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Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, offers three methods of authentication: IndieAuth, email and password, and passkeys. IndieAuth is offered as a sign-in method because I want Artemis to allow people to use their domain names as their identities. Email and password authentication is offered because it is…

I’ve been running Navidrome on the NAS for a few weeks as a way to avoid figuring out how to use Roon on Linux. Navidrome is no Roon, but it’s fast and simple and works well enough for my purposes.

Navidrome’s web UI is fine, but I thought I’d look…

Most of the websites I follow in my web reader are personal sites like blogs. With that said, recently I subscribed to my local council’s news web page. On that page, they publish various updates – events coming to the region, draft council reports, weather warnings, and more. They advertise…

Some web feeds, especially those published on news websites, are updated several times a day with new entries. Websites that publish so regularly can be distracting in your web reader when you want to skim your feed for new posts from all the websites you follow.

With this in mind,…

As I mentioned to the supporters on Ko-fi a week ago, I am currently considering the possibility of pausing the series at the end of this third year, with the last interview going live on August 28th. There are a few reasons for this.

The first reason is that running…

The other day, a podcast episode caught my attention. It was titled “Can We Build a Better Social Network”, and it was a collaboration between Hard Fork and Search Engine. I thought it was just a discussion about the state of social networks, but then I read the description of…

Sometimes things just click. Then when you reflect you realise that the thing clicked because of many things all coming together – that as much as you wanted to advance an idea in the past, it needed time.

I had one of these moments during the writing meetup I hosted…

Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World – On my Om:

We’re living in the endgame. Algorithmic reality doesn’t just commodify interaction. It standardizes imagination. The algorithms squeeze creativity out of millions by showing them exactly what “works.” We don’t get unique. We get infinite variations of the same.

I hate 90%…

I struggled getting Emacs up and running on the Framework for at least an hour this morning. After finally getting it at least basically working, a package update caused denote-consult to fail. I give up. I’m sorry Emacs, but if you’re going to break every other fucking day, we’re going…

When I was setting up my desktop computer with Linux, I wanted to install Gnome, but I couldn’t get itto work with the Apple Studio Display. I went with KDE instead, and put Gnome on the laptop.

After using both for a couple weeks, it turns out I prefer KDE.…