Baty.blog

Category: Tech

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • WordPress? WTF!?

    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.