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Unfiltered thoughts are back on Scribbles!

Years ago (20 March 2024 to be precise), I got a lifetime Scribbles account. It felt like a nice place to blog. To this day, it remains a nice place to blog. Vincent, the developer of Scribbles, whom I consider a web friend, has so carefully and delightfully enhanced Scribbles with thoughtful touches over the years, yet still maintaining the vibe of a nice place to blog. This is no straightforward task. I stopped publishing here because I focused on my main blog. I feel that was not the right decision. It has almost been 2 years since my last post. I intend to rectify it. This blog remains a place where I can publish my unfiltered thoughts. I take this opportunity to thank Vincent. Check out his blog: https://vincentritter.com/ and also explore his other projects, Body Beats is cool.

Unfiltered by MereCivilian

m.merecivilian.com

July 4th, 2026

Completing the Kindle Spring reading challenge

Amazon’s reading challenges inspired me to read again (by coincidence). Seventy-five days ago, I picked up my abandoned Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (11th gen.) and ruminated over all the unread books. I was shocked by the number of books I wanted to read but never got around to doing so. I had seventeen unread books in my collection. It just so happened at the time of the discovery, I was looking at reducing my YouTube consumption and reviewing what hobbies I wanted to pursue.  Starting the reading adventure I browsed at what I had read in the past two years. There was certainly a common theme of self-improvement, tech, finance and minimalism books in the collection of read books. I knew I had a particular interest for personal growth. After reviewing those titles, I looked at what I hadn’t read or stopped midway through. One uncompleted book caught my attention -...

CodeMacLife

blog.codemaclife.net

July 4th, 2026

Miss Scarlet and The Duke

Couple of weeks ago, while browsing Amazon Prime, I came across Miss Scarlet and The Duke. According to Amazon Prime, it is one that I would like. Its probably because I enjoyed Young Sherlock (which I did). Anyway, I found it odd (likely due to licencing issues) that Amazon Prime had season 2 and onwards but not Season 1. Who in the their right mind would start watching a TV show from Season 2... not this mere civilian. Anyway, this show seemed right up my alley. Lately, female based detective shows are something that I find enjoyable. Elsbeth (on ParamountPlus) is also another show that I am slowly watching and enjoying. Anyway, I found another way to watch Miss Scarlet and The Duke and currently on episode 3 of Season 1. I am utterly disappointed, in myself, that I somehow not discovered this show earlier. I am down right kicking...

Unfiltered by MereCivilian

m.merecivilian.com

July 4th, 2026

🇺🇸 Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸

Happy 250th birthday, United States of America! What a strange moment to mark a birthday, given everything going on in the world. Even so, I believe the U.S. has done enormous good and has served as a beacon for the world since at least World War I, if not sooner. I remember being about 7 years old in 1976, during the last major milestone, America’s 200th birthday. My aunt, uncle, and cousins lived in Lakeland. I was staying with them, and we went to the train yard in Lakeland to see the Freedom Train. It did not stop in Lakeland until December 1976, but I still remember it. Now it is the 250th anniversary, and this year just feels different. It should be a big celebration, and I hope it is. For all our problems, this is still one of the best countries in the world, and possibly the best....

Michael's Musings!

michaelmusings.com

July 4th, 2026

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Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

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Compulsive creator contributor. Digital nomad. Noisy. Why Blips?

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Nicola' Scribbles

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Other than two ‘big’ blogs, I needed a place to put down my scribbles and breadcrumbs of text / life pills. That's the place for those. About • Now • Uses • Get it touch

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maik.ing | the terminal garden

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Building, Breaking, and Automating. Welcome to maik.ing. This is my digital toolbox for everything related to Microsoft 365, PowerShell automation, and cloud infrastructure. Here, I share functional scribbles, in-depth M365 insights, and the occasional Nordic breeze from my everyday IT life.

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My name is Michał and I'm a software developer living in Barcelona.  In my spare time I like to disconnect myself from the screen life. My apartment is a work-in-progress battelfield for tinkering, remodeling and fixing things. I enjoy horology and all the reseach aspects of collecting vintage watches. And when time allows, I'm an into hiking or cycling. About Me ShamelessPlug.app

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Quiet Ambition

Quiet Ambition

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Big goals, small noise.

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"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere."

- Anne Lamott

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The Best eBook Readers: Readest vs. Bookshelves

TL;DR: Apple Books is a storefront that happens to read ebooks. If you own your library, the real choice is between two apps. Readest is open-source, runs on everything (Mac, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android, web), and has the deepest feature set I've seen (side-by-side reading, sentence-level translation, KOReader/WebDAV sync), but it's still v0.x and some marquee features are unfinished. Bookshelves is Apple-only and commercial, but it's polished, ships fast, and pairs a strong reader with a 1.5-million-book built-in catalog. Cross-platform reader? Readest. Living entirely on the Mac and want the nicer native app? Bookshelves. Full breakdown below. I spend a significant portion of every day managing and curating an embarrassingly large ebook collection. For a long time, I was a dead tree books guy and honestly, I can be talked in to visiting a book store with very little effort, but for sheer usability and utility, nothing matches a digital...

AppAddict

appaddict.app

July 3rd, 2026

Variations on a Theme: Five Recent Cmd+Tab Interpretations

Apple's Cmd+Tab has real blind spots. It works on apps, not windows. It doesn't know about Spaces. It has no search, fuzzy or otherwise. Several independent developers have recently taken a crack at fixing it, each with a different idea of what "better" means. I'm not picking a winner here -- just laying out what each one gets right and where it falls short, in case you want to try one yourself. GroupCtrl -- Free, Open Source (GPL-3.0)Instead of assigning a different hotkey to each app, GroupCtrl walks you through building app groups that match your actual workflow -- Bloom, BBEdit, and Preview under "Files," say, or BBEdit, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code under "Text Editors." What I like: Git-friendly YAML config -- a real advantage for dotfiles fans, since setup is versionable and shareable as plain text. Price: Free and open source (GPL-3.0) -- no subscription, no paid...

AppAddict

appaddict.app

July 2nd, 2026

Changelog — July 2nd

Some smaller tweaks and fixes since the last few updates. • 💅 Homepage and Explore blog tiles are now fully clickable. • 💅 Swapped the main menu icons to new ones for clearer, more consistent visuals. • 💅 Keyboard shortcut badges now appear on hover in the expanded pinned sidebar. • 💅 Archived posts no longer show up on the main posts dashboard — they're still on the dedicated archived page. • 💅 Rebuilt social preview image generation for posts and pages. Share cards should look sharper and more consistent. • 🎨 Custom themes can now load external fonts via theme.yml, and you can delete themes and versions from the theme editor. • 🎨 Analytics, Open Graph tags, favicons, feeds, and Kudos/Komments are injected automatically into custom themes — no extra wiring needed. • 🐛 Restored sticky positioning on the editor toolbar. Thanks Bear! • 🐛 Fixed blog accent colour...

Scribbles Updates

scribbles.page/updates

Changelog
July 2nd, 2026

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Custom themes

A few weeks ago I teased support for custom themes. You can now get started with creating your own. This is perfect for the more advanced users that want ultimate control of themes and the way they work. This is still very early preview, but I can't keep building this on my own — so if you're keen, you can get started by heading to your blog settings page, and then Appearance. Here you'll get a link to the custom themes. It's super easy to get started and we provide a starter kit with minimal styling to set the tone. If you're experimenting on your own blog, you're also able to pull down an example theme with your recent posts included so you can see it in place as you work on it. Custom themes are designed to be developed locally on your machine with a minimal toolkit. Out the...

Scribbles Updates

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New Features
July 1st, 2026

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📡✨ I Was There

Paris, France, Summer 2026 → What a strange building, and a controversial one. Français : La tuyauterie extérieure du Centre Pompidou est principalement fonctionnelle, et non décorative : les architectes ont volontairement placé les réseaux techniques à l’extérieur pour libérer de grands espaces à l’intérieur du bâtiment. The exterior piping of the Pompidou Centre is primarily functional rather than decorative. The architects deliberately placed the building’s technical systems on the outside to create large, open interior spaces. Follow the trail.

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

blips.numericcitizen.me

June 27th, 2026

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I Guess I Should Introduce Myself

I always struggle with if, and how, I should introduce myself. Not just on the internet, but in real life too. Which, as of today, I am finding out even more about why that is. (More on that later). I never really know how much information to give, but I do know that I am limited on energy, so I guess I will just start with giving you what I currently have energy for. I am not one for small talk, so I am just going to dive into the juicy details that would probably be inappropriate for any real-life conversation. In an attempt not to overthink this, I'm just going to rip the band-aid off and dive right in. I am a 39-year-old transgender man. (I was born female and transitioned to male.) I grew up very religious and attended a Christian school from pre-K through high school. My...

What If I Shit My Pants?

scribbles.page/shitmypants

June 25th, 2026

Mira Makes YouTube Usable

TL;DR: Mira is a small (5.6 MB), native Mac app that makes YouTube calm and pleasant: no Shorts, no sponsor segments, no recommendation rabbit hole. It folds SponsorBlock, Return YouTube Dislike, searchable transcripts, optional bring-your-own-key AI summaries, Picture-in-Picture, background audio, and a real Focus Mode into one signed app instead of the pile of browser extensions you have to maintain on your on. It collects zero data, has a long free trial and costs $39.99 for a lifetime license (or $2.99/month). If you only want ads gone and you are fine with YouTune in a browser, Brave or the Vinegar + SponsorBlock Safari combo does that for free; if you want YouTube genuinely de-Googled, FreeTube or Yattee are the better pick. For everyone who just wants one quiet, native place to watch, Mira is worth the money. eryone who just wants one quiet, native place to watch, Mira is worth...

AppAddict

appaddict.app

June 25th, 2026