This is a collection of short notes and photos. They are not included in the main RSS feed, but are cross-posted to my Mastodon account. If you prefer RSS, there’s a dedicated feed.
I鈥檝e been posting over on baty.blog instead, so these notes have sort of stopped happening. How long until I鈥檓 back, do you suppose? (This one not included).
I鈥檓 not clear what I鈥檓 supposed to put in these Notes vs what I might just drop into a daily post. At one point I was syndicating them to Mastodon, but once I stopped doing that, these notes have become less useful. Still noodlin'.
Stop expecting the bare minimum: Apple鈥檚 waited a long time to do this. Apple is known for rarely being first, but coming in and doing it right when they do enter the fray. Why do we think they鈥檒l phone this one in when it finally does happen? I think it鈥檚 because that Apple isn鈥檛 this Apple. I think it鈥檚 because they phoned in AI and as far as I can tell they phoned in Liquid Glass. Why do we think they won鈥檛?
Color is a coating applied _later on_ to the original truth of the black-and-white photograph. For me, color is an artifice, a cosmetic (like the kind used to paint corpses). Roland Barthes, Camera Obscura
You know what鈥檚 weird? I鈥檝e installed dozens of apps on this laptop and not once have I had to go to a website and do the download->.dmg->extract->drag->delete dance or anything. And no App Store. I guess I didn鈥檛 expect that but I鈥檓 quite happy about it.
I have a shell script that creates a new Hugo post in the right place, with the right name, and all the right front matter. I thought I鈥檇 try it on this linux machine, since Omarchy really pushes NeoVim, and I need to get used to NeoVim. Except after running the script, it opened the file in Typora. I鈥檓 still learning, I guess. 馃槉
A fast, good-looking and well-configured tiling window manager is a wonderful thing. It鈥檚 how I want to use a computer. In my case right now that鈥檚 Arch Linux and Hyprland via Omarchy.
The Arch forums after Omarchy feel a lot like Mastodon did after a Twitter exodus: YOU鈥橰E NOT USING IT RIGHT!
photographing in black and white is not an afterthought. Andre Wagner
I don鈥檛 know where anything is in Linux. Omarchy does a decent job of abstracting things, but once I move outside of that, I鈥檓 lost. This is going to be a long road, isn鈥檛 it?
To publish this note, I had to: Share my ~/sites directory from the Mac via Syncthing Install Go Install Hugo Install just Install Node Tweak some paths in my init-hugo.el Authenticate with Github It took me about 15 minutes. Linux, and especially Omarchy, continues to impress. If you鈥檙e reading this, it all worked.
...the dream became reality when she finally completed her perfect note-taking system comprised of Zettelkasten-styled interlinked markdown files stored in Org-mode format with two-way conversion on the fly with syncronization across devices through a p2p network with E2E-encryption and backups stored in IPFS, with both native and PWA apps for all major platforms as well as command-line interface with a rich set of zsh autocompletions and keyboard shortcuts. Matthew Solenya, The Olognion
The reason we give for "Why I switched from System A to System B" is usually a derivative of "I was bored and wanted something new to play with.", but this doesn't stop us from writing 5,000-word explainer posts in which we invent all sorts of other reasons. Jack Baty, Rudimentary Lathe, Aug. 19, 2021
鈥機ause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it鈥檚 gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money and that鈥檚 fine in low doses but if it鈥檚 the basic main staple of your diet you鈥檙e gonna die. David Foster Wallace
People seem to compare the hype around AI/LLM use to that of Blockchain/NFT from a couple of years ago. The difference for me is that I don鈥檛 personally know anyone who cared at all about blockchain, whereas everyone I know is using and is amazed by AI tools. Including me. Sure it鈥檚 still over-hyped, but at least it deserves some of it.
This kind of thing drives me bonkers. Is it really not possible to make packaging both secure and openable?
If you鈥檙e reading this, my new shell script for creating notes here in Hugo is working. (See post).
The difference between what I imagine that people think of me and what people actually think of me is a terrifying and humbling gap.
I鈥檓 beginning to feel like automated cross-posting is a mistake. For example, I might want to write this on the blog, but not have it propagated everywhere, automatically. Sometimes these notes are just for me, ya know? Still noodling on it.
Can you imagine what things would be like for me if I鈥檇 have just stuck with one or two approaches to everything. Given any task, I probably have 3 or 4 ways of doing it, each of them wildly different, but fully formed. This means I have a decision to make for everything all the time. It also means that I second guess every decision. Every time. It鈥檚 kind of exhausting.