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I admit it. I like writing (paper) checks, even though it's kind of a pain. If every transaction required a hand-written check, I wonder how much less money I'd spend.
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I lost my post, "GTD Merry-Go-Round" (2010) because it got stepped on in a blog move in 2012 and the later copy is on Medium, so I moved it to baty.net. It's still true:...
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Some little thing didn't work in Fish shell this morning, so I've been wondering about just dropping back to zsh. Then just now I ran into this from Oct. 2021. Figures.
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I just replaced my Doom #emacs config with my older vanilla config and it's both better and worse. Mostly worse.
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A few years ago I noticed my mailbox had been hit by something. This note and some cash was inside. I hope this person is having the best life right now.
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I've paused my Kagi search subscription. I really like using Kagi, but I'm just so tired of paying for everything all the time. It's mentally tiring and financially exhausting.
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I started this painting in 1982 but didn't know how to paint Eddie's hair so I quit. Typical.
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I was pretty excited by the first couple episodes of Monarch but now it's all (not very interesting) melodrama and no monsters. Darn.
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I've been feeling nostalgic about the heady days of using Mutt, Taskwarrior, and VimWiki. Good times, those.
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Pcal is a fun way to generate calendars. This is a good time of year for it, too. https://baty.net/2023/12/printing-my-2024-calendars-using-pcal
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I hate it when I realize that I've spent so much time and energy carefully crafting my vanilla #emacs config only to have built a shitty version of doom.
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Using up a roll of film. Here's me pretending to be frantically journaling. I triggered the shutter with a bulb under my foot.#film
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I did the "Tech Independence" thing from Derek Sivers today, just for kicks. I don't need it, but now I have an IMAP/mutt/CalDAV/CardDAV/web/file server on a $5/month VPS running OpenBSD....
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"No one is shooting anyone!" says the girl with no gun, overconfidently, to a room full of people with guns.I don't think I'm going to finish watching Monarch.
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I was trying to move my landing page at jackbaty.com from omg.lol to the new OpenBSD server. The markup was complex and things were breaking, so I punted and made the most boring page in the world....
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Great, now I have two NAS devices to manage. https://baty.net/journal/2023/12/31/synology-drive-replacement
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