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Well, this looks like a lovely place.

hello! welcome :)

LOL! love the enshittificator campaign from Norway!!

why do I love characters who are evil? is this just my coping mechanism? or am I a bad person? oh, why am I this way..!?

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Happy Software Freedom Day, everyone!

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Somehow, I can't work in the mornings. Going to the office earlier just makes longer the "warmup period", this is, the period I stare the computer's screen reading stuff that is completely unrelated to my work.

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This guide has really worked out for me after trying so many different methods - berbarianwizard.substack.com/…/beyond-calories-fat-loss-guide

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a few fixes this morning, some actions in your account are now gated behind email(or password) confirmations, like "delete account" and "enable password" - this is to keep the account safe.

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setting up some of my workflows based on this writeup - ludwigabap.com/…/on-my-personal-…of-the-tools-i-use/ Particularly a big fan of zellij amongst others Also venturing into having agents enable more of my work - let us see how that goes.

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in , upstairs the music is 👌

created a poll:

How often do you your , typically?

Twice a day or more57%

Once a day14%

A few times a week0%

Rarely or never29%

7 voted

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why life is very unfair? And why is it only some people and others they have the best life since born but some are struggling like crazy. is this a luck ?

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The most elegant code I've ever written, is of a , using a tribool return (null, undefined, boolean) to denote status. I find it perfect.

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Found a "pomidoro" playlist on Spotify with 25 minutes of lofi music, then an "alarm" and 5 minutes of upbeat. Nice idea.

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whats the point of url shorteners in 2026

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I think short urls are still memorable and good. My phone doesn't surrogate all of my recall.

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Short URLs are good. Memorable URLs are good. URLs spat out by URL shorteners are something entirely different.

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Ah, the randomly generated ones. Yeah, agreed.

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The longer the text you need to store, the bigger a QR code needs to be in order to scan reliably. Also, you might be more confident in being able to keep a short URL stable (it's already a step of indirection, so if you want to reorg your site you can just update where the short URL points to). But people don't really take care to maintain short URLs anyway, apparently.

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Counting clicks, although probably not all that accurate with bot clicks

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Also Short.io gives you a sub domain which is pretty nice adamspaul.short.gy/notes

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Throwing heavy circles over my head is the most fun i have each day.

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Hi Textlog

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looking at the German public railway system (DB), I always wonder if the stereotypes of timeliness and precision were ever actually true. Surely someone must've figured out by now how off they are? These trains are always late and / or broken.

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