You know, if someone really wanted to build and own a universal platform layer, they’d start a cellular company that sold by the byte and not by the device. Like imagine if you could add a cell connected gadget and it adds to your bill incrementally, like AWS instead of Rackspace, but for IoT.
It gets more true every year: “enshittification” is a word for disney adults
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 →
every time chat prefixes something obvious with “this is the subtle part:” I think “that haughty bitch is talking down to me”
Would CloudFlare or CloudFront please rename to something that doesn’t start with CloudF, I don’t care which.
The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master.
Always disappointed to click a link on a .blog domain and find a Substack :(
This isn’t an anti Substack post I just have very different expectations for a blog vs a Substacks and I have plenty of Substacks and I do not have enough blogs.
I haven’t had a laptop in several years, and I haven’t worked from a coffee shop basically since my last bout of bad RSI in 2019. Today I spent a bunch of time working from a couple of coffee shops, including a lot of typing. The Advantage 360 is… amazing. It’s wireless and easier to move around than my ErgoDox and easier to hook up than the Voyager, and has built in palm rests. I was expecting the tables with the wrong height to bother me (bc my elbows aren’t at 90 degrees), but that hasn’t really happened, at least not yet. I don’t want to overdo this… I still probably will never work all day in a coffee shop ever again. But it looks like I can take a laptop to a coffee shop for as much as several hours and get real work done. That’s really huge for me.
I didn’t realize that every blog hosted on Typepad has been deleted. What a fucking disaster. It is sad to see such poor stewardship.
I’m really excited that Uel is back www.greaterrealityarea.net
all you monitor people seem miserable. ‘i bought a 27" 8k monitor i hate for $1900’. cool, i bought a 32" 4K Samsung that i run at a non native resolution and never think about for $300
2 years apart, merry ☧mas
has anyone with conference room naming authority been bold enough to call their building’s largest audience hall Security Theatre
Speaking obliquely, I’m currently working on a project to demonstrate that I can write infrastructure code. I hadn’t seen devicemapper’s thin provisioning support before - this seems pretty cool!
domain owners should get a TLD email address; i own micahrl.com and so i should be able to receive email at micahrl@com.
Testing some domains, all of these render as punycode in the browser, I wonder what micro.blog does with them
⍼.testpuny.micahrl.com ꙮ.testpuny.micahrl.com 🌙.testpuny.micahrl.com θ.testpuny.micahrl.com ə.testpuny.micahrl.com ɔoɯ.ɯᴉɔɐɥɹl.testpuny.micahrl.com
see if you buy a fun domain you have to at least do something with it, like this is the bare minimum imo iso8601.date
DNS would be so much more fun if Unicode didn’t show up as punycode so often
Testing some domains, all of these render as punycode in the browser, I wonder what micro.blog does with them… now in Markdown format
it is outrageous to me that the domain chex.quest is registered and just parked. theres only one thing that domain could possibly be for
Idea: HTML for shortcodes
Friday, October 10, 2025
I have a lot of experience with Hugo and I like the concept of static site generators in general. I am not really a fan of the shortcode syntax, though. I’d love to see a version of shortcodes that uses HTML instead.
E.g.:
# Example post
Here's my post. It was built at <shortcode-buildtime format="iso-8601"></shortcode-buildtime>.
<shortcode-quotefig
cite="https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#830421"
caption="<a href='https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#tangerine'>tangerine on MetaFilter</a>"
>
This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture....
</shortcode-quotefig>
The shortcode engine I’m thinking of might convert that to this HTML
<h1>Example post</h1>
<p>Here's my post. It was built at <time datetime="2025-10-10T00:05:04-12:00">2025-10-10T00:05:04-12:00</time>.</p>
<figure class="quotefig">
<blockquote cite="https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#830421">
<p>This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture....</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption>
<a href='https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#tangerine'>tangerine on MetaFilter</a>
</figcaption>
</figure>
HTML already has all the things shortcodes have to have: a name, optional attributes, and an optional body. They also automatically work great in any editor, and mix well in Markdown. And if you’re using an SSG, you’ll already know at least a little HTML.
It would be kind of like web components implemented as static preprocessor macros. Or, to be spicy, you could call it “Unreactive Server Components”.