This reminds me of a rant about the Fediverse that I wrote back in 2019, where I had claimed that the developers of platforms like Mastodon were uncritically emulating Twitterās shitty design.
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Open source has long had this imitation problem, as in, developers are always chasing the tail of the big dog in front of their nose instead of blazing new trails. Not to mention the other, bigger problem where they focus on the technical aspects (which are easy to imitate) while completely ignoring the politics. After all, software is apolitical, right? (Not.) Luckily thereās growing awareness of the issue, so maybe weāll see better alternatives arise in the near future. But some decisions have already been baked into the open protocols we have to work with.
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I wrote about quitting caffeine: My mind without stimulants, or: How I'm quitting caffeine ā Lars-Christian's website
Spoiler: Itās hard!
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The good news is that caffeine is one of the few substances humans can quit completely. It takes about 12-16 weeks, but the extra caffeine receptors in the brain do reset to zero.
As youāre living, though, getting there is the challenge.
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Thanks! I donāt know anything about the biological processes, so thatās actually quite comforting to hear. How does that compare to nicotine?
Iāll survive for 12-16 weeks :D
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I wrote a retrospective about all the galleries Iāve made for my art so far.
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There seems to be a new challenge going around: the one about names.
Hereās my entry:
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Just a little post about a magical music night high up in the clouds.
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Iām not sure if this counts as a blog, or a webcomic, or a zine. But I crammed the core message of Yanis Varoufakis āTechnofeudalism: What Killed Capitalismā into 4 poorly drawn comic panels
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The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted! Read about traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs (pysanky), octogenarian skateboarders (youāre never too old to start!) and Fibonacci clocks. I write about what I did for this Easter holiday, the new website I made and all the usual what I listened to, watched and read.
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After days of reading and musing, I finally embarked on my first solo tabletop roleplaying adventure!
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I ADORE Iron Valley, and really enjoyed reading through your first playthrough! Will you be posting your play-by-play as well? If so, Iād love to read it.
I havenāt posted anything about my play sessions, though I may summarize them when Iām through it sufficiently. I modeled mine after Animal Crossing, and my villagers are all animal people :) Iron Valley is such a great little TRPG, and if you check out the discord, folks have made all sorts of add-ons and tools for it. Iāll probably incorporate the collections add-on at some point once Iāve done some more playing.
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After writing a piece for a client this morning on Cybertruck recalls (there are nine active ones right now!), I decided to vent a little about the Tesla bros who think that, because they have Teslaās back, Tesla has theirs:
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only valid tesla is nikola tesla
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The band from the late 1980s wasnāt bad, either.
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Iāve been trying to be more active in my blog section by just throwing words at the wall & hitting post.
Due to that I wrote a moderately scatterbrained dump about my favorite Star Wars book series & a post half complaining about my ultra-portable & half dithered images of my two typewriters.
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I had made this argument in favor of libraries a few times on Mastodon, but I wanted to solidify my case in my own space. Also gave a shout out to @drmollytov as the only librarian / indie-webber I knew of to link for further reading
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Aww <3
And yoi have inspired me to blog about another low-risk feature: Librarians do not care what you read. We only care that you read (or check out other stuff, weāre not picky).
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Wow, thank you for the kind words! I do plan to post my play-by-play sessions, though Iām still deciding how to format them when published.
Also, thanks for the Discord server recommendation. Iāll check out the goodies!
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