A Toast to the Prolific ones
I wanted to take some time out today to acknowledge some folks on the fediverse that are remarkably prolific, just for fun.
Prolific blogger — Rubenerd
Oh holy moly. This fella has words. Lots of words. Many very fine words. Just look at bro's output for 2024:
~ $ curl -s https://rubenerd.com/year/2024/ |grep -Fc "<li><p>"
561
HOW?!? I'm struggling to blergh out 50 "blosts" a year, and dude is a one-man blogging empire.
Astounding. XD
Prolific tooter — Adrian Cochrane
Adrian's got 165,711 toots (as of writing), and has been at it for over seven years. I thought I was a prolific tootaholic with over 60,000 toots across my instances, but Adrian's got the corner on that.
Not only does he uh, toot a lot, but his toots are usually very technical and informative. Always a joy to read.
Prolific instance hopper — Juan C. Torres, a.k.a. Orthoheterodox
I haven't gotten as many lately, but there was a fair stretch of time when I'd get a new follower notice from orthoheterodox nearly every day. Just attempting to count his currently extant instance accounts, I see at least a dozen, but I know he's had many more in the past. :)
He doesn't seem to be as active lately, so wherever he's at, I hope he's having a blast.
Polific account holder — Orbital Martian
Much like the previous category, the Orbital Martian excels at holding accounts, but simultaneously! I'm currently counting nineteen, although I think some of those are cached (no longer extant instances).
Ultimately, only the Orbital Martian himself knows how many accounts he holds.
Let's hope he comes in peace, unlike his countryman (planetman?), Marvin.
Honorable mention: Nature Photographer — Jason Evangelho
Well, kinda. I'm sure there are plenty of folks that post more nature photographs than Jason, as there are obviously folks that do it for a living. But Jason is notable that he has recently branched out from being an overall tech blogger to now journalling his new adventures on the trail both with the written word and in photos.
As someone who's known Jason, followed his posts for several years, and conversed with him from time to time, I'm really happy to see this new journey in his life, and the newfound spring in his step.
100 Days to Offload 2025 - Day 25
Blog Questions Challenge: Ten Pointless Facts About Me
Thanks to my fedifriend Joel for nominating me for this challenge (after I had pestered him 😄).
Do you floss your teeth
Before I answer this, you must understand something about me: I strongly believe in truthfulness as a core virtue. Inasmuch as I am able, I never lie or purposefully …
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Blog Questions Challenge: TV Shows Edition
I keep finding more of these blog challenge questions, and I totally love them.
This one comes courtesy of Andreas' blog.
Like Andreas, I'm not a big TV watcher. I think I formally quit watching TV in 2003. I did watch a few things on Netflix and Amazon Prime over …
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The Switch 2 is a Tone-Deaf Moneygrab
I mean, that's certainly one way of looking at it.
On the other hand, I know how much people were pooh-poohing the specs of the original Switch, and saying if Nintendo had just invested $50 more into it, it would've been such a better platform.
I guess you can't have …
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A KSP Design Log
I had only intended to post this as a reply to my own "toot" on the Fediverse, but it actually went over my instance's post limit of 5,000 characters, so here we go! 😆
On Friday night, I posted a toot saying that I was intending to play Kerbal …
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Responding to The Linux Cast's Vitriolic Diatribe
The Linux Cast is one of my favorite Linux youtubers, as he usually posts very interesting videos and isn't afraid to share his off-the-cuff opinions of things in the Linux world, yet is usually not toxic, unlike some of that space's more infamous members.
He published a slightly ranty …
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Loops is... interesting
I, like many, have taken an interest in Daniel Supernault's new Loops video service.
Unlike many, I'm not so much interested in a FOSS, Federated clone of TikTok, YT Shorts, or Vine. I honestly don't care for that kind of media. I don't object to the format (other than …
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You don't need to share that clip
I recall once having a discussion with some friends online about which chat client/network to use for communication, and someone strongly endorsed one over another because it had a better selection of animated reactions/videos. I was pretty incredulous that that was the most important thing to them.
Imagine …
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Joy Will Not Be Contained
I was perusing Annie's Love letters 1-5 (from 82MHz' blog post) today, and I was struck with the subject of happiness:
Most of all, do not bear the burden of your own happiness.
It made me think of an odd thing that happened when I was playing cards with near …
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A 2025 Resolution
1920x1080. That's it. Goodnight, folks!
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Wait, WAIT.
My actual resolution is to use RSS feeds as my primary source of diversion on the go, vs. Pavlovically checking the Fediverse every five minutes, or even worse, getting stuck in an hours-long YT Shorts brainrot watching spree.
If you're looking …
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