Sort of phoned in the newsletter this week, but https://thelathe.substack.com/p/the-lathe-7
It’s cool seeing people using simple tools for book logging. I’ve been keeping a plain text log at baty.net/books for a while and it’s a great way to ensure it’ll always be around. I augment it though: https://www.baty.blog/2021/book-logging-plain-text
Sometimes I’ll barely notice a scene in a book while reading it, but then find that it haunts me for days later: https://www.baty.blog/2021/no-one-to-replace-the-fish
I’ll shoot you in the fuckin’ face if you think about coming ‘round here. I’ll shoot you just for fun.
A little of the old, wild Nick Cave shows up here in the first half, and he’s most welcome. This is another terrific record from Cave. https://www.nickcave.com/carnage/
Usually when I go to kick Emacs to the curb I end up instead making it feel new by starting over. https://www.baty.blog/2021/emacs-from-scratch-again
I just sent The Lathe #6. It keeps happening! https://thelathe.substack.com/p/the-lathe-6
Ulysses 22 beta: https://micro.baty.net/2021/02/26/ulysses-beta.html
Well, I can’t not try every text editor I learn about: https://www.baty.blog/2021/onivim
What I really want is a modern modal editor geared toward writing prose/documents rather than code. I’ve spent many many hours trying to bend Emacs in that direction and have failed. Something like Onivim but for writing. https://www.onivim.io
I ranted this morning about what I consider unnecessary images in blog posts. It rang familiar because I’d done it back in 2018 as well: https://archive.baty.net/2018/maybe-your-blog-post-doesnt-need-that-2000-pixel-header-image/. Fewer people agree with me today than did then.
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