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The smartest dumbphone - some thoughts

November 11, 2025

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.

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Dumbphones and the spam filtering tradeoff

November 06, 2025

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.

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Links - October 17, 2025

October 17, 2025

Couple videos and webpages that I've watched/read recently! I should probably come up with a way to format these separately from my other blog posts if I do this more frequently, but I've fallen off blogging in general for a bit at this pont. Gotta get back to it!

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The user/programmer divide continues to widen

August 29, 2025

This week, Google announced that it would start blocking the installation of Android apps unless the developer has registered themselves with Google.

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My thoughts today on Matrix and spam

August 10, 2025

Matrix has gotten a lot of bad publicity lately. Some of it I agree with, some of it I don't. And I've been around the Matrix community for long enough that I truly do believe that the Matrix team has good intentions, so I don't really want to add fuel to the fire.

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Experimenting with Goblins Shepherd services

February 22, 2025

I got a little burst of inspiration recently and threw some rough experiments together over the course of a few evenings.

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Adding persistence to gobs-of-machines

February 14, 2025

A couple updates on the gobs-of-machines work from a while back!

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Meditating on the medium and the message

February 03, 2025

Have you ever actually convinced someone of something on social media? I think I may have, once or twice, but it's by far not the most common outcome.

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Prototyping a machine deployment tool with Spritely Goblins

January 07, 2025

Wrapping up December Adventure for this year and related to my last post, here's some early prototyping I did over the holidays of a machine management tool. After I posted the last post, I had a conversation with some of my friends in which it was difficult to convey exactly how this might work, so I'm writing this up partly to serve as an explainer for my thought process.

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Brainstorming - managing a fleet of Guix machines with Goblins

December 19, 2024

I've been noodling on the possibility of managing a bunch of Guix machines with Goblins for a little while now. Spent a little time at a local coffee shop today thinking about how this might work...

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