I accidentally wiped out my bookmarks file this afternoon. Syncthing propagated the change, and I was forced to restore from an old partial backup. Lesson learned: versioning is useful.

While I’m all for people moving away from platforms like Twitter and embracing more freedom- and privacy-centric systems such as Mastodon, I do worry that many of them might be doing it purely for ideological reasons and may have no interest in maintaining the respectful atmosphere Mastodon is well-known for.

There’s only one major regret I have about switching from Windows to Linux for my personal computers, and that regret is that I no longer have Winamp.

Happy 5th birthday, A Hat In Time!

It suddenly occurred to me that I’ve become that guy: the guy who rents a car with a fancy touchscreen center console and immediately goes to the “About” page in the console settings to look at the open source licenses.

The problem I have with the vast majority of social movements, left or right, is that they often lead to projection instead of introspection. Instead of person A trying to decide how person B can treat person C better, person A should try to decide how person A can treat person C better.

When I’m flying in a plane and I look out the window down at the ground, I wonder if anyone on the ground is looking back up at me.

Summing the first n odd positive integers yields n^2. For twisty puzzle enthusiasts, an interesting consequence of this is that a Pyraminx has the same number of stickers per face as a Rubik’s Cube, a Master Pyraminx has the same number of stickers per face as a Rubik’s Master Cube, and so on.

My Gemini log posts have been getting very long recently.

I might be opening a big can of worms with this question, but what is the utility of Spartan over Gopher?

I was hoping to relax with some friends at a bar tonight, only to find that bars are even less my scene than they were seven years ago. Lesson learned.

If the only thing you write in your changelog is “Fixes and improvements”, why bother with a changelog at all?

The rise of tags on online articles saying how many minutes it takes to read them says, to me, a lot about our breakneck-speed culture.

@prologic@prologic The immediate context was deconstructed movie characters, but I find I’m also tiring of deconstructed foods, deconstructed philosophy, deconstructed art, etc.

I find myself increasingly disinterested in “deconstruction”, in every context.

I swear I will figure out how to twtxt properly one day

The An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, has been destroyed. https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2022/02/has-worlds-most-iconic-aircraft-225.html

The An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, has been destroyed. https://www.a

I just found out that my posts are visible on twtxt.net. I don’t have an account there, so I apologize if I don’t see a reply there!

Google no longer allows in-app donations that don’t go through Google Play. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/3768

“IRS.gov is now using ID.me to log in!” Awesome, the credetials for US taxpayers are passing through a registrar located in Montenegro.

I passed my AWS Solutions Architect Associate recert exam!