Junited wrap-up
- Some stats:
- 24 posts written
- 123 links (not counting links to my own blog or fedi account)
- 76 links to actual blog posts (not counting links to things like fediverse accounts, wikipedia, git repos, and other "general information" links)
- 11+ new blogs added to my rss feeds :)
- 7,242 words written
- 1 exhausted Dane
I started off writing a post that had three entries. I wanted to continue that for the whole month. That was a mistake. XD
It was just a bit too much work to find and write about three blog links every single day, and I quickly exhausted my RSS feeds, and had to work harder and harder to find new (I'm going to say the hated word, I'm sorry) "content." (ugh 😆)
There were some things I really wanted to write about at the very end, but I just ran out of steam, physically.
All in all, though, it was a wonderful experience. I met a lot of really neat bloggers and fediverse people, and made some new internet friends. Yay!
Thanks to Robert Birming for getting this party started. ;)
Junited 2026
Introduction
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 …
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Package Manager Tier List
I was thinking about Arch's pacman this morning, mentally noting once again how insanely fast it is compared to all of the other package managers I've used.
So, I thought I'd put out an informal package manager tier list, based primarily on speed, and just going on my own …
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Re-thinking Sci-Fi Space Battles
I don't watch a lot of YouTube anymore, and I'm trying to bring my TV watching down by a lot and read more.
But one of my guilty pleasures is Retro Badger Gaming. This guy uses variants of the Bridge Commander series of games/mods to put together intriguing, insane …
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Mocking-up Photo Sharing over SMS
Background
I've been catching up on one of my favorite podcasts, recently: Tuxjam, and I just finished listening to Episode 120: Tunnels & Texts.
In this episode, they were reviewing a FOSS app called Deku SMS which initially seemed to promise the ability to send photos by SMS (not MMS!), but …
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I Loved Computers Before the Internet was a Thing
A reconstruction of the Commodore 64's BASIC prompt, adapted from Wikipedia
I loved computers before the internet was a thing, and I will continue enjoying them long after the internet becomes an unusable hellhole of mass surveillance, age verification, deplorably invasive technical "standards," and hyper-aggressive advertising.
I've seen truly enormous …
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I Miss My Hometown
Image of the Cactus Cafe, taken from Wikipedia
I went to a live music venue (really just a restaurant with a sizable enclosed patio and questionable sound system) with some family and friends a couple nights ago, and as we were sitting, sipping our drinks and waiting for the primary …
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The Farmer's Station Wagon: A Parable
One day, a farmer went to load up his station wagon to take his family to visit some friends, but found that it wouldn't start. Looking under the hood with his friends, they sadly discovered that the engine block was cracked, and there was no likelihood of an easy or …
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Paper Books vs. e-books vs "librebooks?"
I took a few days of a break from the fediverse to try to do a mini digital detox, to stop zombiescrolling youtube, and to read more. I picked up a used copy of Michael Jan Friedman's Gauntlet, the first book in the Stargazer series, a Star Trek novel that …
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The Past is the Future
Yesterday was my grandmother's funeral. As a family member, I had the shared duty of greeting the various guests, and then when things got started, I just kinda hopped from table to table, talking to people I know and catching up with folks. It was a great way to top …
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