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2026 is the year of Linux (in Linux (in Windows)) on the desktop I'm not a very Windows-focused computer user.

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Hanging out on LinkedIn in 2026 I posted about yesterday's post on LinkedIn, because it seemed like a low-key way to get people to consider my CV.

Annual CV Ritual, and a Tool To Make It Painless Every January I update my CV.

I was messing around with regular expressions on some default interpreters on my Debian machine, wondering about what the default encoding behaviour for string literals might be.

According to the Discourse, somebody killed perl There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl.

Calm down, not gigs I'm playing, gigs I'm going to.

I Asked AI to Rebase My Git Branch and Accidentally Discovered the Future (and Uncovered the Past) One of the things I initially missed most, when shifting from emacs to zed was magit, which has been my main git interface for IDK, let's say about 20 years…

You wait two and a bit years for a blog to show up and then all of a sudden there's two of them!?

Back again!

They are still annoyingly hard to track down, but I finally sourced a breadmaker.

Tiny Pilot Kind of surprised that this works, but it's a neat idea if you have too many headless home servers (and I do).

I have been rather enjoying wearing a mask outside ever since the bad times began.

You wait six months for a blog post and then I suddenly update all the things at once.

Intro - dreaming of millennia I can remember fairly clearly the first time I seriously tried to calculate the future .

I am typing this onto a phone, on a station platform, squinting at the early morning light.

I stumbled across a reference to the RMS Mülheim, and ended up in a wiki-hole.

Project 'get off the main web and back onto the indieweb' has been a little bit derailed by 'life events', some of which I should probably blog more about, in the truest spirit of that community.

A few months ago, I hacked together a kano system to give the children an introduction to computers and what everyone seems to want to call 'coding'.

I just read a wikihow article on how to eat celery