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Hi, Human here! I just wanted to give you some background on this blog, why it exists, and how everything came together. Just be aware that you are reading this weeks after I originally wrote it, in July 2026. I’m a bit of a serial project abandoner. More on that later, but...

The previous two design pillars of Seamless are crash-safety and immutability. Both are about reducing cognitive load, removing hidden order of execution and spooky action at a distance, and thus maximizing the ability to reason locally.

The next design pillar is extensibility.

Language extensibility is about being able to fit the language and program structure to the problem domain, instead of fitting the domain into a rigid set of structures and language abstractions. As Paul Graham argued, regularity in a program that does not follow the shape of the problem domain is probably a sign of a missing abstraction.

خريطة ليلية تفاعلية مجانية لأهم قلاع العالم وحصونه وقصوره - 3737 معلمًا بارزًا في 131 دولة، لكل منها صورة وتاريخ تأسيسه وقصته. بدون إعلانات، وبدون حسابات.كيف تم إنشاؤها؟جميع المعلومات على هذه الخريطة مستمدة من بيانات مفتوحة: الحقائق والإحداثيات وتواريخ التأسيس من ويكي بيانات...

The main reason web surfing is harder now, aside from the gravitational pull of social media platforms, is because outbound links are a lot rarer. Many sites don’t link out at all, because linking out subverts the advertising-driven business model most of them operate by.

Also, because

Stories about being on display, hiding from a street party, and things washed up on the beach.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 26 July 2026 The average temperature today is 19.02˚C, With highs of 19.73˚C and lows of 18.71˚C, It may feel like 19.33˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 2.24m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressur...

I had been sat on the lid of the toilet for seventeen minutes, looking at the sign on the bin that said "Paper towels only please". How lucky to be a paper towel, I thought: never to disappoint, never to upset. I had tried to be that way

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The Martian Chronicles is a collection of standalone stories about humans colonizing Mars. The stories form a loosely connected multi-year chronicle tracing the arrival of the first expeditions through the eventual abandonment of most human settlements. While the book is cl...

Fredkin’s paradox reads “The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them—no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.” Thus, a decision-making agent might spend the most time on the least important dec...

I created a local viewer for my OPML Zettlekasten file that I created in 2022 and updated posts. The code uses a combination of the outlineBrowser2 and opmlPackage repos from Dave Winer. I will add a repo in my account soon with the setup that I used.

C'est pas juste une affaire de fierté culturelle, dans le fond. Avoir des vrais termes en français, ça baisse la barrière à l'entrée pour le monde francophone qui est pas nécessairement techno, ça fait en sorte que l'IndieWeb a pas l'air d'un anglophone club de plus. Ça challenge ce réflexe-là, souvent ben inconscient, où l'anglais devient la langue par défaut dès qu'on parle à la technologie.

— Brennan Kenneth Brown, L'IndieWeb en français québécois?

Laura

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Tech Stuff

MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifacts, and AI coding junk. brew install cleanmymac

Writing & Editing Stack Using Zed, Harper, Vale

Dans l'article précédent "Du texte à l'image", j'ai retracé les grandes lignes de l'apparition de l'affichage des images en ligne sur le World Wide Web, puis leur utilisation pour les premières publicités en ligne. Vers la fin de l'article, j'ai fait allusion aux petits bout...

I need to read more books. And a few random links. Also, I could use a nap.

Katrina Evans has started a pixel club based on little windows. I’m an old dog willing to learn new tricks so I headed over to Piskel and gave it a shot using one of Katrina’s window templates. I decided to acknowledge wildfire season with a sunrise in the smoke. An orange orb in the grey was an easy start for a beginner. More often, I have a nice view of rivers, mountains and clear blue skies. If I get better at pixel art, I’ll try to show those instead. Edit: Katrina warned me they can be addictive, and sure enough I now have an animated gif of the Newsonaut rocket taking off.

Cet article de blogue est écrit en français. This blog post is written in French. Sur la traduction des termes de l'IndieWeb en français québécois, l'état actuel des ressources francophones (wiki IndieWeb, Vincent Breton, Radio-Canada), la tradition néologique du Québec via l'OQLF (courriel, pourriel, clavardage, etc.), les termes déjà existants (blogue, fédivers, auto-hébergement), et des propositions pour de nouveaux termes comme PSSA pour POSSE, rétrolien pour webmention, et jardin clos pour walled garden. Un appel à la discussion sur la traduction des termes techniques dans les langues non-anglophones.

Table of Contents 1. My Apps 2. My Achievements I wanted to briefly share a couple achievements I've experienced lately from the apps I've published on the iOS app store. If you're new to my blog: I'm not a full-time developer and don't do this for a living. I deve...