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Well, I didn't get as much done this week as I'd hoped, but here's where things ended up.

It's the first day of March December Adventure (really the second day, but I was busy yesterday), and my goal for this week is to learn more about how Jessica Tallon's Mandy prototype works so that hopefully I can start contributing to it. This blog series is probably going to be a bit of a rambly stream-of-consciousness as a result as I try to reason about it. (Sorry not sorry.)

This is a vision of a future that could be - one among many.

I've been meaning to write up a post on how I manage my Guix System configurations for a while, because I've hit on a solution that feels kinda nice, inspired by how folks do things in NixOS.

I had a realization the other day that, on almost every email in my inbox, my mail client has a "show external images" option. Most email I receive references externally loaded images via HTML. There are good reasons for this (not needing to send a copy of an image in every email on a newsletter) as well as nefarious reasons (the remote server can track where/when you load the image). So most mail clients I've used don't load them by default for obvious privacy reasons.

I've gotten some work done towards supporting persistence in guile-horton over the last week or so, but I've hit a bit of a roadblock. Writing this up in part to explain what I've been working on and in part to think through it some more.

I've got tags for all my blog posts, and tag-specific RSS feeds, but until now those tags/feeds haven't actually been visible unless you constructed the URL. So finally fixing that: now there's a list of tags at the top of each post, with a link to the tag-specific feed.

Starting December Adventure off with a little meta this year (and a bit late, whoops!). Since setting up this blog, it's always felt like a little too much friction to start a new blog post. It's not too bad, but it does involve creating a file in the posts directory with a given name, manually typing out the timestamp.

Despite my last post, I got frustrated enough with my smartphone usage recently that as of today I'm using a flip phone. We'll see how long this lasts but so far I'm actually enjoying it.

I'll admit it, I'm a smartphone addict. I've tried, as best I can, to avoid using the big adtech social media platforms in the last few years. But even a web browser is enough to suck me in several times a day for hours in total.