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Creating a Basic Status Page on NearlyFreeSpeech 2025-05-12 Since I talked about hosting multiple websites through NearlyFreeSpeech in the past, I thought it would be nice to walkthrough setting up a barebones “status” page that runs...
In a world that has gotten too fast for its own benefit, email poses a nice counterweight. It's slow. So slow, that in times of instant messaging, email has become the new snail mail.
I often jokingly refer to my aircraft photography activities as Flug und Fraß ("Airplanes and chow"), because that's exactly what it is: I capture airplanes and enjoy whatever food I either bring with me or find nearby. And now that I...
The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given...
Title: Nate Shivar Website: nateshivar.com RSS Feed: nateshivar.com/feed A personal site about experiences with books, backpacking, birding, blogging, and Atlanta, Georgia. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing...
After 25 years of typing on traditional German QWERTZ keyboards, I decided to do something radical: switch to the Kinesis Advantage360 Pro, an ergonomic split keyboard with a U.S. QWERTY layout and a price tag that makes most people...
I first went to see Reading play football in the 1972-3 season aged just 8. They were in the 4th division, now League 2. We lived in Tilehurst in Reading and my dad took me and my brother to home matches. Sometimes my mum came too which...
I found this topic from Jodie Ettenburg's Curious About Everything Newsletter, and considering the cool physics involved I had to re-share it here. Researchers at Northwestern University have just broke the record for the smallest...
I’ve been trying something a bit new with my phone since yesterday. What am I looking at? This is a launcher for Android called Olauncher and I’m trying it out to see if it can help me cut down on mindless phone usage. Olauncher replaces...
I was challenged by Joel to answer 10 pointless questions. I probably won’t challenge anyone else. I’ve always been uncomfortable with that. Do You Floss Your Teeth? Not as often as I should, but likely more than most people. Tea,...
The common wisdom seems to be that Apple is critically behind in AI, but that makes some 'AI triumphalist' assumptions that bear examining.
En el Perfil de España sobre la gestión de residuos municipales y de envases publicado en marzo de 2025, la Agencia Europea de Medio Ambiente hace un repaso a la situación, con cuatro mensajes clave: Leído en diagonal y sin más...