Jack Baty's Microblog

Sascha, Zettelkasten Forum:

Often, I don't need it after I have written it. However, I don't need it because I have written it.

I enable (English) subtitles in English-speaking shows about 50% of the time. Otherwise everything sounds like [INDISTINCT CHATTER].

I wake up each morning and tell myself to “Make something better.” So then I fart around with my Emacs config and call it a day.

I’ve noticed that I haven’t actually learned much while on Bluesky. I’ve been entertained, annoyed, and flummoxed, but I’m otherwise not gaining much from it so far. Maybe that’s what Bluesky is for?

This shirt still cracks me up.

A week with my old Fujifilm X100: baty.net

I’ve been head over heels in love with Arc for a long time now. There is one thing I don’t like about it and that is the lack of support for bookmarklets.

Convert bookmarklet to Chrome extension to the rescue. Seems to work well.

Unpopular opinion: Obsidian is even uglier than Emacs

Speaking of Bear. I’m feeling an affinity toward apps that are simple-and-smooth rather than my usual tendencies toward powerful-but-janky. Think Bear vs Obsidian for notes. Or Things vs Emacs for tasks management. Or Blot vs Hugo for blogging.

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I’ve never understood why people might dislike or refuse to use an app because they don’t like its icon. On the other hand, an app’s icon might make me want to use it. See the Bear beta’s googly-eyed app icon. Irresistible!

I like the always-moving-forwardness of paper notebooks. Anything new goes in the next available blank space. It’s nice not having to think about it.

I threw away a gas mask while cleaning out the storage unit this week. This feels like just asking for trouble.

This is Pierre, the cleaner shrimp. He makes keeping a saltwater reef tank worth all the trouble.

How does everyone handle replies to folks who cross-post? There are people I follow who cross-post everything to e.g. Bluesky and Mastodon, and I follow them on both of those platforms, too. I don’t know whether to stop following in all but one place, or otherwise on which platform to reply.

I restarted my Micro.blog subscription this morning. I was feeling lonely all by myself over at baty.net, so I thought I’d revisit some old friends here. 👋

tap tap tap ::clears throat::

I was looking for an uplifting story about rescuing birds. That's not really what this is. I left feeling way more melancholy than I'd planned.