The other day I wrote this: Knowledge should reside in the notes, not in the software used to manage the notes. I'm feeling like software has been hindering me more than helping me. I spend too much of my time building overly complex workflows in Emacs or Tinderbox
I recently found my original Fujifilm X100 in a box in our storage unit. I have such fond memories of the camera, so I knew I would enjoy using it, even today. I was surprised to learn that I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I
I restarted my Micro.blog this morning. I was feeling lonely all by myself here at baty.net, so I thought I'd revisit some old friends. I expect this will affect the types of things I post here in my daily notes, but I don't know
Mike Hall wrote about friends, a personal CRM for the command line. It's a ruby gem that does most of the things I was trying to do using Emacs. It seems worth a try, so I installed the gem and created a few shell aliases to make things
I go through periods during which I don't feel much like making "art" with my cameras. This is normal, but lately I haven't felt like taking photographs at all. For example, I met my parents yesterday to celebrate Mother's Day. This, being
“I'm like, are we in a fucking movie right now, or what? The fuck, man?… Shit, what the fuck? I'm lost. I don't know.” Snoop Dogg, Ars Technica Me too, Snoop. Me too. This might be the first honest take I've read.
I usually prefer reading my email using Mu4e in Emacs, but the Vim ("Evil") keybindings have been broken since upgrading to 1.10.x. (See this PR for background). This added so much friction that I went back to Mail.app and Notmuch. Recent changes in evil-collection have
I try to name all of my files using the file's creation date as a prefix. For example: 20230504-MyNewFile.txt If I forget, it's a pain to rename them, so I created a short AppleScript to do it for me. -- Prepend Creation Date to selected
Since I use DEVONthink Pro (DTP) to index and store my notes and documents, I sometimes revisit the idea of using it to create notes. DTP includes a variety of built-in scripts for creating new content. These are mostly written in AppleScript. I was interested in the "Daily Journal&
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
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
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