The main tool I use for to write this blog is vim (specifically Neovim. 
 “Vim” at this point is not really a particular program, but a clade 
 of software.) I have been using it for many years now, so this is not surprising. 
 What is surprising (to me) is that I do not write (or at least draft) more posts by hand. I like writing by hand. I have quite a collection of…
It’s August again. The year goes by so fast. With August comes a very special event: Blaugust! 
 It’s a month long celebration of blogging. 
 There are all kinds of events going on at all times in various corners of the “blogosphere,” but this is the one that really got me into the habit of blogging. 
 It is a bittersweet one this year. Belghast 
, who…
Some Links 
 Link Tree? How about a Pan-tree? 

A little while ago I wrote about my thoughts on linktree type sites 
. It seems I am not the only one whofeels that way. Here’s some tips on making your own with pandoc 
. (This blog has a lot of information about pandoc.) 
 Distraction Free as a Distraction 
 Are you trying to set up a distraction free writing…
Yes, there’s a lot more serious problems with AI. But this is one of the things that bothers me on a personal level. I can hardly stand to follow discussions in tech spaces anymore because it’s just nothing but AI ad nauseam. Can we please talk about something else for a change!? 
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Congratulations to Chris on 1000 blog posts! 
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 Tell me about a book you read, or a show you watched, or a game you played, or a bus ride you went on.
Tell me in great depth or short staccato sentences skimming the surface. But, please… tell me. 
 
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My last post is not long, but it did end up taking quite a bit longer than I wouldhave liked. Sometimes you just do not have as much time for a project as you expect. In this case it was also hindered by being tied to a programming project, which invited tweaking and contemplation of features, etc. 
 I became hesitant to post it. It took too long to finish. 
 What I find happens, is that…
A little while ago I was wondering just how many words I’ve written on my blog. I was inspired by Wouter over at Brain Baking 
. 
 Now, I use a static site generator for my blog, the upshot of which is that the whole thing is just a big folder full of files. So counting up all the words is really easy with a simple shell command: 
 wc --total=only -w…

 dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about. 
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This quiz has been making the rounds in the Indieweb. Here’s what I got: 
 
 You are a Explorer 
 To you, the web feels like a library that’s open all hours and has everything you could ever imagine! You love reading others blogs, and know how important readers are to the whole of the indie web community! 
 
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I bought a notebook. Yes, another one. No, I did not need another notebook. But, you know… 
 It all started when I heard about a new stationery shop that opened in my city. Of course I had to go visit one weekend. They had a great selection of fancy notebooks. (Despite my avidly accumulating notebooks, I am picky about which ones. It is important that they have paper suitable for…
Here’s a radical question for my corner of the internet: what did we lose when blogs took over? 
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Wouter 
 turned the last ten years of his blog into a printed book. 
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I don’t really want to make another post about LLMs. I would love for blogging about LLMs to become as gauche as blogging about blogging. But this is the idea I have right now. 
 I don’t want to talk to chatbots. There is one simple reason: 
 I am not chatty. I am not talkative. I find it difficult to think of things to say. It takes me quite a bit of time and effort to think…
I really like how blogs have the potential for accumulating and making connections over long spans of time. That’s why I made an “on this day” feature to automatically surface old posts 
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I love to go for long walks 
. That is my first choice for getting places. 
 I love being able to walk places. It is a privilege. It is a privilege to have a body that can do it without pain. It is a privilege to have places close enough to walk to. It is a privilege to have a climate and landscape amenable to it. None of these are guarantees. 
 Sometimes they are short walks. There is…
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