Journal

STATUS: Driving people around to appointments. Thinking about operating systems. TODO: I intend to do nothing on my list, today. Harumph! READING: Still working through “Dungeon Crawler Carl” Am I back? Not sure yet, but I think I’m a static-blog kind of fella. Pure Blog is awesome, and Kev’s done a great job with it. I like it a lot. And yet, there’s this nagging feeling about it running “out there” and needing PHP, etc. Pure Blog is super simple to host, but not as simple or portable as a static site. A CMS with a nice, simple UI is pretty great, but I’ve spent years honing my combination of Hugo and Emacs. Blogging is a “solved” problem, right? :) Anyway, I’m going to try this again for a minute. I’ve migrated the “regular” posts from there to here. I don’t think I’ll bother with the journal entries.t ...

A day with family

Posting to the photo blog.

Why am I not making photos?

Linux is nice so I’m using that today.

One True Blog?

Waffling. Home page layout wishes.

Good grief it’s cold out

My pens all skip. Convoluted publishing workflow.

ox-hugo for journal posts, too? Well this is unnecessary.

Waffles waffler waffling

I’ve suddenly stopped caring about computing.

More about Mac vs Linux for me.

All-in with Linux? Some blogging minutiae.

More on Linux. Film scanning.

Tired of the internet.

Mulling over what to do about these daily notes posts. Hugo RSS feeds.

I spent all morning toying with a few different static blogging options that could replace Hugo. Kev had generously sent me a head start on a Jekyll theme that mimics my WordPress theme at baty.blog. I installed Jekyll and (to my surprise) I didn’t hit any Ruby walls. While it was a great head start, I realized how much work remained, and I’m still not sure I want to use Jekyll. ...

It’s weird how I spend a few days relaxing in WordPress, then I wake up one day and think, “Maybe I’ll generate my whole website with Org-mode and Emacs!” I probably won’t do that, but I sometimes consider it. I don’t want photography be just another way to generate files to play with on the computer. The temperature dipped to freezing for the first time this year. This usually means it’s truly the end of summer. Blech. ...

My therapist asked me why I thought it was a problem to have so many blogs/cameras/notebooks/etc. and I couldn’t give her a good answer. It often feels like a problem, but is it? Maybe not. Maybe I’m just having fun and that’s fine. I’m using WordPress lately because it’s easy and I don’t have to think about anything but the typing. Images are easy to add and it can do fancy things when it needs to. Sure, it’s a bit bloated and janky, but if what I do most of the time is hit “New post” and write, who cares? ...