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.
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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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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