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Baty.net

A blog about everything by Jack Baty 👋

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Hello again, Hugo

Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows

Self care

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Zoxide and Fish Shell

When everything is a Post

Mistaking what the thing is

Adding Pagefind search to Hugo

Links browser

Book: Gaslit ★☆☆

Photo test

Unplatform

Erin Kissane on social networks

Robin Sloan on government waste

Moving to Hugo?

Fixing my duplicate email fiasco with rmlint in Maildir

Bringing Apple Passwords into Pass

An email fiasco

Journaling changes

Vanilla to Doom to Vanilla

Roll 195 (Hasselblad 500C/M)

2025 Roll 194 (Olympus OM-2n / HP5)

Adding weather to my Fish welcome message

GoAccess and HTTP Protocols

Blog Questions Challenge (2025)

My first 3D print

Trying Ghostty

Handling Kirby content vs code

The Notebook Situation for 2025

Emacs from scratch once again

I have deleted all my PikaPods

Roll-189 (Olympus Stylus Epic)

From Hugo to Ghost and back again

Testing Aspect for photo management

Forging org-attach features into Tinderbox

Hardcover

Creating self-contained HTML exports from Tinderbox

Returning the Nikon FE2

I have neither reduced, nor simplified

Fun with software today

Adding an ID property to Org-mode files in directory

Adding an Edit link to Ghost posts

Floating images in Ghost

Roll-185 (Canon AE-1 Program HP5)

Roll-184 (Leica MP/HP5)

The pros and cons of moving back to Ghost

A Doom Emacs status update after several days

Diving back into Org-roam

Another Hugo deprecation

Searching baty.net

Eleventy

Roll-178 (Leica MP)

Tweaks to my Dired config in Emacs

Some quality-of-life improvements to the darkroom

My second sewing project is finished

Adding Expires headers to Caddy

How many times am I going to fix RSS images for the first time?

Org-rainbow-tags

Books.org redo

Roll-176 (Leica M3)

Roll-175 (Canonet G-III QL17)

Posting to social media without being “on” social media

Wild God

I wish this was something else

How long can I go without SetApp?

Asking ChatGPT to do things I used to think were fun

Micro.blog revisited

Roll-174 (Leica MP. HP5.)

Roll-173 (Hasselblad 500C/M. Tri-X.)

Roll-172 (Nikon F100. Kodak 200)

Clean Google search results using Lucky in Safari

Sooo…Hugo again?

Roll-169 (Hasselblad 500C/M. HP5)

Book: The Overstory

My notes as text in one folder

The GR1 has other problems

SilverBullet

Who am I responsible to here?

Roll-166 (Hasselblad 500C/M. HP5)

Purged the things that want to take over for Emacs

Into Doom and out again

My 20-year anniversary with Flickr

Photo Mechanic in 2024

A separate wiki for cameras

Writing a blog using Tinderbox

How I’m using Lightroom

Losing interest in organizing things

Speed is my enemy

The gravitational pull of Emacs

Reduce & Simplify - Bear app

Small company blogging tools and the Lindy effect

QR codes and index cards?

I’ve already stopped using Hey email

Today’s software installations

Howm reminds me of TiddlyWiki

A Nope page

But what if something something?!…

Adding when I should be removing

Re-calculation

Using the Apple Extended Keyboard II

Lightroom (Classic)…again

Using the reMarkable 2 as Read-Later device

Emacs Howm package for notes

OWC miniStack STX and the Mac Mini

What if I stopped worrying about [THING]?

I canceled my Fujifilm X100VI order

A (small) improvement to photo display on Glass.photo

From MacBook Pro to Mac Mini

Perfect Days (2023)

Nuke & Pave - the half-hearted edition

Whatever happened to my junk drawer?

Creating a WARC web archive using wget

Additional backups

No longer keeping my notes in a Git repo

Software that sparks joy

Fending off the Futz Monkey

A brief flashback into Lightroom

Searching in Mutt with Notmuch

Hanging up the Hobonichi

Paper is great

Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

Arc (Chrome) extension for copying text for TiddlyWiki

OldBoy (2003) ★★★★★

Custom error documents for httpd on OpenBSD

From Kirby To Hugo

Subscription changes

Lightroom it is, I guess

Org-web-tools

Prose.sh

Ending my OpenBSD experiment (Almost)

The care and feeding of my system

Printing my 2024 calendars using pcal

More about Org-mode Island

Beyond the Infinite Denote

Not taking the photo

I won’t be joining RSS Club

Safari and Arc

Sending Org-journal entries to Day One

Implementing Daily Notes in Kirby

What a blog should be?

Why I still use TheBrain

Philosophy of Tiddlers

Spacious-Padding Emacs package

When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change

Display list of org-attach’ed files in buffer property

App Defaults (2023 Edition)

Subscriptions

Are we back on Hugo?

Subscriptions

Reason I love Org-mode No. 257, archiving TODOs

Gitea

I’m doomed…again

Other People’s Enthusiasm

My shaving kit - something I’ve stuck with

Considering film (only)

My paper journal slash scrapbook

App Launchers

Moving this Kirby site from Fortrabbit to my DigitalOcean VPS

v13.baty.net

Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Kirby Experiment so far

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Saturday, October 07, 2023

Creating new Hugo posts using Emacs but with an option to use bundles

Images in Hugo RSS feeds

Friday, October 06, 2023

Thursday, October 05, 2023

Tinderbox for blogging?

Grand Haven Pier (Oct 1, 2023)

Links that look like links

An attempt at file management

RSS as security risk?

The analog equivalent of having too many blogs

Grab the weather forecast using weatherapi.com

RSS feeds as emails using Notmuch and rss2email

Hiding scheduled TODO items in Org-mode

SetApp apps I use

Film photography as late-stage Burning Man

Org-journal stays

At my analog desk

Silver is better

Baty.net

Unexpected side effects of throwing away ruined film

The Emergent Task Planner

Using both Denote and Org-roam

A new (old) theme for baty.net

The Leica Q2 (again)

Changing Emacs keybindings is not trivial

Whither Daily Notes?

Monday, July 10, 2023

I just can’t get into Obsidian

Saturday, July 08, 2023

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Monday, July 03, 2023

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Friday, June 30, 2023

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Monday, June 26, 2023

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Friday, June 23, 2023

Editing Hugo’s Markdown directly (not using ox-hugo)

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Forming some sort of Rudimentary Lathe

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Monday, June 19, 2023

Father’s Day

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Emacs from scratch (again)

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Friday, June 16, 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Renaming an item in DEVONthink to match the name of its parent group

Coming to my senses about Mimestream

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Friday, June 9, 2023

Overthinking Email

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Blogging options

Reef aquarium update

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

Monday, June 5th, 2023

Content-Security-Policy in Caddy

Sunday, June 04, 2023

Saturday, June 03, 2023

Friday, June 02, 2023

Roll-108 (Leica MP. HP5)

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Another round with Hugo for baty.net

Withdrawing from social media

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Bike Outliner

A week with the (original) Fuji X100

Create Chrome extensions from bookmarklets

Restarting my Micro.blog subscription

Friends (ruby CLI)

Why am I not taking photos?

Some old cameras I found in storage

Snoop Dogg on AI risks

A couple of Mu4e improvements

Prepending creation date to selected files using AppleScript (macOS)

Adding weather info to DEVONthink’s daily journals

I can’t be trusted with powerful software

I’m weary of all social media

Installing a new sprinkler system controller

Another Mastodon move

Blot is just right

Must we become what we’re near?

Printing daily.baty.net

My read-later service is made of paper

Wavelength Messenger

Nick Brandt on using a digital camera – I hated it

Roll-104 (Leica M3/HP5)

More like everyone else

Back to Org-roam (from Denote)

Renumbering my index cards

Viewing Caddy logs by date in GoAccess

The Spark File

A fix for backlink display with Org-roam and Doom Emacs

Using jAlbum for photo galleries

Leica SL2

Taking notes while reading

Sold, Leica M6

Using tags for org-refile-targets

Are there really only three things to photograph?

Things I can’t quit, Film photography and Emacs

The iPad as a diversion

Eleventy and my Daily Notes

My Antinet and Barthes’ “Camera Lucida”

Indexing my paper notebooks

Survey results - Blog post format preferences

Blog posts - Macro, Micro, (and Nano?)

Evernote in 2023

My posts…what goes where?

I don’t know what I want

Darkroom printing with borders

Roll-099 (Leica MP)

Roll-098 (Leica MP)

It behooves me, Paul

Bring back personal blogging

Back to scanning film with a real scanner

Beyond the Infinite

Mere Humans

Converting Markdown to Org-mode syntax in current buffer

My first real AI moment

Keeping my Org Agenda updated based on Denote keywords

Calm technology

Printing Web Pages

A Coat of Paint

Where would you like to see daily notes?

Personal Knowledge Management is exhausting

Mastodon move

Everything is in ~/org

Apple Studio Display

Trying something with TiddlyWiki

Tagging deleted messages in Notmuch

Roll-085 Leica M3

iA Writer vs Emacs

What does RudimentaryLathe.org mean for Baty.net?

Roll-80 (Leica MP/HP5 Plus)

Hiding File Permissions in Dired

Searching this site using Pagefind

A couple 4x5 self-portraits

Welcome to Tumblr

Roll-078 (Leica MP)

My first salt-water-aquarium

I almost sold the M10-R

C-x C-c

The LoveIt theme is back

TMI?

2022-Roll-073. OM-2n/HP5

Marking a region for highlighting in Hugo posts

Will I always be a static website person?

Moving my journal to (mostly) digital

Sold: Leica Q2 Monochrom

Trying a hybrid (digital/analog) workspace

Reset to Defaults

I love the HHKB but my pinky hurts

AirPods Max are amazing but I kind of hate them

Blogging with Curio

A few photos from Mother’s Day

Use what you have

Book logging in Emacs

I need a new film scanner

Searching Org-roam files

The West Wing (Show) Productivity System

The kinds of portraits I prefer…Judith Joy Ross, for example

Bringing my Daily posts here to baty.net

Comparing film and digital: Mom

A new blog just for the hell of it

Some unremarkable pens the Internet made me buy

Roll-062 (Leica M3/T-MAX P3200)

Publishing portions of my Org-roam database

Aligning comments in Emacs

Roll-061 (Leica MP/ HP5)

Configuring the org-download save directory

Posting from Emacs to WordPress using Org2Blog

Feelings about the Leica M10-R

I love this boring photo of a lamp

Adding an RSS feed to my wiki

Fiber-based silver gelatin prints are a wonderful PITA

Plain text can’t save you if you lose the files

I enjoy processing film

The Kodak Retina IIIC

The Daily Notes Dilemma

Highlighting in notebooks

TOP: The Leica M10, It’s Simple

You are allowed to use non-Leica lenses on your Leica Camera

Roll-058: (OM-2n/TMAX-100)

Domain Consolidation (Continued)

Domain Consolidation

Roll-056: (Leica M6/HP5)

Music: Stream or Buy?

Workflow: Capture One and Apple Photos

Starting with a clean desk

Visual Meditation

Holding a Leica M camera

Sold the Leica SL2-S and bought a Leica M10-R

Booyah’s with Jess

Roll-051: (Nikon F-100/Fuji Superia)

About to give up on making digital prints

What makes a good family photograph?

Studio self-portraits

I get bored

Self-portrait with Q2M

Roll-049: (Leica M3/HP5 Plus)

Roll-048: (Leica MP/HP5 Plus)

Leica MP

Roll-047: (Leica MP/HP5 Plus)

Weight logging with Tinderbox

Programming Note: 2021.12.27

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Roll-046 (Leica MP/HP5 Plus)

Too bad about the PrimeFilm XAs Scanner

Roll-045 (Leica MP/HP5 Plus)

Random Images – Lunch at Founders

Charlie

Random images – November 30, 2021

From workbench to writing desk

A Broader Scope

From Roll 043: (Leica M6/Portra 400)

From Roll 042 (Leica MP/HP5)

From Roll 041 (Leica M4/Delta 3200)

A reason to post?

From Roll-040 (Leica MP)

Leica lenses, my how you’ve grown

Managing my TiddlyWiki with WebDAV and Tailscale

From Roll(s) 2021-35/36

Some new scans of old Kodachromes

From Roll 2021-033 (Olympus OM-1n/HP5)

From Rolls 2021-030,031 (Leica MP)

From Roll 2021-029 (Autocord/BW400CN)

In a rut

From Roll 2021-028 (Leica IIIf/XP2)

The shitty camera with you

From Roll 2021-027 (Leica M6/Porta)

The (Leica) band is back together

Making 8.5 x 11 Digital Prints

A few 4×5 self-portraits

From Roll 2021-026 (Leica M3/HP5 Plus)

Having a camera vs a computer with me

The “charm” of vintage lenses

The story of Leica’s APO M-mount lenses – Macfilos

Old film challenge: Use it.

From Roll 2021-025 (Nikon F3, TMAX 100)

Two Rangefinders

From Roll 2021-024 (Hasselblad 500C/M)

The Grafmatic back (and yet another 4×5 failure)

Photo processing workflow updates

From Roll 2021-023 (Leica MP)

Glass: a social app for photographers

Large Format: Challenges

From Rolls 2021-021/22 (Leica MP)

The Linhof Master Technika

Roll 2021-020: (Leica MP/HP5+)

A new Instagram account: JackBatyPhoto

Which Leica gear to keep?

Film Fridge Status

From Roll 2021-018 (Portra 400 in Leica MP)

From Roll 2021-017 (Stylus Epic)

From Roll 2021-016 (Tri-X in Leica M6)

From Roll 2021-014 (Leica MP)

From Roll 2021-013 (first with Leica MP)

From Roll 2021-012 (Hasselblad 500C/M)

Doisneau on good pictures

Betting long on film with a new Leica MP

From Roll 2021-011

Don Delillo on Photography

From Roll 2021-010

Ron, France (1963)

A tweak to the photo workflow

Black-paint Leica M10-R. Beautiful.

My dad on Father’s Day

Trying to live on the iPad for a while

SOLD: Leica Q2 Monochrom

Comments on the Safari 15 beta

A visual thinker using text-based tools

Testing the Iceberg editor for WordPress…again

Using Zotero as a bookmarking and read-later service

Dusting off the Olympus Stylus Epic

Pilot Custom 823 Fountain Pen

Thomas Paine on simplicity

From the Fusionary party

Remote workers and their diapered managers

Selling cameras is usually a mistake

Alice in the yard with the APO-Summicron 75mm

The M1 iMacs: Unnecessarily thin – Riccardo Mori

A reluctant Lightroom user

Joys of well-engineered mechanical devices – Macfilos

Assembling Bryan’s boat lift

The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public – Cory Doctorow

Idle or floor it?

Back to the barn with nothing – Mike Johnston

Writing everything in TiddlyWiki and publishing just the public parts

What if I didn’t share everything?

A headroom so high you’ll never see it again – Riccardo Mori

Structure and Transclusion are the sidewalk around the quad – Robin Sloan

May is “Easy Mode” month

reMarkable is sleeping

★★★ 3 stars by default

Tools and Toys

HEY or Fastmail? The Answer.

Hey for Domains? Maybe.

A New Guild System – The Hedgehog Review

I think I see the light (meter): how to buy one – The Machine Planet

Using the current book’s cover as lock screen on my Kindle

My Holy Grail Pen and Paper – CJ Chilvers

A few from Roll-004

My blog’s overwrought theme

My new note-taking system: Don’t take notes.

Vapid vainglorious video – The Machine Planet

Are automatic backlinks useful?

Back to Fastmail?

Moom, Minus, and Keyboard Maestro

Renting eBooks

A few photos from Easter

The first photo I uploaded to Flickr

Another attempt and having One True Blog

The Minolta Autocord

Snapshots of Alice

Doom Emacs from scratch

Posting from iA Writer

Book logging in plain text

No one to replace the fish

A Remarkable Tablet

Keeping the Leica SL

Analogging

NextDNS

Twtxt and twt.social

Apps I’m using this week

I can’t decide about self-hosting

Hey! Where’d all the posts go?

Don’t listen to this guy. Use any lens you want with a Leica

It’s not a good darkroom, but it works

I forgot I wasn’t going to shoot any film this year

The answer to “Whom should I let manage my photos?”

Who should I let manage my photos?

The Leica APO-Summicron-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH Lens

The Leica SL2-S = InstaBuy!

Daily minutiae and record keeping

TiddlyWiki is more fun than Roam

All-in with Flickr (again)

Not film

My new (5-year-old) Leica SL

Am I losing interest in shooting film?

Manual Schmanual

A variety of 35mm SLR film cameras

Gettin’ with Gutenberg

Very expired Ektar 25

4×5 Self-portrait with strobe

Using the Skier Sunray Copy Box 3 for digital film scanning

Roam and TheBrain, together

The iPod Classic (revisited)

Coping with the Mechanism

Reading Long-Form Web Articles By Printing Them First

So, I went with Roam Research and am a True Believer

Keeping Org-roam Daily Notes in a separate folder

Org-roam vs other Roam-alikes

I’ll be using Org-roam for the time being

Org-roam and aliases

My day so far in Roam and/or Emacs