Jack Baty

I'm looking forward to telling my grandkids about how we used to write regular expressions by hand. Much like the stories my grandparents told me about doing long division by hand.

Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human

We need a baseline that acknowledges a simple moral fact: that other people are actually real people. They have inner lives you can’t and don’t get to see; they have sentience, no matter how inconvenient that might be. You don’t get to treat them as disposable, you don’t get to process them into content, and you don’t get to claim their time, publish their flaws, or distribute their worst moments at will.

We might be better off we replaced the bible's ten commandments with Westenberg's rules. Or maybe just stop acting like you're the only important person there is.

Sure wish they still made Kodachrome. I miss it.

So what happened was...

I had a todo on my list for canceling my MagicPages subscription, so I went to do that. Seeing the Ghost version of this site running my custom theme gave me second thoughts. Remember how easy posting was with Ghost? Remember the comments, newsletters, and ActivityPub features? I caught myself before becoming too enamored with the idea, and canceled. If you use Ghost, MagicPages is a great service for hosting.

The draw of Ghost is the same as any "real" CMS... ease of posting. That reminded me that I was still running Pure Blog here at baty.blog. Hmmmm... :)

One thing about dynamically-generated CMSes is that one needs to keep them up to date, in case there have been any security or other issues. I logged into this blog, hit the update button, and I'm running the latest. While in here, I noticed there have been a ton of improvements since I last checked in. Kev has been doing a great job here.

"I'll only ever use an SSG for my blog!", I said, unconvincingly. Sometimes I don't want to. Sometimes Kev comes along and makes something like Pure Blog and I think, "Well, that's better!"

I can't have both. Or can I? It seems I have both right now. I dig Pure Blog, but if something has to give, it'll probably be that. I'm not ready to bail quite yet. It's too easy and simple and nice.

So, I'll continue blogging where and when my mood tells me to.

See!? Told you

This was gloriously sleazy and surprisingly not bad.

https://letterboxd.com/film/52-pick-up/

The review image above was made possible by Kevin's super handy Media Card Generator

Pelicans, Hobe Sound FL (2013). Leica M3.

So, yeah, it's a point-and-click sort of day. I read a post earlier and thought I'd write a note about it, but the whole thing felt like too much work, so I didn't bother. I've been having issues with Emacs, so my Hugo workflow is wonky. The daily blog would have been suitable and easy enough, but I'm wrestling with Markdown vs Rich Text in Tinderbox. I'm here in Pure Blog writing about writing about it, which is some kind of meta nonsense. Some days I miss Ghost, tbh.

I post more frequently even on my once-in-a-while blogs than many people post on their only blogs, so where's the guilt coming from, then?

I don't know that I'm back here with Pure Blog, tbh, but this morning feels like a lean back and do computer stuff sort of day, rather than the usual both-hands-on-keyboard-for-everything kind of day. Pure Blog makes that easy.

That's it, I guess, I just wanted to post something. Here's a photo of some bouys I took while in Maine. No reason, just for fun.

Bouys, Maine (2012). Leica M7 / Portra 400

If ever start needing a "reason" to post, I'll probably stop doing it.

Now that I sort of went back to hugo on the other blog, of course Kev introduces Pure Comments. Now what am I supposed to do? 😁