I enjoyed “The Silent Sea” (Netflix) very much.
Charge me more for software but less for services
Charge me more for software but less for services
I would like pricing pressure for software to go up, but for subscriptions to go down. I'll happily pay $250 for a great app, but don't want to pay more than $12/year for a read-it-later service or newsletter or magazine. The number of apps I need is rather low. The number services, news, and entertainment options I need approaches infinity and I just don't have the budget for that.
Trying @pimoore’s Hitchens theme. It’s so vivid! But, I’m not changing anything, because without the bright yellow it would hardly be Hitchens :).
A short review of my blogging with Tinderbox experiment: daily.baty.net/posts/202…
Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox
Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox
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Early last November, in Welcome back, I guess, I wrote this:
If I'm being honest, I'll admit that this is just an excuse to play with some old toys and experiment with new ones.
See also: Sometimes I change my mind
Let's look at how it's going with my Blogging With Tinderbox experiment.
First, it's been a ton of fun wrangling Tinderbox into generating a nice-looking blog that fits my particular way of blogging. I was inspired after trying Dave Winer's Drummer blogging tool. Tinderbox is ridiculously flexible and powerful and fun, and made this blog possible.
I love outliners, and this site is built using Tinderbox's powerful version of outliner. All the cool new kids are using outlines, too.
Keeping my "Daybook" type entries in the same Tinderbox file as my blog posts is pretty great. It lets me see everything all at once. I can link, collect, arrange, and analyze everything I write, whether public or private. This is not a small thing, it will likely become more useful over time.
So, I'll be sticking with Tinderbox for my daily notes blogging, then? Not so fast.
The mechanisms for generating this blog out of Tinderbox are fragile. More than once in the past week, I've broken large portions of the site after making what I thought to be a minor change to a template or Agent. Debugging it took quite some time. It makes me nervous.
Links are powerful but strange in Tinderbox. For a simple blog, I don't need powerful. I need them to be easily created and simple to edit. I don't find them to be.
The elephant in the room is Emacs, and, more specifically, Org mode. You see, as much as I like managing and processing notes in Tinderbox, I don't love writing in it. Notes in Tinderbox are rich text. Sure, technically you can have them behave as if they're Markdown, but doing so is definitely swimming upstream. Tinderbox does a good job of converting rich notes into HTML, and even offers control over how formatting is rendered. It's all very clever. However, it's a long way from plain text, and I prefer plain text for writing. And I very much enjoy writing plain text in Emacs.
I haven't decided yet which way I'll be taking this blog. For the moment, I like the results so much that I'm happy using Tinderbox. But I feel the pull of Emacs and the simplicity of Org mode and Markdown. I'm still hoping to find a way to have both.
I’ve always considered printing these tiny Instax prints from my phone to be cheating. I preferred making them the “real” way directly out of the Instax camera. I’m changing my tune. They’re a lot of fun either way!
I dropped the Printfile sheet on the scanner and pressed the button. Then cropped to a single frame and here we are. I mean, if you’re going to “embrace the imperfections” of film, then go all in I guess?
I don’t know how to work an inkjet printer. copingmechanism.com/2022/abou…
Thinking about family snapshots copingmechanism.com/2022/what…
I learned today that I can trigger the camera by stepping on the release bulb. Look ma, no hands!
(Leica MP. Summilux 50mm ASPH. HP5 Plus)
My wife surprised me with an ice cream maker for Christmas and I’ve since learned that homemade ice cream is the greatest thing ever.
There, that’s a little better. (Still playing with strobes in the basement)
Portraits are all about hair and lighting and I pretty much nailed both of those here, eh?
I spent some time over the past couple of weeks creating a new blog using Tinderbox. It’s to a point where I’m comfortable with the format (It works much like Drummer). I built a separate RSS feed for use syndicating here. I’ll test that soon. Hope I don’t break anything.
Well, hello again. How’s everyone doing? I’ve missed you.
Should I crosspost to Micro.blog?
Should I crosspost to Micro.blog?
I find myself missing Micro.blog. The community there is unmatched by any that I've found elsewhere. I sometimes miss the occasional interaction around my posts.
Living alone on my blog has been a deliberate choice. I wanted to make blogging less performative. After all, I write for myself, first, and if others get something from it, then yay. But that's a side effect.
Except it gets lonely. Not many people actually visit this site. If I'm being honest, I enjoy sharing things. It's nice to be heard, at least a little.
So, yesterday I built a new RSS feed here that I think will work for Micro.blog. Now I just need to decide if and when to turn it on.
Programming note: We're now officially at baty.blog
Programming note: We're now officially at baty.blog
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I'd never intended for the new daily notes site to live at daily.baty.net. That was for testing. It stuck around longer than I would have preferred, but I've finally made the move and replaced the Ghost blog with this Tinderbox-managed site at https://baty.blog.
It's being pushed to both the old and new domains for the time being. At some point over the next few days I'll pull the plug on the old domain.
New RSS feed for all posts
New RSS feed for all posts
I built this site's RSS feed so that it only includes the big daily posts, one per day, but that post is appended to throughout the day. This feels right for most people. It doesn't work if I want to crosspost, though, since the first published version is usually only me saying "Good morning" and that would be it.
I've added a second RSS feed, allposts.xml, which includes each individual post, independent of the containing day's post. I'll use this feed for crossposting. To keep things from becoming too noisy, I've added an attribute, "Crosspost" which defaults to false. Only those posts with $Crosspost==true are included in the feed. Clear as mud?
What a great post by Moxie Marlinspike.
Instead of storing the data on-chain, NFTs instead contain a URL that points to the data. What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL. Looking at many of the NFTs on popular marketplaces being sold for tens, hundreds, or millions of dollars, that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere. Anyone with access to that machine, anyone who buys that domain name in the future, or anyone who compromises that machine can change the image, title, description, etc for the NFT to whatever they’d like at any time (regardless of whether or not they “own” the token). There’s nothing in the NFT spec that tells you what the image “should” be, or even allows you to confirm whether something is the “correct” image.
Moxie Marlinspike My first impressions of web3
I'll happily live out my life in web1, thank you. You kids have fun, though!
Shooting film when I'm in the mood
Shooting film when I'm in the mood
Over the past several years, my interest in shooting film has regularly ebbed and flowed. This fluctuation wouldn't be a problem if the frequency and amplitude weren't so high. My brain does this thing where it decides, usually after a successful roll or inspiring blog post, that I'm now going to "shoot only film from now on!" This is immediately followed by the purchase of supporting cameras or other gear.
A short time later, I tire of waiting to finish a roll, even though when I'm in film mode I claim that "waiting is a feature". The digital cameras come out and I start wondering why I bother with the hassle of film, when digital is "better", faster, and cheaper. I should sell off most of the film gear, shutter the darkroom, and just learn how to make decent inkjet prints instead.
And then, I finally finish that roll, process it, scan it, and make a couple of darkroom prints. Wow! This is so cool and fun and I love the images and I love having the negatives neatly organized in binders on my shelves for future generations of scholars and historians. (ha!).
So, what I'm saying is that I enjoy both film and digital. I should learn that about myself. I should build processes around both, as needed, and stop trying to decide which I want to do exclusively and realize that it all depends upon my mood.