Friday, February 21, 2025

My personality is a rolling amalgam of the recent movies, blog posts, and YouTube videos Iā€™ve taken in. I have more open loops than a macrame convention.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Iā€™d love to have this for my M3. The Leica Summilux-M 50 f/1.4 is the fifth lens in the Classic Line I dreamt last night that my blog had a really fun, whacky design and everyone talked about it. Then, I woke up and remembered that my blog has a plain, boring, perfectly fine design and Iā€™m keeping it. Iā€™m considering adding a /notes section of the blog, with tweettoot-sized posts. No titles. Probably no RSS feed. And theyā€™d be syndicated via EchoFeed to Mastodon. It would take the place of these Journal posts. Maybe? Not sure itā€™s something I want, but itā€™s being considered. ...

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Iā€™m typing this in iA Writer because I read a blog post. See how susceptible I am to the opinions of others? 10 minutes later: Back in Emacs. Other editors are fun for a minute, but nope. Iā€™ll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I wonā€™t name, Iā€™d go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an ā€œagileā€ shop, but least I can tell when the toiletā€™s clean. ...

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Monday, February 17, 2025

Iā€™m realizing that digital photography is actually not always easier than shooting film. Wrangling the new Nikon Zf to do what I want has been the opposite of easy. Itā€™s not the Nikonā€™s fault, really. Itā€™s that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and itā€™s exhausting getting them to do the right things for me. Trying to use both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and syncing between the two was a terrible, terrible idea that Iā€™ve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now Iā€™m spending the morning either finding missing photos or dealing with duplicates. I never learn. ...

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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Me, all proud with my new camera I made a little Retrobatch script to overlay the date onto a photo. Itā€™s meant for the OpenGraph cover image on these daily posts. I donā€™t normally include the photo in the posts themselves, but I did today. For some reason. ...

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Friday, February 14, 2025

Still a bit sick. Slept better, though. Itā€™s hard using a CPAP with a stuffy nose. Iā€™m in one of those moods where I donā€™t feel like managing anything. It occurred to me that Emacs helps with this. Denote and Org Journal both manage the files for me. I just type. Org-attach handles my files for me. On the other hand, TiddlyWiki is Just One File, so thereā€™s that. The thing Iā€™m thinking about now is going back to Lightroom desktop for photos. Iā€™ve been using Lightroom Classic because itā€™s got everything, but it sure is janky compared to the new Lightroom. And with Ligthtroom I donā€™t need to organize everything (although I probably would, anyway). Still thinking about it. ...

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Iā€™m a little under the weather, still. Today will consist of tinkering and reading, mostly.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Iā€™ve removed these journal posts from the RSS feed for now. I like the feeling of writing without worrying about dumping all this crap into a bunch of unsuspecting RSS readers. Who knows, I may end up staying with the wiki for this. What will likely end up happening is that Iā€™ll keep doing both, depending on my mood that day. Details Consistency is boring. I donā€™t feel like exercising or weighing myself today. I guess Iā€™m not in the mood for expending any effort or being exposed to any more bad news right now. ...

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Saturday, February 08, 2025

I have an idea about these daily posts. Iā€™ll be writing throughout the day over in the wiki. Then, end of day, Iā€™ll grab anything I think is worth sharing and re-post it here. I mean, I didnā€™t call the wiki a ā€œRudimentary Latheā€ for nothing. ...

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Friday, February 07, 2025

Iā€™ve redirected all requests to the briefly-revived copingmechanism.com to baty.net. Sorry for the trouble. My love for TiddlyWiki continues apace, with a bunch of updates to my wiki

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Thursday, February 06, 2025

This is helping me, today. Sometimes, itā€™s not what you thought it was, eh?

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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

JFC, I donā€™t even want to be around the Good Guys anymore. You Canā€™t Post Your Way Out of Fascism You Canā€™t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: If thereā€™s one thing Iā€™d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, itā€™s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, itā€™s exactly what they want. ...

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Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Writing Desk (2025). Nikon FM2n. HP5 @800. Letā€™s test the idea of continuing with daily journal posts as separate ā€œthingsā€. Iā€™ve subscribed to a year of Wired Magazine. For $6/year, including the print edition(!), itā€™s a pretty good deal. ...

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Saturday, December 28, 2024

I donā€™t feel like writing full-on blog posts, lately. What Iā€™m interested in is journalingā€¦in public. I donā€™t like this Hugo template for that purpose, but I have learned that changing Hugo templates isnā€™t worth the trouble. Now what? I want to be entirely self-sufficient, but I donā€™t want the job of maintaining anything. Howā€™s that supposed to work? DVD is dead. Long live DVD. In a media landscape where the only sure thing is that there are no sure things, our best bet is still to put a disc in a drive ...

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Friday, December 27, 2024

I was working on a little shell script for generating GoAccess reports on the web server but I was running into a minor problem that I couldnā€™t figure out. I asked ChatGPT for help and immediately had the solution, and a better overall script than I had written. The side effects of LLMs suck, but thereā€™s no denying their utility right now. I feel dirty, but I have a nice script, I guess? ...

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Iā€™m deleting a bunch of old files. Thereā€™s a significant psychological difference between ā€œzipping them up and putting them on some hard drive somewhereā€ and actually deleting them. Deleting, where feasible, is better.

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You woke me for this?

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Itā€™s Christmas šŸŽ„. Organizing things. da Vinci.

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My beloved Focomat IIc Enlarger

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

I was going through my Braintoss messages and this one from April, 2023 jumped out at me: thereā€™s a low-level specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones Ouch šŸ˜¬ (Itā€™s from ā€• Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility) Also this one: The thing I miss most about working is canceled meetings. And this: ...

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Monday, December 23, 2024

I thought maybe Iā€™d change themes here just to change things up a bit, without completely bailing on Hugo, as Iā€™m wont to do. Changing Hugo themes is almost as much of a pain as changing blogging engines. I gave up after an hour.

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Friday, December 20, 2024

jAlbum is pretty good at creating nice static web photo galleries. I made an elaborate gallery last year. It was nice, but now I canā€™t find my copy (or settings, originals, etc.) Iā€™m not mad because I have to start over. Iā€™m mad because all I do is organize stuff and despite that, I still canā€™t find things. Probably because of that, honestly. Anyway, starting over. I need some new sources. Everything I read is related to AI or social media or some gadget I simply must buy. Iā€™m bored with all of it. ...

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