I’ve had my salt water reef tank for nearly a year, so I thought I’d post an update. The gist is that it’s been both easier and more difficult than expected. It’s easier because I was worried that doing water changes and parameter checks would be complex or difficult. They are neither. I do a 15% water change every week, and test for Nitrates, Nitrites, Phosphates, and Calcium every 10 days to two weeks. ...
More on this week with Obsidian.
Obsidian again? Vision Pro hottakes are already annoying.
I noticed today that my CSP (Content-Security-Policy) Caddy’s baty.net virtual host was not working. Whoops. I think I’ve fixed it, but if you spot any weird loading issues let me know. Here’s the relevant section from my Caddyfile: header * { Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; font-src 'self' https://fonts.gstatic.com/; style-src 'self' https://fonts.googleapis.com/; script-src 'self' https://plausible.io; connect-src 'self'" Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy "require-corp" Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy "same-origin-allow-popups" Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy "same-origin" Permissions-Policy "accelerometer=(self), autoplay=(self), camera=(self), cross-origin-isolated=(self), display-capture=(self), encrypted-media=(self), fullscreen=(self), geolocation=(self), gyroscope=(self), keyboard-map=(self), magnetometer=(self), microphone=(self), midi=(self), payment=(self), picture-in-picture=(self), publickey-credentials-get=(self), screen-wake-lock=(self), sync-xhr=(self), usb=(self), xr-spatial-tracking=(self)" Server "baty.net" Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000; X-Content-Type-Options nosniff X-Frame-Options DENY X-XSS-Protection "0" } FWIW, I’m back to an “A” rating at securityheaders.com.
Being away from social media is good for me, but I hate it. Kicking video games to the curb. TheBrain for my PKM system…or not.
Daily vs separate posts?
Notes on using Mimestream.
Memorial Day with family with the Leica MP, 50mm Summilux, and a roll of HP5.
Journal blog post format changes. Mimestream for email. Arq backup problems. Tweaking the PaperMod theme.
I love Blot. It’s just right. But you know how sometimes you just want everything on your own server where you can touch it? Where you have access to the server redirects and access logs and everything? That’s what happened to me this weekend, so I’m once again publishing using Hugo and hosting on my DigitalOcean VPS with Caddy. Another factor driving the switch was wanting to use ox-hugo for writing posts. I know I’ve said that using Org-mode to write and then convert to Markdown for Hugo can feel like too many moving parts, but I had a nice setup going before tossing it for other platforms. It’s really easy to create new posts as new headings in my blog.org file. ...
Oh goody, another “Why I’m leaving social media post”! Feel free to skip this one. We’ve all read many like it.
Generative AI, social media, blog comments
Om on the Leica Q3. Unsubscribing from finger-pointers.
Bike Outliner The other day I wrote this: Knowledge should reside in the notes, not in the software used to manage the notes. I’m feeling like software has been hindering me more than helping me. I spend too much of my time building overly complex workflows in Emacs or Tinderbox or Obsidian or whatever. These crazy workflows often introduce dependencies and push the actual knowledge up into the process/software. This seems like a bad idea. ...
I recently found my original Fujifilm X100 in a box in our storage unit. I have such fond memories of the camera, so I knew I would enjoy using it, even today. I was surprised to learn that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. It still feels great to carry, but it’s not quite as nice to actually use as I expected. It’s kind of slow. Slow to power on. Slow to focus. Slow to navigate. This shouldn’t bother me, as I often use old, manual-focus cameras and I’m used to working slowly. I guess the difference is that if I’m going ask the camera to do things, it should be faster than I am. The X100 isn’t. It’s not unusable, but it takes a bit of the joy out of using the camera. ...
I’ve been head over heels in love with Arc for a long time now. So far, the only thing I don’t like about it is that there is no support for bookmarklets. Convert bookmarklet to Chrome extension to the rescue. I’ve tested it with two bookmarklets so far, and it seems to work fine.
I restarted my Micro.blog this morning. I was feeling lonely all by myself here at baty.net, so I thought I’d revisit some old friends. I expect this will affect the types of things I post here in my daily notes, but I don’t know in what way, yet. Micro.blog is a great blogging service, and I’ve been using it almost continually since the original Kickstarter campaign. I sometimes put the account on pause when I’m feeling Subscription Fatigue or when I’m suddenly all into some new platform or if I just don’t feel like sharing quite so much on social networks. It’s usually some combination of those three. ...
Mike Hall wrote about friends, a personal CRM for the command line. It’s a ruby gem that does most of the things I was trying to do using Emacs. It seems worth a try, so I installed the gem and created a few shell aliases to make things faster: alias faa 'friends add activity ' alias faf 'friends add friend ' alias fla 'friends list activities'
I go through periods during which I don’t feel much like making “art” with my cameras. This is normal, but lately I haven’t felt like taking photographs at all. For example, I met my parents yesterday to celebrate Mother’s Day. This, being an Event™, prompted me to bring my two good cameras, one film and one digital. I wanted to be sure to make a nice record of the day in both formats. In the end, I took a single photo as we left. I took it with my iPhone.
While doing some spring cleaning this week, I ran into a box of old cameras that I had marked “To Sell” but forgot about. The box had an old Olympus digital and a bunch of beat-up OM-2n film cameras and accessories. This was neat, but what I was most exited about were two cameras in particular: An original Fujifilm X100 and an Olympus Stylus Epic. Here’s the Epic: Olympus Stylus Epic ...