After 12 years of using a Hobonichi Techo, I’m giving it up.

I’m really into paper-based tools lately. This is often a reaction to over-thinking my (digital) note-taking process. And oh my have I been over-thinking that process lately. Using paper is more work, but it’s worth it. Here are a few random thoughts I’ve had about it recently. Paper’s immutability is something you’d think one would put into the “Cons” column, but I find it to be its greatest feature. I’m fickle and uncertain and my digital notes suffer because of it. When I write something in a (paper) notebook, there it is, forever. I can scribble it out or copy it onto later pages, but I can’t change my mind and move it somewhere else based on whatever “system” I decide upon that day. It’ll always be right in that spot, in that notebook. I love this. ...

The new Saxon album is really good.

An extension for easily copying text from a web page into TiddlyWiki

I’m on assignment I swear some days I want to single-handedly bring back single-use devices. Remember when I used wttr to show the weather like this? _`/"".-. Light snow ,\_( ). 8(-7) °F /(___(__) ↗ 14 mph * * * 3 mi * * * 0.0 in Historically, the day after getting a COVID booster, I would feel pretty crappy. So far this morning I’m only suffering from a sore arm. This one was from Pfizer rather than Moderna, so we’ll see. ...

I’m fine. Server logs are interesting.

OldBoy remains as powerful, beautiful, and unsettling as the first time.

Losing interest in everything. And some blog notes.

The default error pages in httpd are awful

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. ...

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

A day with Kirby, Hugo, and OpenBSD

Canceling things brings mixed feelings

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.

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. ...

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.

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… ...

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.

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.

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