Hello again, Hugo

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. ...

February 3, 2025

Floating images in Ghost

There is no built-in method inĀ GhostĀ for floating an image and having text flow around it. It’s a significant omission, and one which they say is ā€œtoo hardā€ and have no plans to change. OK fine, I’ll do it myself. I found a reasonable solution inĀ this postĀ 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). ...

November 8, 2024

The pros and cons of moving back to Ghost

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. ...

November 6, 2024
Self-portrait with M3 (2022)

Sunday, October 27, 2024

We’re back on Hugo

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Eleventy

I’m back to using Eleventy for my blog

October 2, 2024

Adding Expires headers to Caddy

Improving site performance by adding Expires headers in my Caddy config.

September 9, 2024

Micro.blog revisited

Back on Micro.blog after some time away.

August 27, 2024

Who am I responsible to here?

Whenever I change blogging platforms or domain names or simply post to several places, I feel a twinge of guilt. How will my ā€œaudienceā€ feel about the changes? Does it confuse things? I sometimes get comments like, ā€œI have trouble finding things you’ve written because they’re all over the place.ā€ 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. ...

July 17, 2024

Writing a blog using Tinderbox

TinderboxĀ is an unusual, powerful, quirky, and amazing piece of software. I don’t understand why more people don’t use it for everything. Maybe because it costs $298 and that’s expensive by today’s app store race-to-the-bottom pricing situation. It’s worth every penny, though. Before Emacs came along, I putĀ everythingĀ into Tinderbox. These days, I use Tinderbox for specific projects that benefit from its unique features. I also maintain my blog atĀ daily.baty.netĀ with it. ...

June 15, 2024

Small company blogging tools and the Lindy effect

There are times I don’t feel like blogging the hard way1. When that happens, I look to simple, hosted, CMS-based blogging tools. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with Pika and Scribbles. I like both of them. They are both simple, clean, easy, and inexpensive. Choosing either of them for a blog would be fine. There is one thing that concerns me a little, and that is the hobby nature of these tools. I don’t mean to be dismissive by calling them ā€œhobbiesā€, but I can’t help but feel that these kinds of tools are always at risk of being abandoned when their authors’ attention shifts to something new. ...

May 22, 2024

A Nope page

In the spirit of /Now and /Uses and /Hello pages, I’ve created a /Nope page. It’s for keeping track of things I don’t like or want to do. It’s a work in progress, but it’ll probably see more updates than my now page šŸ˜„

May 6, 2024

Monday, January 15, 2024

Losing interest in everything. And some blog notes.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

After yesterday’s Kirby->Hugo-Kirby debacle, I’ve been thinking about why I spend so much time farting around with and on my blog. Fair question, and one I don’t really have an answer to. I guess it’s my little place on the internet and I like to have the furniture arranged just so. But ā€œjust soā€ changes all the time, so I keep trying new configurations. It’s fun. Also useless, and nobody but me cares, but still. ...

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Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Have you ever been so enamoured with plain-text-static-html publishing that you’re willing to burn down a month of implementing a blog using Kirby CMS in order to go back to using Emacs and Markdown and Hugo? I have.

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Prose.sh

I don’t need a new blogging platform, but if I did, I’d certainly be looking atĀ Prose.sh. It’s blogging via sftp and rsync, which sounds awesome.

January 8, 2024

I won't be joining RSS Club

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

December 23, 2023

Implementing Daily Notes in Kirby

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

December 15, 2023

What a blog should be?

Let’s not overthink it, eh?

December 6, 2023

Are we back on Hugo?

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 Unless of course I decide to bring it back as baty.net. If that happens, then šŸ‘‹!Ā ā†©ļøŽ

November 7, 2023

Moving this Kirby site from Fortrabbit to my DigitalOcean VPS

āš ļø This blog is no longer running Kirby, but I left this here just in case. I’ve recently whittled my servers at DigitalOcean down to a single 2GB instance running Caddy. When I started playing with Kirby, I tried getting it running there, but had issues with php-fpm and Caddy not playing well together, so I spun up a hosted instance at (link: https://fortrabbit.com/ text: Fortrabbit). Running Kirby doesn’t require a database or anything fancy, just a web server and PHP, and it bugged me that I couldn’t get it working, so yesterday I tried again, and finally figured it out. I’m writing this down so that I don’t lose it. ...

October 17, 2023