A blog about everything by Jack Baty

a small life log

'Después de tomar la decisión de contratar Kagi, hago un repaso a las cosas que más me gustan del buscador.'

Just a little bash script to add notes to my notes file

No not that web. The real web.

Estoy un poco en la misma situación. Estoy enredando mucho con Hugo y dedicándole demasiado tiempo quizá a construir el sitio Web y menos a escribir como tal. Pero es que me está gustando programar y enredar con Hugo. ¿Por qué parar?

Where do we go when the internet dies?

It's serendipitous that I discovered and decided on Bear as the home for my thinking through of publication practices. Though I'm working specifically on pri...

"Para poder iniciar la marcha, Johnnie hace algo que dejó de hacerse en prácticamente todas partes a finales del siglo XIX: coger arena del suelo a puñados y lanzarla sobre la cabeza del raíl, justo delante de una de las ruedas tractoras. ¿Se ha vuelto loco?" Spoiler: no. Este post explica cosas.

Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

"I write knowing it may disappear. I highlight books knowing the highlights will fade. I trust that what matters will return, will find its way to the surface. I no longer worship the permanence of text."

Hace un tiempo escribí aquí sobre mi hiperfijación con los "Commonplace books". Estaba leyendo mucho sobre el tema y viendo muchos videos...

For roughly 20 years, from the 1990s to the 2010s, the family computer (always a desktop) was the household symbol of modernity in Brazil…

What's the most important tech skill for every user?

It is a peculiar kind of tragedy to watch the thing you love be dismantled for parts, sold off as scrap, and then have the very people doing the dismantling throw up their hands and ask who could have possibly let this happen. The web I fell in love with is fading, and I think we all know who is holding the smoking gun.

I don't like letting go of stuff because I might just need it one day.

Hace mucho tiempo que no escribo en el blog (y eso que este texto lleva ya unos días reposando en mi cuaderno). Cuando escribí este texto...