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mastodon 4.7.3I'm just another guy on the interwebs.
website/blog ➔ www.taonaw.com
These days mostly at jtr@taonaw.com. Privacy, Emacs, Linux, macOS, photos and technical writing, and sometimes human OS-related stuff as well.
Bubbles, Scrolls, and made by a human seal of approval: https://taonaw.com/2026/05/03/bubbles-scrolls-and-made-by.html
Exploring Bubbles, a blog-focused site similar to Hacker News; Scrolls, a newsletter tool for Fediverse Indieweb geeks; and a JSON-based tool to ensure a blog is made by a human rather than AI.
I haven’t heard about Bubbles before, but one of the folks I’ve added recently to my feeds introduced me, indirectly. Seems very promising for us bloggers! I signed up (basically, all you need is a Mastodon account). https://bubbles.town
Yesterday at some point at work I just reached my limit. I got up, left the office, took a nap at home, and reconsidered how to start scheduling myself out of meetings and stop replying to most emails. I’m worried about pushback but I need to face this worry.
My post about writing emails gets people to write me emails. Good stuff.: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/29/my-post-about-writing-emails.html
There’s been a notable increase in emails from readers and fellow bloggers, especially because of my post about… writing each other emails. Who would have thought?
Finished watching: Better Call Saul S6E10, Nippy 📺
Good to go back to this show. I’m almost done. Seems like they are summing up… once Saul Goodman, always Saul Goodman. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60059/season/6/episode/10
Because I keep finding web pages listing other web pages (different blog lists that list independent blogs), I decided to add a category on my blogroll just for those. It also features my first pixel-art “masterpiece” and two quotes: one from a song I like and another from a movie I like.
I’m still working out the kinks (it required fixes for my CSS specifically for that image, and a new blogroll means a new shortcode in Hugo), but it should be fully operational shortly.
So, seems like i managed to break my website yet again...! 404 anyone?
And now I have to go to work, so.
I will be back shortly, I hope.
All the good indie web stuff I’ve posted and I didn’t talk about the shows I want to watch, the good movies I did watch, and I also want to keep trying for the video game stuff… I need a productive staycation.
Claude fixed my page, and now it's teaching me how: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/29/claude-fixed-my-page-and.html
Fixed my On This Day page using Claude. This was a lot. Forked the original script, customized Python for my Hugo setup, deployed on Render, then debugged JavaScript with Safari’s Inspector… two days’ work. Now I’m going back through everything to understand why it worked. This AI-assisted workflow keeps impressing me.
Have been using Claude successfully for two days to fix the date issue I had on my On This Day page. It was a long process that involved forking my own script, changing the JS code and Python (highly tailored to my case, because I had some elements I added in my Hugo theme), hosting my own instance on Render, and then going back and forth (which took the most time) to look for bugs with Safari’s Inspector, using the ... https://taonaw.com/2026/04/28/have-been-using-claude-successfully.html
@manton about AI usage in Micro.blog:
"Earlier this year I blogged a strategy for how I want to use AI thoughtfully in Micro.blog. It has been a good guide for me, like user-centered guardrails..."
Micro.blog has a master switch for AI. If the user turns it off, there’s no AI usage. Period. None of the AI features would work:
On This Day page dates are broken: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/25/on-this-day-page-dates.html
When you fix one thing, you break another. ISO dates are nice, but now my “On This Day” page doesn’t understand what these mean. American dates have and will always be an “old man yells at cloud” issue for me.
Doctorow reflects on how, in a way, his life’s work can be summed with one angry poop emojy:
Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/24/poop-emoji-plus-plus/#devin-washburnhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/04/24/poop-emoji-plus-plus/#devin-washburn https://https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/24/poop-emoji-plus-plus/#devin-washburn/2026/04/24/poop-emoji-plus-plus/#devin-washburn
Needless to say, I got myself the sticker.
@catzilla@toot.cat interesting. I wonder if it somehow has to do with them being pets (as it, might not happen in the wild?) and if this happens with other animals.. like dogs? I dunno. I used to think this is only a human thing.
