Self care
Sometimes what looks like selfishness is really just self care.
Jack Baty
Sunday, February 2, 2025
I wasn't planning to put journal posts here. I don't like how they fill up the archives with a list of dates. Yet, here I am. The news and my feeds have become a stream of terrible things. I don't know how to stop
Zoxide and Fish Shell
I'm happy using Fish for my shell. One thing I'd not gotten around to after switching is finding a good directory jumper. The original z doesn't work well with Fish. I used to use fasd and autojump, but thought I'd look around
When everything is a Post
I've spent a lot of time over the past couple years forcing various blogging platforms to behave the way I want them to. That is: Daily notes grouped by day, with stand-along posts scattered between. With this new blog and Hugo theme, I've forced myself to
Mistaking what the thing is
The Social Media Sea Change - by Anne Helen Petersen We have mistaken others’ recognition of a thing for actually experiencing the thing. I find this to be tangental to making photographs. I'm not sure what I'd take pictures of if I had no way to
Blogging
Adding Pagefind search to Hugo
Pagefind makes me happy. It is a static search library that is so easy to configure and use that I can hardly believe it. Here's a quick summary of how I implemented Pagefind search here in the Anubis2 Hugo theme[1]. I first created content/search.md as
Software
Links browser
Twibright Labs: Links It's a Lynx-like web browser. I don't quite understand why I would want to use it for everyday browsing, but it's fun to see what sites look like without all the hubbub. Here's this site in links:
books
Book: Gaslit ★☆☆
An absolutely gripping psychological thriller packed with a twist you won't see coming Do you know why I didn't see it coming? Because the narrator is not only unreliable, he's a liar. Also, things like, and I'm (barely) paraphrasing here, "Does
Unplatform
I wish I could quit social media. This seems like a good cause: The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.) Unplatform
Social
Erin Kissane on social networks
The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs. source: Bad shape
Robin Sloan on government waste
The time to snoop around for “waste” is when everything else is going so great you’re getting sort of bored. Winter reading, Robin Sloan
Blogging
Moving to Hugo?
I came this close to moving my blog at baty.net back to Hugo. Even worse, I considered archiving all the content and starting fresh. I mean, completely fresh. No more dragging around years of images and posts that have been converted to and from several Markdown formats for various