Baty.blog

Author: Jack

  • We’re here for now

    I made it official, I'll be blogging exclusively here at baty.blog for a while. Sometimes, by "a while", I end up meaning "two days", but it is what it is. It feels really good for those two days, at least. I'm having fun. I like the theme enough. I don't mind dumping short and long posts at random here. You all may have a different opinion, but it's my blog, right? 😅

  • Hello, from WordLand

    This is a test post to see how well Dave Winer's new WordLand works in Zen (Firefox). I had issues in Safari. So far, it seems fine.

    Since I'm using Linux, I no longer have access to MarsEdit for posting to WordPress, and I still like avoiding Gutenberg for simple posts like this.

  • The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever broken – Cory Doctorow

    Helping other people use technology requires humility: you have to want to help them realize their goals, which may be totally unlike your own. You have to listen carefully and take care not to make assumptions about how they “should” use tech. You may be a tech expert, but they are experts on themselves.

    Source: Pluralistic: 13 Nov 2022 The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever broken

    This is why I’m not good at tech support. MOVE! But also, he’s right about the Framework. It’s awesome.

  • Jeremy Mann on waiting for change

    We cannot just sit and wait and hope that something will change in a way we wish it to.

    Jeremy Mann, “Red Rabbit 7”

    That explains the reading on my scale this morning, I guess.

  • WordPress tooling

    The sheer volume of tooling and resources around WordPress is a compelling argument in its favor. As long as I don’t have to use the Site Editor, I think I could live here.

    I like having anonymous comments (for now). I like detailed analytics built in. I like having an enormous amount of plugins available (even though I hope I don’t need any of them). I like having a bunch of utilities for managing posts and categories and tags. I like the “Press This” bookmarklet for quickly quoting stuff.

    I dislike Gutenberg, but if I’m honest, I dislike anything that’s not Emacs, so what’re ya gonna do? ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

  • CalDAV to Emacs diary

    Please, there must be a thousand ways to do this that I haven’t discovered. If you know of anything simpler, I’m all ears.

    I use the Emacs Diary all the time. I prefer it to using only Org-mode dates in my agenda. The tricky piece is getting the stuff from my CalDAV (Fastmail) calendar into the diary.

    Hanno’s post, Managing calendar events in Emacs got me started. Their post is more geared toward Org dates, but it gave me a good leg up.

    Basically, it’s this:

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  • Make a new decision later (quote)

    The strength of making a decision is making it. You can always make a new one later.

    Source: Optimizing for Taste

  • Photo: The neighbor’s house

    The side of my neighbor’s house (2025). Nikon F100. Kodak ColorPlus.

    I was testing my first roll of Kodak ColorPlus film, so while walking the dog I took this snap of the side of my neighbor’s house. It’s supposed to be a throwaway, but I dig it for some reason. The more I look at it, the more I like it.

    I was using the Nikon F100, so I didn’t bother to think I might have set the ISO manually on an earlier roll. Sure enough, it was set at ISO 400. ColorPlus is a 200 speed film. Whoops. I noticed my mistake halfway through the roll, but figured I’d take the opportunity to push color film for my first time. It kind if ruined the “How good is ColorPlus?” experiment, but oh well.

    I scanned it using the Leica SL2 mounted on a Negative Supply rig, then inverted the scans using Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom (Classic).

    As usual, the colors look weird to me. The shadows have a splash of magenta and everything looks just a little off.

    And yet, I love the photo. I love the diagonal monochrome/color separation. I like the placement of the rocks and the tree. I like the air conditioner unit in the center. The single sunlit yellow flower against deep shadow. And I really love the satellite dish.

    It’s fun when the throwaways work out like that.

  • A timeline

    Monday: “Cool, I can do everything in Emacs and a terminal!”

    Wednesday: “I’m so sick of using Emacs and a terminal for everything”

  • SilverBullet for some reason

    Screenshot of my SilverBullet journal for 9/27
    What am I doing in SilverBullet?

    SilverBullet is another tool for notes. I toyed with it last year for a bit and it was great fun. It’s definitely geared toward the nerdier crowd, but for someone who wants to build a system of notes around a bunch of Markdown files, SilverBullet is a good option. I like it much more than Obsidian, fwiw.

    While testing LazyDocker on Omarchy, I figured I’d use SilverBullet as a test bed. That was easy.

    LazyDocker running SilverBullet

    I doubt I’ll actually use SilverBullet for my notes, but it’s tempting.