Junited 2026
Fri 05 June 2026
I received a kind shout-out from Juhis Santala this morning, mentioning my previous blog post regarding the tilde (~) movement key in vi/nvi/vim, and how I tweaked it.
Reading his blog post, I discovered the "Junited" blogging theme, a way of bringing bloggers together for the month of June, which was created by Robert Birming.
I've not been much of a "linkdumper," but I must admit those kinds of posts can be a goldmine for interesting info. Here's some stuff I've discovered just looking around so far (which I will be updating as I'm able throughout the month):
June 5th
- justsketch.me
- This is an interesting interactive web app of a poseable doll which can be used by artists to create realistic poses that they would like to draw
- Syntax et Anima β Onigiri!
- MichaΕ's story of making Onigiri takes me back nearly a quarter century to the last time I tried making it. (Hint: you either buy a silicone Onigiri mold, or try shaping it into a vaguely rounded-triangle shape with your hands, but (IIRC) wet your hands first, so the rice doesn't stick to them.) It's a fun read :)
- Joel's blog β More cycling, good reading, great food - W21
- Joel's a good FediFriend, and his weeknotes are always interesting. I might say I'm impressed that he remembers his weeks at all, my short-term memory is kind of futzed π
- More to come (hopefully) daily! π Check back here for more
June 6th
- cobbles β The Stepford AI
- This metaphor and analysis of A.I. Psychosis-with-a-misogynistic-twist behavior is very informative, and chilling. Rather than humanizing the role of the A.I. (as the title might cause you to expect), the author is revealing the same kind of male dynamic between the fictional Stepford Wives and A.I., namely, the male desire for a perfectly malleable companion, whether human, robotic, or purely virtual. The ramifications of this are pretty horrifying, and I think we can expect only a further degradation of humanity as people give in to their basest wishes. Sorry if I'm not more cheery on this subject.
- Andreas / 82MHz's photos page
- I was going to link to one of Andreas' recent blog posts, but I happened to click on his photos page out of curiosity, and my breath was taken away. There are some really beautiful pics here!
- Hyde / Lazybear β June Vim Carnival
- Ironically linking to the blog post that started this all. I saw Hyde's fedi post about the "Vim Carnival," got interested, posted my own blog post about vi/nvi/vim, which got Juhis' attention and mention, which then drew my attention to Junited, and around and around the world spins! π
June 7th
- cloud β clouderst loves old stuff
- cloud goes over their old hardware and how they keep it functional (and avoid the constant draw of consumerism)
- Hugo's weblog β Introducing Β΅lock
- Hugo describes a project to implement a minimalist Wayland screen locker that (seems to not) require root access to authenticate the user, and says he'll be bringing it to BSD as well. Looks pretty cool!
- Hugo's weblog β Deprecation plan for vdirsyncer
- I'm trying to avoid using the same person's blog twice, particularly on the same day, but this looked intriguing. I don't use vdirsyncer myself, but I know folks that do. pimsync looks like a neat project
June 8th
- tala's blog β the cage is open. why are you still in there?
- Courtesy of Sylvia's studio
- This heartwarming blog post reminded me of a 1990s meme (circulated by FAX, of course) that showed a frog bing swallowed by a stork, but was reaching out from the stork's mouth and choking the stork. The text underneath said, "Don't EVER give up!"
- Brain Baking β The Decline of the Family Computer
- I think there's a lot more that can be said on this subject. Wouter looks at it from the perspective of the commoditization of tech, how you no longer need to share a computer, because they've gotten so cheap (at least until last year), but I think there's a lot that needs to be said about how personal computers aren't personal anymore. They're corporately-controlled, and slowly being turned into something truly horrid and out of control: Cable TV.
- My post I Loved Computers Before the Internet was a Thing touches on this subject a little more.
- Andreas / 82MHz β Commodore's new (and my Dad's old) C64C
- Commodore 64 nostalgia hits me square between the eyes, every time.
- My mom bought me a C64 when they first came out in 1982, at no small expense (600 USD, which is over 2,000 USD today). She also got me the datasette (60/200 USD), followed up soon after with the 1541 Disk Drive and 1702 monitor (probably about 300/1,000 USD each). I can never forget the love and sacrifice she showed buying me that original gear, even though I probably didn't appreciate it nearly as much as I should have, at the time.
- I ordered a Starlight C64 when they came out last year (partly to honor her memory), and received mine from the mail on 2025-12-24, and... haven't opened it yet.
- ADHD go BRRRRRRRRooowhatamievendoingrightnow π
June 9th
- BSD CafΓ© Billboard - Stop Opening Huge Files in Screen Editors
- Not a blog post, but a fediverse-adjacent forum post referring to a fediverse post about using ed instead of visual editors when dealing with enormous files
- I've also been on an
ed(1)kick myself, lately, and have greatly enjoyed learning it. I'm also reading Michael W. Lucas' book Ed Mastery, which has been very enjoyable. mwl is also on the fediverse - One thing that isn't really mentioned on the thread is how inefficient most screen editors and TUIs are under bandwidth restraints. I occasionally use a utility called trickle to emulate using the command line via various speeds of modems, and many TUI/visual terminal applications are nearly unusable at even 9600 baud. (Although testing just now, ed, vi, and vim all seemed equally usable even at 1200 baud. I haven't tried neovim)
- STFN β First astrophotography session from my new house - the Virgo Cluster
- STFN is another fedifriend, and this blog post has some really glorious astrophotography, along with discussion of his setup.
- As someone who lives in a pretty light-polluted area, I'm jealous. π
- Ellane β The Open Source Wars are Missing the Point
- I always appreciate viewpoints contrary to my own, and I consider it a great sign of friendship when someone can tell me that they disagree with me. I don't have any major disagreements with this post, but I'm not what you'd call a super pragmatist. I tend towards being somewhat zealous (call it "hotheaded" if you like), opinionated, and idealistic. I think there's way too much self-serving "pragmatism" out there, and not nearly enough standing on principle. I write about that in my post, The Cowardice Snowball.
- But I think what Ellane is saying here is good stuff. There are times to fight, and times to stand down. Times to make a point, and times to make a friend.
- Life is all about learning which is which. ;)
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