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Mumbles

Quick thoughts or notes that don’t need a full article.

(i.e. This is my POSSE strategy for posting to my mastodon account)

2025-12-24 @ 17:51 (EST)

https://baty.blog/2025/12/is-linux-my-future-or-just-a-fun-distraction

“Then, there are the key bindings. I use Emacs so the default key bindings are hardwired to my brain. On macOS, those bindings are not just in Emacs. They’re everywhere. It doesn’t matter what app I’m writing in, the bindings work. On Linux, not so much.”

This is such an under-appreciated feature I don’t think gets enough credit. It might be my favorite thing about macOS.

2025-12-12 @ 09:50 (EST)

I Wish People Were More Public by Fernando Borretti

I try to apply a rule that if I do something, and don’t write about it—or otherwise generate external-facing evidence of it—it didn’t happen.

Good post. It touches on something I’ve been thinking about too. My recent website changes were mostly to lower the barrier for me to share more easily. Not quite there yet, but I hope to keep improving.

2025-11-28 @ 11:25 (EST)

I swear there was a typo on my website I wanted to fix next time I was working on it… but now that I’m here… I can’t remember where 😅…

2025-11-20 @ 14:37 (EST)

a screenshot stating passwords must be typed, not pasted

Uggg… that’s not how you get people using secure passwords. Luckily Bitwarden managed to work around it.

2025-11-18 @ 09:47 (EST)

As hinted in at the end of my previous post… I got my GPD Pocket 4 yesterday. What a weird, quirky, small little device…

2025-11-16 @ 17:55 (EST)

Just another test after updating my script… mumbles should have titles now for nicer rss integration…

2025-11-16 @ 16:57 (EST)

This is my first ‘mumble’ post… Going to set it up to auto post once I publish this…