Article 0
After only a few minutes, we're 13 and 0 in favor of the automatic migration. I'm calling it. BURN THE BOATS!
View ArticleArticle 1
OK, so I'm in the mood to migrate my identity to the new #littlefedi instance. I can do the official migration so that all followers move automatically. Or, I can just pin something here that says,...
View ArticleArticle 2
An 8 TB drive attached to my Mac Mini is failing. A replacement costs $329.99. I paid $180 for the same drive less than 2 years ago. The whole "Storage is expensive now!" thing is kind of abstract...
View ArticleArticle 0
I couldn't help but install an instance of the new #littleFedi ActivityPub server. It's at https://social.baty.net/. Now what? I don't dare migrate followers yet, so for the moment I have 2 ActivityPub...
View ArticleArticle 1
Sunday morning waffling https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/my-brain-on-a-sunday-morning/#Linux#Emacs
View ArticleArticle 0
The Smith Corona Standard (1934) was returned to me after an overdue CLA. It's such a beautiful machine that now works as good as it looks.And of course with a typewritten receipt :)
View ArticleArticle 1
There's always something interesting in @82mhz link dumps: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/10/linkdump-no-127/
View ArticleArticle 2
All I want from macOS are real, permanent, consistent title bars. Where the hell am I supposed to click to drag this DEVONthink window? It's like a dexterity test that I didn't ask for.
View ArticleArticle 3
Speaking of failures, here's the new "Charging Station" I set up a week ago in an attempt to tidy things up. It's already giving me hives.
View ArticleArticle 0
I'm calling it. My index card based analog "system" is a failure. At least this version of it is. I'm feeling like life is too short to be manually indexing things. I've also realized that I don't like...
View ArticleArticle 1
I'd let my Glass.photo subscription expire during a wave of cancellations earlier this year. Flickr is great, but sometimes it's too quiet, so I'm also back on Glass https://glass.photo/jbaty
View ArticleArticle 1
One way to make sure there are no flies around is to set your venus flytrap somewhere nearby.
View ArticleArticle 2
I have never willingly put a sticker on a laptop because, ewww. However, I just found a stack of old Grand Rapids Amateur Movie Club film reel labels and now I'm having second thoughts. You can tell...
View ArticleArticle 3
Well, Raycast begged me to 'Upgrade to Pro' one too many times, so I'm back to using Alfred and it's refreshingly fast and focused.
View ArticleArticle 0
I rarely use the Leica Q2. It's great, but I increasingly dislike the 28mm focal length. I also prefer black and white. Of course could shoot normally, then crop and convert, but cropping is basically...
View ArticleArticle 1
I wish 8mm film and processing/scanning wasn't so damn expensive, because it's a lot of fun. Especially when projected.
View Article