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A blog about everything, by Jack Baty

Director of Unspecified Services.
Amateur photographer, blogger, and curious nerd.
Please stand by

I'll be over at baty.blog for a bit

I’m feeling like a break from all this SSG-ness. I’ll see you at my WordPress blog at baty.blog for now.

October 1, 2025

CalDAV to my Emacs Diary

How I’m pulling my Fastmail calendar entries into Emacs diary entries.

September 29, 2025

Ah, blogging

So many options. So little patience.

September 29, 2025

Including Emacs diary entries in Howm menu

⚠️ Note that this doesn’t work properly. There’s a “nil” at the end. Howm has a handy menu for viewing tasks and notes. One thing I wanted to add was my Emacs diary entries for the current date. This took 3 things: First, I created a function for inserting the day’s entries from Emacs diary in the current buffer. (defun my/insert-diary-entries-for-today () "Insert diary entries for today at point." (interactive) (let ((diary-list-entries-hook nil) (diary-display-function 'ignore)) (let ((diary-entries (diary-list-entries (calendar-current-date) 1))) (if diary-entries (dolist (entry diary-entries) (insert (cadr entry) "\n")) (message "No diary entries for today"))))) (and by “I” I mean Claude, mostly) ...

September 26, 2025

Why does it matter if I use Emacs or not?

It makes no difference what software I use.

September 25, 2025
Black and white film photo of womans legs near water

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

More Framework. Ocular migraines.

Overcast 64.9 | Low 61.3, High 76.6
Framework 13 laptop before assembly

Monday, September 22, 2025

The Framework 13 laptop arrived a day early, so I spent the afternoon setting it up. I’ll post more later with some details. This is so much fun I can’t stand it. I don’t want to think about how much of my life I’ve spent moving windows around a computer screen. Those days are over, I think.

Partly cloudy 77.4 | Low 63.0, High 82.0

I wanted to try Linux so I bought 2 computers

I had better be right about this.

September 21, 2025

How to have only one blog

this is a question, not a manual

September 21, 2025
Pot of water boiling on stove

Sunday, September 21, 2025

I really really want to reduce my blogging footprint to a single place. see here. My new Framework laptop shipped sooner than expected. It’s estimated to arrive Tuesday, but I see that it’s already in Grand Rapids. BRING IT TO ME! “He was a father and a husband.” People keep repeating this as if any of those things requires you to be a decent human being. Lots of vile people are fathers and husbands. ...

Partly cloudy 60.1 | Low 56.7, High 75.9
Grilled cheese sandwich

Friday, September 19, 2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve added one of these daily notes. I thought I was done with them, but here we are. The reason might not make much sense to many. Linux, or at least the one I’m using, doesn’t have Emacs bindings everywhere, the way macOS does. I’ve been slow to get used to it. I may never get used to it. In the meantime, the one place that does have Emacs bindings is Emacs, so that’s where I’m spending as much time as possible. The blog is Hugo and I’ve got a whole Emacs setup for publishing here. For now, that’s what I’m doing.

Partly cloudy 75.9 | Low 62.4, High 79.2
Lowfree keyboard

Lofree Flow84 keyboard

I got a new keyboard.

September 17, 2025
Photo of the deck

Denon DRS-810 Cassette Deck

I got a different new cassette deck and it’s pretty neat. Weird, but neat.

September 16, 2025
My desktop running Omarchy

It's all upside-down (computer-wise)

i run arch btw

September 15, 2025

Dusted off the Jack Tries Linux blog

Remember that time I was trying Linux “for real” and even created a blog to write about it? It was more an excuse to play with the clever BSSG blogging engine, but still. Well, I’m doing it again. This time with Omarchy, so I dusted off the BSSG blog and pushed a quick update. But, but, Omarchy! | Jack Tries Linux. Don’t expect much. This usually lasts about 3 days before fizzling out, but it’s always a fun-but-frustrating 3 days.

September 11, 2025
SANSUI AU-6900

Sansui AU-6900 Integrated Amplifier

New old stereo gear is wonderful

September 5, 2025
Film cameras on my desk

It's just that I prefer film

Sometimes I think I should quit shooting film. But I never do.

August 30, 2025

The Mylio conundrum

I’ve tried to make Mylio work a few times. Maybe this time it will.

August 28, 2025

Where have I been this week?

In case you’re wondering, I’ve been posting over on the wiki and daily.baty.net this week. I was in the mood for a change of venue. Also, I kind of got spooked by a small surge in traffic here. For someone who posts in public every day, I still don’t like being watched. So, I write in places that fewer people know or care about. It’s weird, I know.

August 27, 2025

The Grindification of Hobbies (Alistair on YouTube)

YouTube video about how hobbies aren’t fun anymore

August 22, 2025
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