ReadBeanIceCream Blog

I use plain text for as much as I possibly can.

For the past couple of weeks, I took a writing break to catch up on some other projects, reading, and series that I have been wanting to finish.

I did not plan for my life to be built around the terminal and plain text workflows.

Instead of writing a post this week, I will refer you to my guest post on lazybea.rs where I rant about Pandoc, Ghostty, PKM, diaries, and Flammkuchen.

AI has changed how I approach and interact with the internet including my RSS subscriptions.

In both my professional life and my personal projects, I only work at my desk.

Need flashcards in a flash?

I keep seeing other authors talk about webmentions.

There is an interesting discussion going around about whether or not you should read blog posts exclusively from the RSS reader's browser or directly from the author's site.

One of the easiest things to create for yourself is a “Link in Bio” page.

Want to have a photo or image blog or website instead of a writing-centric one?

I have always struggled with journaling, but now I have found a process that works for me... most of the time.

This past week, I made a major change to my blog.

A couple weeks ago, I talked about blogging with Pandoc.

I have noticed a growing trend across the Indie and Small Web, algorithmic community-based voting to surface good blogs.

I am always on the lookout for ways to lower the barrier for people to not only start blogging, but also to help them retain ownership of their content and keep it evergreen.

After stumbling upon a video about "writerdecks," I went down the distraction free writing rabbit hole.

The Community page is now the Community Bulletin Board.

As I continue to move my documents from the cloud and make them platform agnostic by converting them to plain text, I wanted and needed a universal way to search across all my files by tag or content.

As you leave traditional social media and other algo-driven platforms for a more quiet digital life, you may find that your digital garden is a little too quiet.

As I slowly move my life away from the cloud and back to my local machine, I am embracing the simplicity and elegance of plain text.

Last year (almost to the day), I posted how easy setting up a blog is with mkdocs and surge.sh.

It's time to intentionally slow down the technology in our lives so our brains (and often our emotions) have time to react, think, and respond appropriately.

Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing.

Leaving a predatory platform's algorithm feels like going into some form of recovery.

What if you could take your attention back from big tech?

One of the easiest things to create yourself is a "Link in Bio" page.

Nowadays, LinkedIn seems to be the defacto platform for job hunting, but it tells future employers nothing about who you are.

Want an online presence, but you don't want to build a website, or blog, or self-host?

I think I finally may have found a great way for me to track my reading without the use of predatory platforms and cloud-based services; a plain text Kanban board dedicated to books and reading.

I recently learned that some companies require employees to meet AI usage quotas.

In August 2025, I decided to read for at least two hours per day.

The freedom to share information world wide is what made the internet great.

My social media experiment comes to an end.

As we continue to move into 2026, I want to talk about my continued journey towards digital self-reliance.

In an effort to minimize my social media footprint, I have deleted my kbin.earth and bookwyrm accounts.

I have decided to try something a little different.

I am back from my holiday hiatus and plan to start writing again; however, I have made some changes to the site as well.

Even though AI has become a hot topic in the last few years, scifi has been warning us of it's potential threat since the 1950s.

Benjamin Franklin, known as one of America's founding fathers, was an avid reader and mostly self-educated person.

When I heard of this month's Indie Carnival theme the first thing that popped into my mind was The Maltese Falcon.

Looking for some random science fiction short stories to kill an afternoon?

I am updating the Clippings page to include links to the Harvard Classic's volumes one through ten.

Last time, I wrote about how reading is down across the globe.

I recently read a few unsettling statistics about reading in America and it has prompted me to make some changes.

Call it what you will, writer's block, brain fog, lack of focus, etc.

Almost every day, I must prove to the world wide web that I am human and you probably do, too.

Today, I experienced RTO and it was so nice, I plan to do it again.

This week, I tried to update some of my outdated workflows and it did not go as planned.

Lately, I have stumbled across some pretty cool tools focused on the indie web.