So I've been thinking about what to do with baty.net. After firing up my old-school looking WordPress blog at rudimentarylathe.org, I kind of want to move away from static blogging for a while. But I don't want to migrate the content here at baty.
Tornadoes blew through nearby and took our power with them for a couple of days. I keep my film in a small fridge in my office, so when the ice in the freezer section melted, it soaked my large format film boxes. While disappointing, most of the film had been
Photography
I sold my previous Q, a Q2 Monochrom, in spring of 2022. I was all in with the M10-R at the time, and I didn't feel the need for another small-ish digital camera, so the Q2M was sold. I've been shooting digital with a Leica SL2
I spent Fathers' Day with my dad and my daughter, so that was pretty perfect.
There was something about the PaperMod theme I was using here that didn't sit right with me. It's a nice theme, but off somehow. So I've gone back to Congo. I have some issues with Congo, too, but it's well-supported and being
Blogging
Today {#today} I'm still working through what goes into daily notes vs separate blog posts. My old rule was that anything longer than a short paragraph got its own post. Now, though, I think I prefer keeping things in the daily posts unless they need their own post.
Various & Sundry {#various-and-sundry} Controversial opinion: Not everything needs to be in Markdown. I'm looking forward to when AI becomes boring and we spend our time using it for stuff rather than talking about it incessantly. Mimestream early impressions {#mimestream-early-impressions} I am quite enjoying Mimestream for managing email.
Memorial Day with family with the Leica MP, 50mm Summilux, and a roll of HP5.
Various and Sundry {#various-and-sundry} You may have noticed that these daily journal posts have been expanding to include what would normally be separate blog posts. This has been an organic process, and continues to evolve. Part of me prefers this one-a-day writing process. It's easy to manage and
Blogging
I love Blot. It's just right. But you know how sometimes you just want everything on your own server where you can touch it? Where you have access to the server redirects and access logs and everything? That's what happened to me this weekend, so I&
I expanded the paragraph I'd written earlier about social media in a separate post: Withdrawing from social media Instead of posting directly to social media, what about posting a short summary and a link on Micro.blog each day? That might feel too much like advertising, but should