APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day - https://apod.nasa.gov/) has quickly become my favourite RSS feed and is a lovely surprise every morning for me! 🪐🌌
Picked up The Word for World is Forest as a “quick & light” read… Boy was I wrong! 💙📚
I really appreciated my decision to use sqlite to store my posts, as it allowed me to implement a very straight-forward migration mechanism, when I was adding the BlueSky federation/syndication.
I especially enjoyed the built-in
PRAGMA user_version;
to keep track of which migrations have already been run on a given .db file.
Yesterday, I finished If Then by Jill Lepore. What a book! Meticulously researched and written in a shockingly readable style. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn how far back attempts at using computers to influence people’s opinion go! 💙📚
As of right now, my posts on my personal micro-blog are automatically syndicated to BlueSky! 💙 POSSE ftw!
So I’ve received my invite code for Bluesky… Strongly considering federating my posts made here automatically over there (or at least have the option to do so)…
I can’t believe it took me this long to create an about page for current, but it’s finally up!
Daniel Kehlmann’s Don’t Wake Me Up Too Soon was a pleasant surprise find on Hacker News! It ponders the responsibility of fiction writers (and creators in general) to dead real-life figures & what is and isn’t/should and shouldn’t be allowed. Interesting thing to mull over the morning cup of tea…
I’ve finally gotten around to If Then by Jill Lepore, and I am blazing through it! Even though it needs to cover a lot of historical context, it is very well written, in an almost lyrical style that is a breath of fresh air in a PopSci book!
In a way, I have to thank Meta for trying to bypass EU laws with the “choice” of staying on free tier and having my data used, because that pop-up serves as a great blocker and allowed me to unlearn a lot of the muscle memory I had for opening up their apps.