Updates from the Bridge: Saw some of the drama surrounding Omarchy recently and decide to share some thoughts on the distro and distro philosophy in general I've been playing around with my home server (a BeeLink SER8 which I've named Benson... as in Barry Benson) and this weekend decided I wanted to add a window...

There has been quite a bit of controversy surrounding DHH’s Omarchy. If you haven’t heard of it, Omarchy is a pre-configured Arch Linux setup/distro using Hyprland. It’s sleek, beautiful, and comes with all the bells and whistles. The big driving factor for building this is DHH himself moved from MacOS to Linux and...

This weekend I went to a secondhand store that specializes in books, movies, CDs, DVDs, you name it. The mission: find a tape deck and some tapes, and oh boy did I hit the jackpot. What you see in the image above is a tape deck I found for $27, along with some blank tapes and a John Denver Christmas cassette. I've...

Updates from the bridge: Just got back from a great vacation in the mountains with my family! Wildlife sighting score: 6x 🐻 12x 🦃 9x 🦌 1x 🦉 Been busting my tail getting Alcove ready for release. If you're interested in a privacy RSS reader and want to help test it let me know! I started going down the analog media...

A smol sneak peak on the end-to-end encrypted RSS reader I'm working on: Alcove Got a long way to go but really excited about what we got so far! reply via email

Updates from the bridge: Been a fun and eventful weekend! Finally got around to setting up my own git server with soft serve. It's a much simpler take on a git server in that it doesn't have any web ui, just a TUI if you ssh into the server. I was able to setup mirrors for all of my GitHub repos and it syncs them...

Updates from the bridge: I'm about a week in of wiping out most of my socials and the level of mental health improvement I've experienced is insane. I feel so much better lol. DJ_Dave had their first headline show and it absolutely slaps; watch it Found devdocs.io this week; comprehensive documentation for just...

Just deleted/signed out of almost all of my social accounts that I've used over the past decade. I'm a firm believer that the endless feeds of slop by corporations is doing nothing good for my brain, and today I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Instead, I want to read more blogs and write more posts. If you're...

Updates from the bridge: Got an email regarding my E2EE RSS Reader POC recommending Evolu and I'm obsessed. A end-to-end encrypted DB sync engine? LETS GO Great IRC Overview by Preah that you should definitely check out! One of my friends is building a fullstack Rust monorepo setup similar to bhvr called pepino...

I mentioned in my last Captains Log that I was curious if a web-based privacy focused RSS reader could be built, and I think I'm onto something 👀 Your browser does not support the video tag. User creates an anonymous account with the service; just has to pick a username. Passkey is created and the credential info is...

Updates from the bridge: For once had some time to chill and relax this weekend so I played around with UTM on my Mac and ran Windows XP; talk about nostalgia overload 😭 The sounds, the UI, everything just screams the early 2000s. I need to figure out how to download the old media player skins and load them into the...

One of my friends questioned some design choices in Sipp, mainly the replacement of NanoId for creating short IDs/slugs for snippets. They make some good points and while I don't think a response is necessary, I thought it might be good to expound a bit more on how I'm currently viewing dependencies in software. In...