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Building a mini homelab from spare parts: a Dell OptiPlex running NixOS, two Raspberry Pis, and an external HDD in a GeeekPi 10-inch rack, with Tailscale, Prometheus, Nextcloud, Restic, and Jellyfin.

Finally did a bit of work on my instrument today! I think the last time I touched it was in May? Sheesh. The solenoid driver module breakout for it has been sitting partly done for much longer than that, though. I've had this nagging feeling that the way I decided to set it...

I mostly know David Sedaris from the fact that he once wrote about the Dutch Sinterklaas phenomenon in Six to Eight Black Men, and we have that book in a cabinet, but The Land and Its People is the first book of his I’ve read. As is typical of Sedaris, it’s a collection of ...

What I’ve been listening to this month. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Remastered) - Manic Street Preachers Teenage Angst (RE:CREATED VERSION) - Placebo Atf Blues - The Dodge Brothers Up Jumped the Devil (2010 Remaster) - Nick Cave & The Bad...

I decided to build brennan.click, a wiki-linked digital commonplace book in Eleventy, with auto-generated stubs created with eleventy-plugin-interlinker, pure-CSS hover transclusion and footnotes with no JavaScript, and a plain-text /urlminder.txt feed that drives a Beeminder goal.

Newly watched films: Compulsion [2024], rated 10/10 47 Meters Down [2017], rated 3/10 Prey [2021], rated 4/10 Kung Fu Panda [2008], rated 4/10 The Platform 2 [2024], rated 4/10 Hotel Artemis [2018], rated 4/10 Filling in the historical gaps: Fast & Fu...

OpenAI's AI agent hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a test - here's why that's an architecture problem, not an AI one.

• Drinking freshly brewed coffee
• Reading about Atlantis
• Journaling in a notebook every morning
• Refilling my fountain pens every few days
• Maintaining an analog zettelkasten
• Blogging every Wednesday
• Updating Patreon every Friday
• Outlining a new novel
• Editing an old one
• Keeping up with the world and the small web via RSS

RSS.chat worknotes is a feed now. The whole thing is a Claude project. I asked it to turn the worknotes into a feed, and answered a few questions, came up with a domain and it did the rest. And it made very good decisions about how to use RSS 2.0.

Bluesky adoption, Dave Portnoy is a tool, a couple retro gaming related things, and killer whales

Interesting read as always !

Podcast client developers -- don't give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you all haven't done anything new with it since 2004 or so. No wonder the competition is catching up, they're actually delivering new features while you all haven't done a thing. RSS is li...

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First of all, you don’t have to make time to read. What you need to do is read every single time you are not doing something else. In today’s world, most people pick up their phones as soon as they get a moment of inactivity. Serious

Hyperlinks are a miracle. — Brad Frost on mastodon.social, 11th of June 2025 Table des matières Au commencement était le Texte... ... puis l'Image fut. Et vinrent les marchands du Temple... ... et ils apportèrent une pestilence de boutons. Au commencement était le Texte...

I have written here about masks on twenty separate occasions (this post will make that twenty-one occasions), and my first book of artwork was titled Myth &am...

I wish we had the full story here…this article is interesting but there is definitely something missing on what happened…

This week I worked on my Froscon slides and my reading time was limited, but I found a good article about OpenBao and more informations about Reflect Orbital.