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I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write

When you are the one who prompted the AI, the written output is often quite useful. But do not mistake this for effective writing.

I am so tired of reading LLM-generated text, especially when it was prompted by someone else.

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The tension between writing things easily using a computer vs writing them in one of my lovely notebooks never subsides and it is crazy-making.

Maybe there could be a document format that displays…

This is a major mode for editing sxhkdrc files. SXHKD is the Simple X Hot Key Daemon which is commonly used in minimalist desktop sessions on Xorg (I use it with bspwm, herbstluftwm, and i3wm). The sxhkdrc file configures key chords, binding them to commands. For the technicalities, read the…

I've been on my mac since early yesterday. I had planned to remain here indefinitely (long story), but don't think that's going to work.

This started because i've been receiving a more-than-usual number of paper cuts on Linux for the past week. Things like Wi-Fi dropping out randomly, Espanso stops…

Writing for Social Europe, in an article titled Europe Cannot Defend Its Values by Teaching Them Professor Jørn Bjerre makes a case in favour of liberal democracy in the European Union:

Only by building institutions in which rational argument takes precedence over utility can we prove al-Nabhani wrong when…

The twentieth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 20, I chat with Sara, the author of sarajoy.dev and whimsica11y.net, among other things, the importance of web accessibility, screen readers, and the joy of exploring and making things on the web.

I hope you…

I'm not sure if "Reduce & Simplify" means Emacs with a browser and file manager on Linux, or macOS with the default apps. I am fully on Linux now, but I…

I stand at the bookshelves — art and Nature and biography and memoir — and ask myself what story I want to tell. What do I want to write?

What I do know is I want to write something. And so I begin.

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My adventure began with…

For today’s entry in the series I have picked Street flower. It is a love song written and originally performed by Giorgos Rous (Γιώργος Ρους). It was then remixed by Maria Spanou (Μαρία Σπανού), who gave it a slower pace and a stronger sense of brokenheartedness. Here is the…

On most days I start a new daily note here, first thing in the morning, just in case there's something I want to write. I usually end…