Quick reflection on the software i use: My software stack is old – Manu
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If I were to write a post in response to thi
If I were to write a post in response, I’d be hard-pressed to refrain from pointing out that I’m using a 40 year old text editor on a 30 year old implementation of a 54 year old operating system (Emacs, Linux, and UNIX respectively).
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Oh yeah I’m sure there are people running setups that are a lot older. Still, in this age where everything evolves super fast I was a bit surprised that all the tools I use are relatively old in web terms.
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I feel like this is how it should be. Software should be well-designed and stable enough to be used for a decade or more, especially now that computer hardware advancement is flattening out. Constantly chasing the newest thing is what people who don’t do any work do (half-joking).
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Agree. And obviously, all the apps I use are still being updated and new versions are coming out constantly so it’s not really old software.
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I had bashed most of this out yesterday, but polished it today and uploaded it a few minutes ago.
Yeah they would have been long gone by the time you would have started going to the movies. The last movie I have memories of watching that had an intermission was All Dogs Go To Heaven in 89
People make me angry and I have to vent the frustration somehow: On email addresses (again) – Manu
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My Criterion Collection DVD of Seven Samurai has an intermission. It needed it, too. It’s a long movie, but such a slow burn that it feels like if you pause it, you might miss something when you come back.
This is, single-handedly, the most based post I’ve read in a while. 101% agree with what you wrote
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Not to mention one’s email address is unlikely to change, unlike their Mastodon handle and their current instance.
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loving your “rants,” manu! 
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Had some things of my own to say about this.
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had this brainworm for a while about internet fandoms, so wanted to get this out of my head:
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Funny you say that. I woke up this morning with an email from someone who was commenting on that post and in there they wrote:
I’ve been on Mastodon for 7 years […] but my server announced that was closing a few weeks ago. Unconciously, this made me consider again where to “be” online.
And I keep screaming to people to get a domain name and get a personal site becuase that way they have at least some control over their online life. I know it’s not a perfect solution (because you don’t really own your domain name and all that) but it’s better than being tied to some 3rd party that can go down at any moment.
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quick post mulling over engaging with technical hobbies when it’s also my profession, and combating the “i don’t have anything to share” ideas circling the drain in my head.
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Yeah, even mastodon is going to leave you high and dry in the end
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Since I had volunteered to do the IndieWeb Carnival for September 2024 at the behest of @arevakhach, I ended up writing this post.
It’s another dark one, and I had picked the topic without realizing at the time that September is Suicide Prevention Month.
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Some thoughts on the social web: The social web – Manu
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i really do like “personal web” to indicate a more human-centric/hand-built side of the web—it’s a term i first encountered when the yesterweb was still a thing and it makes sense to my categorizing brain. there’s a commercial web, and a personal web—right? i just know there’s a million-and-one terms for this side of the web so it can be easy to get lost in the sauce. 
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