<blockquote> <p>Then you realise it will take months just to reach feature parity with basic native macOS behaviour: context menus, dictionary lookup, selection, accessibility, text interactions, all the small things users expect without thinking about them.</p> <p>So you try WebKit to render Markdown. And it works. There are caveats, of course, but mostly…
<p><small>Note: I wrote this post two months before publishing it because I wrote the draft and then...forgot to post it so I'm just posting it now to get it out of the way, it's probably fine but I just want to set expectations lol</small></p> <p>Let's say, hypothetically, that one of your favorite artists/DJs recently played a set.…
<blockquote> <p>That is not a bug in how he’s using the computer. That is the entire mechanism by which a kid becomes a developer. Or a designer. Or a filmmaker. Or whatever it is that comes after spending thousands of hours alone in a room with a machine that was never quite right for what you were asking of it.</p> </blockquote> <p>I…
<p>I've been meaning to write this post for <em>checks notes</em> months but, life got in the way, you know how it is.</p> <p>Those who know me know that I listen to <a href="https://listenbrainz.org/user/Eramdam/"><em>a lot</em></a> of music, it's the one thing that has been consistent…
<p>It's been a minute, hasn't it. In fact it has been <em>checks notes</em> <strong>10 months</strong>?! Oh dear, well. Better late than never I suppose. If you're reading this directly on the website (and you should, imo), you'll see that things look quite different!</p> <p>I've been meaning to touch up…
<p>In a very on-brand move, I saw Justice live in San Francisco last Thursday<sup><a href="#user-content-fn-1" id="user-content-fnref-1" data-footnote-ref aria-describedby="footnote-label">1</a></sup>, I took a bunch of pictures. BUT! This time, I used my newly-acquired Ricoh GR III, because what better way to really…
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<p>I've done some tweaks to the layout of the site around <a href="https://damien.zone">links</a>, <code>code bits</code> and other things I'm probably forgetting. The <a href="/blog">/blog</a> page looks a bit more feed-like now as well.</p> <p>Oh, yeah, and the blog has <a…
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<p>Saw Justice two times in Paris last week, which makes it four times this year<sup><a href="#user-content-fn-1" id="user-content-fnref-1" data-footnote-ref aria-describedby="footnote-label">1</a></sup>. While my spot for the first Paris show was not great (literally the highest, furthest from the stage), I had a much…
<p>Ever since I first tried it shortly after its introduction, Dolby Atmos on Apple Music felt, to me, gimmicky at best and counterproductive at worst? It's like, either the effect is <em>too</em> noticeable and it's distracting <em>or</em> it just doesn't add anything when it just doesn't make a whole song fall flat? If that…
<p>Last month definitely has been something, huh? Globally and also personally because, <em>man</em>, time has been <em>flying</em> these past few weeks. What started as a small list of links at the beginning of November morphed into whatever will happen in this post, welp!</p> <h3 id="playing">playing</h3>…
<p>I keep telling myself I should stop thinking about social media so much, especially in the "current moment", but it keeps happening. This post started as a bunch of posts on Mastodon until I stopped myself and decided to Blog About It instead.</p> <h3 id="mastodon-is-fine">Mastodon is fine</h3> <p>Eugen being the <a…
<p>You know, it always surprises me in the best way possible to see my <a href="https://damien.zone/links/">website's button</a> on other people's websites. I have literally no way of knowing who does it otherwise (because the file is hosted by GitHub so I don't have analytics, and I'm sure some folks re-host it themselves) so every time…
<p>Programming note: remember link roundups? Well, I'm deciding to call them by a different name now. Why? So I can make a silly pun. I wanted to go with "Cool Stuff Sunday" at first, but I'm not fooling myself in thinking I'll stick to posting these on Sundays.</p> <p>Let's get to it, there's a lot of stuff to talk…
<p>Hello, little blog, it's been a while! The past two weeks have been uncharacteristically busy for me so, huh, I didn't write much here, oops!</p> <p>I spent a week of vacation in Reno for definitely <a href="https://goblfc.org/">normal reasons</a>. Turns out, being mostly offline with your friends and other freaks…
<p>Don't adjust your RSS reader, you're not seeing the same article twice. I just flip-flopped really hard with the whole comments thing. In my (now unpublished) previous article, I said I went with <a href="https://chirpy.dev">Chirpy</a> for comments... well, I'm not using them anymore! Oops! I am now using <a…
<p>Stealing the "link roundup" format from <a href="https://jkap.io/">Jae</a>, <a href="https://shelraphen.com/community-roundup-week-of-2024-09-22-28/">Shel</a> and <a href="https://blog.dante.cool/">Dante</a> and probably others I forget.</p> <p>I want to try to make…
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<p>Well, it turns out I was pretty lucky because Justice's show last night (September 29th) was a very very good one in terms of pictures! I got literally as close as one could realistically be, even if I was slightly off center!</p> <p>As I got out of the show, I was pretty worried because Justice's light setup made it much,…
<p>I just saw Gesaffelstein last night at <a href="https://portolamusicfestival.com/">Portola</a> and <strong>boy</strong> that shit ripped. I had already watched his set from Coachella earlier this year, so I "knew" what to expect. But as always, watching a live performance is one thing,…
<p><em>This post is mirrored on cohost as well and was written with it in mind. But also not? It's fine, don't worry about it.</em></p> <p>Like many people in my age group, I think it's fair to say that I grew up online.</p> <h3 id="the-pre-social-media-years">the pre-social media years</h3>…
<p>A little post to tell the folks who are only reading the RSS feed about what I've been up to on damien.zone:</p> <p>I got a <a href="https://damien.zone/links">links</a> page with:</p> <ul> <li>my own links!</li> <li>nice buttons I keep seeing on people's websites! I'll…
<p>#now playing: <a href="https://memorexmemories.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-of-purple-skies">Pictures of Purple Skies by Memorex Memories</a></p> <p>I have been enjoying the "no frills" aspect of running a blog on bear so far. the one thing I am missing from my previous blog setup, however, is a way to quickly experiment with…
<p>#now playing: <a href="https://album.link/us/i/1739079974">BRAT by Charli XCX</a>_</p> <p>the past weekend, like the past week before it, has seen me go through a whole gamut of emotions.</p> <p>the good, the bad, and everything in between, I feel I've gone through it all.</p> <p>I keep…
<p>So. <a href="https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down">cohost</a>, huh?</p> <p>If you're reading this, you probably know me from that place (or at least have heard about it) so I don't think it's really useful to try to give you the "elevator pitch".</p> <p>what would a…
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<p><small>Inspired by <a href="https://lmnt.me/blog/lack-of-vision.html">"Lack of Vision" by Louie Mantia</a>.</small></p> <blockquote> <p>It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.</p>…
<p>This post will be the second —and last, I think— part of my "Better TweetDeck post-mortem" series. In this part, I will try to recount the history of Better TweetDeck as well as shout out people who have helped me with the project. You might learn a thing or two even if you used it for years!</p> <h2…
<p>Welp, here we are. As I write this, it seems TweetDeck is heading toward the paywall<sup><a href="#user-content-fn-1" id="user-content-fnref-1" data-footnote-ref aria-describedby="footnote-label">1</a></sup>, so I decided to <a href="https://better.tw/">discontinue Better…