I hate myself sometimes.
I swore I would never change the blog engine (currently Wordpress) used for baty.net but I’m enjoying the benefits of Hugo and thus a totally static site at notes.baty.net so much that I’m teetering on trying the conversion again. Maybe I’ll just see how it feels and only publish if everything goes perfectly.
Yeah right.
Here’s the thing, I only want one blog. I keep making more of them simply as a way to try some new toy, but I only want content on one.
I dropped out of accounting in college. I hated every minute of it and could not make two columns balance under any circumstances.
I have always had trouble budgeting. For me, the balance in my checking account represented how much I could blow on whatever impulse purchase suited me that day. Prior to my daughter’s wedding, I looked for help. I found it in YNAB. YNAB uses a sort of “envelope” system for tracking where money needs to be.
The only thing worse than untangling wired headphones is constantly having to charge and (re)pair wireless headphones.
I hate headphone wires. After I lay them out carefully on my counter, I turn my back for five minutes and when I look again they have become an impossibly-knotty puzzle of wires and ear buds.
And so, I bought fancy Bluetooth headphones in order to free myself of the recurring nightmare of tangled wires.
Zack Bloom:
The ancestors of the Internet were kind enough to give us a communication standard which is free, transparent, and standardized. It would be a shame to see the tech communication landscape move further and further into the world of locked gardens and proprietary schemas.
A fun history of one of the most ubiquitous communication mechanisms ever.
I love email. It’s easy, lightweight, and encapsulates a universal-ness that has never been surpassed.
notes.baty.net is entirely unnecessary. I should just post everything at https://baty.net. Except I enjoy having a static blog and using Hugo to publish a bunch of simple markdown files. So here we are again.
I just moved a few of my projects to Gitlab. I did this for no particular reason other than I enjoy trying new things and perhaps Github is getting a little big for their britches. Alternatives are a good thing.
I’ve always been terrible at finishing things, but lately I don’t even feel like starting anything. Maybe it would be easier if I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.
They told me that Ulysses 2.6 could post directly to my WordPress blog, so I upgraded, entered my WordPress settings, typed this entry and hit “Publish”.
They were right!
The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century by Richard Polt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’ll probably read any new book about typewriters. It’s nice to even have them. “The Typewriter Revolution” was thorough and informative. I could have done without the “Insurgency!” bits and probably didn’t need the defensiveness around typists being called “hipsters”. Otherwise, a fun read.
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Nikon Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 I tend to avoid wide lenses. I find them difficult to shoot. Robert Capa said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” and getting close enough is a challenge for me.
Using an iPhone has helped train me to get closer and better “eyeball” a scene for wider shots, so I picked up a 28mm lens for the Nikon F3. Here are a couple from the first roll.
It’s a silly question, but I know the answer.
The answer is that the one I want to be better is better.
See Dr. Drang and Ben Brooks and Watts Martin for recent examples of this discussion. There are many more.
For the record I find iOS to be fun but macOS to be more useful for nearly everything. I guess I’ll always need a truck. Maybe I’m just an old dog.
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