It's happening again. My love of powerful, complex software has overrun my ability to avoid tinkering. For example, I've spent several hours this week working on my Org-mode agenda display. Configuring org-super-agenda is tons of fun. It can make one's Agenda absolutely sing and
Twitter was the place I liked to be from 2006 until 2022. Or more accurately, it was the place I liked to be from 2006 until around 2015. After that, it was the place I felt I needed to be. Still, I managed to curate my Twitter feed well enough
I replaced our flaky sprinkler system controller this weekend. All by myself. The unit I chose was the Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler Controller. They offer 4, 8, and 16-zone versions. My system has 9 zones because of course it does. The good news was that Costco sells a version with
I decided that a single-player Mastodon instance isn't ideal. It's overkill for one person, and it's lonely! The #local feed is just me shouting to myself. That's no fun. What's the point in having a giant Rails app with all
You may have noticed that once again things have changed around here. This time, it's due to switching from WordPress to Blot. We've been around this block before, but lemme 'splain[1]. I've switched from Hugo to Eleventy to WordPress within just the
I’ve seen a number of thoughts similar to this from Shane Parrish: We unconsciously become what we’re near. If you work for a jerk, sooner or later, you’ll become one yourself. If your colleagues are selfish, sooner or later, you become selfish. If you hang around someone
At the end of each month, I convert my Org-journal entries into a nice PDF, print it, and put it into a binder. It occurred to me that my daily.baty.net website content is just a bunch of markdown files that could be treated the same as my org-journal
I’ve tried so many “read-later” services that I can’t remember half of them. They’re all basically the same: visit a website, click a button, and the article is saved to a list somewhere with all the other articles I’ve saved. Some newer services get fancy with
This is not a review, but I wanted to jot down some notes after a few days in a new app that I’m enjoying very much: Wavelength Messenger. You might like to read John Gruber’s post for details. My wife believes that I have some kind of processing
I brought a Hasselblad 60 megapixel medium format digital camera to Africa with me. I took photos side by side with my film camera. The digital camera’s images were sharper. They had more detail in both the shadows and the highlights. The digital camera made photographing very, very easy.
It’s always surprising to me how many frames I don’t screw up when using the meterless M3.
I’ve been a Flickr user since 2004 and a SmugMug user for nearly as long. For some reason, I prefer looking at my photos via online galleries rather than, say, my Photos library, and both Flickr and SmugMug have helped me do that. I’ve also kept standalone static