The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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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...
I logged into IRC this morning to see this message: “Don’t take this the wrong way but does anyone else find Joshua Blais’ blog posts and twitter feeds a rabbit hole?” I had a laugh and then thought about a response (my friend that wrote...
If you work in text, make everything you possibly can a git repository. This means that if you work in front of a computer, this post is for you. Stop being that person with 50 variations of the same file scattered across your desktop....
It feels as if 2025 has flown by. Looking back it always interesting around this time, so let’s see what this year has brought. Personal# This year was a great one for our family. We… took a trip to Hawaii in November got formally...
Ah, programming language choices - the great philosophical debate of our time. While I am sure I will have a gazillion comments about “why not X?” or “why X?” - I figured I would still put out there the languages I am pursuing and...
I had the pleasure to collaborate with tony-btw on a Christmas stream, where we discussed all things free and open source, Nix, Guix, BSD, programming languages, screens, philosophy and more. You can follow Tony here. Merry Christmas to...
As I write this, there is a retired couple sitting in the coffee shop across from me reading books together. I can only hope to one day be doing the same! Reading together and conversing about those ideas is still possible. It is an act...