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Article 19

Anyone thinking of processing their own black and white film but worried that it's "hard" should just jump right in. It's really not hard. And doesn't require much "stuff". Some of us even find it fun...

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Article 18

I just love how film renders. It turns this mundane snapshot of a horse into something lovely (imo).#film#photography

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Article 17

Fountain pens are great, but so is a nice sharp pencil.#analog

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Article 16

Sometimes it feels as if I'm (at least) two different people. This double exposure I made in 1983 foreshadows that feeling.

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Article 15

For, you know, just in case.

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Article 14

One day I'll have a "real" darkroom again, but for now the basement bathroom works just fine.#film#photography

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Article 13

There's a note that reads, "Use What You Have" pinned to the bulletin board above my desk. It's meant to remind me to, well, use what I have. This is great advice, except it occurred to me that I have...

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Article 12

I make darkroom prints with a large border so there's room to write on them. The more I write on them, the happier I am years later.

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Article 11

I'll litter my Emacs config with "use-package foo" all day long without reservation, but whenever I install an Obsidian plugin I feel dirty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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Article 10

I've been using Deadgrep for searchin in #emacs and Denote and it's great. https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

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Article 9

Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is a cartoon and it's ruining Fargo for me.

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Article 8

Switching from 1Password to Apple's icloud keychain has been a bit bumpy, but not terrible. What I'm finding irritating throughout this whole process is that I need so many logins/passwords/secrets in...

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Article 7

I need to get better at using tables in Org-mode. Holy crap are they powerful. They're like plain text spreadsheets once you get the hang of them. #emacs

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Article 6

I hate when I don't take the photo: https://baty.net/2023/12/not-taking-the-photo

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Article 5

I started watching "Colin from Accounts" and it makes me laugh. A lot. Great leads with good chemistry.

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Article 4

Crap. I just remembered that since moving Roon to the Mac Mini, I have an unused Intel NUC I5 or I7 desktop that would probably feel pretty good about itself if it was running Linux. This is the last...

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Article 3

I hate myself already.

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Article 2

I used to think dealing with PDFs in #emacs was a gimmick. This morning, I somehow ended up with my PDF version of Stephen Wolfram's productivity article open in Emacs with the doc's outline to the...

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Denote is great and I'm using it to manage more and more of my stuff. More than just Org-mode documents, I mean. https://baty.net/2023/12/beyond-the-infinite-denote#emacs

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This whole Funko thing is dumb and I'm not doing it. No way.

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