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sunny 16 was such a liberating concept. once you understood how to read the light, it felt so freeing, just had to trust your gut and the flexibility of film

2026-01-28 20:47:51 GMT

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i find it quite charming as well. there's a delicateness to it almost like a handwritten look, with a small blend of medieval.
But seeing this really shows why the macintosh team's head exploded when they saw it and why they completely pivoted to. erm... rip it off and be first to market.... :sadlinux:

2026-01-28 20:43:11 GMT

What is the best coding font / UI and why is it smalltalk?
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2026-01-27 20:24:21 GMT

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that was the first thing I thought if by about drawing in MacPaint

2026-01-27 20:21:56 GMT

so now that i "theoretically" have a Macintosh Plus.
what the F do i do with it?
- Write ThinkPascal scripts
- Draw using MacPaint
what else?
I need your help

2026-01-26 18:45:21 GMT

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very cool, marie made me (among many other wool things) handwarmers and it was a revelation of how much i loved wearing them!

2026-01-23 17:08:52 GMT

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crazy how i'm so used to seeing a 16:10 aspect ratio laptop that your image to me feels like it's an ultrawide screen

2026-01-23 17:04:40 GMT

#Thinkpad #Linux
hey fellow computer enthusiasts,
I know that a lot of you are fans of Thinkpad laptops for running linux.
I know nothing of Thinkpad models but i see there are a lot of them. is there a quintessential model of Thinkpad that i should be looking for?
i have no real *need* for one other than I just want to have a fun little linux laptop to suppliment my macbook laptop.
and/or slowly move away from the macbook? possibly? potentially?

2025-12-25 01:50:44 GMT

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what’s going on? What spam?

2025-12-22 22:08:17 GMT

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noted 🙂

2025-12-22 16:31:24 GMT

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tried to join the orca one but it wouldn't connect. there's also #merveilles right? but that does not seem to have many people

2025-12-10 16:52:51 GMT

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core childhood memory unlocked

2025-12-10 00:03:23 GMT

how does one reconcile the deep moral objection against the AI industry and the need to use it for one's job :')

2025-12-08 04:20:27 GMT

completely forgot to update for day 7 of December Adventure:
https://256k.codeberg.page/DecAdv2025/
did a bunch of different things while my brain kept jumping from one to another hunting that sweet spot gratification dopamine

2025-12-07 00:58:14 GMT

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of all the places i never thought plan9 spaces would invite that kindof mentality. crazy.

2025-12-06 17:11:54 GMT

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it's sadly true. it's like if NPCs in a videogame suddenly all started turning on the players

2025-12-06 13:52:22 GMT

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2025-12-06 00:07:25 GMT

OK, here is the December Adventure 2025 link:
https://256k.codeberg.page/DecAdv2025/
Happy @npub1z8r…mrq6 ? :neofox_laugh_nervous:

2025-12-05 21:09:37 GMT

ok so since i'm lagging on December adventure im gonna start retroactively documenting things i've done in the past few days towards it :D
Day ... 3?
repurposed my older gaming PC that was no longer in use by my SO into a dedicated linux desktop running arch linux and i3. This is probably the most powerful Linux computer i've had yet. everything that ran linux was either in a VM or ran on old and slow hardware. so....
also, I forgot how much fun 'Ricing' is :3
||P.S. i know there should be a html blog post for each day, i'll get to it ok? :D ||

2025-12-05 18:34:44 GMT

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neat! will explore for sure. thanks. i was not aware at all of this

2025-12-05 17:20:07 GMT

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this is where you got your lisp implementation reference i presume. nice. maybe now with a uxn lisp i'll have a better time programming in uxntal :D

2025-12-05 17:11:47 GMT

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ahh that's cool. something about lisp always gives me an extra special kindof feeling that is hard to express in words.

2025-12-05 17:02:13 GMT

i still haven't really decided or started something for december adventure this year. currently i'm working on some simple modern web apps using Nuxt as a refresher course for an upcoming work contract but that doesn't really feel like it fits in the essence of what December adventure is.
Something i've been meaning to get into more again is doing some lisp stuff, and recently talked to someone who happens to be a professor at a university who has a while slew of educational lisp material focused on racket mainly and i've been meaning to jump into it.
Perhaps this should be my December adventure.

2025-12-05 13:22:05 GMT

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that’s so cool! I love lisp :3

2025-11-28 14:36:52 GMT

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I'm also on the GUI interfaces > TUI interfaces bandwagon.
I get that certain things are quicker to do in terminal but rebuilding your entire OS in the terminal just to avoid using the mouse is not the way.

2025-11-27 15:13:14 GMT

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i need to know where this photo came from. i know this is def not on PINO :D

2025-11-27 15:06:56 GMT

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replying to someone either a copy paste of an LLM reply is a very efficient way of getting me to never talk to you again and going on my permanent block list.

2025-11-27 12:42:14 GMT

anyone else have both the personalities of a tech maximalist and minimalist inside of you that are constantly battling?

2025-11-26 21:09:42 GMT

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I'll be going to see Peaches live in feb very excited

2025-10-22 17:44:07 GMT

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indeed, that's the i3 way.

2025-10-22 17:30:22 GMT

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neat, i never thought about using i3 like this tbh, but i do see why it could be nice, kindof like a plan9 esque thing. i always reached for i3 for the tiling wm which i guess most people do. might have to play around with a i3 install and get this going.
I wonder if there's some way to draw new windows that spin up new shells like on plan9 as well.

2025-10-22 02:39:20 GMT

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wait i thought this was full on a varvaraOS
So you're running individual uxn apps in i3.. i guess you set the default window opening in floating view rather than the tiling view?

2025-10-22 02:37:51 GMT

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peak computing right here. <3

2025-08-01 20:03:51 GMT

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the cynical in me wants to just brush these kinds of stories as one offs or special circumstance cases, having seen many immigrants living a rough life working their ass off with very humble returns for their efforts.
But i also do believe (perhaps i want or simply _need_ to believe) that it is possible to have a sane, human scale life if you really look for it.
we'll see.
all i know is that whatever i'm doing now is unsustainable.

2025-08-01 19:58:20 GMT

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lovely and inspiring story but sadly it's near impossible for me to pivot in such a way because of responsibilities.
At least now i'm slowly working towards alleviating the pressure points but it's a long and hard process and can't remove them all.
thanks for sharing it though. i'll reread it more thoroughly later.

2025-08-01 19:23:45 GMT

wish i could commit career suicide

2025-07-29 00:47:48 GMT

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i'll take one of each. thanks.

2025-07-21 17:41:18 GMT

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2025-05-23 20:08:32 GMT

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humidityyyy

2025-05-22 20:46:38 GMT

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it's a good idea indeed.

2025-05-22 20:44:44 GMT

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fantastic. will do.
Marie and I have been dreaming about it for a few years now... we keep perusing the marketplate listings and sending each other seemingly well prices boats without really knowing much about them. we keep telling ourselves one summer we'll buy one and dock it at her parent's place since they live on a lake (again no idea if that's even a possibility or not) and practice sailing on the lake
we have yet to do anything towards the goal but evert summer we replay the same game.

2025-05-22 20:40:31 GMT

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hahahahahahahahahahaha
of course you have entries about it on your site... why did i not think of that! hahahahahahaha
thank you <3 I'll be sure to read up while i day dream about it

2025-05-22 20:38:56 GMT

@npub1z8r…mrq6
what's the make and model of your sailboat? and what should one look for if one wants to buy a sailboat
asking for a friend :D
(the friend: @npub1mqr…arfp )

2025-05-19 16:07:14 GMT

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it’s a very cold and wet spring here as well

2025-05-17 09:33:13 GMT

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where are you sailing to?

2025-05-11 10:56:15 GMT

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sounds awesome! Happy sailing 🫡
P.S. speaking of sailing:
Book my wife found
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2025-05-05 18:47:18 GMT

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pretty well. Staying healthy, staying positive, staying active. You?

2025-05-05 11:07:18 GMT

Hello lovely people 🙂 how have you all been?

2025-03-31 13:15:50 GMT

Last summer (in fact for the last few summers) I started skateboarding again after 10+ years of completely off the board. It felt amazing to be able to ride again and skate. it awakened something in me that i had completely forgotten about.
Sadly though due to my lack of physical activity prior, it would leave me feeling completely sore and broken after every session and almost every time, i would get a skate stopping injury within a few weeks of skating.
It's been quit difficult dealing with this mentally, feeling like you lost something you had before.
This year i am taking it upon myself to start early and prep my body for the skate season that is coming shortly. I want to be able to skate again comfortably and not get innjured everytime.
There's nothing like just going out and skating everyday to really rehab your body but i'm trying to really reinforce the weak spots as well as rehab the injured spots.
Sadly, my knee ankle and shoulder (all on the same side) are kinda messed up now. they don't feel as stable or strong as the other side. it's such a fucked up mental battle feeling this weakness but i really want to push through it and regain the strength i once had.
I have a very bad history with training sadly, both from a consistency standpoint but more importantly from a "knowing wtf i need to do" standpoint.
I can't get myself to really dive into the whole training world everytime i try to find a good routine i get so overwhelmed by all the choices and schedules and variations i have no clue wtf i should be doing and i think i end up doing just a bunch of random things that will often not be enough to have a considerable benefit to me...
but hiring a personal training is so expensive and not accessible either so i don't really know what other solutions are there...

2025-03-28 19:19:16 GMT

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one day :')

2025-03-28 19:16:46 GMT

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cmon... you for real?
now you're telling me we're gonna also be skate buddies??
psshhh, love you Devine <3

2025-03-17 17:43:18 GMT

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next stop: 386!

2025-03-17 17:30:44 GMT

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im telling you in a few years you'll just be reinventing windows 95 :D
(maybe more so mac system OS 6)

2025-03-17 11:34:14 GMT

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that was peak programming. Nothing was ever as good as that

2025-02-17 14:26:21 GMT

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2025-02-14 02:54:53 GMT

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4x20+10+9

2025-02-13 13:21:01 GMT

I am really tired of all the sensationalism and rage/click bait content that you find everywhere online. Almost all spaces online now seem to just be that and constantly having to mentally filter out all the noise is really tiring and demoralizing.
And like, there's so much good things online, so much awesome creative wonderful gems from awesome people that exist but one has to really look through all the garbage in order to find them and while an initial instinct would be to stop using these platforms, it would be like "throwing the baby with the bathwater" thing. We would lose so much.
I really don't know what the solution is, it will be impossible to collectively get every "good creative person and content" onto a alternative platform that does not reward rage / attention farming. things are not that black and white. even people who are genuinely great people and create great content are forced to "play the rage / click bait game" in order to manage a living and pursue creating their work.

2025-02-11 17:37:38 GMT

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Love this book/manual thanks for sharing

2025-02-10 14:29:14 GMT

I want to work on cool shit, but i never know what cool shit to work on.
I see so many amazing people making so many amazing tools and explorations and art and I always feel like I'm missing out. And yet, i never actually do anything about it, not for lack of trying but for lack of any creative, cool ideas i have on my own.
I want to explore and share and discuss with peers. i want to contribute something back to the world. but to be perfectly honest... most of the time when i see cool projects and posts from people, i feel so inferior and dumb.
Any idea i come up with on my own feels like just a variation of a todo app (i.e. something that is so incredibly basic and lame and has no value)
I'll often blame it on the fact that i only "know" javascript or that I did not get a education in computer science or that i don't know how the entire computing stack is composed, but none of those arguments hold up when i look around and see so many cool creative projects using javascript or lua or even just simple web pages.
The problem is me. I just clearly don't have what it takes.
I have the frustrations of not being satisfied with the mundane work i do but clearly do not have the drive or creativity to do something about it.
I guess in a sense you can say i'm just a poser trying to pretend to be someone i am not.
In this modern age with so abundance of technology, I have all the tools at my disposal to do something creative, rewarding, energizing, fulfilling and yet... i always end up drawing a blank.
The problem is me. I am the problem.

2025-02-08 17:04:29 GMT

somehow, even without all the glitz and glamour of modern macOS, a simple linux (Lubuntu) desktop with a minimal emacs config and a terminal feel the most gratifying to use.
Running on a 12 year old macbook pro as well...
Never believe anyone who tells you you have to upgrade
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2025-02-05 14:03:55 GMT

It’s ironic that sometimes the people who claim to be open minded free spirited and welcoming of all kinds of people and thoughts end up to be the most gate keeping virtue signalling moral high ground holier than thou people.

2025-02-03 18:42:18 GMT

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last summer while on a camping trip in northern Quebec we went on a hike and got lost. Took us 6 hours to manage to get back to the car. There was a children summer camp near by but I’m not sure if they had radios. But regardless, that experience definitely left me shook and realized we need robust resilient communication devices when our modern tech fails (as our phones had no connection at all to reach out to anyone)
I tried to whistle SOS in Morse across the lake but no one heard

2025-02-03 18:37:45 GMT

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a good skill to have for sure!

2025-01-28 16:00:44 GMT

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this is the good news i needed.

2025-01-25 19:59:56 GMT

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i did! you shared it with me last time i said something similar to this hahaha
ngl i was so excited the first half of this video seeing that weird alternative html syntax :D

2025-01-25 19:58:27 GMT

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wow.. that really broke my heart reading this.
Sadly it seems that more and more these sorts of things are happening and bigots are sadly feeling confident enough to show their true colors.
the one good side of all that is that we will now see for real who are these people moving forward but the whole world has suffered a set back for equal rights and egalitarianism.
as is the case in everything now, money is the root of all evil. it attracts the worst people and gives them the most power that they use to oppress others.
Your "Weathering software winter" has had such a powerful impact on me, exposing me to so many new concepts and ideas and ideologies that i relate to but had no idea existed previously. only being aware of handmade the last couple of years, it felt so refreshing seeing a platform where people who do not subscribe to the typical "tech bro" identity could be a part of and share their own views and thoughts.
Let's hope that this brief period of inclusiveness in the public view will inspire others to follow suit and continue delivering such platforms.
<3

2025-01-25 19:46:01 GMT

lisp is the language of a future present we never had.

2025-01-21 15:47:37 GMT

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indeed. The signs have been there for a long time but one is so intrenched into that ecosystem that it becomes a struggle to just accept what is happening and take action against it.
Thankfully my wife and I have been already implementing a lot of the self sustaining lifestyle into our daily habits and slowly detaching from these dependencies because we’ve been seeing the signs but yeah, even so, it still feels sudden and shocking
While I have been trying to educate and warn people around me, I’ve still bought and used these services and platforms simply because they are just part of our social norms now but I just can’t morally justify it anymore.
I already said that my NY resolution is to detach from all these services and platforms and now more so than ever I feel not only the desire to, but the need to.

2025-01-21 15:28:48 GMT

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oh right good idea.. thanks and sorry.

2025-01-21 15:14:42 GMT

Honestly, at this point, if you're still actively using platforms like facebook or twitter or any of the other ones, you're supporting fascists.
even if you're on those platforms complaining and yelling at fascism it still benefits the fascists that own it.

2025-01-21 12:44:53 GMT

So…. Like…. We’re all just gonna go full on fascism now? Fantastic.
Time to prep for the alocalypse I guess.

2025-01-20 01:28:15 GMT

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i3wm?

2025-01-17 00:01:52 GMT

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incredible!

2025-01-16 16:55:53 GMT

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i'll play with it tonight hopefully

2025-01-16 16:53:41 GMT

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someone in the Norns Study Group discord had posted it this morning
im so glad i found it, it was gonna drive me mad.
excited to dive into it
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2025-01-16 16:48:38 GMT

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but where did i see it? it's driving me crazy hahaha

2025-01-16 16:46:31 GMT

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i saw this earlier today in one of my multitude of social feeds but i can't remember where anymore 🤔

2025-01-15 18:46:26 GMT

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Tsoding is the chaotic neutral hero we need 😆

2025-01-15 18:21:19 GMT

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many examples of people dreaming of becoming rich and successful and feeling completely empty and lost once that dream was achieved.
In my experience the only true path towards fulfilment and satisfaction is selfless actions
but even though i know this to be the truth i rarely practice it :(

2025-01-15 15:20:34 GMT

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I remember reading about this on the SDF page when i was doing the plan9 bootcamp.
There is a similar project on the norns platform (monome.org) called Norns Pirate radio where it's a script that basically references and downloads a library of oog files that are uploaded by people to a website and plays them continuously on different "frequencies"
there could be something similar done for sure

2025-01-15 12:34:52 GMT

let's start doing pirate internet radio streams

2025-01-14 16:24:52 GMT

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so happy to see this move out of academia and more into the mainstream view. I’m very excited about this field

2025-01-14 12:15:12 GMT

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both feelings can be had simultaneously. There so much garbage out around computing nowadays but there’s so much fun to be had if one looks into lesser known areas.
The problem isn’t computing, its capitalism in computing

2025-01-08 13:02:45 GMT

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I struggle with the same dilemma. I have most of my friends and family either in other cities or across the planet. None of them really give 2 shits about any of the things that we care about either big tech and corporations and abuse and all that. They just use the platforms and don’t give it a second thought.
I’ve wanted to delete my accounts for years now but whenever I go on a social platform hiatus I just end up losing contact with all of them.
Family gathering plans and friends invitations always happen through Facebook …etc etc
I don’t have a solution. I feel like a hypocrite, but I try as much as I can not to use those platforms other than talking to friends and family directly.
🤷‍♂️

2025-01-04 18:21:22 GMT

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what a tragic loss :'( :'(

2024-12-27 16:08:43 GMT

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hey hey hey…. We still havent hung out.

2024-12-23 19:07:02 GMT

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i keep meaning to read that book but i keep forgetting about it! thanks for reminding me

2024-12-16 17:31:28 GMT

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i love that song!

2024-12-08 21:27:59 GMT

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yessssss 🤩

2024-12-07 16:24:50 GMT

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( ; _ ;)

2024-12-06 16:15:00 GMT

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it's a breath of fresh air in a space filled with toxic gas

2024-12-02 04:07:55 GMT

Is it day2 yet?
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2024-12-02 03:03:30 GMT

hello.
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2024-11-30 11:03:14 GMT

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I’m hyped toooo

2024-11-28 17:27:07 GMT

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interesting, i'll. consider this alternative approach and see if i can find a common theme to thread them all together. otherwise one could say every day for me is a #adventure day

2024-11-28 15:18:49 GMT

I need to find a fun and simple project to do for #DecemberAdventure. something that will be easy and gratifying enough for me to keep working on it consistently for the entire month.
I don't think i've spend 1 month consistently working on 1 specific thing for many many many years now. my attention span is just a bouncy ball bounding around in a low gravity room

2024-11-23 15:40:45 GMT

there needs to be some sort of bootcamp or program or path for de-commercializing your tech life for eco-conscious, permacomputing curious people

2024-11-21 19:02:25 GMT

@npub1z8r…mrq6 wonderful talk!! 👏 👏 👏 👏