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I would also note that the behavior I am calling for — more innovation and competition, not just from Google’s competitors, but Google itself — is the exact opposite of what the European Union is pushing for, which is product stasis.

There are many, many git forges to pick from.

This quarter was a radical departure from the previous two.

A minimalist macOS wallpaper to remind you that time is ticking.

Caret is a command line tool for browsing Lobsters in your terminal.

CSS System Colors Dashboard is a website that gives developers a visual preview of CSS’ underused system-color data type.

The Seaside Hotel by Michael Holt.

In this quarter, Stanford became my default.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.

I would like to become the kind of person who consistently produces discrete works.

Life changes slowly and then all at once.

Dune by Frank Herbert.

The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B.

I have been collecting fun little writings in Photos with the intent of distributing them here.

The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf.

Today, I’m going to talk about this video.

Spies of No Country by Matti Friedman.

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin.

Everybody has to entertain themselves somehow on fifteen hour flights.

I recently had the opportunity to meet former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett.

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Who by Fire by Matti Friedman.

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer.

The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore.

Mabel is a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal.

Just before the start of Rosh Hashanah, I found myself standing over a kitchen sink.

In 2015, Ben Thompson first proposed Aggregation Theory in an article by the same name.

d3c3nt is a simple, clean, and flexible theme for Zola.

Privacy Redirect for Safari is a web extension that automatically redirects sites to alternative front-ends like Nitter and Teddit.

SimplyTranslate is a collection of “translation scrapers with interfaces for gemini and the web,” made by metalune.

My recent post on the Great Alpine Migration Tragedy of 2021 garnered some serious attention!

After moving my server to Hetzner, I built up a large collection of self-hosted services I use on a daily basis: from fun things like an RSS reader and an IRC bouncer, to critical services like my email.

Tofu is an easy-to-use, open-source, two-factor authentication app designed specifically for iOS, made by Calle Luks.

A little more than a month ago, I noticed that my computer charger had slightly yellowed at the ends.

I was doing my daily HN and Lobster trawling, when I stumbled on a post by boringcactus which sounded somewhat familiar.

Lately, there’s been renewed interest in clean, simple technology built to help us focus.

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I’m on a roll!

I recently found myself debugging a mobile game I’m working on (sneak peak) with a friend over Jitsi.

If I wasn’t certain I wanted this game before, I am now.

Since I began working on self-hosting, I’ve been using a DigitalOcean (affiliate link) VPS running Debian 10.

I’ve been using the macOS Big Sur Beta for a couple of months now.

Those of you who read my last “I Wrote This” post will know that I was having some trouble with my website.

Post-WWDC2020, I decided to rewrite the backend of txtodo in SwiftUI using the new App and Scene structure.

It appears I’m not that great at keeping a weekly schedule.

Little known fact about Keybase: it has two onion addresses.

Ever since Keybase was acquired by Zoom, a company with a very bad history with security/privacy, people wanted an alternative.

Hi!

So, I’m FIGBERT – I wrote this. nailed that intro.

txtodo is a minimalist open-source todo list app inspired by Jeff Huang’s One File to Rule Them All and Mac-assed Mac apps like IINA, Sketch, and Safari.