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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 Ā· Jack Baty

I think I have to go back to Mu4e

I ā€œsettledā€ on using notmuch for my email, but now I’m reconsidering that decision. Notmuch is great, but using it forces me to have two email stores. One is IMAP (via Fastmail). The other is my local notmuch database. Mbsync keeps things kind of synced, but it’s really only a few flags. Notmuch doesn’t delete or move email on the server. This means I’m managing, for example, my Inbox, in two places. It’s not hard, but is it necessary? ...

February 19, 2025 Ā· 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 ā€œagileā€ shop, but least I can tell when the toilet’s clean. ...

February 18, 2025 Ā· 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 Ā· Jack Baty

Mundane film vs digital photos

The other day, while bored, I shuffled around the house and burned through a roll of film, just for something to do. I took photos of random stuff that I use or see every day. The photos were boring af but, for some reason, because they’re film I think they’re kind of cool. But are they? No, they’re not. Film photography is fun, and the paraphernalia is awesome, but a boring photo is still a boring photo. Here’s an egregious example. HP5 from the Nikon F100 on the left. Nikon Zf with an HP5 film recipe on the right. ...

February 16, 2025 Ā· 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 Ā· Jack Baty

You are all a bunch of sick freaks (selfh.st)

You are all a bunch of sick freaks.: The worst part is how you enable each other. ā€œHey guys, just finished my basic home automation setupā€, and then you post a system diagram that looks like the blueprint for a nuclear reactor. Fourteen Docker containers just to manage a suite of ā€˜internet of things connected shitware. I enjoyed this :).

February 16, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

Giving people GAS

Heh, Dave noticed that I bought a new camera and now he’s thinking about new cameras. ...

February 16, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

The Nikon Zf

In a desperate attempt to spark some enthusiasm for photography, I bought a Nikon Zf. I know, this is not the best approach, but it’s what I did so here we are. I’m jotting down a few quick thoughts and first impressions. (This isn’t a review. Just notes to myself about the camera). Nikon Zf The Zf1 is meant to replace my Leica SL2. The SL2 is a terrific camera, but it’s so big and heavy that I never take it anywhere. With the Zf being smaller and lighter, I figured it would make more sense as an ā€œeveryday carryā€ camera. ...

February 15, 2025 Ā· 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 Ā· 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 Ā· 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 Ā· Jack Baty

Linus Torvalds on being "woke"

Linus Torvalds (Mastodon): I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that ā€œwell regulated militiaā€ means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the ā€œwrongā€ clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me ā€œwokeā€, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. ...

February 12, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

Removing journal posts from the RSS feed

I’ve decided to exclude ā€œJournalā€ posts from the RSS feed. Thing is, I like how it feels to write stuff here knowing that it’s not ā€œgoing anywhereā€. If something shows up that is particularly brilliant, I’ll create a separate post. Since most things are decidedly not particularly brilliant, I’ll feel better keeping it to myself (and the handful of loonies people who actually come and visit the website). If there’s an outcry, I’ll put things back. Or maybe set up a separate feed just for the journal entries. I dunno. ...

February 12, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

Writing about tools

I wish I’d stop writing about the tools I use to write about the tools I use.

February 11, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

Roll 202 (Nikon F100)

I was so bored today that I grabbed the first camera I saw with a partially used roll (the Nikon F100) and walked around the house snapping anything at all. One of the shelves in my office ...

February 10, 2025 Ā· 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 ā€œRudimentary Latheā€ for nothing. ...

February 8, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty

A few things I like about TiddlyWiki

I got big into TiddlyWiki around 2018, when I created my Rudimentary Lathe wiki. For a few years there, I put stuff into it daily. I sometimes drift away to something New/Shiny, but I always end up back in TiddlyWiki. Off the top of my head, here are a few things I like about TiddlyWiki: ...

February 7, 2025 Ā· 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 Ā· Jack Baty

Turning Markdown files into emails

Now that I’ve solved my Notmuch sync problems, I’m more inclined to move ahead with converting other content into emails and indexing them using Notmuch. I thought I’d start with my blog posts. ...

February 6, 2025 Ā· Jack Baty
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