January 2025
- Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management - a great blog post on emacs productivity. This is probably the single most useful blog post on productivity I’ve ever read. I cannot oversell this, it is pure, distilled, wisdom.
- How to feel bad and be wrong - great way to think about how our brain tricks is and, importantly, what we might be able to do to stop it.
- The age of the sovereign creator - The next internet era will prioritize relationships, ownership, and community-building over centralized control.
- So you want to de-bog yourself? - Identifying specific reasons you feel stuck can illuminate actionable paths out of psychological bogs.
- Henry’s comments on auditions - I found his words here quite profound, reflections on a “error” in the eyes of some yet continuing to grow. With time you can see these incidents in the wider context of a person’s journey.
October 2024
- Celebrating an important step forward for open source AI - Mozilla breakdown of OSI.
- Open source clones of classic video games
- More Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan Insanity
August 2024
- Wordstar back in the press - did it really ever leave?
- Super slick free images site.
- Dev Encyclopedia - perhaps a project to watch - and contribute to. The power of explaining in plain language should not be underestimated.
- AI Hype is over?
- Open Source Games
June 2024
- Get Bummed Out by Remember Sport.
- Denote - been using this for a while, longer form post to come, but super slick implementation of a notes package in emacs.
- Playwrite
- AwsomeVM - right now I see the potential here but the work to learn is a little off putting.
- Time Blocking - super charged my work flows this month.
- Someday Soon - Sarcastic Sounds
May 2024
- The Secret Society Funded by Bread Tabs
- LaTeX by examples - ebook project.
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (I should reread Deep Work too)
April 2024
- My dream died, and now I’m here
- NixOS & Flakes Book
- Paperlib - An open-source academic paper management tool.
- BobbyBroccoli’s whole video backlog - some of be best deep dive docs I’ve seen in a while.
- Emacs: custom Org agenda - Protesilaos Stavrou does it again, solving all my org-agenda issues in a easy to follow video.
- Passed the SC-900
March 2024
- Emacs: modern minibuffer packages (Vertico, Consult, etc.)
- Paperless-ngx - household management for important files (manuals, bills etc)
- Fabric AI
Febuary 2024
- Vitamin D
- NixOS: Everything Everywhere All At Once
December 2023
- Spacemacs config bankruptcy
- Bust Your Knee Caps (Johnny Don’t Leave Me) - Pomplamoose
November 2023
- Deep Learning’s AI courses
- Free for Devs - free services for devs!
October 2023
August 2023
- OpenCopilot - open source AI copilot
- Omnivore - open source read-it-later app. Intresting to see but, for me, it won’t replace an org-mode notebook.
- DiagramGPT - make diagrams in natural language
June 2023
- Mind Wave - ChatGPT in your emacs buffers!
- Langchain
- AI-102 - Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution Cert.
- Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X - IBM Certified Associate Developer
May 2023
April 2023
- Ultimate Guide for Building a Startup with ChatGPT Prompts, from Scratch
- We won a ISIS 2023 impact award!
March 2023
December 2022
August 2022
- Don’t Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation
- Avocation of mutt, in the mainstream, in 2022?!
- Next on the build list? A super cool handheld Pi PC
July 2022
- Should I learn COBOL?. Probably not…
- This is our undoing
May 2022
- Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. One of the best Fantasy novels I’ve read in many years. I think only Sanderson has matched him in recent times.
April 2022
- Gridfinity by Zack Freedman. A perfect example of open source standards allowing the creation of bespoke solutions.
December 2021
November 2021
- Nicolas P. Rougier’s homepage.
- Get Better by alt-j.
October 2021
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport.
- The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
- How to manage e-mails in Emacs with Mu4e by Leonardo Tamiano.
September 2021
August 2021
- Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.
- Reading IMAP email in Emacs
- Gef the Talking Mongoose
- Wine Tasting in Formentera
July 2021
- An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp by Robert J. Chassell
- Magit’s 404 page
June 2021
- Very much enjoying “No Dogs Allowed” by Sidney Gish
- The Anti-forward by Dennis Ritchie in The Unix-Haters Handbook
- An Annotated Spacemacs and quoth by OutOfCheeseError
- The Great Mortality by John Kelly
- Keychron K2 help for Linux by kurgol
- How to Make an Emacs Minor Mode by Chris Wellons.
- On using to-do lists efficiently by Bastien Guerry