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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's weird how I can completely agree with someone's politics, yet frequently disagree with them about politics.
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.
Replace "developer" with "project/product manager" and same.
I would prefer to write separate posts for everything, but I don't often have the patience necessary for putting thoughts together well enough. So, I keep pouring them out here in journal entries. Good enough for who it's for.
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.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #313
I endeavour to seek beauty wherever it presents itself. In doing so, I am reluctant to invalidate the best of us in an attempt to punish the worst. I don’t think we can afford that luxury.
On the inseparability of art from artist, yet still finding beauty in the art of bad men.
For every book Trump bans from government libraries, private libraries should stop carrying something of his or his administration's. It's not a "ban", it's just, "No, sorry, we don't have that one."
Speaking of...can't anyone stop that guy? Please?!
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.
I'm feeling a little better this morning, but coffee still tastes like crap, which means it's not over yet.
Still doing journal posts both here and in the wiki, seemingly at random. I should figure this out. It's just that I sometimes like doing it one way, and sometimes the other way.
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.
I'm a little under the weather, still. Today will consist of tinkering and reading, mostly.
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.
Speaking of unnecessary federal budget items, how much are we spending to remove words like "Diversity" from thousands of documents? Trump is an idiot and a fucking menace.
I'm sorry, but what terrible things do conservatives(?) think that a trans person going into the "wrong" bathroom is going to accomplish? This irrational fear says more about the sickness of the GOP than it does trans people.
I have a love/hate relationship with everything.
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.
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Merlin mentions how much he loves spreadsheets in The historical cost of dancing medicine. It reminded me of how much I dislike spreadsheets. Always have, for some reason. Give me an outline or a database instead.
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
This is helping me, today.
Sometimes, it's not what you thought it was, eh?
JFC, I don't even want to be around the Good Guys anymore.
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.
and...
We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.
Everyone keeps trying to post their way out of it, though. Seems like.
As for me, I don't post about it. I donate, I write letters, I sign petitions. It's not much, but I'm certain it's better than pointing and yelling at people on social media.
Let's test the idea of continuing with daily journal posts as separate "things".
I've subscribed to a year of Wired Magazine. For $6/year, including the print edition(!), it's a pretty good deal.
Another one from today's roll. I used a (manual) flash and shot at ISO 800, but I think it's a fun look.
I don't feel like writing full-on blog posts, lately. What I'm interested in is journaling...in public. I don't like this Hugo template for that purpose, but I have learned that changing Hugo templates isn't worth the trouble. Now what?
I want to be entirely self-sufficient, but I don't want the job of maintaining anything. How's that supposed to work?
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
After spending hours trying to find a decent alternative to Photo Mechanic, I ran across this post, by me, from June Photo Mechanic in 2024 | Baty.net, in which I describe how I ended up paying for a year subscription then. I'm very confused, because I don't remember doing that. At least I have 6 more months with PM, right?
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 couldn'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 there's no denying their utility right now. I feel dirty, but I have a nice script, I guess?
I'm deleting a bunch of old files. There's a significant psychological difference between "zipping them up and putting them on some hard drive somewhere" and actually deleting them. Deleting, where feasible, is better.
Merry Christmas. Christmas arrives without much fanfare around here, but we do spend time with family. Maybe I'll even step away from the computer for a while.
Still true: I'm tired of organizing things
I watched the Ken Burns' "Leonardo da Vinci" documentary and now all I want to do is write in my notebooks...and dissect things.
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