Here we are, running the show as a static blog, using Hugo. But why!? I suppose because I was bored and because it's fun.
Also because while tinkering with my notes.
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I'm an impressionable young man, and when I notice someone on The Internet raving about something, I want to feel that way, too. I often order whatever that thing is, only
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I’m trying something new.
I’ve become a pretty heavy user of Org-roam for personal notes. I put nearly everything there now; technical notes, contact information, project notes, vendor info, etc. These
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I want my per-line code comments to line up nicely, so I’ll often add a bunch of spaces by hand to make things just so. I realized that, being Emacs, there must
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When I drag and drop an image into Emacs, I want the attached file to end up in ./content/images/img/YYYY/. This is how I tried configuring org-download in my setup (I
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I’ve settled on WordPress for this blog. (“settled” is a fluid word for me, but let’s assume I mean it for now). However, I prefer to do most of my writing
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I’m feeling twitchy about owning the Leica M10-R.
The M10-R is an astonishingly good camera. World-beating build quality, timeless design, and a fantastic 40-megapixel sensor, all in a small, beautiful package.
Still
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My wife bought an awful, kitschy plastic lamp and set it on one of the floor speakers. I, of course, balked.
That was a week ago and somehow the lamp is still there.
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TiddlyWiki is a single static HTML file. It does not generate an RSS feed of new entries. It doesn’t generate anything.
I treat my wiki at wiki.baty.net more like a
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I hate making fiber-based silver gelatin prints in the darkroom. But I love having them to hold and to hang.
Fiber-based papers have this deep, magical sheen, and the surface is smooth yet
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Derek Sivers suggests, in a much-linked-to post, that all your stuff should be in plain text files, and I (almost) agree with him.
Most of my notes are in some form of plain
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There are things that I dislike about shooting film, but processing isn’t one of them. I actually enjoy it.
I shoot a roll or two of film each week and process it
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My dad called me from Florida and said that one of his neighbors had died and left a bunch of camera stuff to be given away or sold. He mentioned there was “some
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TL;DR: daily.baty.net.
You see, I have a nice wiki, and for a couple of years, I have written a new entry in it (nearly) every day. These “daily notes” have
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One valid criticism of using paper for notes is that searching through notebooks is rather difficult. With my poor handwriting, scanning for certain information in a wash of squiggly lines can be painfully
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