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things that were a pity in the year of our lord 2025

  1. covid1
  2. the climate (we’re fucked)
  3. societies’ attitudes to trans people
  4. llms

Maybe one or more of these can let up in 2026 🤞

  1. Still extremely a thing[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][20][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], but let’s face it, if you’ve given into peer pressure by this stage (and it was probably years ago that you did, given how extreme it’s been!), there is no turning that ship around now.

Apps I Use

From Abhinav Sarkar, with additional inspiration from Ruben.

  • App launcher: Alfred, KRunner, both default to Comenzar
  • Backups: Time Machine, borg
  • Bookmarks: Linkding
  • Books: Kindle
  • Browser: Librewolf
  • Build system: Nix
  • Calendar: iCal
  • Cloud storage: iCloud, Minio-on-k8s
  • Code editor: Emacs, Helix
  • Contact management: Contacts.app
  • Default language for one-liners: Ruby
  • Default language for ten-liners: Rust
  • Email: FastMail (Mail.app on Darwin, webmail otherwise)
  • Git client: jj
  • Kubernetes: k3s
  • Linux distribution: NixOS
  • Music: Music.app/mpd
  • News: abc.net.au
  • Notes: A4 notebook, Apple Notes
  • Password management: 1Password
  • Photo editing: Pixelmator
  • Photo management: Photos.app
  • Photo shooting: iOS default, Canon EOS R5
  • Read later: Linkding
  • RSS: Miniflux
  • Shell: fish
  • Shopping list: Paprika
  • Smart home: Home Assistant (HAOS as suggested by Mislav) with TubesZB Zigbee coordinator
  • Terminal: Ghostty
  • To-do: Things
  • Video: VLC
  • VPN: Mullvad
  • Window management: Darwin default, KDE Plasma, tmux
  • Word processing: CommonMark

boost: In Praise of dhh by Filipa Mendonça-Vieira

pipa! pipa!

Thanks to the Pipa Index and actually working in the open, I’m able to publish what I’m working on! Have a look :)

just use rustup

I’ve been thinking for a little while that I should look into trying to contribute to the Rust compiler, since it’d be fun if I could understand what’s going on under the hood better. I’ve done a bit in the Zig stdlib, but nothing on the compiler, and while I have some Co-authored-by:s in Ruby, I wouldn’t write home about it*.*

And so sans any context whatsoever, I start to say out loud: “y’know, I think it’s finally time I—”

Annie cuts me off sharply: “just use rustup.”

Ow /s