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I've been meaning to write up a post on how I manage my Guix System configurations for a while, because I've hit on a solution that feels kinda nice, inspired by how folks do things in NixOS.

I had a realization the other day that, on almost every email in my inbox, my mail client has a "show external images" option. Most email I receive references externally loaded images via HTML. There are good reasons for this (not needing to send a copy of an image in every email on a newsletter) as well as nefarious reasons (the remote server can track where/when you load the image). So most mail clients I've used don't load them by default for obvious privacy reasons.

I've gotten some work done towards supporting persistence in guile-horton over the last week or so, but I've hit a bit of a roadblock. Writing this up in part to explain what I've been working on and in part to think through it some more.

I've got tags for all my blog posts, and tag-specific RSS feeds, but until now those tags/feeds haven't actually been visible unless you constructed the URL. So finally fixing that: now there's a list of tags at the top of each post, with a link to the tag-specific feed.

Starting December Adventure off with a little meta this year (and a bit late, whoops!). Since setting up this blog, it's always felt like a little too much friction to start a new blog post. It's not too bad, but it does involve creating a file in the posts directory with a given name, manually typing out the timestamp.

Despite my last post, I got frustrated enough with my smartphone usage recently that as of today I'm using a flip phone. We'll see how long this lasts but so far I'm actually enjoying it.

I'll admit it, I'm a smartphone addict. I've tried, as best I can, to avoid using the big adtech social media platforms in the last few years. But even a web browser is enough to suck me in several times a day for hours in total.

Couple videos and webpages that I've watched/read recently! I should probably come up with a way to format these separately from my other blog posts if I do this more frequently, but I've fallen off blogging in general for a bit at this pont. Gotta get back to it!

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

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.