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
- https://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
- https://michal.sapka.pl/weblog/2026/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 :)
- https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/2026-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
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