Baty.blog

Author: Jack

  • Vonnegut on build vs maintain

    “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs – Anil Dash

    There’s no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say “fuck you”!

    Source: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs – Anil Dash

  • Org-node

    I just learned about Org-node. Org-node is an Emacs package that mimics much of Org-roam, but claims to be faster and easier to pick up. It’s node-based (via org-ids) and is pretty full-featured.

    I’ve (temporarily) replaced my Denote workflow with Org-node, to see how it feels. I like the node-based approach. I also like that it uses org-ids for linking. I often worry that Denote’s “denote:” style links aren’t portable.

    Org-node is worth a look. 

  • PEZ: Portable Executable Zork

    Zork, one of the original text adventure games, was one of the only games I’ve ever bothered to finish. It’s from Christopher Drum and it’s called pez: Portable Executable Zork.

    I just downloaded a copy and am playing in a terminal on my Mac. Flashbacks to some great computer moments going on right now.

  • MarsEdit

    I’m writing this post in MarsEdit. It’s been a spell.

    I’m mostly testing to see how things play with the awful-but-necessary Gutenberg editor in WordPress. Part of this effort meant I’m using “Rich Text” in MarsEdit. GASP!

    Update: It doesn’t use Gutenberg. It creates the entire post in the “Classic” editor. I have yet to decide if this is all too much swimming upstream.

  • What happens when I quit WordPress again?

    I can’t help but wonder what will happen to all the words and pictures I put here in WordPress once I remember that I hate using WordPress and decide to shitcan the whole thing. Will I bother moving it all over somewhere else? Probably.

    I also can’t help wondering, what if I don’t quit using WordPress. What if I use it as my primary blog platform for the rest of my natural life? Type->Publish->Update Plugins->Repeat. Pay like $5.00/month for hosting and never think about platforms again. Wouldn’t that be neat?

  • Roll-049 (2025) / Leica MP

    Favorites from a roll of HP5 through the Leica MP / 50mm Summilux-M ASPH.

    This was the first roll scanned using the Negative Supply setup. It worked really well. I’m coming around to the whole scan-using-digital-camera idea.

  • The way to “Reduce & Simplify” is not “Add more things”

    In an effort to consolidate my blogs, I’ve created yet another blog. What a dumbass thing to do.

  • Roll 048 (2025) / Leica M3

  • Feedspool

    Les Orchard made a thing, Feedspool, that works as a CLI interface for managing/reading RSS feeds. It uses sqlite and has a bunch of fun features. One of them is the ability to render a static web page with posts from recently-updated feeds and a built in web server to view it.

    I made a simple shell script that updates and opens the rendered page.

    #!/bin/sh

./feedspool fetch
./feedspool render
open http://localhost:8888

    I’m pretty content with Elfeed in Emacs, but Feedspool is an interesting take.