We need to own our computing experience Originally when I talked about owning our own platform is this blog, I meant owning the stack that powers and serves the blog. Moving to your own VPS or servers or static pages in which you didn’t depend on some Blog As A Service company such as Wordpress.com. Eventually, I started talking about owning the workflow that empowered your blog experience…
Apple Just Lost Me Apple has just lost me as an user. It will take me a while before I can fully migrate away from their devices, and I suspect I might need to keep a mac around for my work, but I will move all my personal computing to Linux and Android again. I been an Apple user since MacOS 8. I had both a Newton MessagePad 2000 and an eMate 300. I got the original blue toilet-seat iBook G3. I…
Building your own blogging tools is a fun journey I read a very interesting blog post today: “So I’ve Been Thinking About Static Site Generators” by PolyWolf in which she goes in depth about her quest to create a 🚀BLAZING🔥 fast static site generator . It was a very good read and I’m amazed at how fast she got things running. The conversation about the post on Lobste.rs is…
Three Months of Poncho Wonkying Today marks three months since my first release of Poncho Wonky. In this brief post, I want to chat a bit about I accomplished during this period. Poncho Wonky is a fork of Patchwork which is a Secure Scuttlebutt client. You can find the latest release here . The last release of Patchwork is 3.18.1, Poncho Wonky first release was thus versioned as 4.0.0 and as of…
My Brigadeiro Recipe (chocolate truffles) This is a very traditional recipe from Brazil that is a staple of birthday parties all over the country. The ingredients are: 1 tin of condensed milk (395g) 1/2 of a cup of cream (100g) 1/2 tablespoon of butter (15g) 1 and a half tablespoon of cocoa powder (23g) Mix everything on a pan until they are well mixed. Turn the heat on in medium and mix until you…
Had a good time at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair Last weekend I went to Edinburgh Radical Book Fair with a friend and had a wonderful time. I was having a crap time before going and being there and seeing so much hope and energy for change made my spirit much better. It was good to see so many interesting books covering intersectional topics and cutting through so many hard challenges we face as a…
Linkgraphs are fun As far as I am aware, link graphs were pioneered by Artemis calm web reader , you can read about their take on it as Artemis Link Graph . In their own words: Artemis Link Graph is a web extension that tells you when the page you are viewing has been linked to in a post from a website you follow on Artemis. You can use this extension to discove]r what websites you enjoy are…
Pão De Queijo recipe Brazilian cheese bread is a perenial snack all around the country. They're delicious and made even better if you have some dip or filling like butter or requeijão . Ingredients: 100ml of oil 150ml of water 150ml of milk 400g of cassava starch Mix sour and sweet kind of cassava starch. My current ration is 1:1 or maybe 2:1 skewed towards more of the sour kind. If you only have…
I been making massage bars and soap for a while. They're a fun activity I can do while listening to audiobooks and the end result makes me super happy. I usually end up with more than I can actually use so most of the bars become gifts for friends. Massage bars, not food These is the recipe I'm using: 70g 35% beeswax 50g 25% coconut oil 50g 25% cocoa butter 30g 15% shea butter 10 drops of…
Experimenting with no-build Web Applications Some years ago I build an eBook generator called Little Webby Press . It would pick a folder with Markdown files and turn them into an EPUB3 non-DRM eBook file and also a zip containing a static website for your book. The cool thing about Little Webby Press is that all the workflow happens on the client-side. There's no back end, no database, no user…
Some photos taken with Lomochrome Metropolis Got myself a new camera. A 35mm half-frame Olympus Pen EES-2 with zone focusing. My first roll with this camera has been the Lomochrome Metropolis shot in ASA 400. That is an odd film in my opinion, I enjoy films that do color shifts and make the photogram more interesting, but I can't say I'm fully onboard with that gritty feel. I enjoyed shooting with…
RSS doesn't necessarily means firehose Was reading Hacker News today and saw this very interesting post Reading RSS content is a skilled activity which raises some really interesting points about feed reading and how much effort one should put into making their experience fit what they want. The following discussion on Hacker News is full of people commenting how their feed reading experience is…
Got my first turquoise-tinted film back from the lab Here are some photos I took with my Pentax Auto 110 which uses 110 film cartridges. For these photos I used a turquoise tinted film by Lomography . I haven’t edited this photos at all, this is how they come out from the camera. I’m loving the results. Might even print some and will for sure experiment with other tinted films.
The Mozilla I want focus on people and not AI I used to be a quite active Mozilla volunteer. I'd been part of Mozilla Reps, Mozilla TechSpeakers, and even contracted with the Foundation for a bit. It was a huge part of my life and identity of a while and if that is a healthy thing or not is up for debate, but it was true. What made me devote so much time and effort to Mozilla was a set of common…
Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader I went through a burn out and spent the last three or so years without working on a development project of my own, then something clicked last month and I started enjoying it again. The result of that was a new add-on for Firefox called BlogCat that is a feed reader with some blog posting features as well. It is quite neat and even though I am…
Why I chose Lua for this blog This blog used to run using with a stack based on Racket using Pollen and lots of hacks on top of it . At some point I realised that my setup was working against me. The moving parts and workflow I created added too much friction to keep my blog active. That happened mostly because it was a static generator trying to behave as if it was dynamic website with an editing…
The Web Should Be A Conversation For a very long time, I've defended that the Web should be a conversation, a two-way street instead of a chute just pushing content into us. The Web is the only mass media we currently have where most people can have a voice. I'm not saying all these voices have the same loudness nor that every single person in our beautiful planet and space stations can actually…
Here are some RPG links that made for a good read (or watch) this week: DnD's lead designer explains how 5e fell apart - YouTube GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Traveller: The New Era The Palace of Moliades | Dyson's Dodecahedron
Retaking The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time Browsing the web is a 3D tug-of-war between developers, companies, and users. These forces were never balanced, but we have reached quite a lowest point for users in the last decade. Our beloved web browsers feature roadmap has catered more for web developers and the companies behind each browser project than for the user themselves. We used to…
The Outcast Mage book launch This week went to Glasgow for Annabel Campbell's debut novel launch. The Outcast Mage is a book that I been looking forward ever since Annabel first mentioned it to me at one of the Edinburgh SFF socials. In the city of Amoria, where magic rules all, Naila is the ultimate conundrum. A student under the watchful eye of Amoria’s sprawling Academy, Naila is undeniably…