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From Kirby To Hugo

We’re back on Hugo for baty.net. For the past few months, I’ve been learning how to create a blog using Kirby CMS and it’s been a blast. Kirby is pleasant, easy, and fun to use. I’m glad I did it. I won’t bother you with a 2,000-word rationalization piece about switching. I just felt like using Hugo again, so here we are. I missed my nice Emacs-based publishing workflow. I missed “normal” YAML front matter. I missed having a completely static website. Who knows where we’ll be in a month, but today we’re using Hugo. I went back to the PaperMod theme. I don’t love how boring it is, but it’s clean, feature-rich, frequently updated, and easy to customize. ...

January 14, 2024

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Our near-blizzard conditions continue today. Alice had a hard time finding a place to poop on our walk this morning. Why would anyone want to leave Michigan in Winter? Oh, by the way I’ve switched back to Hugo for the blog

Low 9.3, High 16.6 - Moderate or heavy snow showers
Screenshot of laptop running OpenBSD

Friday, January 12, 2024

A day with Kirby, Hugo, and OpenBSD

January 12, 2024

Subscription changes

Canceling things brings mixed feelings

January 10, 2024

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

After yesterday’s Kirby->Hugo-Kirby debacle, I’ve been thinking about why I spend so much time farting around with and on my blog. Fair question, and one I don’t really have an answer to. I guess it’s my little place on the internet and I like to have the furniture arranged just so. But “just so” changes all the time, so I keep trying new configurations. It’s fun. Also useless, and nobody but me cares, but still. ...

Low 29.2, High 32.3 - Light snow

Lightroom it is, I guess

I canceled my Capture One subscription this morning, before it renewed for $180 for another year. I hadn’t planned to do this. The plan was to cancel my Lightroom subscription ($10/month) and run with C1 for the year. Capture One has more to offer, and I like the files I get from it better than from Lightroom. So what happened? When canceling the Lightroom subscription, I was informed that there would be an early-termination fee of $49. I’d forgotten that the $10/month subscription was subsidized by agreeing to pay for a year. They just charge me monthly. That was disappointing. ...

January 9, 2024

Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Have you ever been so enamoured with plain-text-static-html publishing that you’re willing to burn down a month of implementing a blog using Kirby CMS in order to go back to using Emacs and Markdown and Hugo? I have.

Low 30.5, High 33.9 - Heavy snow

Org-web-tools

I just wanted to give a shout-out to Adam Porter for his Org-web-tools Emacs package. I only discovered his package a month or so ago and I’ve used it daily since. Put a URL in the clipboard, then in an Org-document run M-x org-web-tools-insert-web-page-as-entry and bam!, the page is converted into Org’s format and inserted as a heading in the current file. For example, here’s Jason Velazquez’s post about Blogging Platforms, all tucked away nicely in my “Blogging Platforms” Denote note… ...

January 8, 2024

Prose.sh

I don’t need a new blogging platform, but if I did, I’d certainly be looking at Prose.sh. It’s blogging via sftp and rsync, which sounds awesome.

January 8, 2024

Obsidian is not at all joyful to use

I spent some time in Obsidian again yesterday. I do this once a month or so just to see if somehow it’s changed into something I’d like to use. Obsidian is great software, in theory, but I still find it boring and unpleasant to actually use.

January 4, 2024

Ending my OpenBSD experiment (Almost)

I tried OpenBSD. It’s nice. I don’t need it right now. (Or do I?)

January 4, 2024
It's taped right there on the wall, Jack.

The care and feeding of my system

It shouldn’t take so much time to keep my stuff running smoothly.

January 3, 2024

Synology drive replacement

A few months ago I became twitchy about my aging Synology so I replaced it with an old Mac Mini. The idea was that I understand how Macs work and if something breaks I can more easily deal with it. I never unplugged the Synology, though. You know, just in case. A week ago I started getting emails from the Synology that Drive 1 was failing. What I should have done is to unplug the thing and move on. But what I did was to order a new 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drive. ...

December 31, 2023

Reduce and Simplify

If forced to come up with a theme for 2024, I’m going with “Reduce & Simplify”. I haven’t formally defined it yet, but the gist of it is to use what I already have, remove things I rarely use, and rely on fewer, simpler things. Having many choices is great, until it’s not. I crossed that threshold a while ago and it’s not good for my brain. So, one app per task. One notebook. One bag. Less software. Consolidate and remove. Those sorts of things. ...

December 31, 2023

The Org-mode Island

The more I lean into using Org-mode files for everything, the more isolated I’m feeling. It may be irrational, because “plain text”, but having to export or otherwise translate everything when I post to my blog or other tools is becoming less fun. Org-mode Island is beautiful, but lonely. Later: Jeremy Friesen reacts to the above with his take on the isolation of using Org-mode. Here’s some follow up.

December 28, 2023

Printing my 2024 calendars using pcal

Generating yearly and monthly calendars using Pcal on the command line

December 28, 2023

More about Org-mode Island

Following up after reading Jeremy Friesen’s response to my earlier post

December 28, 2023

Beyond the Infinite Denote

I’m using using Denote’s silo feature for accessing my Beyond the Infinite folder

December 24, 2023

Not taking the photo

I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always regret not taking one.

December 23, 2023

I won't be joining RSS Club

My current thinking is that our little blogging society doesn’t need secrecy, it needs visibility.

December 23, 2023
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