Snippets

2016
  April 2016
    April 10
      I am no longer updating this site.
        This site uses Fargo, which is great, but it seems to be languishing as Dave works on 1999.io so I'm sitting on things for now.
  February 2016
    February 27
      Just testing to see if this still works
      Today's background image is: Corona
2015
  September 2015
    September 12
      Book: Mr. Mercedes. [baty.net]
      Hobonichi Cousin 2016. [baty.net]
      Today's background image is: Wilco
    September 4
      Archiving old mail with formail - All this.
    September 3
      NetNewsWire is back!
    September 2
      Best practices for a new Go developer. [Satish Talim - Medium]
      "...the best thing to do would be to start over, bringing no preconceptions at all into our lives as readers." [theparisreview.org]
      Today's background image is: Orange M&Ms
    September 1
      Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan doesn't make you a genius. [nextdraft.com]
      The Atlantic is returning to blogging [niemanlab.org]
      Today's background image is: Chairs
  August 2015
    August 31
      "... the biggest thing wrong with lettuce is that it’s a leafy-green waste of resources." [washingtonpost.com]
      Today's background image is: Wall with painted stones
    August 30
      On moving back to a static website. [baty.net]
      Book: The Fold. [baty.net]
      That week I tried to unplug from Slack. [theverge.com]
      Today's background image is: Plates
    August 29
      Moved snippets to snippets.baty.net. (From http://tilde.club/~jbaty)
      Today's background image is: Dad and Gordon in pool
    August 12
      Fuck trigger warnings
    August 8
      Maybe I'll just go back to using Tumblr. That was easy.
      Today's background image is: Old lawn chairs
      I'm going to miss Fargo when it's gone
        Fargo.io is a darn nice outliner and with a little fussing about it can be a darn nice CMS/blog publishing tool as well.
        The trouble with Fargo is that it feels like its author, Dave Winer, has lost interest in developing it much further. This is a shame, but Dave's always moved quickly and sometimes things get left behind.
        I'm using Fargo to publish my tilde.club blog and it works pretty well. It's one of the easiest ways to manage a static blog, but I've got to consider alternatives, just in case Fargo stagnates to a point where its use becomes unfeasible.
    August 7
      Giving piwik a try. Having trouble getting Fargo pages to render with the embedded script.
      Today's background images is: Empty film spools
      Your shitty, dusty film photo isn't art simply by virtue of it being a shitty, dusty film photo.
    August 1
      Today's background image is: Box O' Tweets
      I stopped programming when things became all open-sourced and judgy
  Today's background images is: Wienermobile
  July 2015
    July 31
      Today's background image is: Tag Heuer and Apple Watches
      Most slippery slopes aren't that slippery. Rather, they're invented as an excuse not to compromise.
    July 28
      Found out today I suck at regular darts too
      Today's background image is: Lawn Dart
    July 27
      Today's background image is: Sony TC-378
      I turned 51 years old yesterday. Feels the same.
    July 2
      Two days with Apple Music and I'm still enjoying it.
      Today's background image is Jeep Grill
  June 2015
    June 30
      After a couple hours with the new Apple Music service, I think they're on to something.
      Once again managing my email locally via OfflineIMAP and still reading it with Mutt
      Today's background image is Apple Extended Keyboard II
    June 29
      Today's background image is Refilling the Pen
    June 27
      Thinking of using Emacs for email. Probably a terrible idea.
        I was right, it was a terrible idea. There's just not enough advantages over Mutt to make it worthwhile
      Today's background image is of a Typewriter and Amazon Echo
    June 26
      And speaking of the SCOTUS, how about those folks this week, eh?
      Baty.net: The Amazon Echo
      Today's background image is Jeep Hit 160,000 Miles
    June 25
      Baty.net: Oh Yeah, There's Still a Tilde.club!
      I'm generally in agreement with the SCOTUS decisions today. I fully admit that I'm rooting for the ACA, however flawed it might be.
      Today's background image is 8mm Film 1938
    June 24
      Thinking a lot lately (again) about personal digital preservation. Should've attended this.
      First post since January. No particular reason other than Mr. Ford's Bloomberg article is pretty amazing and it reminded me about Tilde.club
      Today's background image is First Development with R3 Monobath
  January 2015
    January 2
      Today's background image is Polaroid Museum Las Vegas, NV
      Baty.net [Hobonichi Again In 2015]
    January 1
      Sorry the permalinks don't work
        There's something weird about how fargo handles publishing to subdirectories. I'm waiting for some help but nothing so far.
2014
  December 2014
    December 30
      Today's background image is JOBO in Darkroom
      At least one more before year's end
        Still wish I had an idea of what to use this for. For now I'm going to rsync the files to tilde.club/~jbaty and see how that feels.
  November 2014
    November 26
      So, about these snippets
        I'm fickle. I admit it. Posting to this snippets page using Fargo has been fun. I may continue, but so far almost no one is reading them. That's a little disheartening, but not surprising. For short bursts I may wander back to Tumblr for a while and see how that feels.
      Today's background image is Old Leicas
      Baty.net: [Vimwiki]
    November 22
      Baty.net: [Ursula Le Guin at the National Book Awards]
    November 19
      Baty.net: [Extreme Journaling]
    November 18
      Today's background image is "Snow Day"
      Baty.net: [Tailgaiting]
      Baty.net: [New blogging tool, Desk]
    November 13
      Shing-a-ling
        The fact that David Shing (no way I'm calling him "Shingy") exists and people pay him to do what he does makes me want to run from everything and find a new world to live in.
      Today's background image is Leeloo
      Baty.net: [Leeloo’s Lump]
    November 9
      No use for speculation
        I no longer read articles speculating about the future of anything. What might the next iPhone do? Will the Apple Watch be successful? Which JavaScript/CSS/HTML/Whatever framework will "win"?
        Since you don't know and I don't care, I'm off to read about things that matter today.
      Gift wrapping
        Every year I have to relearn the secret to wrapping gifts. That is: less paper, more tape. And I always learn this while wrapping the very last box.
      Baty.net: [Snippets, Tweets, Links, Posts, etc.]
      Today's background image is The Shelf in 2010
      Baty.net: Leeloo's Legs
    November 3
      It didn't take long for me to become bored by drone footage
    November 2
      I used Apple Pay for the first time today and it was like magic
        How cool it was to just hold my phone near the pay terminal and rest my thumb on the home button. Boom! I bought groceries.
      Today's background image is AirBnB Amenities
      The goal isn't to eliminate paper, it's to use just the right amount of paper
  October 2014
    October 29
      Today's background image is Wall Art
      Mutt
        I've started using Mutt again as my primary email client. Or at least as my first email client. I use it to tear through mail quickly and respond to the easy messages. For things with attachments, HTML-only, or other annoying bits, I fire up Mailplane. It's a neat combination.
    October 27
      Today's background image is Accidental Panoramas
    October 26
      Baty.net: [Preparing for a new iMac]
      Today's background image is from the Pinball Hall of Fame
    October 25
      Baty.net: [Evernote keeps sucking me back in]
      Today's background images is from last night's Fusionary party at Founders
      What are Snippets for?
        I'm very happy with the process and results of using Fargo to create this Snippets "noteblog". I just wish I could decide what it's for. Based on the past week or so, it looks like I'm creating a simple feed of links. Problem is, I already have one of those. I also have a blog, so when do I post short notes here and when there? Still thinking through it, but I'm leaning toward only longer or "fancier" posts on baty.net and shorter ideas and things here. We'll see.
      The Online Darkroom: [The Zone System and why you might like to ignore it]
    October 23
      Bare Bones Software: [BBEdit 11 Released] (Instabuy)
    October 21
      ~ford: ["It really is just a computer on the Internet"]
      Today's background image is Surf's Up
      Ten years ago on Baty.net: [Back from Mexico]
    October 19
      Rudimentarylathe.org: [Writing about the rudimentarylathe.org Tilde server thing I've been playing with]
    October 18
      Today's background image is of Zim relaxing
      Baty.net: [Zim’s Favorite Things]
    October 17
      Oops, tinkering with the other template somehow overrode this one. Will fix Fixed for now.
      Decided to use fargo for publishing to rudimentarylathe.org. Much better.
      I woke up this morning concerned about relying upon Dropbox for long-term hosting and storage. Not sure why.
    October 16
      It occurred to me that I bought my [Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M] Scanner in 2007 and still use it every day. Not a bad run.
      Today's background image is a screenshot of my tmux session on rudimentarylathe.org
    October 15
      baty.net: [I made my own tilde.club at rudimentarylathe.org]
      What if nostalgia is all I have left?
        I miss things. Sometimes I believe it's because those things were better than what we have now. Other times - today for example - I think it's simply because I've stopped growing.
      Today's background image is of some 4x5 film negatives hanging to dry.
      I am so tired of logging into things that I'm ready to quit all of 'em.
        Seriously, how many apps do I need to use every day? Seems like dozens, and all of them make me log in constantly. 1Password helps, but only a little. I am still interrupted at every turn. Had to link fargo.io to Dropbox, again, just to post this. It's exhausting, and that's web apps. Mobile apps are even worse. Also, desktop apps don't have this problem.
    October 14
      I own an awful lot of writing tools for a guy who doesn't write much
    October 13
      Baty.net: [Zim vom Schafer see (2003-2014) – He was a good boy].
    October 10
      "As such, our personal libraries should contain as much of what we don’t know as what we do. They should contain the possible. The aspirational. They should contain the future." [bobulate]
      "So, what do you do?"
        I was asked about a dozen times last night, "So, what do you do?"
        My answer was uniformly weak and terrible. In my usual fashion, I undersold the value of what Fusionary does. I need to work on that.
      I bought my first Leica M camera almost 11 years ago. It was a fine choice and I still use one daily. [Equipment Wanker]
      Today's background image is of some weeds in my back yard.
      The first course of tonight's dinner was bone marrow. So this is how it's going to be?
    October 9
      Today's background image is [End of the roll]
      I've never wanted to have an account as badly as I want one on [Tilde.Club]
    October 8
      Dave Winer has made [Happy Friends]. It lets you pull in Tweets from people and organize them however you like. Neat.
      Today's background image is the view from my room in the Monte Carlo hotel (Las Vegas, NV)
      [Welcome to iPhone 6, friend] (I never use a case)
    October 7
      A few more photos from my trip: [Bryce and Zion 2014]
      Today's background image is from my recent trip to Zion National Park and was added to the post using a Fargo script
      I haven't been to Founders in like 10 days. Fixed.
      Trying something new with baty.net
        Default page of baty.net redirects links to this Fargo-generated "Noteblog" called snippets.baty.net.
        I'll aggregate all my stuff here, including links to my usual Wordpress blog posts. Not sure yet if it's a good idea.
      [Dave Winer]: "I want to have great open publishing tools, that don't require you to give everything you have to a billionaire in the hopes of getting a little attention. #
      baty.net: [The Polaroid Museum]
      I'm jackbaty on [Ello].
      What if I don't want any links?
        As with this post, for example.
    October 6
      Snippet test, is all
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