Waldeinsamkeit

Or: How removing peoples' avatars surprisingly improved my productivity and reduced my mental strain. 2021-04-20 UPDATE: I didn't even finish writing this article that Github announced another anti-feature: an achievements panel.

I'd like to share a somewhat different point of view about using Emacs and leveraging its legendary flexibility that allows so many use cases.

This is a pet peeve of mine, so it'll be really brief.

Last year I've bought a mechanical keyboard because I was annoyed by the unappealing feedback of the laptop keyboard.

Rust (the programming language, not the game[1]) has excellent tooling to assist the developer in everyday tasks.

Recently I've acquired a new domain and decided to change my email domain.

UPDATE 2021-05-23: dig-any.sh has now learned the ability to load a config file, read below.

RSA keys with 1024 and 2048 bits are considered obsolete and insecure, the recommended minimal length is 3072, preferably 4096 bit.

Recently I had to test a videoservice website for a server to server integration.

As a follow up to the article about the dark patterns, in which I tried to provide an example of how the internet is becoming a stinking place, I'll try now to suggest how I see a counteraction to change this trend.

A friend of mine sent me a link to an article about using a different website analytics solution different than the "classic" Google Analytics one.

There is an ongoing discussion about the so called dark patterns, they are getting more and more attention.

Email, as a decentralized and resilient platform to exchange messages, is highly regarded and I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

I'm late to the party of moaners, but I need to elaborate on some notes on the current state of the web as an application platform.