I don’t feel like writing full-on blog posts, lately. What I’m interested in is journaling…in public. I don’t like this Hugo template for that purpose, but I have learned that changing Hugo templates isn’t worth the trouble. Now what?

I want to be entirely self-sufficient, but I don’t want the job of maintaining anything. How’s that supposed to work?

DVD is dead. Long live DVD.

In a media landscape where the only sure thing is that there are no sure things, our best bet is still to put a disc in a drive

I was working on a little shell script for generating GoAccess reports on the web server but I was running into a minor problem that I couldn’t figure out. I asked ChatGPT for help and immediately had the solution, and a better overall script than I had written. The side effects of LLMs suck, but there’s no denying their utility right now. I feel dirty, but I have a nice script, I guess?

I’m deleting a bunch of old files. There’s a significant psychological difference between “zipping them up and putting them on some hard drive somewhere” and actually deleting them. Deleting, where feasible, is better.

I was going through my Braintoss messages and this one from April, 2023 jumped out at me:

there’s a low-level specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones

Ouch 😬 (It’s from ― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility)

Also this one:

The thing I miss most about working is canceled meetings.

And this:

I thought maybe I’d change themes here just to change things up a bit, without completely bailing on Hugo, as I’m wont to do. Changing Hugo themes is almost as much of a pain as changing blogging engines. I gave up after an hour.

jAlbum is pretty good at creating nice static web photo galleries. I made an elaborate gallery last year. It was nice, but now I can’t find my copy (or settings, originals, etc.) I’m not mad because I have to start over. I’m mad because all I do is organize stuff and despite that, I still can’t find things. Probably because of that, honestly. Anyway, starting over.

I need some new sources. Everything I read is related to AI or social media or some gadget I simply must buy. I’m bored with all of it.

See, the thing is, I need to somehow keep the the “Reduce & Simplify” dream alive. It’s OK if my system takes a little work to maintain, but it has to be one system. I can manage one. What I can’t do, is have a bunch of completely different setups that each take “a little work” to maintain. I’ve become overwhelmed as a result of my never-ending urge to tinker (combined with boredom). So here we are, on baty.net, doing daily notes again. One Blog, One Life or some such thing, right?

See how the way I’m doing this blog ruins the archives?…