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Tailscale, Blink, Files.app

Not sure when it happened, but Blink Shell—the iPad mosh/ssh client—added support for Files on iOS/iPadOS. So if you've taken the time to set up hosts in there, you can add file locations on those hosts and they show up in the Files app and make themselves available as a provider over an sftp connection to whatever can talk to Files . Combined with Tailscale, it's all very simple and handy and spares me a lot of configuration work to keep it all secure.  My current proof of concept involves a handful of org-mode todo files that I'd like to be able to read with Xenodium's Plain Org, an iOS/iPadOS org-mode app.  It has worked very well with that. I'm also playing around with his newer Journelly (an org-based journal app) and Flat Habits (org-based atomic habits, though he warns against working on files in place, and it's the one...

Syncthing - Free and Open-Source Cross Platform File Sharing

I first heard about the free and open-source file syncing app, Syncthing, when I started using Obsidian and may people were suggesting it as the back end of their DIY vault syncing strategy. I ended up using another method for Obsidian, but lately I have been exploring numerous ways to share files in my home lab setup, which features Macs, iOS devices an Ubuntu Linux box and VMs of all different sorts, including Windows. The aptly named Syncthing Foundation is behind the app that they describe thusly “Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.” Syncthing is private and secure. • Private - no central...

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Seen on an I-66 overpass in Arlington: “Rise up Apr 5”.

Experience is a spectrum not a hierarchy.

No April Fools… Happy 19th Anniversary to nemu*nemu, the comic that brought @kyubikitsy and I together! To celebrate, please enjoy reading one of the comics (or all of them!) 

Recognising what is needed is more important than imagining you know what you want.

Möttes av den här skylten när jag gick ut i skogen för att slå en båge. 

““When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open.”” — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Just received my copy. Very excited to get stuck in…

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The wife told Rubi I’d be home soon. This is the picture she sent me right after.

Can You Help Me Find the Photos App I Need?

I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo management tools, which, I will admit are pretty good, considering that both companies will mine every bit of data they can from my images in an attempt to extract money from me for their billionaire owners. Here are the features I'd like to have:1. Facial recognition to be able to identify people in photos and to be able to group photos of the same person together 2. Object search (e.g., dogs, landscapes, babies etc) 3. Being able to search by dates is a must 4. Tagging 5. Smart folders/albums 6. The ability to use photos in my file system without...

Week in Review - March 30th, 2025

👽 Personal • I finished up my second week at my new job, and I have very mixed feelings about the whole thing. There has been some information left out about the job, which soured me a bit, and I was able to dig in and see exactly how dysfunctional and disorganized everything is. This is going to be an uphill battle to get things straightened out, and I don't think I'm paid nearly enough for the task at hand, but I'm thankful to have a job and I'm just going to plug away from the time being. • I'm struggling to find interest in watching TV, listening to music, blogging, or even playing video games for an extended period of time. I think this has to do with the new job, and me just trying to find my feet and ground myself. I mean, I really shouldn't complain, because...

““If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so…  The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”” — Alan Watts

OM: Advaitic Songs

Part of my deep dive on metal has taken me into the stoner subgenre (think Kyuss, Red Fang, Sleep, The Sword, or Black Mountain). Though it's not stoner metal, OM surfaced in my poking around thanks to its connection to Sleep via Al Cisneros.  There's no real emphasis on riffs—it's built up from bass and drums—but it shares metal's often impressionistic approach to lyrics. Unlike metal's preoccupations with chaos, externalized forces, and evil, it's more of a hodge podge of Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu mysticism. A visit to Genius is often helpful when I feel like paying attention to the lyrics (which is only occasionally).  The music itself is repetitive, droning, and minimalist. You can get a sense here: [YouTube Video] It took me a day to decide I just wanted everything of theirs I could get from Bandcamp. Advaitic songs is my current favorite thanks to "State of Non-Return": ...

• 🤷‍♂️ Actually fixed the issue with the `lightbox` class being added on images and displaying weird on the Micro.blog timeline. For real this time!

Just saying...

Skaparglädje som huvudingrediens

Jag lyssnade på en intervju med Camilla Hamid, som med sina unika recept har blivit en av Sveriges främsta profiler inom bakning. När hon får frågan om hur hon lyckats bli så framgångsrik, förklarar hon att det som driver henne är passionen och glädjen i det hon gör. Hon berättar att hon inte är det minsta strategisk och tillägger: "Jag har tackat nej till riktigt bra grejer för att jag inte tycker att det verkar kul." Passion, glädje och skapande i en härlig blandning. Skaparglädje, ett verkligt framgångsrecept. Det går självklart att toppa det hela med ett visst mått av strategi. Men om inte huvudingredienserna är på plats, då kommer en yttre framgång aldrig riktigt speglas inåt. Det kommer att kännas smaklöst. Om vi däremot skapar med glädje och passion som huvudingredienser, då är det inte i hela världen om det blir en framgångssaga eller inte. Resan är en smakupplevelse...

Every word is too much and yet not enough.

remote workers

As everyone knows, any remote worker with cats has colleagues by his side for the most part of the day. Mine have their own specialization. Archie, depicted here, has a special talent to open the web inspector of a generic browser windows and explore the various options available. What about your co-workers?

Short Ruby Edition 129

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 129 highlights📅 Events• African Ruby Community shared that Ruby Conf Africa opened its Call for Papers for this year event which will took place on 18-19th July. • Euruko announced their 2025 Call for Papers is open, seeking talks on Ruby 3.x evolution, the Ruby ecosystem, and Ruby in production for their "The Heart of Code" themed conference • Ruby Conf Taiwan announced the date August 9-10 for this year event and more information that will coming soon 👉 All about Code and Ruby• Hiroshi Shibata announced the release of Ruby 3.1.7 (the final version of the 3.1 series) and 3.2.8 (starting the security maintenance phase). He also recommended updating your Ruby to 3.3 or 3.4 • Igor Kasyanchuk published a cheatsheet about Hotwire cheatsheet • Oskars Ezerins published LLMs benchmarks - Popular LLM benchmarks for ruby code generation • Russ Olsen shared that he...

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Not all of Old Town is historical buildings and art work. It’s a city with alleys and trash cans like any other.

Keyboard Centered Apps for Power Users

A global keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys you can press while in any application on your Mac to execute an action belonging to a background process. I typically have a half dozen or more apps running in the background that use global keyboard shortcuts. Some of these include: Keyboard MaestroKeyboard Maestro is an automation app that allows you to initiate or control just about any repetitive process. Don't let the name fool you though. Keyboard Maestro can execute actions based on two dozen triggers, not just keyboard combinations. Some of the actions I launch with the keyboard from Keyboard Maestro include typing in extra long passwords with a shortcut, launching apps using keyboard combinations, launching a shortcut that queries OpenAI using my API key, activating templates in Drafts, running AppleScripts and more. My Top 10 Keyboard Maestro Macros RaycastRaycast is a keyboard app launcher with over 1000 available...

• 🧹👾 When pausing an uptime monitor, it will now also change the "Up" or "Down" mini status to "Paused" with a yellow background.

• 👾 Updated uptime monitoring to now again change check intervals depending on the site status, add info on what check period it's currently on. Also you can now pause and resume a check once again. Also changed the behaviour of check intervals when a site goes down — it'll check every 5 minutes instead of every minute to avoid false positives (this is a good compromise). • 🧹📖 Updated the documentation about uptime monitoring giving more details and also IP addresses that should be whitelisted if you're using a firewall in front of your site (and the monitor is being blocked). • More to come and do :)

Nothings needs to be done for everything to happen.

Meningen med livet

Jag minns när en entomolog (expert på insekter) fick en fråga om vad fästingar gör för nytta. Ingen nytta alls, svarade han. Följdfrågan blev naturligtvis varför de då fanns över huvud taget.  Svaret blev: "För att möjligheten uppstod." Vi vill gärna tro att allt har en mening och ett samband. Att allt är en del av en fulländad helhet. Vi söker efter meningen med livet. Vi letar och letar, vill ha svaret serverat på ett silverfat. Vi vill lösa pusslet och vara biten som gör att allt faller på plats. Kanske är det därför vi aldrig finner svaret - vi söker på fel ställe. Kanske vi själva bär på lösningen till gåtan utan att inse det. Kanske krävs det viss ansträngning från vårt håll för att svaret ska framträda. Tänk om det helt enkelt är så att meningen med livet är att vi själva ska skapa den.

🕖 Now — My Sunday Morning Routine

My Sunday mornings look like this: • Start a new blog post on Scribble.pages (this post!) about my morning routine for this Sunday. • Get the weather outlook for the day, and the week. Currently -2°C here in Montreal, Canada, cloudy and freezing rain expected soon. • Visit YouTube Studio dashboard and look for new subscribers, new comments to respond. One comment on my latest Craft-related poll, and the trend continues: two-third of respondent think that Craft is not confusing to use. I'm surprised by these results. • Visit my Gumroad dashboard and look for new subscriptions to The Craft Bible. Nothing since March 24th. 😔 • Visit my Ghost dashboard and look for new notifications, and new articles in the feed. The latter was recently added as part of the social web integration initiative. Ghost is now more than a CMS. I'm not used to that just yet. I...

Preparation (forethought) is making up a small, finite, limited, fixed story and attempting to force the infinite, unknown energy of the universe to fit into it. Good luck with that.

Will you be and live your life directly or will you be entertained and tortured by stories about it.

Pure objectivity is impossible. There is only a spectrum of subjectivity.

““There is nowhere from the universe that direct experience can be felt except from the experience itself.”” — Annaka Harris

Everything that we don’t experience directly is entertainment.

Overnight in Eugene

Ben's ride back down to Eugene decided to wait a bit longer before returning, so we took him down last night.   I'm still getting used to the OM-3, but continue to appreciate the in-camera controls on OM System cameras. The in-camera color control is a little more detailed than I can get on a Fujifilm system. Mainly, though, I like the versatility/size trade-off. It's nice walking around with a relatively compact 40mm (equiv) lens and having a decent zoom in my sling if I want it. "Pro" and "chunky" on an M43 lens runs pretty close to "inexpensive kit lens" territory on a Fujifilm camera. On the other hand, Fujifilm jpegs feel like they're easier to work with in terms of exposure latitude. It's way easier to pull a poorly exposed Fuji jpeg back than one out of any of my M43 bodies.

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This dog just wants to sit on my lap ALL THE TIME.

• 👾 Some uptime changes are now back and you can enjoy the current status, uptime % and ssl status once again as they were with more useful info. I'll be adding more functionality and details soon.

Hjärtats val

Vid en av veckans husbesiktningar sa kunden att min arbetsglädje lyste igenom. Han förklarade att han nyligen sagt upp sig från en välbetald och högt uppsatt position inom sitt yrke: "Det kändes inte värt det längre. Det upptog för mycket av mitt liv." Jag gratulerade honom och berömde hans beslut, och förklarade att jag själv tagit liknande beslut i livet, vilket var det bästa jag aldrig har ångrat. Det är så lätt att stirra sig blind på eftertraktade roller och höga löner. Men inga pengar i världen kan ersätta känslan av att vara verkligt tillfreds. Samma inställning gäller det mesta här i livet. Om prestige är den främsta ingrediensen, då kommer smaken alltid att sakna något. Det kommer korta perioder av smakexplosioner, men sedan är den bittra eftersmaken där igen.  Om vi istället väljer ingredienserna med hjärta och tillagar allt med kärlek, då kan även den enklaste av rätter skapa...

The Truth requires belief. Your own truths are self evident and need no support or validation.

““So much has been given to me I have not the time to ponder that which has been denied.”” — Helen Keller

Restless Leg Syndrome - Antony Szmierek

Jag tycker Antony är en av de intressantaste artisterna just nu. Riktigt skön musik med grymma texter och härliga The Streets-vibbar. [Apple Music Player]