# four years ago (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover four years ago. Page: Feed: --- ## [OggCamp 2026](https://davelee.uk/oggcamp-2026/) _2026-04-27 · Dave Lee_ As my eldest offspring and I left the house on Friday afternoon, we certainly weren’t expecting fate to conspire against our actually attending OggCamp this year. ## [star fruit cream pie](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/star-fruit-cream-pie/) _2026-04-27 · tefflon · tefflon_ ten or eleven years ago, my friend ryan made large ceramic forks when he was a second year at cranbrook. i was living in california (i had already graduated) and first learned of the forks on the internet, where images of them circulated. i asked ryan about their context —— how and why he went about making them and what they represented to him. he told me that he was eating dinner one night and… ## [ruffled beam of lies](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/ruffles/) _2026-04-12 · tefflon · tefflon_ if i could i would make the pain go away i'd make it easy for you to hear me when i say i miss you i'd make things possible and painless and fun alas i am not god nor am i a white person so all i can do is be me while you be options ## [amateur hour](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/amateur-hour/) _2026-04-05 · tefflon · tefflon_ sleeping in was not an option, but i dreamt some dreams you may be entertaining\[,\] bitterness only lasted for as long as a glottal stop; i thought i knew what i was doing when i was a kid. i didn’t know that it was possible to blush through my skin tone, might be because my teachers taught me nothing about my self. still i had no clue how much i was missing you and yet i knew what i wanted and… ## [it tasted like palo santo, if that’s even possible](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/it-tasted-like-palo-santo-if-even-possible/) _2026-03-22 · tefflon · tefflon_ it was about four years ago that i remember fearing love, then fearing it again two years after that. my words rarely matched what lingered inside of me, and i often wished i could rewind our conversations, reboot, start over. i knew that love was present but didn’t know if i was worthy of it. i knew that it was all i wanted and also knew it wasn’t like a job listing or menu item or skincare… ## [d’annam mooncake](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/dannam-mooncake/) _2026-03-07 · tefflon · tefflon_ i’ve had a hard time asking for what i want these past few years. it might have something to do with my surroundings, which have felt suffocating, stifling, and demanding as of late. i like to assume that many people have a severe form of astigmatism that warps their impression of me. when my requests are interpreted as demanding, and when my security is perceived to be a threat, i don’t always… ## [when mere echoes become damp traces of what we intuit](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/when-mere-echoes-become-damp-traces/) _2026-02-22 · tefflon · tefflon_ i’m fasting with limited brainpower, yet i have learned something that might only be apparent when i am reduced to my most elemental functions. i don’t know if i can articulate it, but i know it, and i feel beholden to it now. it’s snowing, and i’m watching two (now three) birds outside my window. they are on the roof of another brownstone. they just flew away, and one chirped, and they might be… ## [do not confuse discrete with discreet](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/do-not-confuse-discrete-with-discreet/) _2026-01-25 · tefflon · tefflon_ i’m taking time to cycle through the things that you don’t need to see or hear. i might be wrong, i know. i wonder . . . when i hear you, i feel weighted and buoyant, and i enjoy the contradiction btw. i like a soft stone and a heated cucumber. i like the feeling, sometimes. i almost fell asleep to your voice once, in the best way possible. i fought the impulse and did not fall asleep -- i didn’t… ## [lion’s mane](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/lions-mane/) _2026-01-01 · tefflon · tefflon_ sometimes my dreams sing me to sleep, almost as if they are whispering a fantasy that i believed in at age twelve. i slurp my hot beverage and swap the truth for mine. watching without really knowing it, i hold onto a puff of scent that resembles tack and powder. in the fifth grade i got so close to winning class president that i almost saw it in my sleep. my would-be predecessor said it was a… ## [let there be light](https://tefflon.bearblog.dev/let-there-be-light/) _2025-12-30 · tefflon · tefflon_ I remember creating a blog on here about four years ago. I had been following a Pan-Africanist scholar while writing my first few blog posts, which were peppered with combative language and self-governing frameworks. I was desperate to identify with a struggle that felt palpable and far gone simultaneously. I had moved out of Chicago, started a job in what felt like a different planet, and didn't… ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3nDNiAD8L4Rr) _2025-12-30 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [It’s nice to have a hobby](https://www.sholis.com/blog/it-s-nice-to-have-a-hobby) _2025-11-23 · Carry On_ Last May, I used a fountain pen for the first time. I had seen someone using one to take notes during a talk we were both attending, and asked him about it afterward. We chatted, he let me try his pen in my notebook, and the next day I bought one at the stationery shop in my neighborhood. I’ve always enjoyed stationery, and have piles of used and unused notebooks, from Moleskines to Hobonichis, as… ## [We Need to Talk About Observation](https://jaredsinclair.com/2025/09/10/observation.html) _2025-09-10 · Jared Sinclair_ (Note: Every buzz-and-nonbuzz word of this post was painstakingly conceived and typed by hand using a real-ass keyboard and a real-ass text editor running on my personal computer in my home office outside Cleveland, Ohio. No GPUs were harmed in the making of this film.) ## [Lisa Oppenheim at MUDAM Luxembourg](https://www.sholis.com/blog/lisa-oppenheim-at-mudam-luxembourg) _2025-04-18 · Carry On_ Installation view, “Lisa Oppenheim: Monseiur Steichen,” MUDAM Luxembourg. Photo: Mareike Tocha Because I only browse Instagram every few months, I’m late to discover that my old pal Lisa Oppenheim, an artist whom I’ve written about and whose work I acquired for my onetime employer , has an exhibition on view now at MUDAM Luxembourg . The curators of the show, Christophe Gallois and and Nathalie… ## [My Digital A–Z Portrait](https://www.sholis.com/blog/my-digital-a-z-portrait) _2025-04-14 · Carry On_ Given how much time I spend using a web browser, I wondered how accurate a portrait of my interests it might return. So I typed each letter of the alphabet into the search/URL bar, one by one, and have recorded the websites suggested by autocomplete: A— Are.na B— Bluesky C— Cyclemarks D— DuckDuckGo E—My bank’s online portal F— Feedbin G— GitHub H— Hot Pizza (a social art/art-education project my… ## [My 2024 in Music](https://www.sholis.com/blog/my-2024-in-music) _2025-01-09 · Carry On_ Image: my most listened-to albums of 2024, though not all of them came out this year. My full Last.fm year-end report is here . I listen to new music obsessively, and I’m still dedicated to albums over algorithmic playlists. I read reviews, follow a few new-music newsletters (especially Philip Sherburne and Shawn Reynaldo ), get release-update emails from the wonderful Boomkat , and keep up with… ## [Beware @unchecked Sendable, or Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation](https://jaredsinclair.com/2024/11/12/beware-unchecked.html) _2024-11-12 · Jared Sinclair_ I ran into some unexpected runtime crashes recently while testing an app on iOS 18 compiled under Swift 6 language mode, and the root causes ended up being the perils of using @unchecked Sendable in combination with some counterintuitive compiler behavior with implicit actor isolation. Rather than start at the end, I’ll walk you through how I introduced the crash, and then what I did to resolve… ## [A note at forty-five 📬](https://www.sholis.com/blog/a-note-at-forty-five) _2024-09-24 · Carry On_ Five years ago today, I sent the first email to this list. Today is my forty-fifth birthday, so I thought I’d send another update. There are 584 words below. I once listened to a radio interview with the writer John McPhee, then in his eighties, who claimed that the preoccupations of his many essays and books are the same subjects that fascinated him as a teenager. In the last few years, I see…