Journal

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? ...

I have so many great cameras, and I have the free time to use them. Yet I’ve barely been taking any photographs. Why is that? I’d love to figure it out. I wake up every day wondering who I’m going to be that day. Both WordPress and Hugo have things to like about them, so I keep using both because I don’t want to miss out on the good things about one when I decide to use the other. It’s silly, but there we are. ...

I’m trying to spend as little time as possible on any social media. I’m finding it difficult. I started posting over at baty.blog again for some reason.

Me, on this day in 2019: For like a week now I’ve gone to bed with the ThinkPad and using Linux to actually do stuff. It’s fun. Not easy or care-free, but for the first time I’m having a little fun. It’ll stick eventually. The 3.1.0 update to Omarchy has been released. The Discord channels are awash with people having trouble with the update, but I ran it on both my machines anyway. No issues so far. ...

I should probably write more about Linux and the NAS and the little Canon AF-7 and the sorry state of the US, but I don’t have the energy to put the words together in a useful way. So I’m kind of doing it one sentence at a time here in the dailies. If I’d have stuck with one system/process for longer, I’d really have something. As it stands now, all I have is a big fat mess. ...