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Wed Aug 06
An ode to the slow web. During the pandemic, my longtime friend and collaborator Scott Robbin built something special. He invited me and mutual friend Charles Adler to join, and we started writing. We wrote weekly about our current...
I find myself offline (sorta I of course have computers) after my aged phone fell out of my lap at the Dentist! The screen went black, and honestly it's time to upgrade anyway. I might try to fix the screen later but, just can't bother...
Back in 2021 I was dipping my toes into the world of OpenBSD. A few days ago I got the itch to try OpenBSD again, mostly because I'm kind of fed up with how little control I have over security headers and such on GitHub Pages. Since I...
On August 1st afternoon, I finally watched the Hong Kong film "The Way We Talk" (看我今天怎麼說) in the cinema. "The Way We Talk" was a film I had been wanting to see for months. I had heard of the film since the late 2024, including the news...
Day 22, Have you been to a memorable concert? What made it stand out to you? My friend, an old coworker, once took me to a concert - I think it was ‘death cab for cutie’, I had been struggling with anxiety for a few years. His invitation...
The problem: you switch macOS system appearance to Light/Dark theme, but Zellij‘s appearance does not adjust. Sounds familiar? I recently worked around the same problem for Helix. Apparently, I’m not the only one who is bothering to...
I am trying to transition myself to using a split keyboard when I'm on the computer. I always thought of split keyboards as peripherals for the truly hardcore hobbyists. I'm not a hobbyist by any means, but I do have some wrist and back...
Why I never skip a Readwise day
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.
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Last year I spoke at Open UK about my IndieWeb journey. I've posted the slides on Notist but I finally sat down to pick up the transcription and tidy it up on my blog. The base of this post was a transcript of my presentation but some...
Listen to An Obituary for a Cookie We are gathered here today to mourn a loss. Not of a person, no, but of a future. A future that was buttery, soft-centered, and studded with semi-sweet chocolate chips. A future that was stolen from me....
Back in June, I wrote a post about a script I wrote to automate posting to this blog. It was a fairly simple script that basically crafted the title and then created the .md file with the front matter inside. I have to admit, I was...
I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations you become a much more boring developer. Acknowledging those obligations can sort of...
I decided to do another entry today because I'm feeling the novelty of my new desk setup and writing almost exclusively in nano (my text editor). I also have a new tool called proselint which is a python tool that scans my prose and...
Just had a realization that this massive current big-fatigue problem started right around when I started on Lyrica, which hasn’t helped with my pain at all, and I do recall mentioning the fatigue to my doctor and her suggesting some...
Take back your attention.