Some thoughts on Android launchers, or, The Need For Spatial Regularity In Touch Interfaces

Sun 13 July 2025

Background

I've used android as my main mobile OS for about four and a half years, and used it previously for about a year and a half before then. In total, I've spent eight and two thirds years on iOS, and six and one third years on Android (so far …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload ADHD Bible Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Productivity

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Gathering Hashtags from the Fediverse

Thu 08 May 2025

Background

One minor foible of the fediverse instance I'm on is that searching (for accounts or hashtags) can be quite slow. As a workaround for now, I've saved a list of accounts I've followed for easy reference, but I also wanted some way of saving a list of hashtags to …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Content Warning Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Productivity Social Media

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A Toast to the Prolific ones

Tue 06 May 2025

A screencap of the "toast" scene from The Wolf of Wall Street

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 …

Category: Life Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Computing Entertainment Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Productivity Social Media Writing

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Why I love Markdown

Fri 11 April 2025

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Because it's cool! But first, a brief history of writing in the digital age!

Some History, or: I have ADHD and we're all aboard the unnecessary detail traaaaaainnnn!......

The very first computer I had at home was an Apple ][+ that my mom rented for a computer class in university. The …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload ADHD Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Humor Linux Non-religious post Philosophy Productivity Retrocomputing UNIX

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The Case for AVIF

Thu 13 February 2025
Disclaimer: Right off the bat, I am NOT an imaging expert, a compression expert, or really an anything expert. I'm just speaking from my own experiences as a relatively ordinary user of image formats.

When I was a young-un in the early, early 90s, PICT was the day-to-day image format …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Philosophy Productivity Retrocomputing Social Media

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"Online" documentation should be offline

Thu 30 January 2025

I'm noticing a troubling trend among FOSS projects, even terminal-only utilities: no manpages (or a 1-paragraph useless one), barely any help screens, and a link to a wiki site like a github page or "readthedocs."

The thing is, the whole ethos behind so many terminal utilities is a hearkening back …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) FreeBSD Linux Non-religious post Polemic Productivity UNIX

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