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This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout.

By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates several columns. Each column from left-to-right shows posts for a given day. You can scroll down to the next…

Artemis lets you subscribe to ActivityPub feeds (i.e. accounts on Mastodon). To do this, you can type in an ActivityPub handle like @jamesg.blog@jamesg.blog [1] on the “Add a website” page.

When you subscribe to a feed using an ActivityPub handle, Artemis can use the information in the feed to determine…

Halfway through this enjoyable life experiment, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results. As I mentioned last week, I was expecting week two usage to be a bit higher compared to week one, where I went full phone-rejection mode, but I’m still pleased with how low my usage was,…

Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented. Where do I want to be in a few years? What do I want to work on? What is my dream? I have never looked…

This is a follow-up on my previous post. After talking to a few friends and getting feedback from the kind people who decided to email me and share their thoughts, I decided that I will stop once interview number 150 is out, on July 10th. 150 is a neat…

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stefano Verna, whose blog can be found at squeaki.sh.

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Hair. A nice beard. Savings. Debt. A house. Subscriptions to video streaming services. A piece of forest. Kids. A wife. A husband. Hands without scars. Arms without scars. Legs without scars. A face without scars. A monthly salary. Paid vacations. Happiness. Things I’m proud of. A normal dog. Social media…

Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.”

What would my perfect day look like? Reflecting on this question, I started to think about the days that have brought me the most joy in the past. I realised that the…

I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “Scotland’s brightness levels”.

Place is a recurring theme when I am writing. Where am I? What do I see? What I write about Nature is what…

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.…