Yesterday, for some reason, the menu bar stopped showing when launching Emacs. Good grief. I had to add an explicit call to (menu-bar-mode) in my init.el. Why? Who knows. I'm sure I did something to cause it, but my commit logs don't point to anything
Photography
I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always always regret not taking one. I've been planning to do a series of environmental (large format film) portraits of my close and extended families. The idea is to travel to their homes and photograph them using natural light,
Update I'll keep this list updated here. A few folks[1] have been posting about their current subscriptions. Here is a list of my subscriptions, in alphabetical order, because I didn’t want to try categorizing them. * 1Password: $5 – Apple’s password manager needs to improve a lot
Why would anyone host their own Git repos when Github exists? Fair question! For me, it's mostly because Github has become too much like a social network. It feels like LinkedIn for nerds. I moved most of my repos to Sourcehut last year. Sourcehut has that fun, Craigslist
I get caught up in other people's enthusiasm. It's often fair to describe my entire personality as an amalgam of the blog posts I read that morning. When someone writes enthusiastically about something, I want to try that thing. It could be software, a camera, a
People make fun of me for frequently changing the way I do things. This is not undeserved. I like to try things. That's me ¯_(ツ)_/¯. But as a counterpoint, sometimes I stick with things for a long time. Today's example is shaving. I was so annoyed
Photography
Whenever I review my recent photos, I am reminded that I prefer film. Film is fun, if sometimes frustrating, to shoot. Film cameras are cooler. And I love the results. This morning I was tinkering with film emulation styles in Capture One, to see if I could get something close
Analog
Many things I do turn out, in hindsight, to have been a complete waste of time. Journaling in my paper notebook/scrapbook is not one of them. I just love randomly flipping through them. I revisit these pages much more often than I do my old Day One journals or
Mike mentions disabling Alfred and going back to using Spotlight as an app launcher. I’ve been having similar thoughts. I use Raycast, and its latest release notes are mostly around features of the $8/month subscription version. I thought, there’s no way I’m paying monthly for what’
⚠️ This blog is no longer running Kirby, but I left this here just in case. I've recently whittled my servers at DigitalOcean down to a single 2GB instance running Caddy. When I started playing with Kirby, I tried getting it running there, but had issues with php-fpm and
Now that baty.net is running on Kirby, I'm moving this content to a new domain: v13.baty.net
I spent the afternoon with my new grandson yesterday. His name is Lincoln. His middle name is Jack. She gave him my name and that might be the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. The Kirby experiment continues. I did some work on it this morning. You might