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Here I am trying to shine amidst all the darkness that pulls me down.

The government welds your door shut and then outlaws starting a business and living in McMansions, cars, skyscrapers, and tiny homes. The governments bans body odor and then closes stores and bans delivery services. The state closes bathrooms and then outlaws public urination. The government closes the border and then arrests tourists for overstaying their visas.

Just finished reading The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. I highly recommend it. #booksnotesfollow #scifinotesfollow

Seems the spammers have arrived. ☹️ Is there (or can there be) some mechanism to flag posts or accounts as spam?

what are the best midnight snacks?

Returned from the gym. Good day.

been discovering random peoples indie websites and blogs on neocities.orgneocities.orgNeocitiesCreate and surf awesome websites for free.. takes me back! the internet lost so much charm when everything became coorporate. convenience can come at a big cost

Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!

"Everything worth doing is worth doing badly." Meditate even if you have the time, even if you can only do two minutes. Train even if you're tired and you're not gonna do it well. Start that project even if you're not ready. Don't wait for perfection. #philosophynotesfollow #lifenotesfollow

I'm not sure the world needs another static site generator, but I made one. get-taxus.org Giving the project some TLC this week, doing some bug squashing. If you want and SSG that doesn't fight you, give it a go.

There is beauty in simplicity. Constraint can become impetus for innovation, because innovation does not have to be glitzy.

hi from Augsburg

there's no fundamental physical limit that prevents silicon from developing taste and judgement, but language is a lossy compression of reality. taste comes from experience, from the shadowy mass of episodic memory, which swirls and convects at the boundary of consciousness. the ideas recombine into new ones in the nuclear reactor of the hippocampus. but no matter how imbued with meaning and expertise is a handmade wardrobe we still get our shit from ikea

Most of programs use key chords, like Cmd-Shift-G, Ctrl-Alt-N and so on, you need to remember and press awkwardly several keys at once. #Emacsnotesfollow uses key sequences, C-c then k then p then l. If I forget after C-c k p then press C-h and help appears.

I’m ambivert. When I spend time outdoors and with people I want to keep doing that, I become very extrovert. Can’t code in that mode. It’s hard to switch back to introvert but when that happens time flies really quick. A month can pass and it feels like a week.

and now for something completely different, why do the #Starbucksnotesfollow lovers think I'm #insanenotesfollow? #Coffeenotesfollow #Crazynotesfollow

What does a bean mean?

It is evident that the use of AI in the workplace has had an immense impact on the awareness and mental capabilities of knowledge workers