Short-form thoughts and updates. 2026-05-10T11:54:01Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/ Ryan Himmelwright 2026-05-10T11:54:01Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260510_0754/ <p>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?).</p> <p>So please, date your posts :)</p> 2026-04-07T13:41:25Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260407_0941/ <p> </p><figure> <picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260407_0941/OVotmXDlC--1200.webp 1200w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260407_0941/OVotmXDlC--1200.jpeg" alt="A safari window with the /reading page of this site" width="1200" height="1003"></picture> </figure> <p></p> <p>Yeah, adding tag support to my <a href="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/reading">reading page</a> 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 :)</p> 2026-03-25T01:25:35Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260324_2117/ <p>It really amazes me that with all the crazy code Claude is able to produce… it still routinely <em>stumbles</em> over unmatched parens in a Clojure file… that <em>it</em> introduced. It gets stuck in a loop, unable to fix the root of the problem; yet a simple <code>M-x check-parens</code> in Emacs is able to resolve it every time 😑.</p> 2026-03-01T20:07:25Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260301_1507/ <p> </p><figure> <picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260301_1507/wO6dQ9XtS2-1200.webp 1200w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260301_1507/wO6dQ9XtS2-1200.jpeg" alt="Chicks" width="1200" height="900"></picture> </figure> <p></p> <p>Welp. This should be an adventure. Never had chicks/chickens before…</p> 2026-02-22T04:10:11Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260221_2310/ <p>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…</p> 2026-02-19T15:42:26Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260219_1028/ <p><a href="https://grepjason.sh/2026/bye-bye-discord-hello-forum">Bye Bye Discord, Hello Forum!</a></p> <p>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.</p> 2026-01-27T21:26:04Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260127_1626/ <p><a href="https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f">ThanksAI.md by Rich Hickey</a></p> <blockquote> <p>When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?</p> <p>Rich</p> </blockquote> <p>Well said.</p> 2026-01-07T02:41:39Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260106_2141/ <p><a href="https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/offline-friendly-elfeed-web-ui/">https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/offline-friendly-elfeed-web-ui/</a></p> <p>This is super cool. I love <a href="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/post/rethinking-my-rss-use/">using elfeed for my rss feeds</a>, but really want a better solution for on my phone. I might have to test it out and see what I can learn :)</p> 2026-01-02T00:48:21Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260101_1948/ <p> </p><figure> <picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260101_1948/FZchsgblmo-1200.webp 1200w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20260101_1948/FZchsgblmo-1200.jpeg" alt="overcast result grid" width="1200" height="1759"></picture> </figure> <p></p> <p>I’ve retroactively added my podcast stats to the 2025 recap post, now that the Overcast results are finalized XD.</p> 2025-12-31T19:07:05Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251231_1407/ <p><a href="https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/phone-down/">https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/phone-down/</a></p> <p>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 😆.</p> 2025-12-29T16:42:56Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251229_1142/ <p><a href="https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/innovation-on-constraints/">https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/innovation-on-constraints/</a></p> <p>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…</p> 2025-12-24T22:51:55Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251224_1751/ <p><a href="https://baty.blog/2025/12/is-linux-my-future-or-just-a-fun-distraction">https://baty.blog/2025/12/is-linux-my-future-or-just-a-fun-distraction</a></p> <p>“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.”</p> <p>This is such an under-appreciated feature I don’t think gets enough credit. It might be my favorite thing about macOS.</p> 2025-12-12T14:50:05Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251212_0950/ <p><a href="https://borretti.me/article/i-wish-people-were-more-public">I Wish People Were More Public by Fernando Borretti</a></p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> </blockquote> <p>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.</p> 2025-11-28T16:25:51Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251128_1125/ <p>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 😅…</p> 2025-11-20T19:37:27Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251120_1437/ <p> </p><figure> <picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251120_1437/arQkN8TX-X-882.webp 882w"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251120_1437/arQkN8TX-X-882.jpeg" alt="a screenshot stating passwords must be typed, not pasted" width="882" height="110"></picture> </figure> <p></p> <p>Uggg… that’s not how you get people using secure passwords. Luckily Bitwarden managed to work around it.</p> 2025-11-18T14:47:31Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251118_0947/ <p>As hinted in at the end of my previous post… I got my GPD Pocket 4 yesterday. What a weird, quirky, small little device…</p> 2025-11-16T22:55:46Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251116_1755/ <p>Just another test after updating my script… mumbles should have titles now for nicer rss integration…</p> 2025-11-16T21:57:37Z https://ryan.himmelwright.net/mumbles/20251116_1657/ <p>This is my first ‘<em>mumble</em>’ post… Going to set it up to auto post once I publish this…</p>