Hi there. I'm Jack Baty and this is my blog. I'm glad you're here! I write personal stories and notes about photography, tech, analog tools, digital workflows, blogging, and more.
ghst is a a new CLI for managing Ghost CMS from John O'Nolan.
I installed it, launched Claude, and had it create this post. Nifty. I love having CLI access to
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I'm about to tell my entire technology-dependent existence to piss up a rope.
Let's see, in the past few days:
* My iPhone won't charge using a USB-C
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I was rewatching Videodrome the other night, and thought I'd finish up a roll of film in the Nikon FE2 by making a couple of stills from the TV. I'
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I have created a simple app and site with links to all of my blogs and a single RSS feed that combines all of them.
feeds.baty.net
(By "I have created.
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I feel like doing my daily post from here today.
This is one of those days where I want things to be simpler. Simple tools. Simple workflow. Simple ideas. Emacs is none of
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I occasionally suffer from what I call "Text File Fatigue". It gets worse after I've spent a few days dialing in my plain-text/Emacs/CLI workflow. This is happening
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I should have loved this. I mean Haley Lu Richardson, Sam Rockwell, and Michael Peña? I am IN!
Except I kind of hated it. Rockwell is a favorite and I love it when
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I just want to say how much I enjoy using TiddlyWiki, especially when compared to Obsidian.
TiddlyWiki is weird and old and has all sorts of limitations. None of the limitations bother me
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I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of
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The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff! – On my Om
As an entrepreneur, I love Kalanick, because he makes for a great story. He knows how to do bombast right. And he
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What an interesting configuration of stuff on the wall of my dad's garage. I wanted a photo of the Dali print he has hanging for some reason. Turned out the whole
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The past couple of weeks my blogging has been, let's say, chaotic. I rebuilt the Tinderbox file that manages and generates daily.baty.net. I spent more time tinkering with Pure
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