I shoot RAW with my digital cameras, and edit in Lightroom CC. Non-destructive RAW editing is awesome, but the only good way to actually see the edits is by using Lightroom (or whichever app was used to do the editing). What happens if one day I stop using it? Historically, I’ve exported each processed jpg file right next to the original RAW file. Switching to Lightroom CC has made this tricky because the originals are kept in Adobe’s cloud and CC’s export features are rather basic.

I just lost an hour “fixing” Hugo’s handling of RSS feeds. Hugo’s default rss template only includes each post’s .Summary, but I want to include the full .Content. There is no configuration setting for this, so in order to include full post content I have to override the entire template. This seems nuts to me, but whatever. I had already done this a while ago and it’s worked fine…until I updated Hugo to v0.

Should I automatically cross-post from baty.net to all the usual places? I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I would just be adding noise where no more noise is needed. Other times I figure what the hell, everyone else does it and people seem to love noise. Besides, it’s fun to share. What I realized was that I often wish some of the people I follow would write more posts or show more photos or otherwise add to my feed.

Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air In a report published today, Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will roll out a new keyboard design based on scissor switches, offering durability and longer key travel, starting with the 2019 MacBook Air. Instabuy if true. It has to be better than the butterfly nonsense I’m working with now (via John Gordon)

Brent Simmons: So here’s the thing I keep coming back to: I think of NetNewsWire as almost a kind of ideal public utility. As such, it should be completely trustworthy — you should never wonder if it’s leading you down some path or other you didn’t intend or foresee. “trustworthy” is a good word and a great feature.

There are two things that cause me to occasionally abandon this blog at baty.net for something else. The first is friction. Hosting with Hugo is wonderful, but posting can feel like more trouble than it’s worth. That’s when things like Blot or WordPress start to look tempting. The second is boredom. I love trying new things, so whenever I find some new blogging tool, I trick myself into thinking “This is the one, for real this time!

I don’t even resemble an expert in cryptocurrency, but my gut says the whole thing is some sort of mass delusion. I mean, read Twitter after any price fluctuation (up or down), and it’s wall-to-wall rationalization. These people are just so deeply enamoured with the idea of crypto that they seem to have lost all sense of reason. I don’t want to call them crazy, but I kind of do.

For the past several years I’ve maintained a text file listing all of the books that I’ve read. The simple text format makes it easy to, for example, quickly see that I read 27 books in 2017 by doing something like… grep "2017-" books.md | wc -l This is neat, but otherwise not terribly useful. Given my recent fascination with TiddlyWiki, I figured I’d try logging my books there. I started by recreating my original list in a single tiddler but other than having them in my wiki it didn’t offer any advantages.

I thought I was serious this time, but I really do prefer posting using Blot to Hugo. This means I’m once again writing primarily at https://www.baty.blog/ and https://rudimentarylathe.org/ RSS feed for the blog is https://www.baty.blog/feed.rss See you there.

I was thinking earlier about trying to get by with only Emacs and a browser. How much of my general daily computer work1 could be done primarily with those two apps? Not enough, but it’s a fun thought experiment that may turn into a real experiment. After a quick pass through my Applications folder, here are the apps I (currently) consider must haves… Emacs Firefox Messages (Apple) 1Password (but 1Password X might not count as a separate app) Preview (I’m constantly dealing with PDFs and haven’t gotten comfortable doing that with Emacs yet) TextExpander (I could go without it, but I don’t want to) iTerm (because command-line apps don’t count as “Apps” so I cheat with this) Finder (I’m not sure this counts as an App, though) Keybase So what does this long list-that-contains-way-more-than-just-emacs-and-a-browser mean I leave behind?

Talking about quitting things is sapping my energy. There are of course valid reasons to stop using a service, platform, or company. I’ve deleted Facebook and LinkedIn and have stopped posting to Instagram and Twitter for many of these same reasons. While I wouldn’t ask anyone to not tell people they’ve moved on from a social network1, I would like to see less about why they’ve quit and more about what they will do instead.

I’m no fan of Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. I don’t agree with how he’s handled the many serious issues plaguing Twitter, but my opinion of him doesn’t border on the hysterical. I think he’s a flawed person with an impossible job. Maybe that’s why I didn’t have the same reaction to the Huffington Post Interview as so many others did. Bias is powerful, and when you’re predisposed to dislike someone, it’s easy to want to give a high five and say “Sick Burn, Ashley!