Quick thoughts or notes that don’t need a full article.
(i.e. This is my POSSE strategy for posting to my mastodon account)
Writing this from a nixOS VM installed on a grapheneOS Pixel Fold… I generated the template for this mumble using my normal clojure/babashka script, which is awesome. Now I just need to get my emacs init.el to load without crashing the VM XD…
I’m almost glad to see Discord make such a single-event screw-up recently that’s causing so many communities to think twice about using them. I would love to see this usher in a wave to bring back decentralized web forums, or at least their modern equivalents. Good on the Hemispheric Views Podcast for helping to lead that charge.
When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?
Rich
Well said.
https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/offline-friendly-elfeed-web-ui/
This is super cool. I love using elfeed for my rss feeds, but really want a better solution for on my phone. I might have to test it out and see what I can learn :)
I’ve retroactively added my podcast stats to the 2025 recap post, now that the Overcast results are finalized XD.
https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/phone-down/
I’m happy to join in with the group of old men yelling at clouds for this particular issue. It’s crazy. Not only are phones distracting the drivers using them… they distract me - a phone-less driver who’s so obsessed with spotting all the drivers on their phones that it has become a distraction itself 😆.
https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/innovation-on-constraints/
In general, I’ve found that constraints do encourage innovation and creativity across any domain. I’m also super interested in the idea of a ‘modern PDA’ and what that would look like…
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.
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.
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 😅…
Uggg… that’s not how you get people using secure passwords. Luckily Bitwarden managed to work around it.
As hinted in at the end of my previous post… I got my GPD Pocket 4 yesterday. What a weird, quirky, small little device…
Just another test after updating my script… mumbles should have titles now for nicer rss integration…
This is my first ‘mumble’ post… Going to set it up to auto post once I publish this…