025 · 29 words · Jack Baty