The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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“The measure of love is to love without measure.”— St. Francis de Sales Our second child came into the world a few days ago, and I recall a conversation I had with a good friend of mine (also a dad) about how it would be possible to love...
If you only use social media and video hosting frontends - getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is perhaps ~3-5% of what...
When people talk about the “internet dying” - what they are really talking about is slop overtaking the algorithm - of social media becoming unuseable because it’s all bots. But that is not the internet, not by a long shot. If you live...
In my ever-increasing desire to use emacs as my sole computing environment, I have started to take browsing the web inside it far more seriously. Where I previously had thought EWW to be a niceity but far from capable, after using it for...
While Org-mode is fantastic in its core functionality, there is a lovely little extension that creates a way to build a wiki for all personal knowledge, ideas, writing, work, and so much more: org-roam. A “clone” of ROAM research, if you...
I recently discovered Meow as a modal editing replacement for evil-mode, and it has become a mainstay in my recent vanilla emacs configuration. Meow piggybacks on the Kakoune/Helix style of editing (of which I had never used prior, and I...
I had the absolute pleasure to be joined by the great Protesilaos Stavrou for a conversation about emacs, minimalism, life philosophy, interconnectedness, and infinite depth. Come along for the ~2 hour journey! As always, God bless, and...
A simple thing I’ve overlooked with NixOS is that I can create very different environments with a simple nixos-rebuild switch - effectively making my machine distraction free when I want it to be, or permitting some play in the off...
Apparently my RSS Feed was not displaying full post content - just the title - making people have to click through to the actual post on site. It should now be fixed and full posts should be available in your feed reader of choice (you...
As we go into another year, I have paired down even further as to what is allowed on my mobile device. You can see my previous posts about smartphones here, here and here. I am running a Samsung s24 - with ADB you can disable much of the...
With the LLM hysteria seemingly without an end in sight, what is sorrowfully missing from the modern world is a push toward mastery. This is not a new phenomenon. The vast majority of people have been trying to “hack” life away by any...
While many would complain about the internet “dying” - the information is still out there for anyone to find - you just need to know how to look for it. Search engines still offer the ability to find that which you are seeking, but you...
Look around you, and you will see so much noise. So many attempts at your attention, so many attempts on the life that you are supposed to be living. If you give in to the noise, you will lose the way, you will find yourself 5,000 miles...
I started the new year by getting kicked off Cloudinary’s free tier for image storage. Deciding that I do not want to have to migrate ever again, I have architected a simple way to get off of SaaS/Cloud services and still maintain...
“I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.” GK Chesterton When I was much younger, I tried to found my own religion. We all do at one time or another: how can I...