Baty.blog

Welcome to Jack Baty‘s blog about everything

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Mylio Conundrum

    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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  • Something with an image

    Can this work for image posts?

  • It’s just that I prefer film

    It’s just that I prefer film

    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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