I’ve recently been motivated to make some improvements to this site, in the hopes that it might become a more ready place for me to do public writing. Some of those changes you may have noticed, some not. # The Clips section Motivated by other online writers, particularly Tracy Durnell, I created a place to share short thoughts on interesting articles or websites that I’ve found. This will probably be a much higher-volume source of content than my normal blog posts, so read on if you’d ...| Posts on lily's thots
In the past few weeks, I’ve seen some blog posts of a very similar vein to my recent post Technoelitism and the IndieWeb Movement. It seems I’m not the only one with some critical thoughts about this movement and the goals it both claims to have and actually seems to express. I realized while surveying some of these posts that I actually had some major flaws in my assumptions about what the IndieWeb movement actually is, what it actually cares about, and the correction of these assumption...| Posts on lily's thots
While I was surfing some new IndieWeb sites the other day, I had a little bit of a mad-at-the-young-people moment of being upset that so much of the modern web experience is algorithmic schlock that people just accept. I was contemplating writing a tongue-in-cheek “kids these days don’t even know how to browse the internet” blog post (these do exist and I think they’re pointing out something valid that’s separate from what’s being discussed in this article), but I quickly realized...| Posts on lily's thots
I was recently given a very thoughtful gift, a custom LED sign from Custom Neon reading “Stay Silly.” I first heard this from Maia Arson Crimew earlier this year in a Twitter post about being investigated by US Congress after it discovered a vulnerability in an airline’s storage of the FAA no-fly list. I and a lot of other people found this endearing and so started saying it frequently when faced with any kind of adversity or stress. One of my partners noticed this and she got me this b...| Posts on lily's thots
I think that Hackernews is a consistent source of interesting articles to read, but I like to avoid the comment section for my own piece-of-mind. I also like to get the content that I care about delivered via RSS, so that I’m not consistently re-visiting HN (or other sites) for more content. For a while, I’ve been relying on this github project, which creates a new issue every day containing the top 30 links posted on Hackernews. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of github issues (apparent...| Posts on lily's thots
I’ve used Rust as a primary language since 2019, and I’ve been managing developers using Rust as a primary language since 2021. For developers new to the language it can seem intimidating at first, but there are a number of helpful resources available to newer Rust developers to help understand the more complicated topics. These resources are all available for free unless otherwise noted. This is not at all an exhaustive list but it’s the things that I’ve noticed over the years and my...| Posts on lily's thots
I generally like to leave open the possibility that I’m wrong. I try to avoid having strong opinions. In a few cases however, I fail in this. This article is about one of them. I ride a lot of public transit both in in my home city of San Francisco and while I’m traveling. While I generally succeed in finding my way around stations and streets, I’m often lost as I pop my head out of the station and try to orient myself to the street. I pull out my phone, but that can generally only tell...| Posts on lily's thots
Thanks to the fact that I sometimes share coding videos on my YouTube channel, people occasionally see what my workflow looks like and they ask me what plugins I’m using. This is non-exhaustive, really just intended to be a canned response. # Shell - Nushell I’ve been using Nushell as my daily driver shell for the past few years. It’s really cool! Imagine if your shell had first-class support for structured data, had useful error messages, and removed all the esoteric syntax of bash in ...| Posts on lily's thots
I was recently inspired to get back into doing software stuff on microcontrollers, and I thought I’d start out by looking into the state of the embedded Rust ecosystem. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to accomplish, but I had a few Lilygo T-Display microcontrollers. These are cheap ($8 each at time of writing) ESP32 boards with lots of gpio and an integrated 1.14" TFT display. This post is a mix of a tutorial for ESP32 development in Rust, as well as my feelings and stumbling blocks w...| Posts on lily's thots
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