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I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:

I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus.…

I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE.

I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they are on the…

As I shared on previous posts, my dad and mom acquired new devices, the same model, but with quite different uses!

Regardless, as the more tech-savvy member of the family, the responsibility to set them up fell upon me, having to deal with a lot of progress indicators, toggles asking…

[Sara Guaglione at Digiday]

This is exactly why micropayments — a model akin to Spotify’s streaming payments where each pageview receives a share from a reader’s monthly budget for all articles — are not the right solution for news.

“For a bunch, including The New York Times and…

Everyone raves about this series, so I thought I'd grab the first book. It's basically fine, I guess.

It is moderately amusing having the Muderbot be an awkward teenage boy who just wants to watch videos and cringes when people stare at him. But it is a bit one-note. Similarly,…

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model…

Every open source maintainer I've talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their repositories into a slush pile. The contributions look like contributions, they have commit messages, they reference issues and they follow templates etc.

This is a test post.

I’ve got a pretty bleak, albeit reductive, theory of global politics that I’m working from right now.

The key driver is climate change. We’re living in a world that will have fewer livable places and fewer resources. This will happen quickly.

Rather than co-operate to slow climate change and distribute…

The good folks at Epomaker know that I love an ergonomic keyboard, so they've sent me their new "Split 70" model to review.

This isn't your traditional ergonomic keyboard. Essentially, this is two separate halves joined by a USB-C cable; so you can position it however you like.

Here's a…