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The user/programmer divide continues to widen

August 29, 2025

This week, Google announced that it would start blocking the installation of Android apps unless the developer has registered themselves with Google.

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My thoughts today on Matrix and spam

August 10, 2025

Matrix has gotten a lot of bad publicity lately. Some of it I agree with, some of it I don't. And I've been around the Matrix community for long enough that I truly do believe that the Matrix team has good intentions, so I don't really want to add fuel to the fire.

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Experimenting with Goblins Shepherd services

February 22, 2025

I got a little burst of inspiration recently and threw some rough experiments together over the course of a few evenings.

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Adding persistence to gobs-of-machines

February 14, 2025

A couple updates on the gobs-of-machines work from a while back!

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Meditating on the medium and the message

February 03, 2025

Have you ever actually convinced someone of something on social media? I think I may have, once or twice, but it's by far not the most common outcome.

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Prototyping a machine deployment tool with Spritely Goblins

January 07, 2025

Wrapping up December Adventure for this year and related to my last post, here's some early prototyping I did over the holidays of a machine management tool. After I posted the last post, I had a conversation with some of my friends in which it was difficult to convey exactly how this might work, so I'm writing this up partly to serve as an explainer for my thought process.

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Brainstorming - managing a fleet of Guix machines with Goblins

December 19, 2024

I've been noodling on the possibility of managing a bunch of Guix machines with Goblins for a little while now. Spent a little time at a local coffee shop today thinking about how this might work...

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Migrated the website for ActivityPub support

December 10, 2024

Migrated the website back to a server I control so I can set the Content-Type header properly on ActivityPub objects. And it looks like that was enough for Mastodon to be able to pull up my profile!

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Art break!

December 04, 2024

Taking a little break today from coding for an artistic break - I'm trying to turn an existing image into a vector design for an enamel pin. I think it came out pretty well!

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Tag pages!

December 02, 2024

Same-day post I know, but I just managed to hack together per-tag page support for this site! I love that Haunt makes things like this so easy. Currently only the da2024 page exists, but I'll be generating pages for all of them soon.

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