In a recent post, My Antinet and Barthes’ “Camera Lucida”, I wrote about having shelves filled with books that I remember nothing about. Seems like a waste, no?
Writing notes (by hand) while
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Long story, short, I sold my precious Leica M6 (Classic). I could no longer justify having two modern Leica M cameras, so I decided to keep the beautiful MP and pass the M6
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Today I learned that I can use tags in Org files as a filter for org-refile-targets. My refile targets are mapped to org-agenda-files but limit them to only top-level headings in order to
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There are always cameras loaded with film scattered around my house. I don’t go out much, so sometimes I’ll pick up a camera and take a random photo just for the
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I know that film photography and Emacs are completely unrelated, but I have been thinking about both of them quite a lot recently.
Since moving back to shooting film in 2003, I have
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I’m tired of computers. I spent hours today rummaging around my notes and trying to figure out if I should write some new thing in Emacs or Obsidian or Tinderbox or what?
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Somehow, for reasons unknown, I’ve rebuilt daily.baty.net using Eleventy.
It started when I struggled to make some tweaks to the site, which is (was) generated using Tinderbox. Tinderbox, being Tinderbox,
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The first book I read with my Antinet in mind was “Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography” by Roland Barthes. I’m not doing a book review here, but I wanted to say a
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I keep a simplified version of a Bullet Journal in paper notebooks. I write in it every day. In it, I write tasks, log meals, write journal entries, copy quotes, etc. This way
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I can never decide which blog post format I should use on my home page(s). Should I use full posts so that all of the content is available by simply scrolling? Should
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I remain incapable of consolidating my blogs, social media, etc.
I’m realizing that I have three types of blog posts, “macro”, “micro”, and “nano”.
Normal long-form posts are “macro” posts. Shorter posts
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You all remember Evernote, right? For years (beginning in the late 2000s), Evernote was the note-taking tool for many of us. Then, they
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Am I overthinking it? Of course I’m overthinking it.
Let’s face it, I enjoy trying different ways of publishing and tinkering with the tools for doing so. Once in a while,
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This has been a tumultuous week for me, photography-wise. Early in the week, I made this silver gelatin darkroom print of a 35mm frame of HP5 film.
It’s a photo of some
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I took the MP on my walk and was determined to shoot an entire roll. It was overcast, dreary, and the path I walk is pretty boring, but I did my best and
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I like the way prints look with a small black border around the image, like this:
I know some people file their negative holders but that means no cropping and there’s no
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