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Thursday, April 17, 2025

I’ve been busy with my Linux experiment. I’m writing about it there, if you want to follow along. Today, I put a Framework laptop in my cart. This whole experiment only got rolling because I thought I might like Linux on my desktop, so why am I looking at laptops when I have a perfectly servicable (2015) ThinkPad X1 Carbon (that I’m typing on right now)? I can’t explain it. Most likely it’s because I have an Apple Studio Display and (I’m told) it’s quite challenging to use it with Linux. I’m not changing monitors for this, the Studio Display is too good (and expensive). ...

Partly cloudy 61.0 | Low 30.7, High 59.2 Ā· 105 words

FiiO CP13 Portable Cassette Player

Nostalgia is some powerful stuff, ain’t it? My old Nakamichi cassette deck stopped working a few years ago, and I never bothered to replace it. I’ve been into vinyl and still have a good CD transport, so I didn’t see a need for cassettes. Occasionally, though, I’ll spot a cassette somewhere and think I might like to bring mine out and play them. I didn’t want some ancient ā€œvintageā€ cassette deck, and I didn’t want to spend much. ...

April 15, 2025 Ā· 277 words

Monday, April 14, 2025

Linux is fun, but frustrating. I’m trying to stick with it long enough to blame Linux rather than my inexperience for my troubles. As a way to help remember the process, I’ve started a new blog at linux.baty.net1. The new blog is a journal of things I’m learning or struggling with. I’d normally be taking these notes locally but I thought it would be worthwhile to publish them. I must admit that this was also a fun excuse to play with BSSG.Ā ā†©ļøŽ ...

April 14, 2025 Ā· 82 words
My dog sniffing a branch

Saturday, April 12, 2025

So, yeah, I seem to have four blogs at the moment. It’s fun, but not sustainable. Anyway, good morning! I mean, maybe I’m meant to be the guy who has a bunch of different blogs and nobody wants to follow because he’s inconsistent and spread so thin. Is that so bad?

Sunny 35.8 | Low 29.1, High 60.1 Ā· 51 words

BSSG (Bash Static Site Generator)

Today I learned about BSSG, a static site generator written using Bash. I’ve been chugging along with Hugo for a minute, but you just know I have to try every new thing I discover, so… bssg.baty.net How fun is that!? Written by Stefano Marinelli, BSSG is so simple and easy to use that I had a blog started in, I swear, two minutes. The only thing I had to do was change MARKDOWN_PROCESSOR to use pandoc, and I was off and running. Nice. ...

April 11, 2025 Ā· 191 words
My grandson walking away from me in yard

Friday, April 11, 2025

Dammit, now I’m posting journal posts in two places. I get bored doing things the same way every day, so I change things. I don’t know if this makes me interesting or if it’s a symptom of some deep-rooted mental issue. Read Mike’s Deft, Markdown, Marksman/Emacs LSP, iA Writer and then spent an hour playing with Marksman and I ended up getting nowhere and now I’m upset that I can’t get wikilink completion in random Markdown files. This is why I shouldn’t be using Emacs. ...

Overcast 34.0 | Low 32.5, High 55.9 Ā· 162 words

Thursday, April 10, 2025

I had fun yesterday working with the Coping Mechanism blog and Ghost. If you ignore the upsell and ā€œplease subscribe!ā€ noise, Ghost is rather pleasant to work with. The problem is that I don’t want to migrate this blog to it, and I don’t want multiple blogs. This means that, while I still may tinker with Ghost, I shouldn’t use it for anything ā€œrealā€. So, what am I doing? ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ. I’m typing this in iA Writer for reasons I can’t explain. ...

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My mom and grandson playing piano

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

I’m supposed to be working on a new website for a family member. I’m 80% finished, but the final 80% is the uninteresting part and I don’t feel like doing it right now. Instead, I spent an hour this morning feeling like I should go back to using Lightroom Classic instead of Capture One, but I still prefer Capture One, so I’ll have to deal with the things I don’t like about it. ...

Overcast 28.0 | Low 26.1, High 48.2 Ā· 126 words
Black and white photo of man cutting birthday cake

Roll 207 (Leica M3)

It’s my dad’s 84th birthday. I had the M3 with a roll of HP5.

April 8, 2025 Ā· 14 words

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

In a mood, evidenced by changing Denote’s default file format twice in ten minutes.

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Black and white photo of my dog

Monday, April 07, 2025

I don’t know what to write about today. I’m sitting here at my usual desk typing into a full-screen Emacs frame with a few of my usual buffers open. I did end up giving up on Doom again. It’s just more than I want, even though it does a lot of nice things without my help. And I miss having SPC as leader key. I’m not doing that general.el thing again, either. Oh well, I guess it’s back to C-c or C-x for everything. ...

Overcast 33.1 | Low 22.6, High 39.2 Ā· 133 words

Feynman on computers

ā€œThere is a computer disease. Anybody who works with computers knows about it. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ā€˜play’ with them!ā€ Richard Feynman, ā€œSurely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynmanā€

April 6, 2025 Ā· 42 words
Black and white film photo of a bunch of film rolls

Sunday, April 06, 2025

I honestly don’t know whether the past few days of tinkering with Emacs evil-mode, Doom, etc. was fun or a complete, confusing waste of time. Right now I’m thinking the latter.

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I don't care what you think

I don’t mean to be rude, but I don’t care much what you think. OK, that’s not exactly true, I care deeply what you think. Maybe it’s more accurate to say that I don’t worry about what you think. Are you mad that I keep switching platforms? Sorry, not sorry. Are you annoyed that I use words like ā€œjustā€ and ā€œmaybeā€ and ā€œreallyā€ too often? Yeah, me too. We’ll get over it. Does it bother you that I don’t do enough throat-clearing before mentioning something that has become problematic? You’ll be fine. Would you prefer that I only write about Emacs? Not happening. ...

April 5, 2025 Ā· 154 words
black and white film photo of my grandson looking out the window.

Saturday, April 05, 2025

I should apologize for my mood this morning…Sorry about my mood this morning. Yesterday, I decided to bring back my Doom Emacs config. I’ve been missing evil-mode and using Space as leader key. Sometimes hitting Control-this Control-that constantly becomes tedious, ya know? After a couple of hours, I bailed on the idea. Doom offers a ton of quality-of-life features, but it also contains a lot of magic. As much as I appreciate the magic, I too often feel like it’s working against me. Back to my own config, which works against me too, but at least it’s my fault this way. ...

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Black and white photo of my dog on the couch

Friday, April 04, 2025

I need to find a way for my brain to relax. I spend entire days with a dozen apps open, each with a dozen tabs open. I click rapidly between them looking for something to focus on. I never find anything. Part of my problem might be that I’ve surrounded myself with too much infrastructure. There are dependencies everywhere. daily.baty.net for example. The idea is that I have a separate blog that works well for short, daily writing. Except that now I have two blogs. And I’m (for the moment) using Kirby for that one. This means an entirely different workflow and setup. This is great for when I’m feeling bored with Hugo. It keeps me from moving this blog back and forth. However, it’s also more stuff in my brain. Do I need more stuff in my brain? Right now, I don’t think so. Hence, I’m writing today’s journal post here. ...

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Handling robots.txt with Caddy and Kirby CMS

Kirby CMS uses plain .txt files for content. Since the bare .txt files should not be accessible with a browser, one normally uses a path matcher in Caddy and then denies requests based on a path, like so… path *.txt /content/* /site/* /kirby/* /.* But what if I want a /robots.txt file? Turned out to be a simple answer, but it took me a while to find it. I’m writing it down here in case anyone else might need it. Here’s the whole block from my site’s Caddyfile: ...

April 2, 2025 Ā· 140 words

Journelly - Org mode-backed journaling for iOS

I saw the Irreal post about Journelly, but mostly ignored it because I wasn’t looking for a new iOS journaling app. He did mention that Journelly is by Ɓlvaro RamĆ­rez, author of Plain Org, lmno.lol, and others, so that made things more interesting. What intrigued me most, though, was learning that Journelly is backed by plain-text Org Mode files. Bonus! Now it had my attention. Ɓlvaro was kind enough to let me into the TestFlight, and I’m putting it through its paces this morning. ...

April 2, 2025 Ā· 380 words

Daily.baty.net is running Kirby now

I’ve migrated daily.baty.net to Kirby CMS. It has been a static site managed byĀ TinderboxĀ for a long time. I love Tinderbox, but now that baty.net is back on Hugo, I wanted a playground for learning more about Kirby, without moving the main blog back and forth between Hugo and Kirby. So, here we are. Your RSS feed is probably complaining right now. Sorry about that.

March 29, 2025 Ā· 66 words

Mu4e transient menu

I ran across something neat while reading the Mu4e release notes A (experimental) ā€œtransientā€ menu has been added for mu4e. You can use it e.g., with something like: (require 'mu4e-transient) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m") #'mu4e-transient-menu) It’s very handy!

March 29, 2025 Ā· 38 words
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