Quick thoughts or notes that don’t need a full article.
(i.e. This is my POSSE strategy for posting to my mastodon account)
Reset the ‘days since install’ counter on my X1 Carbon… During the multi-hour process last night I accidentally deleted my entire email account ON THE SERVER SIDE, and just noticed at lunchtime. Luckily between Fastmail’s restore system, and my new ZFS snapshots (reason for the full re-install), I think I’m all good now 🤞.
Working on a fun Clojure project to help parse my wife’s work time-sheets. Snagged by a simple noon/midnight (AM/PM) bug. Ugh. If the data was already in 24-hour time I wouldn’t have to do (mod hour 12). More importantly… why aren’t the shifts in 24-hour-time in the first place? It’s a 24/7 hospital system?!?!
Is it even possible to buy a used ThinkPad with a good battery 😆? Usually, they just have poor capacity but this one was fully failed. At least I hope it’s just the battery. A new one is on the way… 🤞.
Happy Gotcha-Day Maggie! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years. Although, it does feel like we’ve had you forever at this point 🩷.
Wow. Noctalia + niri on NixOS is amazing. Especially on my GPD Pocket 4.
The heat index in Durham today is 106F (41C). It’s also ‘pajama day’ at my kid’s daycare. Despite the “We can’t wait to see you in your cutest and coziest pajamas” email message, I think “cozy” today will mean whatever pair of shorts PJs we have available…
In light of my switch back to obsidian, I gave /defaults a quick update. Minor shifts, but nothing too crazy outside of the Obsidian stuff.
I love reading blog posts online. I hate when they aren’t dated and I don’t have context for what has or hasn’t happened around the time of writing (example: are these thoughts on WFH pre or post COVID?).
So please, date your posts :)
Yeah, adding tag support to my reading page looks much better. I was already using tags in my org-mode reading file, so I just needed to update the CSS and my Clojure generation script. I cleaned up the source file a little bit too. I’m very pleased with the result :)
It really amazes me that with all the crazy code Claude is able to produce… it still routinely stumbles over unmatched parens in a Clojure file… that it introduced. It gets stuck in a loop, unable to fix the root of the problem; yet a simple M-x check-parens in Emacs is able to resolve it every time 😑.
Welp. This should be an adventure. Never had chicks/chickens before…
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…