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There's a good chance that the ever-helpful Jannis has unstuck my ActivityPub stuff, which was caused by me changing my mind 200 times in the past year. If you can see this, it worked.

I will join Sacha’s live stream this Thursday to talk about underappreciated features that are built into Emacs. There are a lot of nice things that are available out-of-the-box (plus many packages that build on top of them). I am looking forward to it!

The video will be recorded for…

The fifth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 5, I chat with Mike, the author of Shellsharks. We talk about, among other things, balancing personal and professional identities on personal websites, curating interesting content on the web, and creating bridges between disciplines with…

Well I didn't see this coming: TheBrain is now on Linux.

I've been using TheBrain for nearly 20 years. And I keep using it. In fact, the only thing that finally forced me to stop was my foray into Linux. Now that barrier is gone, so I have…

A few weeks ago, I was at my brother’s place, watching NBA, and amongst other things, I was teasing him about the fact that he’s putting up weight. Which is just a fact. But he’s also in his 40s, so that’s understandable. He pointed out that I’m also gaining weight…

Zen has been my default browser for a while now. I like it, but lately it's been getting flaky. Pages would seize up or otherwise behave badly. Tabs and bookmarks stopped syncing properly. Little stuff, mostly, but annoying just the same.

I installed Vivaldi a while back, launched it, fumbled…

For this entry in the series, I have picked a traditional song from Heperus (Ήπειρος), the northwestern part of mainland Greece. Traditional Heperotic music is renowned for its laments: slow-paced songs that revolve around themes of loss, suffering, and hardship, but also of honour and commitment to ancient values.

One…

I'm not even going to apologize. I was experiencing SSG fatigue and thought I'd see what it would take to migrate all of Eleventy's Markdown posts to Ghost. Claude made it surprisingly easy. So easy that I just went for it. So here we are.

While I was making my…

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The familiar sounds of the espresso machine never cease to calm me – the joy of the familiar, but also the potential of the variable: of sounds at new tones, of different cadences. Watching as the barista makes sure to stop pulling the espresso shot at 33 seconds — precision…