I haven't posted here recently. That's largely because I did the classic "Time to rewrite the blog, I'll post when it's done" thing. Well it's not done, but I messed up by not sharing my thought process and reasoning for the re-write. So, I'm trying to rectify that now with some scant and scattered sentences.

If you're writing on the Internet and you aren't hosting (owning) your content you're work will disappear; it's just a matter of time.

Screenshots in README.mds are really helpful to quickly demonstrate what your open source project does. Hosting those can be surprisingly difficult.

A quick look at how I made an Ivy extension that displays the links from the pinboard.in popular page

A small, friendly starting point for Emacs.

Micro.blog is simply a layer on top of existing RSS/JSON feeds; its simplicity echoes the simplicity of podcasting.

Apple released a statement on the battery and performance issues.

What the heck is git-worktree?

In a fantastic video the YouTube channel MagicalMessi documents all the various records that Messi has broken during his illustrious career.

In exploring what Ivy was capable of I had the idea to write a small package that used Ivy as the interface for my RSS service of choice, Feedwrangler.