Posts from @alex@social.alexschroeder.ch

Why do people like chat bots to write for them?

Oddμ is my wiki engine.

I keep being impressed by the liner notes to the releases of Canary Records.

I looked at the repos of all the direct and indirect dependencies of my wiki and tried to figure out whether Claude contributed or whether it had a friendly AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md file.

The difference in funding is astonishing.

I found answers to a thing on StackOverflow!

I just saw somebody point out to somebody else that free software to run a bookstore exists.

Making #tea like a machine in the early morning, one steep after another, so that I have my cups filled and don’t forget the tea after the first or second cup

The "message of the day" that greets new visitors to my IRC server is this: "This server is only for anti-fascists.

Listening for the fourth time today: Baithak Gana: An Indo-Surinamese Mixtape, ca. 1968-80, by Canary Records. https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baithak-gana-an-indo-surinamese-mixtape-ca-1968-80

Strudel keeps failing.

Trying a new laptop setup in the living room.

The feeling of a Debian user who tries to report a bug using reportbug but it crashes.

Edited to add: Looks like this is fixed in Profanity!

The season of shorter days has begun and my wife and I went to eat fondue at a restaurant with a menu reminiscent of the canton of Vaud.

Old age pensions in Switzerland rest on three legs: redistribution (the young pay for the old), shared savings (where employers pay half), and individual savings with tax-benefits.

This is the programming future I dread, with stats to show slop since 2026-07-01: "Almost every popular language is now substantially developed using LLMs.

That episode of 99% Invisible about the Dove typeface is great.

You cannot spell "catastrophe" without "cat".

Was für ein Gruselkabinett: Die Rechtsextremen und ihre Steigbügelhalter.

Baking bread and eating it is still a major source of joy in my life.

Once again I’m listening to Marc Anthony singing Preciosa Puerto Rico and while the song is the most nationalist there is and I hate nationalism, since it’s so far away and I don’t know anybody from Puerto Rico, it’s just mind blowing.

Inspired by our visit to Slovenia I tried to make Topfenstrudel.

I have questions about consent and feeds.

Don’t be the smug strangers saying “why are you surprised?”

First fedi block for me: nicecrew.digital domain.

What I learned when my wife had major surgery was that the people who haven’t had major surgery (or grave illness) have no idea.

Hm, sadly all the text browsers I have available (lynx, w3m, links2, cha) show the whole text inside a DETAILS element.

It's a shame to find that HTML 2.0 was documented as an RFC and later versions were not.

We discovered the explanation for the sudden influx of kilt wearing scotsmen.

I made a new release of Oddμ, also known as Odmu.

Sometimes I wonder: if my wiki has no features except editing Markdown pages, is it “an alternative to Obsidian”?

@ml About two or three weeks ago you asked me to look out for carob in Slovenia.

This is disappointing.

Weird stuff people in Zürich do, in German: https://tsri.ch/a/8-zuercher-braeuche-die-man-nicht-zuerchern-nur-schwer-erklaeren-kann?

Every social media app has to look the same as every other, wording has to be revised until every verb, noun and button has the same label as the corresponding item in all the competing apps.

RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117303391332847653 A long time ago, I also missed on-demand table of contents for web pages I’m looking at and I even wrote a bookmarklet for that.

Postojna cave is where you need to take a train into the mountain before the actual walk begins.

“But the early web got one important thing right: websites linked to other websites.

Remembering Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison – three journalists that spent months doxxing Bansky earlier this year.

The true reason for visiting Slovenia: Gibanica.

Tooi looks better than the old toot tui, but on this MNT Pocket Reform with i.MX8MP Module it's so sluggish, I might as well use Firefox and phanpy.social.

We went hiking today and saw lots of mushrooms.

We are in Kranjska Gora.

I think I finished rewriting Oddμ – my wiki engine that I use for a bunch of sites.

If I boost a thing and you reply to it, feel free to mention me in your reply.

Today I learned how to get the filename from a path using SQLite core functions.

https://fnordon.de/@mspro/117258496422798383 Link to an episode of Odd Lot where Bloomberg journos talk to a copper mining baby boomer and how there is not enough copper for the future – with green energy or without.

I resumed working on the rewriting of Oddμ where I ripped out the file-based search ("grep all the Markdown files") with a fancy page ordering suitable for blogs and dropped all the nice predicates I supported (#hashtag, title:xxx, re:xxx, word:xxx, blog:…

Do I know anybody in Slovenia who is willing to drink tea or coffee with us, or to have dinner?