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Ok, that's it. I'm officially off GitHub. First I moved all of my private repos to my Synology, which was extremely easy to do. I did that around a week or so ago and it's be working great.

Then I had to start sorting and moving all my public repos…

A couple of weeks ago Ben was kind enough to send me a 3-pack of Mildliner Mix pens — two-colour highlighters made by Zebra. This led me down a path of looking for the second set called "Cool" but the price of shipping meant I would have been paying ~£5…

Slow news week? Sure.

Here is a fun Bluesky thread from Annie Rauwerda — who runs Depths of Wikipedia — with different domains before they belonged to notable brands. Like, before Claude.com was an Anthropic thing, it used to belong to a Boston-area computer consultant. Stuff like that.

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Do you want to block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV — not just in Safari?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.

The new App Ad Blocking feature in Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 builds upon our…

Chris Iorfida, CBC News:

A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek “vast swaths of information” about his personal life following social media posts critical of Donald Trump’s administration.

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I couldn’t help but say “this is democracy manifest” when Baby Knight asked what the polling station and voting was for.

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica:

The block seemed curious, given that Reddit began as a website, and websites generally want traffic. Few are in the practice of turning traffic away.

But some services, including X and Instagram, aggressively push users toward apps—or at least toward being logged in to…

Today my 2026 Lamy Safaris arrived even though Lamy themselves still haven't actually announced them. Thank you to the fine folks at Fontoplumo for putting these on sale early so I can get my grubby hands on them.

The yellow is striking in person and is exactly as bright as…

The explore tab on mastodon is usually one joke toot that’s mildly funny and twenty toots each explaining a different atrocity going on in the world

Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out.

Before we get into this, I want to say that Thunderbird Pro…