<description><p>The other day, a post on the fediverse caught my attention, linking to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta">this article from The Verge.</a> I thought I&rsquo;d make some things clear.</p></description>
<description><p>It&rsquo;s been three months, and life has moved forward a little. Today&rsquo;s rant is one
that&rsquo;s been brewing in me for a long time.</p>
<p>One of the most pernicious, annoying, frustrating, infuriating aspects of online
businesses is the influence of non-technical management.</p></description>
<description><p>Scrolling LinkedIn today, I saw a post talking about the entitled attitude of
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<description><p>Struck by insomnia and dissatisfaction with the way my website has looked so far, I have opted for something less garish, and lighter, than before.</p></description>
<description><p>So recently I had the need to reset the admin password in <a href="https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/">MissKey</a>.</p>
<p>Alas, there was no recovery email configured, nor other users on the instance, so I needed to do some digging in the database.</p></description>
<description><p>I&rsquo;ve been meaning to make a list of Factorio mods that I&rsquo;ve really liked, and write a little bit about them. While Factorio is a masterpiece in both game design and quality, there are many mods for it that make the game either more fun, entirely different, or plain ol&rsquo; QoL.</p></description>
<description><p>I have worked with a wide variety of businesses. I feel like that puts me in a reasonably good position to comment on one of the most frequent issues small businesses encounter.</p></description>
<description><p>There are many things in the world which annoy me.</p>
<p>Yet time and time again, I have these moments of clarity where the world makes sense and everything is good. It&rsquo;s hopeful.</p></description>
<description><p>This is something a dear friend said in a chat a while back. I thought it was one an awesome summary of the human condition.</p></description>
<description><p>won&rsquo;t be the last time I rant against shared hosting, SaaS, and all the other &lsquo;I want to be a landlord&rsquo; scams out there.</p>
<p>This time in shared hosting: friend of mine wants to set up a tech stack for their new agency. Website, email, CRM, the works.</p>
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<p>Yes, I don&rsquo;t want corporations to profit a single bit from my work. Bite me.</p>
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<title>Brain supplements: A two month summary</title>
<description><p>Over the past two months I&rsquo;ve been trying out some brain supplements for my issues with focus and concentration.</p></description>
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<title>[Happy Holidays!] On posting lists for self-promotion</title>
<description><p>Recently I have been talked into signing up for LinkedIn by a friend. I found myself faced with a wall of blatant self-promotion.</p></description>
<description><p>Two days have passed. I&rsquo;ve found that <a href="https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1087/alpha-gpc">Alpha-GPC should be dosed at twice what I&rsquo;ve been using.</a> Today&rsquo;s the first day that I&rsquo;ve done that.</p></description>
<description><p>As a person working in a high-speed, high-attention and multifaceted environment (currently working as an Executive Assistant, soon starting a new job in Quality Assurance), I am changing contexts all the time.</p></description>
<description><p>of things going in the background that kept me from writing more recently. Work has regularly left me brain-drained, and I&rsquo;ve found myself in a position where I desperately need to focus on moving my career forward.</p>
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<description><p>I&rsquo;ve been a bit sick over the past week. Not the &lsquo;rona as far as I can tell. Just a flu. Probably.</p>
<p>I spent most of that time playing <em>Yakuza Zero</em>, then <em>Kiwami</em>, and now I&rsquo;m in the middle of playing through <em>Kiwami 2</em>.</p></description>
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<title>Haxe, heaps, and VSCode (small rant)</title>
<description><p>have been trying to set me up with a development environment to start working on a small game.</p>
<p>He&rsquo;s already made all the big choices, and so the plan was for me to set up with Haxe, Heaps, and the HashLink VM with the IDE VSCode.</p>
<p>We got everything running, except for the debugger link. We spent - no joke - over two hours until we found an explanation for the issue.</p>
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<description><p>Over The Past few weeks I&rsquo;ve found myself spending more and more time in Emacs. As such, I want to learn more about it, and how to use it effectively. It seems worth the effort, because if I save 5 seconds every day, that stacks up and saves inordinate amounts of time.</p></description>
<description><p>half, I have migrated all of my services over to a VPS that I am renting from <a href="https://netcup.de">Netcup.de</a>. Unsurprisingly, I am very happy with it.</p>
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<description><p>ew days. Mulled it over. Thought about it. And I end up considering options.</p>
<p>There are a ton of vendors for automation services. Zapier, Make, and others. Fundamentally what they do can be done as a one-time service.</p>
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<description><p>I was taking with a friend a few hours ago and he mentioned that Emacs is intimidating. And yes, it may well appear so.</p></description>
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<title>On the value of calling it a day (and how to get there)</title>
<description><p>Recently a wrote an after-action report on a project that failed to materialize for a number of reasons. The details are irrelevant - whether it worked or not would be an afterthought given its consequences in other places.</p></description>
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<title>Some thoughts on SaaS and business applications of Free Software</title>
<description><p>SaaS is a pain in the rear for many reasons, which bother me a lot and which I can&rsquo;t help but vent about today.</p></description>
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<p>Over the past few weeks, I&rsquo;ve found that decreasing the amount I type has helped a lot. I can&rsquo;t remember the last time I was unable to sleep due to pain.</p></description>
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<p>Given that I type a lot - and I do mean A LOT, and I&rsquo;m past the age of good hand health&hellip; I&rsquo;m in a certain amount of constant pain.</p></description>