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.
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I was an 80s kid. I grew up in a booming and optimistic time. The future held so much promise: all kinds of cures for disease, technology and automation would free humanity from the drudgery of labor (heh), and the Information Age would bring an acceleration to learning and innovation …
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I'm talking mostly about terminology, but of course, when in doubt, "I don't want your dumb app."
So, as I briefly alluded to in yesterdays blog post, most mobile apps are pretty terrible. They're generally chock full of spyware (trackers), and are inherently user-hostile.
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You can *never* be apolitical
Content Warning: This post deals with religion and politics
Last Sunday, I did something that I really don't like doing.
I left church early.
With a heavy and conflicted heart.
The Sunday prior, I walked into church and spoke briefly with the pastor. I told him I was shocked to …
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I used to have them a lot about my stepdad that passed away many years ago, and I had a handful about my boss that sadly ended his own life a decade …
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"Ableism" and the Linux Aristocracy
Being an armchair FOSS advocate, there are a lot of anti-FOSS arguments I've become quite used to seeing and answering. Some of them are honestly just pretty dumb:
eloquent_FOSS_apologia();
Well, I just don't CARE about …
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