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I had the idea of writing about writing, more specifically handwritten content, and figured what better means of making a post about it than one consisting of handwritten scans.

A quick addendum.

See, I told you I’d get tuckered out writing about vehicles and be back to protocols soon enough.

In the month of April my car was in the shop three times.

Something dawned on me when researching EV trade offs: while more efficient on fuel than gasoline cars, batteries work best between 60-80F (15.6-26.7C), and experience degraded performance below 40F/4.5C or above 85F/29.5C.

In April my car was in the shop three times.

I’ve written a lot of longer blog posts lately, time to get back into the classic “Nate talks about the thing he just read about and finds neat.”

Update 3/14/2026: I’ve updated the post to reflect that porting Nomadic Identities to Activity Pub is still ongoing.

Originally, I was drafting this in September, planning on dedicating it to Windows 10 Home becoming EOL.

So, I guess there goes 2025.

In 2023 Robb Knight started the defaults trend, covering what people used as their default apps for specific purposes.

As is customary on my microblogging posts, let’s get us started with an original meme.

Can you tell the difference between the two images above?

I was thinking about making a personal update, then saw a post on Joelchrono’s blog about the 10 useless facts about me challenge, so I thought I’d combine both of those into one post.

A based design that makes a web that’s true ICANNs and NATs embrace shall be no more Behind a Pi or in the cloud for you We use that tool be I2P or Tor Come join a world of speech that can flow free The words by truths of math they shall be bound A power…

POV: You’re a professional dev watching me talk about vibe coding: Your browser does not support the video tag.

This is another one of my posts that’s effectively a few posts crammed together on related topics.

Update: Everything worked in hugo’s test environment, but I guess local images in sliders breaks everything for who knows why once I actually published the post.

Another wild and wacky year is wrapping up, and with it the customary year end wrap up/retrospective.

Like a lot of my posts, this kind of kept growing.

Update Oct. 21st: The transcription portion of the post has been updated, what I originally mistook as issues with how the data was formatted was an issue with too many tokens in the transcript I wanted transcribed.

In my post about EDC I rambled on about hats for a bit, and a couple weeks ago I decided to try making one myself.

Update: September 20th, 2024: I was incorrect regarding AT’s (BlueSky) inability to fully delete things, the protocol DOES support fully deleting posts from the user’s repo and I’ve updated the post to reflect that.

Dropdown: Random notes from drafting Alright, it is April 2nd and I’m typing out the first couple of characters in this document which I can already guess is going to be another long post.

This is sort of a successor to Firefox: A Brink of Their Own Making that I published ~6 months ago, followed by me rambling on about different browsers that I’ve used or decided to check out for this post.

Okay, so I’m not actually sure I would consider myself a data hoarder, but I thought the title was pretty eye catching, and archival is close enough to data hoarding to only be moderately clickbaity.

What you are reading now is the fourth iteration of this post, which has gone through multiple revisions and re-considerations.

I’ve made three long posts about decentralized social media, followed by making a client that works on decentralized social media, so I’ll call all that good for now and talk about making some pickles and sourkraut.

So after two very long posts, one complaining about web browsers and one comparing the three big non-centralized social media protocols, I thought about writing two shorter posts about random things (hats and making sour krout specifically).

Note: This post is out of date, here’s a more up to date version Update August 5th 2024 I have some good and bad news regarding this post.

It is (or was at least) a new year and I thought I would reflect on my 2023 posts and talk about what kind of content I follow.

Update August 5th 2024 I have been made aware that Firefox for Android no longer includes Google Analytics as part of their app telemetry.

Chances are if you’re here it’s through an RSS feed (or an RSS feed bridged to something else), so I probably don’t need to do too much of an introduction.

I have recently been re-dipping my toes into Nostr (tried it a while back just to experiment with it but never really stuck around), and so far it’s become my preferred microblogging platform.

This is my second post about searching for a tablet, and a follow-up review of the device I mentioned purchasing in the last post (an MS Surface Go tablet).

Update 11/25: I was made aware that Signal has some proprietary anti-spam code and added the TLDR.

I ran across a neat trend of sharing your default apps, and a collection of posts doing so.

TLDR, for those looking for less of a novel I did a lot of looking and found a few different options if you’re looking for a tablet and have similar preferences as me.

11/03/2023 Update: I fixed some grammar, and Google just announced they’re going to stop the implementation of WEI (hopefully permanently, but they may just be trying to outwait bad publicity and anti-trust actions - only time will tell).

I count myself lucky to live in a pretty stable and safe part of the world.

TLDR Even though it’s only been three months since I created my blog here, I’m going to change the domain from www.mecca1.net to nate.mecca1.net instead.

IPFS, an acronym for “InterPlanetary File System”, is a way to deliver files that takes a different approach to HTTP.

I never have had a good track record with massive changes to Windows, starting with Windows 8 which was entirely unusable in my case.

I think I’m going to start a blog here.