May 11, 2026
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Substack’s whole social component has had the net effect of worsening my opinion of people whose essays I prviously enjoyed, and increasing my likelihood of seeing the phrase “here’s my banger on Gramsci from 2023.” If I’m there these days, I should probably actually be outside. — toot
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I’m not getting rid of my chore coats. Getting rid of chore coats isn’t a political act. What is wrong with you people? — toot
May 10, 2026
May 8, 2026
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Going through that whole “no, it would have been better to just invest the time in this years ago” thing with tmux. I know there is some outright insanity lurking just over the horizon. For now I’m just learning to set up the affordances that keep my brain from cramping. — toot
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I guess the test of something you made is “do you actually use it or did you just want to know you could make it?” tinycrawl is passing: It takes about 90 seconds to play a sprint game. It’s sort of a dungeon clicker, I guess. — toot
May 7, 2026
May 6, 2026
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I had some “lifestyle benefits” $$$ to spend, so I got Shockz OpenRun Pro 2’s. They’ve done something to the hardware and the sound’s so much better than earlier models. (I tested them on the very best Boston cover ever. Holy crap Sarabeth Linden. Charisma. Brodsky’s little Nirvana riff, too.) — toot
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“I’m an IT person, I don’t like the idea of making operations transparent.” lol. I know what I meant when I typed it, and it wasn’t like it sounds. — toot