100%. From The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ba…
Down by Law, 1986 - ★★★★½
A somewhat slight, gorgeous, funny delight from start to finish.
I appreciate all of the feedback on my blog post format question yesterday. I summarized the results here: baty.net/2023/surv…
I was worried it would be way too chunky on my dainty wrist, but I think it’s fine. Suddenly, and out of nowhere, I’m a G-Shock fan.
It’s just a dumpster, but I like the lines and colors. At least it’s something that’s not about blogging.
Or is it? 😜
An informal survey: When visiting a blog (not via RSS), which layout do you prefer? (I like them all, so help me decide.)
- Full posts
- Titles and a brief excerpt
- Titles only
I find WordPress capable and easy. It does everything. But dammit, it’s been uncooperative the last few days and it’s ruining my plans. Custom CSS disappears. Comments missing. And that editor is killing me! So this is just me posting somewhere simple and nice instead. 👋
Continuing the conversation with myself about where to post. baty.net/2023/blog…
This is very much how I’m feeling lately.
A little about my Evernote 2023 experiment: baty.net/2023/ever…
Chompy & the Girls, 2021 - ★★★
I swallowed it whole.
Dio: Dreamers Never Die, 2022 - ★★★★
As a ginormous Dio fan since, I don't know, 1980 or so, what's not to love here.
Decision to Leave, 2022 - ★★★½
I would like to revisit this.
Apple Notes keeps launching itself on my MBP without my permission. I can’t make it stop so now I probably need to switch to Linux.
Guess which one even I can’t believe I’m using again.
Last night I dreamt that I was giving a presentation in a large auditorium. I was editing a simple web page by hand and every time I refreshed the page the crowd would go "Ooooh!" in amazement as I continued typing furiously with my HTML-stained hands.
Tinderbox as a blogging platform
Tinderbox as a blogging platform
I'm pretty good at using Tinderbox, so I made this blog with it. I've used Tinderbox since the mid-2000s for all kinds of things and it's one of the deepest, smartest, most flexible apps I know. Tinderbox's export features are powerful, but can be hard to understand at first. I still get tripped up by the way exports work, but I've done it. It's "finished", so now I can just get down to writing. This blog does nearly everything I want and it looks good to my eyes. It handles title-less posts well, and the RSS feed is flexible. I've got images working the way I like and it's nice working in an outliner. I'm all set then, right?
Not really. I have been trying to limit the number of apps I use. Or at least the number of apps that I need to really understand in order to get enough value from. So should I really be using Tinderbox this way? It's complex and does things in a unique way that doesn't translate to anything else. It's both liberating and constraining.
For managing a static blog, Hugo makes much more sense. It's made for blogging. I understand enough about how Hugo works and have a lot of experience with it. I have another blog, similar to this one, at daily.baty.net. It's made with Hugo and it's also "finished". I can just fire up my editor and start posting. It works, and it works best with Emacs, the editor I'm using for nearly everything else. Plus, Hugo isn't really an "app". Once a theme is in place and configured, there's nothing else to do. I don't use Hugo the same way I use Tinderbox.
I think what I'll do is test the idea of recreating the look and behavior of this blog in Hugo. If I can get close, it would make more sense to switch to using Hugo. If not, Tinderbox it is.
All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.
–Martha Wells, “Fugitive Telemetry”
I know just how you feel, Murderbot.
Someone should remind the UI folks that they’re check boxes not check balls
I made my first photogram in the darkroom today. This is an 8x10 print using a drinking glass. Neat!
