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I’m using using Denote’s silo feature for accessing my Beyond the Infinite folder

I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always regret not taking one.

My current thinking is that our little blogging society doesn’t need secrecy, it needs visibility.

After using Arc for months, I’ve made Safari my default browser.

I mentioned that I should create a lisp function for sending my org-journal entries to Day One. Turns out I’d already done it. The only problem was that the original version assumed I was using a new org file every day. I’m now doing monthly files, so I needed to change how the text selection was made. Here’s the new function.

How I reimplemented my Daily Notes feature from my Tinderbox blog to baty.net in Kirby

Let’s not overthink it, eh?

I always come back to using TheBrain.

Why I sometimes prefer taking noted in TiddlyWiki instead of Emacs

Prot’s Spacious-Padding Emacs package adds some room to breath in the Emacs UI.

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I’d written yesterday. I was pretty sure I’d written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn’t missing. I just couldn’t see it because of the way the results show up when searching for something in Emacs. The display of search results when running projectile-ripgrep is pretty awful, and I missed what I was searching for. Here’s what it looks like in Doom Emacs by default.

I often want a list of attached files displayed right in the org-mode file.

C’mon, everyone’s doin’ it. Here is my list of default apps (in alphabetical order by task):

A list of my current subscriptions, priced per month.

It’s possible that no one will ever see this post. I’m writing a Hugo-formatted markdown file in Emacs. This means it will be published to a defunct copy of my blog1

A long list of my current subscriptions.

Just a quick appreciation of a common Org-mode feature.

Why would anyone host their own Git repos when Github exists?

I should stop trying to roll my own Emacs config. So I did.

It’s often fair to describe my entire personality as an amalgam of the blog posts I read that morning.

People make fun of me for frequently changing the way I do things. This is not undeserved. I like to try things. That’s me ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Whenever I review my recent photos, I am reminded that I prefer film. Film is fun, if sometimes frustrating, to shoot. Film cameras are cooler. And I love the results.

I do a lot of things that turn out, in hindsight, to have been a complete waste of time. Journaling in my paper notebook/scrapbook is not one of them.

Mike mentions disabling Alfred and going back to using Spotlight as an app launcher. I’ve been having similar thoughts.

⚠️ This blog is no longer running Kirby, but I left this here just in case.

Now that baty.net is running on Kirby, I’m moving this content to a new domain:

I spent the afternoon with my new grandson yesterday. His name is Lincoln. His middle name is Jack. She gave him my name and that might be the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.

How long do we all think my Kirby experiment will last? It’s a fair question.

The Kirby experiment has been fun, but I’m not sure I’ll finish anything useful.

I spent some of the morning writing a new function for generating posts in Hugo. Then, I spent the rest of the morning building out a scaffolding in Kirby. This can’t end well.

A lisp function for generating either Page Bundles or normal Markdown files when creating new Hugo posts.

How to fix URLs in RSS feeds when using relative paths in page bundles in Hugo

I’ve been having thoughts of more Linux. I’ve got MINT running on the little MacBook Air, but also glanced at the ThinkPad Carbon running Pop_OS that’s sitting on a shelf. It would be fun to play with, but then I remembered that the most productive move I’ve ever made was to stick with running one OS on one computer. Some day that may be Pop_OS on a Thinkpad, but right now it’s macOS on a MacBook Pro.

Blogging options. Where I’ve landed.

As much as I love Tinderbox, I’m wondering if it will continue to make sense long-term as a blogging engine. I get along great with most of Tinderbox’s features, but export is one that has eluded me for going on 20 years. I can muddle my way through, but it’s always a challenge.

A few snapshots from our walk on the pier in Grand Haven this afternoon. The weather was beautiful and so was the waterfront.

Links should looks like link. Let’s bring back blue and purple.

I keep a lot of files in a lot of folders, but I’m inconsistent in how I organize them. This means I too frequently have trouble finding things, so I’ve made another attempt at fixing the problem.

While looking for a way to enable xmlrpc in this Siteground-hosted WordPress installation, I ran into this:

The notebooks I’m actively using right now. Seriously. We all know that I have too many blogs. What’s less obvious is that I use too many different notebooks. Here’s what’s currently in rotation:

I like to record the weather in my journals. For several years, I’ve used https://wttr.in via curl. Recently, wttr is often unreachable or throws errors, so I took a look at weatherapi.com

Could I too start storing things as email and find them later using Notmuch?

Many of my TODO items in Org-mode include a SCHEDULED property, which lets me ignore them until a specified date in the future. This keeps my Org agenda nice and tidy.

SetApp apps I have installed During frequent bouts of Subscription Fatigue, I always glance sideways at SetApp, thinking that I could cancel my subscription. Then I look at the apps I have installed via SetApp (see above) and once again realize that it might be the most useful $10/month subscription I have. So it stays.

Original photo: Depositphotos I’ve never been to Burning Man, but for years I really wanted to go. I mean c’mon, a bunch of normies heading out to the beach (at first, but later, the desert) to do drugs, walk around half (or fully) naked, and opt out of society for a while. A place to really hippie it up for a week or so. I think I would have loved it.

I’ll probably continue using Org-journal no matter what

I still call this my “analog” desk. It’s for reading real books and articles. It’s for journaling. It’s for painting and drawing. It’s for sitting and staring out the window, even if the view is only that of a cul-de-sac in a boring middle-class suburb.

Back in photo.net’s and rangefinderforum.com’s prime, there was a gruff, opinionated, brilliant, and helpful forum member and photographer named Al Kaplan. He helped me a great deal after I got my first Leica.

What’s the deal with Baty.net?

Throwing some old film away has made me think about what I actually need to keep

Let’s try the paper-based Emergent Task Planner again

Using both Denote and Org-roam packages seems crazy, but I’m trying it.

I needed a change, so I brought the Papermod theme back.

I got tired of waiting for a Fuji X100V so I skipped it and got another Q2

Technically, it’s easy. Actually doing it is a nightmare.

So yeah, I’ve been putting Daily Notes at that other blog.

Being nice. The Little Mermaid and my daughter.

My thirty-days-of-Obsidian lasted nine days.

Street photography

Threads

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

Keyboards. No longer using Hugo bundles by default. Handling daily posts.

What of my wiki? Pinky and the HHKB.

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.

New (2014) Mac Mini. Another of my tech heroes turns out to be an over-privileged racist dick.

Mark Bernstein on defects vs surprises. Software decisions. Sharpening my knives.

Meta NDAs. DFW on Tourism. Complexity.

Why I don’t quit Emacs. A new (2014) Mac Mini

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

Click tracking is costing you money. DHH 🙄. Note taking struggles continue.

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

I have been wondering if the benefits of using ox-hugo just so I can write posts using Org-mode format is worth the extra layer of abstraction. I prefer Org-mode to Markdown, but Markdown is fine. In fact, Markdown-mode makes editing Markdown in Emacs quite pleasant. Ox-hugo is a great package, but increasingly seemed like a clever but unnecessary abstraction. One of its best features is that it makes creating new posts super easy. I never liked using the Hugo CLI, so ox-hugo solved that problem.

Edward Snowden quote. Ox-hugo. Featured images and the Congo theme.

I don’t have anything to say here today. Here’s a photo of the likely cause:

A new Hugo theme

Emacs from scratch continues

I spent Fathers’ Day with my dad and my daughter, so that was pretty perfect.

Emacs from scratch. A roll through the Hasselblad

I’ve succumbed to the temptation to try building my Emacs config from scratch. We’ve been here before.

Where should I write it down?

Bringing back the Rudimentary Lathe blog. MWeb Editor. Continued Emacs waffling.

I need to re-calibrate. Is Emacs a waste of time? Complexity.

Blot outage nudges me back to Hugo. Mike Hall’s Denote setup. OK Young’n.

When creating a new project folder (group) in DEVONthink, I often make use of Templates. Templates are just files in a folder somewhere that get copied into the DEVONthink database. For example, I have a project “starter” Tinderbox document named “Basic Project Template.tbx”. When inserting the template file into my DEVONthink project, it uses the same name as the original, which isn’t helpful. DEVONthink is very scriptable, so I wrote an AppleScript to rename the selected document the same as the enclosing group/folder.

I’m not convinced that much has improved meaningfully since we started optimizing for digital.

I woke up from my trance and bailed on my disjointed bricolage of Fastmail->Gmail->Mimestream. Cobbling various pieces together just so I can use a single mail client on my Mac seemed…shortsighted. Mimestream is nice, but not that nice, you know?

Dammit I just lost an hour on Mastodon even though I’m supposed to be “off” social media. I have nothing to show for it, either. It’s insidious!

I understand why people are upset about Reddit’s API changes. People are always upset about something Reddit is doing. And I feel for Apollo’s developer. The whole thing sucks. I’ve never used Apollo. I go to the website and visit a few of my favorite subreddits every once in a while. I just don’t feel any outrage about the whole thing, sorry. I am attributing this to my recent withdrawal from social media. I guess since no one has been telling me to be upset, I’m not.

I started reading the MPU forums this morning and was immediately reminded that I should never read the MPU forums. I do plenty of navel gazing around note-taking and software workflows and everything else already. I don’t need more of it, thank you.

I don’t get many emails these days. Nor do I send many. And yet, I spend an inordinate amount of time futzing with how I get and sent emails. I’m doing that thing again where I overthink my email process.

For the few of you who’ve been following along, you’ll have noticed that I’ve changed blogging engines several times recently, even more frequently than my usual pace.

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:

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.