A summary of what happened for me during the week 35 of 2025.| Muliama's Diaries
I participated to the Blaugust challenge. I became someone better thanks to it.| Muliama's Diaries
I took a more-than-a-month-long break from writing anything on this blog, as you might've noticed. It's been a busy time for myself due to my thesis research...| dearmishmash
I've been blogging everyday for more than two weeks. It's hard to find ideas now.| Muliama's Diaries
Sometimes there are good services that you liked touched by Enshittification. Slowly was a service that I liked.| Muliama's Diaries
I want to make errors, I want to be wrong. I want to fail, I want to improve.| Muliama's Diaries
Just a post were I'm using this week's writing prompt from the Blaugust event.| Muliama's Diaries
A summary of what happened for me during the week 34 of 2025.| Muliama's Diaries
Just me rambling about what to do next.| Muliama's Diaries
I published a newer version of my digital garden. I don't really know what I could tell or show. But I guess I could talk about what I did? Since my ga...| Muliama's Diaries
...to let you all know why I haven't been blogging for the past couple weeks. After many years of fighting with illness, and multiple organ failures, my mother passed away peacefully last Tuesday night. I'm doing ok, overall, but haven't had much motivation to write. Everything is still very surreal …| R.L. Dane
Preview.app shown in NeXTStep 1.0 courtesy of infinitemac.org In yesterday's post, I talked about the things I do and don't miss about MacOS, mainly focusing on the global menubar search as the main positive from my experience with Mac OS X. Looking over blog post ideas note …| R.L. Dane
What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS| rldane.space
It's always great to think about routines. To do all the thinking in advance.| Muliama's Diaries
A way for me to remember the good things that happened in my life.| Muliama's Diaries
I haven't took care for my Digital Garden lately.| Muliama's Diaries
A summary of what happened for me during the week 33 of 2025.| Muliama's Diaries
Link curation to understand the fediverse.| Muliama's Diaries
Literally some thoughts I had while reading.| Muliama's Diaries
A few days ago, I was reading someone's blog (I don't remember who)* that was talking about the art and the "why" of blogging (or it might've been in a chat conversation, I'm not sure). I had been thinking of posting something about it, because when I told someone IRL …| R.L. Dane
Background In yesterday's article, I went over the GUI programs that I enjoyed using over the years and remembered fondly. While I was going to go over TUI programs today, I realized that there's a category of GUI that straddles the line between GUI and TUI that deserved its own …| R.L. Dane
I was going to post a much more serious blog post about anhedonia yesterday, but I didn't get to do so, as I was feeling... anhedonic! One thing I do when I'm struggling to feel... anything (because I've spent way too much time feeling way too much, but that's a …| R.L. Dane
Background I'd be fooling myself to think that I could be the first person on the earth to note music's incredible ability to heal and salve the tormented human soul. My own journey with music is, well, unsurprisingly, about as old as I am. Most everyone on one side of …| R.L. Dane
Time for another little hardware review. Background I've been getting complaints that the small, inexpensive bluetooth earbuds (Skullcandy Dime XT/XT2) I had been carrying around for the past five years have pretty poor audio quality during phone calls (likely no microphone noise cancellation), so I started looking around again …| R.L. Dane
Why I love vim| rldane.space
Note: When I say "Online" in this context, I literally mean "on a computer," vs. "on paper." This is the older, more classic meaning of the word, similar to "on-line documentation" (i.e., "on the computer," not "on the internet"). Background I know a lot of folks like solutions like …| R.L. Dane
Just now, I was doing what all great bloggers do when they run out of (easily) actionable blog post ideas: I got around to cruising my RSS feeds! To be fair, there are many wonderful bloggers that keep up with their RSS feeds and dutifully read and comment on all …| R.L. Dane
Greetings! If you are reading this, it means you were selected by TODD (the Temporal Observation Directorate Division) for a temporal excursion. Since you're a member of the Computing Sciences History Reading Room, you will no doubt want to brush up on how to procure computing resources in your assigned …| R.L. Dane
Welcome to the PADDING. This blost is a part of the interstitial spaces that make up my blog. It's here to support other blosts. Think of it as one of the glial cells supporting the superstructure of the twisted online brain that ishttps://rldane.space/. Of course, that doesn't …| R.L. Dane
There's a scene in The King's Speech at the end where he's finally giving his big, inspiring speech, and while you hear is the speech, what you see is the scribbled crib notes and the incredible mental gymnastics he has to go through to get each word and phrase out …| R.L. Dane
About two and a half months ago, I bought a Wacom digitizer to do doodles with, but I found the process of sketching with a standalone digitizer a bit dissatisfying after using an iPad in years past. To be clear, the fact that the screen and digitizer are separate devices …| R.L. Dane
Background I've used android as my main mobile OS for about four and a half years, and used it previously for about a year and a half before then. In total, I've spent eight and two thirds years on iOS, and six and one third years on Android (so far …| R.L. Dane
Some thoughts on *Severance*| rldane.space
How not to succeed at #100DaysToOffload| The lost outpost
Installing the X1Plus Expander into a Bambu X1 Carbon| The lost outpost
The PublicSpaces conference in Amsterdam saw engaging conversations on decentralised social networks, and meaningful discussions with friends and colleagues on the future of our civic spaces.| The lost outpost
The applet I created with IFTTT is fairly simple. I basically set it up to: This is a very simple setup but I find it quite useful so far. I like that ...| dearmishmash
Glitch is closing soon, so I've been working on my migration plan.| The lost outpost
Since I started my role as Head of Communications at Mastodon, I’ve been finding my surroundings becoming more and more… purple. Our brand palette is a set of purple / indigo hues, and of course, I want to represent the organisation appropriately! 😄 I now have a couple of pairs of glasses with varieties of purple frames. […]| The lost outpost
I made a simple site so that you can grab some stickers to celebrate your support for the open internet and Fediverse. Be a part of the Rebel Alliance! #FediverseForFreedom| The lost outpost
I haven't been writing weeknotes for the past 2 weeks now. Mainly due to the lack of motivation, but also I feel like it's been losing it's fun for me.| dearmishmash
Hi! This is a random post but I was collecting a few 2-month-trial codes for Todoist (as they do not offer any promotions whatsoever aside from these influen...| dearmishmash
📝June 2 2025- June 8 2025| dearmishmash
I made a post earlier this year mentioning that I would be starting a new workout routine with my partner, during my first semester back in university. As with a lot of things this past few months, it had dropped down my priority list.| dearmishmash
Robert shared his annual Junited challenge recently, and I would love to participate. It's a challenge that you can join by sharing a blog post or blogs for each day of June. As it's a few days after the 1st, I'll go ahead and fill up the previous dates with a few blogs I want to share :)| dearmishmash
📝May 19th 2025- June 1st 2025| dearmishmash
I just want to preface this to say that this is all just a, for fun, thing. It's mainly driven by curiousity. Although my immediate family and partner are not religious in much sense at all, I've had and have friends who are, and a large part of the media I consume is Western in nature. And a large chunk of that, I'm sure, is influenced by the Bible or its religions that followed thereafter. One specific example of this is The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir. I'm a fan of the series, and if you ta...| dearmishmash
Lars looking on wistfully while ingesting his sister-in-law's retort to his rant Video clip Content warning: this post unavoidably and briefly touches on some "mature" topics If you had told me six months ago that one of my favorite movies of all time would be a bout a man who …| R.L. Dane
I wanted to try a new-to-me compressor, lz4, but it turned into a full ADHD-fueled file compression shoot-out: Dang, lz4 is crazy fast! Data/setup The corpus is a 2.29 GiB uncompressed tar file consisting of several years worth of GPS data in various plain-text formats. The computer is …| R.L. Dane
Luke looking wistfully out at the dual sunset on Tatooine as The Force Theme plays hauntingly in the background, beckoning him to his grand adventure Having grown up in the 1980s, one thing random friends would often ask me (actually what family friends would ask my mom) was: "Has he …| R.L. Dane
The Scenes that Made Me: Star Trek| rldane.space
I was interviewed by Michelle Goodall for her series, discussing my career in community building and insights on Mastodon and the Fediverse.| The lost outpost
I was on a panel marking the 13th anniversary of the London Platform User Group, reflecting on the evolution of PaaS, the impact of Kubernetes, and future trends in digital sovereignty.| The lost outpost
It's been a while since I last travelled to another country.| dearmishmash
When I was in High School, I fell madly in love with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fascinating characters, the (at the time) amazing special effects, the stories, the optimism, but most of all, the technology. My eyes dazzled seeing huge touchscreens, digital tablets, and incredible spacefaring vessels every …| R.L. Dane
One of the things I hear people on the Fediverse celebrate is its incredible transience. There's no one big central network, so posts have nebulous reach throughout the network, depending on how well-"connected" your instance is, and many people set posts to auto-delete after a set period of time …| R.L. Dane
Background One minor foible of the fediverse instance I'm on is that searching (for accounts or hashtags) can be quite slow. As a workaround for now, I've saved a list of accounts I've followed for easy reference, but I also wanted some way of saving a list of hashtags to …| R.L. Dane
Partially for the sake of my daily doodles, which I've been posting to the Fediverse, and also because I've been learning the Persian alphabet, I recently purchased a small USB pen digitizer, the "One by Wacom," by Wacom (great branding 😄). For those of you not familiar with digitizers, think of …| R.L. Dane
I wanted to take some time out today to acknowledge some folks on the fediverse that are remarkably prolific, just for fun. Prolific blogger — Rubenerd Oh holy moly. This fella has words. Lots of words. Many very fine words. Just look at bro's output for 2024: ~ $ curl -s https://rubenerd …| R.L. Dane
Thanks to my fedifriendJoel for nominating me for this challenge (after I had pestered him 😄). Do you floss your teeth Before I answer this, you must understand something about me: I strongly believe in truthfulness as a core virtue. Inasmuch as I am able, I never lie or purposefully …| R.L. Dane
Used laptops are wonderful... except when you need batteries| rldane.space
I'm excited about the opportunities FediForum created in the past, and can continue to generate in the future - and I'm proud to be on the Advisory Board.| The lost outpost
It was a delight to join Mia Quagliarello's panel at the "Fediverse House" SXSW side event in Austin, discussing building communities on the open social web. It was a privilege to represent our Fediverse communities.| The lost outpost
Some background about our Forge & Craft mini-masterpiece submitted for the May 2025 Wimbledon Art Fair.| The lost outpost
I updated my Framework 13 to Fedora 42 about two weeks ago, just before the final release. It has been pretty solid! This evening, I went to start up my VPN (I use NordVPN, FWIW). No luck. Just no …| The lost outpost
A small hand-selected list of design, gaming, technology and more based websites or services that are participating in the Black Friday sale.| Adamsdesk
I was on a Signal video chat with my siblings today, and when I mentioned something about RC flight as an analogy for a person's health (being "three mistakes high"), my brother looked confused and then amused when I explained what I was talking about. Oh, quick explainer, I'm not …| R.L. Dane
I keep finding more of these blog challenge questions, and I totally love them. This one comes courtesy of Andreas' blog. Like Andreas, I'm not a big TV watcher. I think I formally quit watching TV in 2003. I did watch a few things on Netflix and Amazon Prime over …| R.L. Dane
Why I love Markdown| rldane.space
I joined Paul and Tod on The Bootloader podcast, sharing some tech picks - Glance, and the MNT Pocket Reform.| The lost outpost
Reflecting on my talks about pen plotters, sharing my closing keynote from QCon 2024; and, the upcoming Wimbledon Art Fair.| The lost outpost
Recently, I joined the Fireside Fedi show to discuss the diverse Fediverse community. Thank you, Ozoned!| The lost outpost
After freelancing with Mastodon since 2023, I'm excited to announce my new full-time role as Head of Communications. This builds on my experience in Dev Rel, community work, and open source while supporting a project I'm passionate about.| The lost outpost
I saw this update to the "Blog Questions Challenge" format on jnv's blog, and without reading* it first (in order to not taint my own answers — I will definitely go back and read his), I thought I'd write down some of my own thoughts, for fun. *I used curl …| R.L. Dane
I was reading Clayton's blog post about his habit of buying larger and larger USB thumb drives back in the day (when they were getting rapidly larger every few months), and it reminded me of a wish I had in the 2000s that got only partially fulfilled. As anyone who …| R.L. Dane
I mean, that's certainly one way of looking at it. On the other hand, I know how much people were pooh-poohing the specs of the original Switch, and saying if Nintendo had just invested $50 more into it, it would've been such a better platform. I guess you can't have …| R.L. Dane
Libraries are awesome| rldane.space
I’ve been using my Framework 13 laptop a lot more often, recently. I have found myself preferring it as daily driver over the M1 Pro MacBook Pro1 for various reasons – largely connectiv…| The lost outpost
A KSP Design Log| rldane.space
This week, I'm at #RightsCon 2025 in Taiwan, discussing open platforms and Mastodon's role in the new social web.| The lost outpost
We live in smaller filter bubbles than we may realise.| The lost outpost
I was an 80s kid. I grew up in a booming and optimistic time. The future held so much promise: all kinds of cures for disease, technology and automation would free humanity from the drudgery of labor (heh), and the Information Age would bring an acceleration to learning and innovation …| R.L. Dane
The Linux Cast is one of my favorite Linux youtubers, as he usually posts very interesting videos and isn't afraid to share his off-the-cuff opinions of things in the Linux world, yet is usually not toxic, unlike some of that space's moreinfamousmembers. He published a slightly ranty …| R.L. Dane
Disclaimer: Right off the bat, I am NOT an imaging expert, a compression expert, or really an anything expert. I'm just speaking from my own experiences as a relatively ordinary user of image formats. When I was a young-un in the early, early 90s, PICT was the day-to-day image format …| R.L. Dane
I'm talking mostly about terminology, but of course, when in doubt, "I don't want your dumb app." So, as I briefly alluded to in yesterdays blog post, most mobile apps are pretty terrible. They're generally chock full of spyware (trackers), and are inherently user-hostile. But I want to talk about …| R.L. Dane
This morning, I enjoyed a blog post by James Ashford about whether or not it's good to use a bible app. I commented on a tangential issue: the fact that bible apps have so many trackers! I mentioned that I do use YouVersion, even though it has many trackers (including …| R.L. Dane
Content Warning: This post deals with religion and politics --- Last Sunday, I did something that I really don't like doing. I left church early. With a heavy and conflicted heart. The Sunday prior, I walked into church and spoke briefly with the pastor. I told him I was shocked to …| R.L. Dane
I, like many, have taken an interest in Daniel Supernault's new Loops video service. Unlike many, I'm not so much interested in a FOSS, Federated clone of TikTok, YT Shorts, or Vine. I honestly don't care for that kind of media. I don't object to the format (other than …| R.L. Dane
Last night I had one of those "your loved one isn't actually dead!" dreams, but about my cat. I used to have them a lot about my stepdad that passed away many years ago, and I had a handful about my boss that sadly ended his own life a decade …| R.L. Dane
"Online" documentation should be offline| rldane.space
As a small side-project, I created an extension for the GNOME desktop to stream and listen to music from The Indie Beat - an online radio station powered by independent musicians sharing music in the Fediverse, via Bandwagon.| The lost outpost
Thinking about Meta platforms, and more – here’s where I spend the majority of my social time and effort, online.| The lost outpost
I came across this set of questions from hyde (a.k.a. Lazy Bear)'s blog, and immediately loved it. It reminds me a bit of the kind of overly personal* questions that got passed between friends on facebook circa 2008, and email circa 2000. * They didn't feel overly personal …| R.L. Dane
I recall once having a discussion with some friends online about which chat client/network to use for communication, and someone strongly endorsed one over another because it had a better selection of animated reactions/videos. I was pretty incredulous that that was the most important thing to them. Imagine …| R.L. Dane
This is Part IV of the series, "Don't use what works for you." --- Being an armchair FOSS advocate, there are a lot of anti-FOSS arguments I've become quite used to seeing and answering. Some of them are honestly just pretty dumb: eloquent_FOSS_apologia(); Well, I just don't CARE about that! Well …| R.L. Dane
100 Days to Offload — Kicking 2025 Off Right| rldane.space
Can we find speedy and cheap devices for CO2 monitoring at #FOSDEM that meet our open, eco-friendly preferences? Deep breath, here are some thoughts on the subject!| The lost outpost
I delivered the keynote at RubyWorld 2024 in Japan, where I covered the decentralized social web, Mastodon, and Ruby. It was a fun trip, and I look forward to more opportunities to talk about the social web in 2025.| The lost outpost
Let Hugo do the counting of how far along I got into the #100DaysToOffload challenge.| scripter.co