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I'm just happy to finish a roll. https://flickr.com/photos/jbaty/54413443880/#FilmPhotography
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With the requisite throat clearing about LLM use, I now have a nice way to add Make and Model info to my film scans from a Dired buffer in...
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I was surprised to discover I still have VimWiki configured. The original files have been archived/converted because, well, Emacs,, but man what a nice package for notes. http://vimwiki.github.io
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I think tomorrow I'll bring evil-mode back into my config. I bet there'll be swearing.#Emacs
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A better idea might be to instead make sure emacsclient is set as $EDITOR everywhere so I can avoid Vim altogether. It's either that, or switch to Doom :)
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Sometimes I don't give up even when I should probably give up. Today, it was trying to write a bash script to overlay information onto an image. This will never save me the time it took, but...
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Rewriting the SSA codebase sounds like part of a plan to stop making Social Security payments, while deflecting the blame. "Sorry, it's a software glitch. We're looking into it."
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Andy Kaufman was a frustrating genius that I didn't appreciate for many years.
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When are we going to get past this musical period of every Metal band sounding like a call-and-respond between Backstreet Boys and Cookie Monster with the flu? Metal has been cartoonish self-parody for...
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I have a growing number of things I don't really need that I put in a category called, "Looking for an excuse to use the 3D printer"
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This time, instead of switching baty.net back to Kirby (again!), I moved my daily.baty.net site to Kirby. This way, I can get my Kirby fix without migrating things back and forth once a week :)....
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"The minute your real life starts feeling like a draft folder for future posts, something is broken." This is a long one and it really hit for me. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-ordinary-sacred/
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I didn't think I needed an iOS journaling app, but Journelly had me at "it's just one big org-mode file". https://baty.net/posts/2025/04/journelly-org-mode-backed-journaling-for-i-os/#Emacs
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I can't tell you how many new blogs are springing up recently, but it's starting to feel like a lot of new blogs. And the more feeds I add to my reader, the more new blogs I discover. It's feeling...
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I've realized that no matter how fancy my note-taking setup is, I'm likely to find the answer on my blog, anyway. It's why I write little stuff of questionable interest. It's mostly for me :) e.g....
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It was easy enough to try, right? Now, if I could figure out how to replace Tilde with Emacs I might be onto something. @tinker .https://tinker.sh/
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My dad's garage fascinates me. He's not replaced anything in at least 30 years. The phone still works. I could learn a lot from him.
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I need to find a way for my brain to relax. I spend entire days with a dozen apps open, each with a dozen tabs open, clicking rapidly between them, looking for something to focus on. I never find...
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