Film Roll
Jack Baty
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
I had a few chores and appointments today, but I still found time to think about how I might do things differently. Then I did some things differently. Then I went back to how I did things before. I'm thinking I can only trust the people I met
Journal
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
I spent an hour this morning dealing with an error when updating dblocks in Emacs. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to just use Apple Notes for everything. Except that once it was fixed, things were awesome again, so there's that. And that'
Journal
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Leaning into using @jack@baty.net as my social identity also means that I'll need to continue using Ghost for publishing baty.net. Moving to another platform is no longer an option, if I want to maintain my identity on the Fediverse. I'm working on being
Journal
Saturday, June 21, 2025
All I wanted to do this morning was write down a few things about Alice's surgery yesterday. Do you think I could decide where to write it? Of course, I couldn't. Does it go in Journelly, Day One, Denote, Apple Notes, Bear, DEVONthink, Tinderbox, TiddlyWiki, Howm,
Photography
For sale: Nikon Z f w/24-70 kit
I've finally decided to keep the SL2 and sell the Zf I bought recently.
Journal
Monday, June 16, 2025
I almost installed Lightroom this morning. So far, since that one time that all my apps were accidentally deleted, I've avoided reinstalling anything Adobe. I'd love to skip all that Creative Cloud clutter. Capture One is great, and is all I need, as long as I
Photography
2025 Roll 32 (Rolleiflex 2.8D/Portra 400)
Working through my last roll of expired Portra 400.
Workflow
Jeremy Friesen on Hard Mode
Jeremy writes a thoughtful post in response to the idea of Hard Mode. It's about simplicity, Emacs, and related thoughts around status.
Journal
Friday, June 13, 2025
It remains to be seen if my on-again, off-again relationship with Ghost sticks this time. I'm confident, but I'm always confident, and it never does. Ghost is so much fun at first. Then I start to feel twitchy about it being all "out there"
Blogging
Hard Mode and blogging
I've been thinking a lot about the Joan Westenberg post that I linked to yesterday. Is there really an allure of status around doing things the hard way? I think there is, and I'll usually take the cred where I can get it. Last night I
Workflow
Hard Mode and status
Joan Westenberg points out the connections between "hard mode" and status.