Baty.blog

Tag: Blogging

  • Some WordPress improvements – I hope

    At the urging of @coldkennels, I’ve installed the Classic Editor plugin for WordPress. Maybe writing the old way will be less annoying. Also recommended by him was the “Hide admin notices” plugin, which is supposed to minimize the annoying nagging to “Upgrade to Premium”. I did see that even that plugin wants me to upgrade, which is a bit ironic, but oh well.

    I’m conflicted about using WordPress, but without a meaningfully better everything-including-kitchen-sink option, I need WordPress for when I’m in that kind of mood.

     

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  • Where to now with baty.blog?

    I go through periods during which all I want to do is type some words, add a photo or two, and press “Publish”. WordPress works well for that.

    But it’s still WordPress, you know? The “Site Editor” continues to improve, but to me still feels like a janky mess. Gutenberg is fancy, but it’s also slow and can get in the way when trying to be “helpful”.

    And the plugins. So many plugins available, and all of them want me to “Upgrade to Premium” and nag me about it constantly. I hate it so much that it makes me want to stop using WordPress.

    But then what? Ghost? Eleventy? Kirby? Moveable Type? I don’t want to keep messing with baty.net, so I use baty.blog to test new blogging options. Maybe I’ll try one of the new-ish simple tools like Pika.page or Bear.

    I’ll try to keep the disruption to a minimum, but don ‘t be surprised it things get wonky here soon.

  • Posting from the iPad

    I’m not an iOS guy, but sometimes it’s nice using the iPad on the couch or in bed. A disadvantage of using an SSG for blogging is that posting from mobile, while possible, is a convoluted mess.

    Using WordPress via the JetPack app on the iPad is not the worst experience. At least it’s possible. So that’s what I’m doing here. I’m relaxing on the basement couch with the dog sleeping next to me and typing this on the old iPad Pro with keyboard. It’s a refreshing change of pace, even if it’s not something I’ll do all the time.

  • No rules here

    I have a rule book for blogging, honest, even though I seldom refer to it. I’ve decided to throw it away when it comes to this blog. All bets are off, people!

  • I haven’t deleted this yet for some reason

    Whenever I stop by here and look at the blog I think, “Well that’s kind of nice, actually.” Then I consider moving my blogging here (again). But also, I know me and it never sticks. And yet, it’s still here.

  • How’s the WordPress experiment going?

    TL;DR I’ll probably bail on it soon.

    I quite like how the theme looks and works. I like being able to just drag in images and have everything done for me. I like built-in analytics and comments. I like that there’s a massive ecosystem. I like that I can switch themes with ease when I get bored. I like that when I spot a typo I can fix it right in place.

    I don’t like Gutenberg. I don’t like how janky the control panel feels. I don’t like every plugin trying to upsell me constantly. I hate the “Site Editor”. Have I mentioned that I don’t like Gutenberg? I don’t like that my stuff is all out there and buried in a database.

    The pros always outweigh the cons…for a few weeks at most. Then, the cons really start to eat at me. That’s what’s happening now. I copied many of the posts from the past couple of weeks here and added them to the Hugo blog at baty.net.

    So, I may go back there, and leave this one idling for when I get the itch to write somewhere new.

  • 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.

  • Where am I again?

    Is it OK that I like posting in a bunch of different places using a bunch of different tools and methods? I think it’s OK. Today, I don’t feel like typing this in Emacs and then deploying the Hugo blog, even though it’s easy and I love Emacs and static websites. Today, I feel like clicking a button, typing some words, and clicking another button, using nothing but a WordPress installation somewhere out there.

  • One of those lazy blogging moods

    Some days I just don’t feel like it, ya know? I don’t mean writing blog posts. I mean creating, managing, and deploying the blog itself.

    I just tried deploying baty.net (Hugo) from the new Framework running Omarchy, and forgot that I first needed to install Go, Hugo, rsync, and Node (for pagefind), then make sure my ssh keys were in place. It’s a Whole Thing. I wasn’t in the mood for it, so I came here to WordPress (aka Easy Mode) to bitch about it. So hello!