Notes from October 2026

Happy Halloween! Here’s a little of what I got up to in this spooky month. Things I did in October I moved this site from an Apache-powered VPS to CDN-frontend object storage. This means I pay less money, I do less maintenance, and my site loads faster in most parts of the world. Hopefully nobody noticed this change, except that things should be a little snappier! (Also, my old site had a small amount of PHP, which I’m happy to have removed given PHP’s remote code execution vulnerabilities this month.) In an effort to fill in the gaps of the internet, I published a short list of Vim forks. At Ghost, my team shipped two additions to our automations feature: analytics and more granular triggers. Both of these should help our independent publishers grow. More automations stuff on the way! Like every month, I wrote a few articles at Zelda Dungeon, including a debate over, perhaps, the most trivial disagreement possible. Tech links I clicked on The surveillance state takes another step:…