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Hi, I have noticed for quite a few weeks now the Estonia server is under very high load for a lot of the time. It would be great if the bandwidth could be improved or if an extra server could be added. Thanks.
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My daughter has had a laptop for two years now. For school. But not just for school: the thing is used for everything (read: lots of Minecraft). And if she isn't using it herself, the youngest one is sitting on it. So, it gets used. At the end of April, she started complaining: my laptop keep shutting down randomly! I took a quick look: what is all this junk? VPN software and whatnot (long story, another blog). I explained that when you....
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My daughter has had a laptop for two years now. For school. But not just for school: the thing is used for everything (read: lots of Minecraft). And if she isn't using it herself, the youngest one is sitting on it. So, it gets used. At the end of April, she started complaining: my laptop keep shutting down randomly! I took a quick look: what is all this junk? VPN software and whatnot (long story, another blog). I explained that when you....
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Bruce Charlton :: The tragedy of human life. Akenfield... again
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From the movie Akenfield [1977] - a horse-drawn reaper binder - in action. from a distance. surely one of the most poetic of Mankind's machines [although very hard work for the horses]. I am re-reading Ronald Blythe's Akenfield again. this time as an audiobook. and am again finding it a deeply moving experience. This applies especially to the earliest section. that has the old farm workers and their wives 'speaking' about the span of their ....
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Shoe Dog Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Goodreads). This book is part of the books to read in your 20s list shared by my friend Yash and it was also suggested by my friend Suhasa. Thank you both. Shoe Dog is the story of Nike, Inc. narrated by its co-founder Phil Knight. This book talks about the founding of Nike, different roadblocks and other incidents they faced till they became a publicly traded company. The writings..
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Reposting @flo-bit.dev official public beta launch of blento.app 🎉🥳 lots of new features and cards added and (mostly) works on mobile now too share it with your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers on the street! This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, June 6th 2026. It was originally published on Monday, February 2nd 2026 at All Posts | Dominik Hofer . If you'd like to report any probl..
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EmDash EmDash CMS has been all the hype on the web lately. It seems like a reasonable project to replace Wordpress. I've been working with Astro for a while and I think it fits very well for the problem. Excitedly, I took exports from a WordPress website I help administer, Inverse Journal. After trying many variations, the imports would not work at all. So I thought, well, working with D1 and R2 aren't my first choice in life anyway, h..
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Jason Fried tweeted about why people are so excited about AI agents: The interesting thing is it really is about delegation. Engineers who enjoy delegating and managing will fare better with AI than engineers who just want to sit in their corner writing code. Something to think about. This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, June 6th 2026. It was originally published on Tuesday, January 13th 2026 at PocketAr..
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Windows is making great strides in usability and is on the verge of being a good enough developer desktop. In this article we’ll explore what has progressed, and what is still to be done. Warning: this post may contain traces of copium. yes this is a joke post, but with useful info Contents Intro I was fortunate enough to be allowed to use Desktop Linux (TM) on my work machines for a while. Well, not anymore. M..
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I’ve added a new top-level page to this site. It’s called ~~~ and can be found at joodaloop.com/~ or in the nav bar. The name is a big quirky, I admit, but format is simple: One Big Markdown File where new entries are appended to the top. The hope is that I practice writing things down more often, in a place where it doesn’t feel like I’m “notifying” people, or writing to an audience at all. There is no effortless way to link to e..
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This is my third weekly report since joining the “Step aside, phone” experiment. The goal is to reduce the time spent on our phones in order to focus on more intentional activities. Every Sunday, we share our screen time stats and write a few words about how the week went. Without surprise, life feels better without a phone. Or rather, life feels better when using the phone only for the things it is actually needed for. I think th..
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Today I finally managed to find and fix an issue that we had for some time with Code-Coverage generation with PCOV in github actions. To give you a bit of background, imagine a project that uses 2 separate folders where one contains the business-logic and one contains the framework-related code. The framework-related part contains a lot of integration and end-to-end test that – of course – also use and therefore test the business-logic..
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Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid. For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt. I write everything in markdown (.md). Notes, posts, everything. I just wanted a simple shortcut to create new posts from a template. Turns out there’s no obvious way to save text as anything other than .txt Today, thanks to this Reddit post, I f..
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An Inconvenient Truth Salvatore Sanfilippo, aka antirez, the creator of Redis, posted a piece on his reflections on AI for the end of 2025. He ends with the statement: I’ve been hesitant to say this publicly, but I broadly agree with this statement. Here are a few related statements I endorse: An Inconvenient Truth In 2006, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” became a focal point for concerns about climate change..
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Here’s a slightly edited text from a friend this morning: I haven’t blogged much about how I’ve been using Claude Code, because everyone is blogging about how they’re using Claude Code, and I don’t want to become just another one of those people who blog about how they’re using Claude Code. Instead, I thought I’d just ship something that is the result of all of this terminal-powered pseudo drug usage. Background: I am an inveterat..
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If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skeptical. This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective that is often missing in the current discourse: the physical reality of computation. I have been thinking about this..
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By now most anyone who follows Apple news will have heard about Paris Buttfield-Addison's saga, wherein redeeming a legitimately-purchased Apple gift card led directly to his Apple account being locked and his access to all his data — including a multi-terabyte photo library — revoked. You can read more about this here. This was eventually resolved, thanks only to his prominence in the Apple blogosphere (is that still a word we use?) a..
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Poop App My 4-year-old son enjoys traveling... except for having to poop in a strange bathroom. It doesn't matter if it's a hotel or a grandparent's house, if it's not his usual environment it's uncomfortable. He'll usually say he doesn't need to poop when it's obvious that the need has indeed arisen. Fortunately, some wacky ideas have worked. On one trip, he was happy to use his travel potty while watching our home secu..
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Resurfacing posts 27 May, 2026 One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1, 5, or even 10 years ago—if I'm lucky. I've noticed that my most recent posts get the more attention than the rest of my blog. This makes sense, as I have the most recent 5 posts on..
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🎲 Otroverts have websites called disassociated, are like Albert Einstein
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Otroverts have websites called disassociated, are like Albert Einstein 1 January 2026 Rami Kaminski, a New York based psychiatrist, has identified a new personality type, the otrovert: This seems all very familiar. Albert Einstein, for one, is cited as an example of an otrovert, although up until now he’d been more considered an introvert. Otrovert seems more like a sub-classification of an introvert though, and I dare s..
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In general, I haven’t been very outspoken about LLMs in this blog, or in general. For no specific reason other than not using them that much. I’m now revisiting the topic, as I’ve implemented a few features with the help of Claude Code in Eagle, the little program behind my website. Some context about how my website works: it’s fully statically generated with Hugo, except for a few dynamic features powered by Eagle. Eagle is just a wra..
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Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's get into the spirit of giving. Best Overall This category features 3 tools. If I could only pick 3 to learn Japanese with, it would be these 3. The best overall..
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Here is a new filmed piece on the piano This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, June 6th 2026. It was originally published on Monday, January 12th 2026 at Jean Kapsa . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: 636af628f2d2a381c80898c48148da1b-644968
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meshoptimizer 1.0 released A short post today. If you’re following me on any of the vast array of social accounts then you’re probably aware, but if you’re reading this blog through the ancient technology otherwise known as RSS, meshoptimizer v1.0 has been released yesterday! In addition to the usual release notes on GitHub, I’ve also written a dedicated announcement that talks a little more about the last couple years of progress..
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Four years ago I wrote about something that has long puzzled me in the world of front-end development. Trust: The mindset I’ve noticed is that many developers are suspicious of browser features but trusting of third-party libraries. Developers are more likely to trust, say, Bootstrap than they are to trust CSS grid or custom properties. Developers are more likely to trust React than they are to trust web components. That pos..
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Easter came on the same day as Qing Ming this year. There is a convergence between these two traditions from opposite ends of Eurasia. Qing Ming honors the graves of our many departed ancestors. Easter celebrates a triumph over the grave. The Catholic Church is ancient, but I am new to the church, and I am unbaptised. I attended Easter Vigil for the first time this past Holy Saturday, because some acquaintances of mine from RCIA w..
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Late November Changelog published an interview with Werner Vogels. Until that point I was unaware that he is the CTO of Amazon, and I ended up really liking his take on things. One thing that stood out to me specifically was his level-headed stance on the current AI hype. Around the 1:22:20 mark he says: It is quite refreshing to hear the technological leader of one of the largest tech companies in the world say that it is OK t..
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So here’s my LLM cautionary tale for 2026: I’ve been testing toadbox, my very simple, quite basic coding agent sandbox, with various LLMs. I’m running the agent containers inside Proxmox, and I decided to tweak the VLAN configuration I was using for the VM running the containers, with the result that it temporarily lost DNS access (so, effectively, “internet access”, except for connections that were already established). ..
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Doug Belshaw has a thoughtful post about the financial/work advice often being given to young folks today: The financial guidance given to young people today comes from people who experienced an entirely different economic reality. Boomers hold fundamentally different mental models about how wealth accumulation works, learned in a completely different era. For example, my dad bought a house for 1x his annual salary in his t..
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Five years ago I read a post on the EA Forum arguing that "election campaign contributions might be a way in which you can have a substantial impact as a small donor". It struck me as weird but plausible: a combination that you see a lot of on the Forum. A few months later I read another post, a case for Carrick Flynn in particular. It made a lot of sense, but while I don't remember my specific reservations I do remember....
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Three animals came to the river, each told to cross. None knew who had told them. The instruction had no face, so none of them argued with it. On the far shore was the thing each of them wanted, though none could have said what it was, only that it was over there and not here, and that the river lay between. The mouse came first. She feared the water, but she feared the bank more; to stand still was to die slowly, in full view of herself,..
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Three animals came to the river, each told to cross. None knew who had told them. The instruction had no face, so none of them argued with it. On the far shore was the thing each of them wanted, though none could have said what it was, only that it was over there and not here, and that the river lay between. The mouse came first. She feared the water, but she feared the bank more; to stand still was to die slowly, in full view of herself,..
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A few weeks ago I was on vacation. Of course I brought back quite a few pictures with me. When I got back, I sat to select some of them to make a gallery for my family and friends. I started with copying all pictures from two mobile phones and a camera to my laptop. Then I wanted to copy a few carefully chosen images to one directory. To my surprise, Emacs’ Image mode does not have a command to copy the currently viewed image to another dir..
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