Hoagie's corner of the internet

tag(s): #failures Yesterday and earlier today The problem with having a public website with your name in the URL is that there are things you just can't say.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #link-post Via Andreas excellent weekly linkdump series, I read this post: "The Slow Death of the Power User".

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts I've been a little disconnected from writing lately.

tag(s): #random-thoughts My employer has offices in Argentina[1], and just now I was IMing with a coworker from over there.

tag(s): #programming #random-thoughts #meta On his post Why I inlined my CSS in 11ty, ldstephens explains that he achieved faster page loads and an easier deployment process.

tag(s): #random-thoughts #nyc I got off the bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

tag(s): #film-tv #reviews Looks like I'm big on parenthesis for titles lately.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #music #español Siempre me pareció tonto el "featuring" en la radio/videos/spotify.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #programming #emacs I will be honest: I haven't changed my stance on AI, yet.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #link-post #random-thoughts I've thought about this a few times here and there, so I suspect this will be a long one.

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts Since my last "three links" post ended up being too thematically disjointed 👀 I decided to make the next ones focused on one topic.

tag(s): #random-thoughts #film-tv The wife is on a trip, so it's been only kiddo and me for a few days.

tag(s): #monty #suzie#pic To keep things from being only tech, why not have a quick cat update.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #programming #link-post #failures In my last post I mentioned AI in one of the sections[1].

tag(s): #random-thoughts #link-post The last two times I started a post of "light commentary on disparate topics", I ended up expanding on only one topic, and dropping the rest.

tag(s): #film-tv #reviews #español Ayer empecé a ver WitchWatch en Netflix.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #failures Let's preface saying, I was never a good dater.

tag(s): #programming #emacs The README pretty much tells the story of it, but why not repeat myself.

tag(s): #link-post #email #random-thoughts A couple days ago I read Wouter's musings about how to handle email and wasn't it a timely post.

tag(s): #random-thoughts #programming #meta I started writing about this a couple times.

tag(s): #español #random-thoughts Hace un año, mi abuelo dejó de estar entre nosotros.

tag(s): #books #gaming #film-tv #reviews I was in a pickle because I wanted to write down my thoughts on these things, but I didn't have that much to say, just some superficial thoughts.

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts #failures This is another case of "a second thing I read pushes me to write what I thought I wouldn't".

tag(s): #random-thoughts #emacs I am subscribed to a few subreddits via RSS, the idea being, I see new posts but don't fall into a doomscrolling rabbit hole (all of them are pretty low traffic).

tag(s): #random-thoughts #failures Yesterday, I walk into the kiddo's room for a cleanness and tidiness check.

tag(s): #meta #programming In a recent post (Decaying grandeur) I noticed that the images resized with IMAN[1] were...not great.

tag(s): #reviews On December 7th, I saw Tiny Idea at Brooklyn's Union Hall.

tag(s): #meta #useless-facts #emacs #programming Earlier today, I was sort of paying attention[1] to one of those "global meetings" that organizations of a certain size seem to be fond of, and I decided to write an Emacs command to quickly add a link to my

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #link-post I mentioned somewhat recently that the RSS aggregator is changing my habits.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #random-thoughts #programming In the open I remember the first time I uploaded something to GitHub, in 2013 or so.

tag(s): #meta #programming Peanut Butter: better paste names When I was putting together Peanut Butter, I was a bit annoyed that all the pastebin clones I found had features like syntax highlighting[1], login walls, and web-only interfaces.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #random-thoughts #infusions I think I hinted in past posts that I want to enjoy tea, but I don't want to "get too much" into it.

tag(s): #failures #music A few blogs I follow are building (or did it a while ago) music collections, and setting up their own private streaming services.

tag(s): #reviews #books Earlier this week I finished watching the anime Kamisama Hajimemashita (Kamisama Kiss), on recommendation from one of my nieces.[1] I enjoyed it a lot, and will probably read the comic at some point.

tag(s): #politics #random-thoughts #nyc One of my favorite buildings near the office has a beautiful...mural?

tag(s): #random-thoughts #programming There are other things that I want to write about, related to code and programming, but first I need to establish this fact share this opinion for it all to follow from here.

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts #programming There are two interesting side effects of using an RSS aggregator.

tag(s): #programming #meta https://tools.sebasmonia.com got a little make over, and one new tool.

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts #programming Three completely unrelated topics, for a single post.

tag(s): #useless-facts #overblown-minor-annoyances #failures About a month ago, we made a decision to open a new bank account.

tag(s): #blogging #meta Since the day I moved the site to a VPS I've been thinking of changing the site's name.

tag(s): #emacs So, last weekend I finally moved away from use-package, like I predicted it would happen in an earlier post.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #smallweb #link-post Via Joel's weekly recap I found this Brain Baking post : "Thumbs Up 👍".

tag(s): #random-thoughts A couple months ago we went to Sandy Hook.

tag(s): #failures I had to do a lot of stuff over the weekend, instead I made different choices...I might regret that in the coming days...

tag(s): #smallweb #meta #programming Update 2025-11-12: despite saying I wouldn't do it below, I did update all the links in the blog to the new URL. 🙃 I don't think anyone but me used Hoagiebin.

tag(s): #smallweb #meta #programming Update 2025-11-12: Hoagiebin was renamed to "Peanut Butter" (updated link) I don't think I've written this many "techie" posts in a row since I started the blog 🤔 In this post I mentioned that I now have a small dynamic

tag(s): #suzie #monty Time to put an end to the reign of tech-related posts.

tag(s): #yell-at-cloud #programming The context I am not a user of RSS feeds.

tag(s): #smallweb #programming Update 2025-11-12: Hoagiebin was renamed to "Peanut Butter" (updated link) I mentioned in my last post that now that I have this site running on a VPS, I also have a playground for other things.