Friday, February 07, 2025
Iāve 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
Iāve 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
This is helping me, today. Sometimes, itās not what you thought it was, eh?
JFC, I donāt even want to be around the Good Guys anymore. You Canāt Post Your Way Out of Fascism You Canāt Post Your Way Out of Fascism: If thereās one thing Iād hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, itās that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, itās exactly what they want. ...
Writing Desk (2025). Nikon FM2n. HP5 @800. Letās test the idea of continuing with daily journal posts as separate āthingsā. Iāve subscribed to a year of Wired Magazine. For $6/year, including the print edition(!), itās a pretty good deal. ...
I donāt feel like writing full-on blog posts, lately. What Iām interested in is journalingā¦in public. I donāt like this Hugo template for that purpose, but I have learned that changing Hugo templates isnāt worth the trouble. Now what? I want to be entirely self-sufficient, but I donāt want the job of maintaining anything. Howās 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 ...
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 couldnāt 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 thereās no denying their utility right now. I feel dirty, but I have a nice script, I guess? ...
Iām deleting a bunch of old files. Thereās a significant psychological difference between āzipping them up and putting them on some hard drive somewhereā and actually deleting them. Deleting, where feasible, is better.
Itās Christmas š. Organizing things. da Vinci.
I was going through my Braintoss messages and this one from April, 2023 jumped out at me: thereās 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 š¬ (Itās from ā Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility) Also this one: The thing I miss most about working is canceled meetings. And this: ...
I thought maybe Iād change themes here just to change things up a bit, without completely bailing on Hugo, as Iām wont to do. Changing Hugo themes is almost as much of a pain as changing blogging engines. I gave up after an hour.
jAlbum is pretty good at creating nice static web photo galleries. I made an elaborate gallery last year. It was nice, but now I canāt find my copy (or settings, originals, etc.) Iām not mad because I have to start over. Iām mad because all I do is organize stuff and despite that, I still canāt 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. Iām bored with all of it. ...
See, the thing is, I need to somehow keep the the āReduce & Simplifyā dream alive. Itās OK if my system takes a little work to maintain, but it has to be one system. I can manage one. What I canāt do, is have a bunch of completely different setups that each take āa little workā to maintain. Iāve become overwhelmed as a result of my never-ending urge to tinker (combined with boredom). So here we are, on baty.net, doing daily notes again. One Blog, One Life or some such thing, right? ...
See how the way Iām doing this blog ruins the archives?⦠Part of my Archives page. Useful, huh?
Thanks Frank! Itās good to know Iām not alone. I went to sleep last night having decided that, āTomorrow, Iām going to revamp my Emacs config and go back to my home-grown config.ā This morning, I thought, āLife would be easier if I just used Obsidian instead.ā So yeah, normal day so far šš». The market has chosen Markdown over Org mode files and I hate that.
Nothing specific today. Tiny thoughts about energy, Obsidian, Adobe Bridge, JFK Jr, and Starter Packs.
On daily.baty.net, each little whim of a post has its own page and is part of the RSS feed (and gets cross-posted to my mastodon.social bot account). Some days, thatās exactly what I want. When I write daily notes here at baty.net, using the single-entry-per-day format, I feel less pressure to make anything ācountā. And some days, thatās exactly what I want. Living in my head is frustrating. Century-Scale Storage: But at the century scale, even our most widely adopted file formats are completely untested. Digital history is not long enough to definitively settle on best practices. ...
I know yāall are sick of me waffling about where to post these little daily notes, but I canāt help it. Iām honestly split right down the middle about it. I want everything to be in one place, but I canāt seem to make it all fit in one place. At least not the way I want things to fit. I could leave baty.net for the longer posts and daily.baty.net for these daily notes. Or, I could try combining everything here. Or maybe combine everything there and make this a landing page. I think each of these options has equal merit, so I havenāt been able to decide, and probably never will. I guess Iāll continue posting wherever Iām in the mood to post on any given day. ...
Digital Minimalism. Organizing. Markwhen.
I spent a good portion of yesterday offline. Well, not technically offline, but not on social media, which feels like the same thing. Trying to remember to step away from the computer once I notice that all Iām doing is clicking things basically at random. That means Iām done for now, but I rarely heed the clues.
Cleaning up my servers and backups