Self-portrait in mirror with Canonet I first decided to sunset the Canonet, in 2022 due to a few issues making it less than ideal to use. I have a short memory, and was feeling badly about the camera sitting on a shelf, so I loaded it up with a roll of HP5. Processing the roll yesterday reminded me why I’d set it aside: ...
Don’t worry about inconsistent posts and what about daily.baty.net?
I’m finding it difficult being “off” social media right now. Every time there’s a lull in my thoughts, I want to reach for one of my feeds. It’s how I avoid doing anything useful. I want social media to be a source of information and not purely entertainment, but it usually ends up being entertainment. Also, it’s often infuriating, which is why I stepped away in the first place. One thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m not sharing things, I feel kind of invisible. I like sharing things. My blog(s) are good for sharing. It’s what they’re for. But not having comments on the blogs means there’s not much actual engagement. I like engagement :). That’s what Mastodon (and more recently, Micro.blog) is good at, which is why I find it difficult to leave. ...
I can’t figure out how to coax Hugo into generating full URLs to images when I’m using Page Bundles. The whole point of bundles is that I can use links to images like [](yet-another-self-portrait.jpg) and it just works. But it doesn’t work in RSS feeds. Not all RSS readers automatically figure out the full URLs. The figure short codes should at least work, but don’t. Frustrating.
The new record from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds is called “Wild God” and it’s fantastic. Nick Cave in a good mood is a rare and wonderful thing.
With all of the free time and curiosity I have, you’d think I’d be good at something by now. I’m starting to figure out that if I don’t know where to put something, I probably shouldn’t be keeping it to begin with.
Social media. Org-mode. Idiots with boats.
When a horrible billionaire ruins my wonder at the night sky
I am very poorly today and hate everybody and everything
My SetApp subscription was scheduled to renew today, but I didn’t let it. I figured that if I buy the apps outright that I actually use, I’ll spend around the same amount as I would on a 1-year SetApp license for both Macs. The purchased apps would either come with lifetime licenses or a small annual upgrade fee. This means next year I’ll pay a much smaller amount for all the same software. ...
I’ve been sitting here staring at the screen and clicking things mostly at random and finding nothing that sparks my interest. Am I reaching the end of something? Feels like I’m reaching the end of something. I just hope it’s the beginning of something else.
I’ve been testing a version of Johnny Decimal using folders and org-mode files. While doing this, I found myself frequently wanting to create a new .org file in the current (Dired) directory with the same name as the directory (long story). In a past life, this would have been a fairly straightforward challenge. I’m not remotely fluent in (emacs) lisp, but I’ve always enjoyed learning, so I would have dug in and figured out how to write the function myself. ...
I don’t have any real plans today other than one appointment at lunch. How shall I waste spend the day?
No more Ghost instance and a new fire pit.
Back on Micro.blog after some time away.
Maybe these daily notes are more like an internal monolog, published. The microblog will be for things I want to deliberately share. This would be what I’m using Mastodon for, currently, but I’ll crosspost to Mastodon instead. It seems that everywhere I turn, someone is giddy about Oasis getting back together. I’m not embarrassed to go on record stating that I absolutely cannot stand their music, so consider me nonplussed.
Thankfully, I’ve got things to do in real life today. Otherwise, I’d be wasting the day by fretting over the long-term use of Emacs. I need to get past that, but not today. I can’t think of anything more useless and boring than trying to craft the perfect AI prompt so that it will generate something useless and boring for me.
Roll of HP5 from the Leica MP
I spent the afternoon with my parents to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary. This roll of Tri-X was taken with the Hasselblad 500C/M and the 80mm Planar. Mom and dad My sister’s family Door into my brother-in-law’s pole barn Lula
I talk about gear and process a lot because it helps fill the gaps left by a dearth of ideas. All of the handwringing around AI or Apple or [trending topic here] has become boring. So has the naval gazing around blogging and social media and everything. I need a new thread to pull.