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  1. We need to own our computing experience
    May 27, 2026 · original
    We need to own our computing experience Originally when I talked about owning our own platform is this blog, I meant owning the stack that powers and serves the blog. Moving to your own VPS or servers or static pages in which you didn t depend on some Blog As A Service company such as Wordpress.com. Eventually, I started talking about owning the workflow that empowered your blog experience not only your posting experience but your reading experience. To that effect, I showed how I created my own blog reader and integrated that into Firefox and also my own blog editor. Recently, I think that we need to move further into owning more and more of our computing experience. The avalanche of LLM/AI based slop solutions being force fed into our lives is radicalising me towards a very specific path in which owning my own platform now needs to mean controlling my own computing experience. I been a
  2. Apple Just Lost Me
    Mar 25, 2026 · original
    Apple Just Lost Me Apple has just lost me as an user. It will take me a while before I can fully migrate away from their devices, and I suspect I might need to keep a mac around for my work, but I will move all my personal computing to Linux and Android again. I been an Apple user since MacOS 8. I had both a Newton MessagePad 2000 and an eMate 300. I got the original blue toilet-seat iBook G3. I was there for the developer road show introducing MacOS X. I paid for my developer account since then. Recently, I had a Macbook Air, iPhone 17, iPad Mini. I m gonna throw all of them away — not literally ofc — because of recent slop this company been shipping. It is death through a thousand papercuts. To summarise for yous there are three main issues for me and the last one happened today and is what pushed me through the threshold. Gatekeeper I absolutely hate Apple quarantine and gatekeeping o
  3. Building your own blogging tools is a fun journey
    Feb 24, 2026 · original
    Building your own blogging tools is a fun journey I read a very interesting blog post today: So I ve Been Thinking About Static Site Generators by PolyWolf in which she goes in depth about her quest to create a 🚀BLAZING🔥 fast static site generator . It was a very good read and I m amazed at how fast she got things running. The conversation about the post on Lobste.rs is also full of gems. Seeing so many people pouring energy into the specific problem of making SSGs very fast feels to me pretty much like modders getting the utmost performance out of their CPUs or car engines. It is fun to see how they are doing and how fast they can make clean and incremental builds go. No one will ever complain about their SSG being too fast. As someone who used a very slow SSG for years and eventually migrated to my own homegrown dynamic site , I understand how frustrating slow site generation can be.
  4. Three months of Poncho Wonky
    Jan 25, 2026 · original
    Three Months of Poncho Wonkying Today marks three months since my first release of Poncho Wonky. In this brief post, I want to chat a bit about I accomplished during this period. Poncho Wonky is a fork of Patchwork which is a Secure Scuttlebutt client. You can find the latest release here . The last release of Patchwork is 3.18.1, Poncho Wonky first release was thus versioned as 4.0.0 and as of this writing, the current version is 4.4.0. In these three months I released 10 versions of Poncho Wonky including patches and minor versions. My strategy is that bug fixes or feature alterations get a point release and new features get a minor version bump. A major version bump is in the work if the feature change is considered ground breaking. Updated dependencies Patchwork final version was released on 2021 using: Electron 11 Electron Builder 22 I managed to upgrade these dependencies to: Elect
  5. My chocolate truffles recipe
    Nov 27, 2025 · original
    My Brigadeiro Recipe (chocolate truffles) This is a very traditional recipe from Brazil that is a staple of birthday parties all over the country. The ingredients are: 1 tin of condensed milk (395g) 1/2 of a cup of cream (100g) 1/2 tablespoon of butter (15g) 1 and a half tablespoon of cocoa powder (23g) Mix everything on a pan until they are well mixed. Turn the heat on in medium and mix until you can use a spatula to separate the mix and when it comes back together it folds from the top like a wave. Be aware that the mixture will rise in the pot before going down again. If you have oreos, you can make little bats for halloween as seen in the photo below.
  6. Had a good time at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair
    Nov 12, 2025 · original
    Had a good time at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair Last weekend I went to Edinburgh Radical Book Fair with a friend and had a wonderful time. I was having a crap time before going and being there and seeing so much hope and energy for change made my spirit much better. It was good to see so many interesting books covering intersectional topics and cutting through so many hard challenges we face as a society. My favourite section was the anarchism corner I found tucked away with so many delightful little books. My mischievous grin could probably be seen from Glasgow as I browsed them all. In the end I grabbed three books. I m very keen on reading them all. I started with After The Internet by Tiziana Terranova and am already in love with it even though I am barelly into the book. From the back blurb: The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still
  7. Linkgraphs are fun
    Sep 20, 2025 · original
    Linkgraphs are fun As far as I am aware, link graphs were pioneered by Artemis calm web reader , you can read about their take on it as Artemis Link Graph . In their own words: Artemis Link Graph is a web extension that tells you when the page you are viewing has been linked to in a post from a website you follow on Artemis. You can use this extension to discove]r what websites you enjoy are saying about different web pages. — Source: Artemis Link Graph | Artemis It is a very neat feature. It works by surfacing posts from sites you follow that mention the page you're current reading. In an age of algorithimic timelines trying to herd you into content that improve their metrics and the profit for their shareholders, having such organic connections is a blessing. This is how it works in Artemis I mentioned in The Web Should Be A Conversation that I want to go back to a human-centric web in
  8. Pão de queijo recipe
    Sep 1, 2025 · original
    Pão De Queijo recipe Brazilian cheese bread is a perenial snack all around the country. They're delicious and made even better if you have some dip or filling like butter or requeijão . Ingredients: 100ml of oil 150ml of water 150ml of milk 400g of cassava starch Mix sour and sweet kind of cassava starch. My current ration is 1:1 or maybe 2:1 skewed towards more of the sour kind. If you only have one type of cassava starch, use the sour one. 15g of salt 2 eggs 250g of cheese (I use cheddar in the UK, prefer freshly grated over shaved) Instructions: Mix the starch and salt in a large bowl. Mix the oil, water, and milk and heat them almost to the boiling point. Be careful cause boiling milk degrades and bubbles all over your stove. Stop before it reaches that point. Slowly add the hot mixture to the starch while mixing. You want to get all of the starch wet and mixed. Be careful to not all
  9. Making massage bars
    Jun 22, 2025 · original
    I been making massage bars and soap for a while. They're a fun activity I can do while listening to audiobooks and the end result makes me super happy. I usually end up with more than I can actually use so most of the bars become gifts for friends. Massage bars, not food These is the recipe I'm using: 70g 35% beeswax 50g 25% coconut oil 50g 25% cocoa butter 30g 15% shea butter 10 drops of peppermint oil 10 drops of lavender oil 2g of menthol crystal I got it from this amazing video .
  10. Experimenting with no-build Web Applications
    Jun 4, 2025 · original
    Experimenting with no-build Web Applications Some years ago I build an eBook generator called Little Webby Press . It would pick a folder with Markdown files and turn them into an EPUB3 non-DRM eBook file and also a zip containing a static website for your book. The cool thing about Little Webby Press is that all the workflow happens on the client-side. There's no back end, no database, no user accounts. You drag and drop a folder, press a button, and it works. I used it to make some niche technical books in the past and since I don't keep analytics, I have no idea how many people have used it. Old version of LWP. I spent the recent years without writing any book, but recently, after developing BlogCat and writing The Web Should Be A Conversation , I have an itch to write a book about WebExtensions . Of course, I'd like to use my own eBook generator to write this book, and that is how I
  11. Some photos taken with Lomochrome Metropolis
    May 6, 2025 · original
    Some photos taken with Lomochrome Metropolis Got myself a new camera. A 35mm half-frame Olympus Pen EES-2 with zone focusing. My first roll with this camera has been the Lomochrome Metropolis shot in ASA 400. That is an odd film in my opinion, I enjoy films that do color shifts and make the photogram more interesting, but I can't say I'm fully onboard with that gritty feel. I enjoyed shooting with it but don't think I'm gonna get it again, maybe some time long in the future but for sure I'll experiment with other film stocks a lot before I circle back to this one.
  12. RSS doesn't necessarily means firehose
    Apr 26, 2025 · original
    RSS doesn't necessarily means firehose Was reading Hacker News today and saw this very interesting post Reading RSS content is a skilled activity which raises some really interesting points about feed reading and how much effort one should put into making their experience fit what they want. The following discussion on Hacker News is full of people commenting how their feed reading experience is either overwhelming or stressful cause of the firehose of posts they see on their reader app. NetNewsWire is a good example of river-of-news kind of app. Many feed reading apps and SaaS adopt the river of news paradigm in which news items are presented in reverse chronogical order in a list that is evergrowing. People often use the monicker firehose for this type of UX approach in which the user is flooded with content. I suspect that this became the dominant approach for feed readers as they wer
  13. Got my first turquoise-tinted film back from the lab
    Apr 24, 2025 · original
    Got my first turquoise-tinted film back from the lab Here are some photos I took with my Pentax Auto 110 which uses 110 film cartridges. For these photos I used a turquoise tinted film by Lomography . I haven’t edited this photos at all, this is how they come out from the camera. I’m loving the results. Might even print some and will for sure experiment with other tinted films.
  14. The Mozilla I want focus on people and not AI
    Apr 18, 2025 · original
    The Mozilla I want focus on people and not AI I used to be a quite active Mozilla volunteer. I'd been part of Mozilla Reps, Mozilla TechSpeakers, and even contracted with the Foundation for a bit. It was a huge part of my life and identity of a while and if that is a healthy thing or not is up for debate, but it was true. What made me devote so much time and effort to Mozilla was a set of common values and practices that aligned with what I want for the Web. Good old days. Basically, I saw in Mozilla a community of like-minded individuals who would foster a people-centric Web. In a world of gigantic tech conglomerates like Meta and Google, Mozilla was a breath of fresh air. I am fully aware that as I write these words, many people will be furiously typing their own Mozilla criticisms. I do not share their vitriol. Let's get some stuff out of the way: Mozilla does with very little budget
  15. Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader
    Apr 1, 2025 · original
    Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader I went through a burn out and spent the last three or so years without working on a development project of my own, then something clicked last month and I started enjoying it again. The result of that was a new add-on for Firefox called BlogCat that is a feed reader with some blog posting features as well. It is quite neat and even though I am the primary audience for it, it is the reader I want, it has some few fans already. The problem is that it is basically done, I'm enjoying working on it but I kinda done all the big features I wanted already, which is when I started thinking about novelty features. BlogCat reader page As a WebExtension, BlogCat does not work on mobile. It could work on Firefox for Android with some tweaks but I'm using iOS so I wouldn't even have a proper way to test it. For the moment, I'm using another reader
  16. Why I choose Lua for this blog
    Mar 7, 2025 · original
    Why I chose Lua for this blog This blog used to run using with a stack based on Racket using Pollen and lots of hacks on top of it . At some point I realised that my setup was working against me. The moving parts and workflow I created added too much friction to keep my blog active. That happened mostly because it was a static generator trying to behave as if it was dynamic website with an editing interface. That can be done really well — cue Grav CMS — but that was not the case for me. Once I decided to rewrite this blog as a simpler system, I faced the dilema of what stack to choose. The obvious choice for me would be Javascript, it is the language I use more often and one that I am quite confortable with. Still, I don't think it is a wise choice for the kind of blog I want to maintain. Talking to some friends recently, I noticed that many people I know that have implemented their own
  17. The Web Should Be A Conversation
    Mar 4, 2025 · original
    The Web Should Be A Conversation For a very long time, I've defended that the Web should be a conversation, a two-way street instead of a chute just pushing content into us. The Web is the only mass media we currently have where most people can have a voice. I'm not saying all these voices have the same loudness nor that every single person in our beautiful planet and space stations can actually post to the Web, just that it is the one place where everyone has the potential to be a part of it. Contrast it with streaming services, radio, or even the traditional publishing industry and you'll see that a person alone with an idea has a lot more obstacles in their way, than when considering just starting a blog. What if Skynet was stupid? For the last couple of years, there has been a colossal push by Silicon Valley companies towards generative AI. Not only bots are going crazy gobbling all
  18. Cool RPG links from this week
    Feb 25, 2025 · original
    Here are some RPG links that made for a good read (or watch) this week: DnD's lead designer explains how 5e fell apart - YouTube GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Traveller: The New Era The Palace of Moliades | Dyson's Dodecahedron
  19. Retaking The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time
    Feb 3, 2025 · original
    Retaking The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time Browsing the web is a 3D tug-of-war between developers, companies, and users. These forces were never balanced, but we have reached quite a lowest point for users in the last decade. Our beloved web browsers feature roadmap has catered more for web developers and the companies behind each browser project than for the user themselves. We used to call those apps User Agents, but they have been less of an agent on behalf of users these days. Removal of beloved features, questionable specs, creating friction in the name of security, it is death by a thousand paper cuts for users with the browser turning into an appliance for running third-party apps. What about the user's wants and desires? Well, all that is left for the user is to rebel and take the web experience back into their own hands, one small step at a time. In this brief post, I wi
  20. Went to a book launch this week
    Jan 31, 2025 · original
    The Outcast Mage book launch This week went to Glasgow for Annabel Campbell's debut novel launch. The Outcast Mage is a book that I been looking forward ever since Annabel first mentioned it to me at one of the Edinburgh SFF socials. In the city of Amoria, where magic rules all, Naila is the ultimate conundrum. A student under the watchful eye of Amoria’s sprawling Academy, Naila is undeniably gifted, yet she has never been able to harness her abilities. And time is running out. If she fails, she’ll be forced into exile, or worse – consumed by her own magic. For decades mages and the magicless Hollows have lived side-by-side peacefully. But now that peace is threatened as old resentments bubble over. A powerful anti-Hollow faction led by Amoria’s most influential mages is determined to cast the Hollows out. With her Hollow background, Nalia is in danger of being exiled from everything sh

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