Saturday, March 01, 2025

I would love to be a person who goes out to photograph because I have something to say, rather than someone looking for an excuse to play with cameras and because I’m bored. I find YouTube to be 95% useless, but the other 5% is helpful and can be absolutely amazing and wonderful. If I cancel my subscriptions to every newspaper that publishes something stupid, I’ll have nowhere left to get any news. Mastodon, you say? Hardly. ...

March 1, 2025 · Jack Baty

Friday, February 28, 2025

Hey everyone, a little more empathy, please. Thanks.

February 28, 2025 · Jack Baty

Thursday, February 27, 2025

New t-shirt is funny. I’ve been shopping for desktop computers to run Linux. Something easy and nice, like a low-mid range Thelios, maybe. This is a terrible idea and I should stop doing it at once. When do you think I’ll finally find something that I’m good at? There are too many people in my head. I like Matt Birchler’s Quick Reviews app, but I wish it would look up the year/director for me. The new iOS app might do something like that, but I won’t use the app on iOS. ...

February 27, 2025 · Jack Baty

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Well, I’m in that place again. You know the one. The one where I write the same thing in more than one, and sometimes more than two, places because I can’t decide where stuff goes. I’ve backed up and made all of my Kindle books readable on any device. I also just borrowed a book from the library, directly from my Kobo. This feels very good.

February 26, 2025 · Jack Baty

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

I’d like to get kaorahi (Howm) and Prot (Denote) together and maybe lock them in a room for a few hours. At the end, there would either be plans for building the greatest Emacs package ever…or fisticuffs.

February 25, 2025 · Jack Baty

Monday, February 24, 2025

What’s New in Emacs 30.1? - Mastering Emacs Full support for Emacs on Android, and a whole host of touch screen-related improvements to Emacs as a result. Sooo, do I need an Android phone, now? Most of today was spent farting around in Emacs. Again. I don’t mind. It was fun. I tweaked Howm. Played with Gnus. Upgraded to Emacs 30.1, and cleaned up some config. A good time was had by all. ...

February 24, 2025 · Jack Baty

Sunday, February 23, 2025

I’m starting to worry that Severance is just being weird for the sake of being weird. Some of this stuff had better resolve itself or I’m going to be very disappointed.

February 23, 2025 · Jack Baty

Saturday, February 22, 2025

I still don’t know what belongs here. It’s mostly just a place to write things I’m thinking about. Things that have even the remotest chance of being useful or entertaining to someone else. There are at least three places I write things: Here, the wiki, and my Emacs daybook. And this doesn’t include the paper options. I don’t enjoy having to decide where to put things, but I have been unsuccessful in limiting myself to only one option. ...

February 22, 2025 · Jack Baty

Friday, February 21, 2025

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

February 21, 2025 · Jack Baty

Thursday, February 20, 2025

I’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 I’m keeping it. I’m considering adding a /notes section of the blog, with tweettoot-sized posts. No titles. Probably no RSS feed. And they’d be syndicated via EchoFeed to Mastodon. It would take the place of these Journal posts. Maybe? Not sure it’s something I want, but it’s being considered. ...

February 20, 2025 · Jack Baty

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

I’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. I’ll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I won’t name, I’d go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an “agile” shop, but least I can tell when the toilet’s clean. ...

February 18, 2025 · Jack Baty

Monday, February 17, 2025

I’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. It’s not the Nikon’s fault, really. It’s that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and it’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 I’ve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now I’m spending the morning either finding missing photos or dealing with duplicates. I never learn. ...

February 17, 2025 · Jack Baty

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Me, all proud with my new camera I made a little Retrobatch script to overlay the date onto a photo. It’s meant for the OpenGraph cover image on these daily posts. I don’t normally include the photo in the posts themselves, but I did today. For some reason. ...

February 16, 2025 · Jack Baty

Friday, February 14, 2025

Still a bit sick. Slept better, though. It’s hard using a CPAP with a stuffy nose. I’m in one of those moods where I don’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 there’s that. The thing I’m thinking about now is going back to Lightroom desktop for photos. I’ve been using Lightroom Classic because it’s got everything, but it sure is janky compared to the new Lightroom. And with Ligthtroom I don’t need to organize everything (although I probably would, anyway). Still thinking about it. ...

February 14, 2025 · Jack Baty

Thursday, February 13, 2025

I’m a little under the weather, still. Today will consist of tinkering and reading, mostly.

February 13, 2025 · Jack Baty

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

I’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 I’ll keep doing both, depending on my mood that day. Details Consistency is boring. I don’t feel like exercising or weighing myself today. I guess I’m not in the mood for expending any effort or being exposed to any more bad news right now. ...

February 12, 2025 · Jack Baty

Saturday, February 08, 2025

I have an idea about these daily posts. I’ll be writing throughout the day over in the wiki. Then, end of day, I’ll grab anything I think is worth sharing and re-post it here. I mean, I didn’t call the wiki a “Rudimentary Lathe” for nothing. ...

February 8, 2025 · Jack Baty

Friday, February 07, 2025

I’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

February 7, 2025 · Jack Baty

Thursday, February 06, 2025

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

February 6, 2025 · Jack Baty

Wednesday, February 05, 2025

JFC, I don’t even want to be around the Good Guys anymore. You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’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, it’s exactly what they want. ...

February 5, 2025 · Jack Baty