I have a hypothesis that Linux and EVs have a similar characteristic: Once you switch, you’ll never want to go back. Nathan Edwards in The Verge: It didn’t take long for my Linux install to stop feeling new and exciting and start feeling like, well, my computer. It’s not exactly like a less annoying version of Windows, though it is less annoying than Windows, but it’s been a much easier transition than I thought it would be. There are a few extra steps sometimes in finding and installing apps —…

A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland is trying to take control back) but it could be applied to UI too. The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense Why care about every frame? It builds trust. Users can’t see…

link to source Not surprised by the global conf, but the local to the rep / not tracked is awesome always have a mess of crap at my repo root, so never do git add . and it gets annoying. todo: bash script to automatically add entry ?

When you feel overwhelmed, slow down. I know this might feel like the exact opposite thing your system wants to do when you feel overwhelmed. But it's not... What if the feeling we associate with overwhelm is actually a message, sent by our system, asking us to please slow down? And what if the negative outcomes we associate with feeling overwhelmed are actually a result of ignoring that message—of working harder and faster and more frantically instead? I have a saying I throw at my children…

I’ve been using Git for so long and I just realized you can ignore files at three different levels and not just with .gitignore. The three files you can use to ignore files are: .gitignore .git/info/exclude ~/.config/git/ignore .gitignore .gitignore is the usual file where you write files you want to ignore. It’s checked into Git along with the rest of the code. Whatever files you add to it will not get taken into account when running git commands. .git/info/exclude The exclude file lives in…

I love Bear. It is one of the few places on the web that still feels calm, personal, and human. You write something, publish it, and it exists as a simple page on the internet. No algorithm. No follower count. No pressure to perform. For writing, Bear feels almost perfect to me. But I also take photos. Not professional photos. Not portfolio work. Just ordinary life: walks, family days, weekends, cities, small details, strange light, quiet moments I want to keep. And I never really knew where…

I’m … stunned. I was coming up with a short, fun, provider-agnostic SSH target name for my new VM. I landed on ha because I like using “ha” in chat, it’s short for happy place, and most importantly, I was impatient and wanted to move on. Then I realized that ssh ha is annoying to type because my pointer finger has to go from the “h” of ssh, to the spacebar, and then back to the “h” of ha. Then it struck me. Holy shit. I’ve been using the wrong finger for the most frequently typed key for my…

Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago. It was about client side JavaScript to automatically (albeit blindly) select the "active" navigation. Ironically, I'd probably do this on the server side these days. Admittedly, it's imported from my prior blog and the first time I posted on on this domain was in September, but the post in June counts! But then, my domain was registered a full year before on 13 June 2025 (which neither myself, nor the Internet…

Here are 20 steps that I reconned somewhere on the internet. Even though I called them "steps," order of execution does not matter. Take yourself out for dinner. No phone, just a notebook. Go to the cinema alone. Stay in your seat after it ends. Pick a nearby town you've never visited. No agenda, just show up. Go a full day with no phone. Take a long solo walk and record voice notes as you go. Don't edit. Just talk. Write a one-page vision for your life. Read it every morning…

I am geek adjacent. I lie probably slap bang in the middle of two extremes; the uber-geek/dev coder who knows internet coding and all the web server dark arts like the back of their hand, and the ‘Facebook is the internet’ person who uses the flash on their phone when taking a picture of a landscape in the dark. I have nothing against either person. Well, that’s a lie, I have criticisms of both but they are of no importance here. Who is it for? I’ve been blogging for a long time and I’ve seen…

Yesterday I posted this on Mastodon (post link) I'm building a new habit here on Mastodon: instead of liking, I try to reply to at least 3 posts, especially on those that don't have comments yet and I love it. It's so much more personal! and boy, the response was overwhelming, at one point it took me half an hour to respond to everyone.Most of the comments were roughly as followsgroup a: I love this idea and I'm going to do this toogroup b: I would love to do this but I don't know if people…

I was more than a little interested with flags as a kid. I loved learning about the history of their designs, what they represented, their aesthetics, and how they’re used in different settings. Point out a national flag (and even some supranational and subordinate flags), and I’ll almost certainly be able to tell you the political entity it represents, the symbolism behind specific features, and what flags upon which they’re based (where applicable). Have you ever wondered why the five pointed…

I joined Crucial Tracks, a site where you can post about one song per day. (And browse people’s public posts to discover music.)

Another day, another blog post responding to a blog post. For what else is the Internet for? I stumbled upon Hakkerman's article, "No, I Won't Buy You a Coffee" and felt a strong urge to correct a fundamental misunderstanding. Because this topic isn't just about blogging or the IndieWeb, it's about figuring out how we can create a liberated future of independent art. I've already written an article about how you can support indie creators, and why you need to. I'll try not to be redundant here.…

I've spent many hours fine-tuning my custom Ghost theme to get things just so. Then, I woke up this morning and decided I didn't like most of what I'd done, so I reverted to the default "Source" theme. Source is mostly inoffensive, and a good fall-back position when I'm sick of thinking about themes. It happens a lot.I dislike nearly every available Ghost theme, so I thought I'd build my own. It turns out I kind of don't want to. The local setup is full of things I don't really understand, and…

When I’m travelling in another country and meet a fellow Canadian, there is a feeling like we can relax and relate. With anyone else, there is a bit of barrier, even if we’re trying hard to be friendly. Now that I’ve had a chance to spend a few days on Gander, a Canadian social media app just out of private testing, I have that same feeling of being with my peeps. We can all just sort of chill with each other. Gander isn’t restricted to Canadians, but it would be tricky for a non-Canadian to…

Hartley Charlton for MacRumors: Apple is unifying the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and ‌iCloud‌+ Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain later this summer. Sign in with Apple currently uses privaterelay.appleid.com, while Hide My Email uses icloud.com, the same domain as standard ‌iCloud‌ email addresses. That shared domain has historically made it difficult for services to selectively block disposable ‌iCloud‌ addresses. Blocking icloud.com outright would also block…

Why I Built Bubbles 🫧 I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New voices don't find you there. What's been missing: a front page like Hacker News, but exclusively for personal blogs. No tech bros, no AI hype, no trendy startups. Just an endless stream of thoughtful blog posts, curated by real people. So I built Bubbles 🫧. For myself, first. And hopefully for a few thousand others too. https://bubbles...

Bubbles: functions a bit like Hacker News but specifically for personal blogs. You log in with a Mastodon or Fediverse account, upvote posts you like, and watch the good stuff bubble up. It is fantastic to see Bubbles getting some well-deserved spotlight in David Pierce’s latest Installer newsletter. This is a win for the Indie web and I am glad I had a minor part to play in this. The personal blogging community is thriving, and tools like Bubbles make discovering and participating in this…

I recently learned about this fantastic project where visitors are able to "chat" with one another in a fun and private way. I had to try it! So now, at the bottom of every page on this site, you will see my little town square. Please take a look and have some fun with it. If you want to learn more about Town Square, you can take a look at this post from its creator, Cauê Napier. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a…

I've been scrolling the Bubbles new feed for a few weeks now. I think of it like trolling[1] for good feeds. This is a pretty high-volume feed so I can't click through every post so I end up just reading the title and trying to decide if it's something I'd be interested in reading. As a person on the internet, I have opinions about what makes a good title. Prebuttal # Let me start my list by saying yes, I understand each person can write whatever they like on their blog and in whatever manner…

I often hear conservative Christians condemn gay relationships because of the creation story in Genesis — "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," so the slogan goes. I was never particularly impressed by this argument. When I became woke, it was not a major sticking point. But, I happened to think about it the other day, and I realized it goes ignores the logic of Genesis 2 is an important way. In verse 18, God observes that Adam is lonely and incomplete, so He decides to create a partner…

A few weeks ago, I added a silly, funny experiment on this website. I talked about it on this blog post. It was a tiny Town Square at the bottom of every page 2. When you visit the site, you'll see a small strip populated by stick figures. Each figure represents another visitor currently browsing the website. You can see what page people are reading, walk around and send messages. For example, you could see someone reading the same article as you and start a discussion about it. The goal wasn't…

I can't help but wonder whether we will look back on this AI hype in the workplace with confusion and embarrassment. If we indeed progress into a future where the bubble will burst, models will further close up, become too expensive for the average user, enshittified, or really specialized for specific fields and most promises end up not fulfilled, how will employers everywhere play this off? How will employees recover from witnessing this cultish environment suddenly dropping off as if nothing…

This morning I found an extension that tests for AI content in any web page and highlighted content. I did a few tests on the free version and quickly realized we've reached the breaking point. I tried a few posts at the top of the Bear Blog Discover page and they came up as showing high likelihood of being AI Written. I tested on sites I knew to be human written and it was able to identify those as human so I believe it's working and that makes it all the worse. Now looking through the…

i mostly wanted to reply to this one to make the title joke :Panyways, there was a post here that discusses blog post titles and boy do i have thoughtsfirst of all, the prebuttal, i do think *some* people might be submitting their blogs to be more connected to thespace they care about and possibly get some replies and general attention and stuffthe problem might kinda be the sheer volume making it difficult to find the majority of peoplebut anywaysdescriptive titles, i sorta agree, but i can…

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I listed my site on bubbles town. What that meant was my posts could be discovered from bubbles town. Bubbles Town has the nice feature of upvoting the blogposts that one likes. Now those upvotes are shown near the top of each blog post on my own website. 1 If you have a login on Bubbles town, you can upvote the posts you like there. The best part is you do not need to create a new account. If you have a Fediverse account, you can just use the same one to log…

At last, I am rich!! The Coffee Saga has paid off. Thanks Manuel for the donation who, in his own words, “Donated because your post about donation was nice and also to force you to go edit it since you do have a donation now ” I have edit my post appropriately, of course, I’m all about full disclosure. Now, what to spend my riches on!! Unless someone else wants to buy me a coffee too?? Nah, that won’t happen. P.S. Manuel started the wonderful People and Blogs set of interviews (now hosted by…

It has been two days since I posted about the release of Town Square, and I thought it would be nice to write a quick report. My post got automatically posted on Bubbles and I shared it on Hacker News. Someone also posted it on Lobste.rs, which I had never heard of before. Later it got posted on some other sites I don’t even know. All of that generated a big traffic spike. Lots of people visited the site and explored the town square at the bottom. Things got crowded quickly, but it was fun.…

Decades before smartphones turned every traveler into a documentarian, a single American academic carried his camera through some of the most closed cities on earth, quietly building one of the most revealing visual records of Soviet life to ever reach Western audiences. Thomas T. Hammond was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he […]