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A long time ago, back when I was a young developer, happily using Google Chrome as my daily driver, I spent a few hours messing around with Chrome extensions and coded myself an extremely simple extension that replaced the new tab with a minimal clock.

That extension has been sitting…

Freddy deBoer: So is Everybody Giving Up On, Like... Doing Things?:

...this culture valorizes work as an abstract demonstrator of value but has no actual intrinsic respect for work, itself. For effort, for struggle, for exertion. If you click a #hustle hashtag on Instagram you are very likely…

I spent an hour this morning dealing with an error when updating dblocks in Emacs. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to just use Apple Notes for everything. Except that once it was fixed, things were awesome again, so there's that. And that's why I stick…

It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now.

Week three…

Leaning into using @jack@baty.net as my social identity also means that I'll need to continue using Ghost for publishing baty.net. Moving to another platform is no longer an option, if I want to maintain my identity on the Fediverse. I'm working on being okay with that. It helps when I…

All I wanted to do this morning was write down a few things about Alice's surgery yesterday. Do you think I could decide where to write it? Of course, I couldn't. Does it go in Journelly, Day One, Denote, Apple Notes, Bear, DEVONthink, Tinderbox, TiddlyWiki, Howm, or some new place…

I spend most of my computer time at the Mac Mini (M2) on my desk. I also have a 2021 MacBook Pro that I use occasionally, when I'm looking for a change of pace.

If I only used the stock Apple or cloud-based apps and didn't do anything fancy, having…

The other day while chatting with Kevin I was commenting on the fact that our experimental Junes are going in opposite directions. In his most recent Sunday update, he wrote that

But I think the experiment won’t have as big an impact as I expected.

While I wrote

I’m overjoyed…

When I bought the Nikon Z f, I intended for it to replace the bigger, older, and slower Leica SL2. Since then, I've decided that I don't want to part with the Leica, so the Z f is for sale.

It's close to mint. There are a couple of small…

I almost installed Lightroom this morning. So far, since that one time that all my apps were accidentally deleted, I've avoided reinstalling anything Adobe. I'd love to skip all that Creative Cloud clutter. Capture One is great,…