Notes

Short updates, links, and thoughts that do not need to be full blog posts.

I went through a bunch of the accounts I follow and it’s sad to see how many of them have been abandoned. I absolutely believe the #fediverse is the future of social media, but evidently we’re not there yet.

I am having so much fun with #rust. I love that I can write code for 20 mins without ever running it and as long as I do what the error messages are telling me, I know it'll work.

I just spent an obscene amount of money on a keyboard from ZSA. I’m hoping it’ll help with the twinges of RSI I’ve been feeling but I’m more excited about programming it.

I built a little cli tool in #Rust that would be useful for private pilots. It's called logbook and is exactly what it sounds like; a tool for recording your flights.

If you have any experience with this stuff, I'd love some guidance on how to distribute such a tool!

Here is a link to the repo, and a demo: https://github.com/ThePaulMcBride/logbook_rs

I’ve been using the Henson razor every week for over a year now and every time I use it I’m still excited by how good it is!

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

The older I get the more this seems true

I’ve been reading about the #kagi drama today (They have started using the Brave API for search results. The CEO of Brave is problematic.) and it has surfaced a lot of interesting questions I’ve not thought deeply about before.

Should a private company have the power to sensor content on their platforms?

There are obvious arguments for this right? Nazis are obviously bad etc. But if we force companies to do that, where do they draw the line? Who actually decides what is right and wrong?

In a non perfect world, how many levels removed from something your find amoral do you have to be before you’re okay benefitting from it?

In some ways we all do that, right?

I get that these are all just my dumb thoughts and that I have a lot of privilege, but are there any right answers to those questions where there aren’t also negative consequences?

I hate clothes shopping. Everything is poorly made stretchy denim crap. There is no amount of money I wouldn’t spend on a pair of jeans that are made of actual denim and that fit me.

My favourite thing about #mastodon is how it’s kinda boring. I can scroll for 5 mins a few times a day then get back to the real world. That may sound like a bad thing, but I think it might be why this place is so pleasant compared to Twitter.

Are any of you running #linux as your main desktop OS? What are you using? What is it like? Anything you wish you’d known when you started?

It’s my birthday today. I’m now 32. I woke up wanting to learn about Linux. Is that normal?

Anyway, I just installed pihole on a server and use Tailscale to route all my dns lookups through it.

On the eve of my 32nd birthday, I find myself wondering when I went from being young and wild to being excited to show people how much water my dehumidifier has collected.