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.
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?
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.
In an effort to consolidate my blogs, I’ve created yet another blog. What a dumbass thing to do.
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:8888I’m pretty content with Elfeed in Emacs, but Feedspool is an interesting take.
I often imagine a world in which my temperament, tastes, and WordPress align in a way that allows me to blog using WordPress again and be done with it. This world may not exist, but that doesn’t prevent me from trying to force an alignment once or twice a year.
I don’t want blocks. I don’t want every plugin to upsell me every time I log in. I don’t want 99% of the themes. I definitely don’t want to ever touch the Site Editor. I do want stats and comments and a media library and a billion resources available whenever I get confused.
This, then, is me testing things yet again to see if they feel right this time. I’ve highjacked the Baty.blog domain for this, just in case it sticks.
Mylio is an amazing bit of software for managing large, disparate photo libraries. (For some details, check out this review.)
A private library that’s truly cross-platform and cloud-independent. Mylio is a media library built around your life, not around a cloud, device, or platform. Collect media from everywhere, access it on any device, anytime—even in Airplane Mode.
Mylio, in theory, solves my photo management problems:
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For the past week or so, I’ve been thinking about shelving the whole film photography thing for a while.
I have many film cameras, but that’s the fun part, not the problem. It’s the supporting cast that wears me down. There’s just too much infrastructure around film photography.
If you’ll allow me a bit of a ramble.
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