I’ve decided to exclude “Journal” posts from the RSS feed. Thing is, I like how it feels to write stuff here knowing that it’s not “going anywhere”. If something shows up that is particularly brilliant, I’ll create a separate post. Since most things are decidedly not particularly brilliant, I’ll feel better keeping it to myself (and the handful of loonies people who actually come and visit the website).

If there’s an outcry, I’ll put things back. Or maybe set up a separate feed just for the journal entries. I dunno.

Let’s test the idea of continuing with daily journal posts as separate “things”.

I’ve subscribed to a year of Wired Magazine. For $6/year, including the print edition(!), it’s a pretty good deal.

You’ll notice that baty.net is back to using Hugo¹. I really like Kirby, but every time I use a platform that’s not fully static, I get twitchy, and I got twitchy.

I’m using a new theme, Anubis2, which I find to be easy to read and just the right amount of boring. It doesn’t have all the features of the PaperMod theme I was using, but it’s simpler, and simpler is what I was after.

There is no built-in method in Ghost for floating an image and having text flow around it. It’s a significant omission, and one which they say is “too hard” and have no plans to change. OK fine, I’ll do it myself.

I found a reasonable solution in this post on the forums. Here’s how I’m using it.

Add the following to the header in the code injection area:

/* small images to float but not look stupid on mobile */
@media (min-width: 40rem) {

.float-left-half figure,
.float-left-two-thirds figure {
    float: left;
    margin: 8px 20px 6px 0;
}
.float-right-half figure,
.float-right-two-thirds figure {
    float: right;
    margin: 8px 0 6px 20px;
}
.float-left-half figure,
.float-right-half figure {
    max-width: 50%;
}
@media (min-width: 64em) {
	.float-left-two-thirds figure,
	.float-right-two-thirds figure {
    	max-width: 67%;
    }
}

}

Then, in a post or page, I add an HTML block before the image card I want to float (e.g to the right).

OK, it’s happening again. Hugo broke my site for the second time in two updates. I got mad (again) and decided it was time for us to break up.

I dusted off the version of the blog that I’d built using Eleventy and started working on getting everything updated. Except it didn’t work. I don’t know what I was missing or what had changed since I stopped using it, but things were broken. I then decided that I would start fresh with Eleventy’s base blog repo. That was also a mistake. After several hours, I had built an ugly blog, without some of the features I’d wanted. I gave up.

Whenever I change blogging platforms or domain names or simply post to several places, I feel a twinge of guilt. How will my “audience” feel about the changes? Does it confuse things?

I sometimes get comments like, “I have trouble finding things you’ve written because they’re all over the place.”

I don’t get a lot of traffic, but it’s also not zero traffic, so I feel some responsibility. But why? I am not writing for money or influence or popularity. I write to better understand what I’m thinking about, and sometimes share the result. I write so that I have a record of those things. I write, almost entirely, for me.