Wed Jun 04
Or, “The latest chapter in my fool’s quest to discover a productivity framework that magically makes me effortlessly productive”. So it goes. I’ve always considered my todo list as a list of things I need to do (for obvious reasons). But I had a minor epiphany and realized that, in my current role, everything I do...
The bliss of good enough— an ode to my moka pot It's early and unpleasant, and I am woefully uncaffinated. I brave my way through my small apartment towards the kitchen. My back and my left hip ache. I am getting older; crankier. The steady march of time is steadily kicking my ass, a situation I am most keenly aware...
A small Django/Python app to convert popular mastodon links to an RSS feed
Two years ago I got myself my first Garmin watch, the Forerunner 255S. I bought it at a heavy discount when the 265 was released. I didn't want to spend too much money on my first Garmin as it's always a bit of a gamble switching ecosystems like that. I was quite happy with my FR 255 but over the past few weeks it...
So, you might know that I’m a text editor junkie. At a job in the 1990s, I used a great Windows-only editor called HomeSite for web development. When I moved to the Mac in 2001, I wrote to Allaire, the developers, and asked if there was a Mac version in the works. They wrote back and explained they’d written it in...
This is the sixth post in the series on Rails controllers.When building Rails apps, we often take render for granted. It’s easy to let Rails implicitly render the default template or to drop in render :new to render a different template.However, as you get deeper into Rails, you learn that there’s a lot more under...
June 4, 2025 I’ve used BBEdit on and off over the years. Remember TextWrangler? It’s never been my primary Markdown writing app, though I’ve always wanted it to be. I was accustomed to apps like iA Writer, Typora, MarkEdit, and Ulysses—all of which come with built-in keyboard shortcuts for common Markdown syntax: ⌘B...
Since mid-May 2025 I have been looking for a room to rent in Rotterdam, as I will be moving there to study for XPUB. In the meanwhile, the world is burning and the assholes holding the power and the super rich are making it hard for us to dwell in peace without spending all our money on absurd rent prices. On top of...
A little while back, I discussed how hard it was to find a self-hosted, privacy respecting, comment system for your blog. In that post, I talked about how I had finally settled on Comentario. It was easy to set up, had many nice features, and worked really well. The comments came flooding in. And then two days ago,...
I got my start in youth theatre. Back when I was 7 years old my parents enrolled me in our local drama club mainly because it seemed fun, and little old me was a bit shy and needed an outlet. There were no motivations behind it, no hopes of stardom, my parents were definitely not the type to push me on stage to...