As much as I love Emacs, I still struggle with it. I struggle with the endless tinkering. I struggle because infinite tinkering is always readily available. I wish I didn't enjoy
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I'm going out this afternoon and I am catatonic over which camera to bring. The photo above illustrates the struggles I have with myself every day.
Other than being 35mm film
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One thing I've never loved about Ghost is the selection of available themes. They're all the same, or at least they all give off the same vibe: "Monetize!
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I put the first roll (HP5) through the new (to me) Yashica-Mat LM. The frame spacing is too large, so I only got 10½ frames, but the ones I got turned out pretty
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My dad brought home a Yashica-Mat from Florida in April, 2026. He saw it at a garage sale, thought I might be interested, so he paid $10 for it and stashed it in
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Here are a few things I've been happy with this week: Obsidian (gasp!), Neofinder, Capture One, Xteink X4.
Whenever I'm feeling like living in Easy Mode, I go all
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I shouldn't use multiple tools for a single task, but I do it anyway.
Speaking of multiple tools, why am I posting here instead of at baty.net? Probably because I
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My mom and dad are home from Florida. They seemed glad to be home. My uncle (82) has been suffering from dementia and is nearly immobile. It took him nearly 5 minutes to
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I have this unproductive habit of abandoning things once I get them how I want them. Blogs, for example.
A few weeks ago I started this blog using Ghost. I finally found a
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This lost me in the first 10 minutes and never really got me back. It tried so very hard to be cool, but failed. A few chuckles was about the best it could
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In Andreas' latest and always fun Link Dump 100, he links to So where are all the AI apps?. That article contains all sorts of data, interpretation, and the conclusion that AI
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You shoot a frame on a Phase One IQ4. One hundred and fifty-one megapixels. The sensor is larger than the 35mm frame that defined professional photography for sixty years, its closer to 645
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I really like Rachel McAdams, but I thought the character's "mousy-ness" early in the movie was overplayed. Otherwise, it was...uninspiring I guess. What's with the unnecessary
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