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I want to start reading books again. But I want to do it on a device like a Kindle. But I don’t want to give Amazon a single cent. Any recommendations on how to do this?

Microsoft 365 sounds like a threat.

Well this documentation is totally wrong and broken. Who wrote this garbage? Oh…

Does anyone out there have experience using an open source alternative to Jira? Asking for a company.

Every day not on Twitter is a good day.

I love daylight saving. NZDT should become NZST (we’re on NZDT for a majority of the year anyway)

I’ve been watching a lot of gaming channels on YouTube recently. Not because I’m back into gaming (I doubt I’ll ever be), but because I’m enjoying watching the downfall of overly greedy companies in real time. I used to be a Nintendo super fan. Now I’m hoping for their collapse.

I’ve tried people. I’ve really tried. For the last two years. But I just can’t be efficient in vim like I can in EMacs.

Just had an alarm go off on my iPhone for the first time with iOS 26. And possibly the greatest improvement: the Snooze and Stop buttons are the same size (big), instead of the stop button being bizarrely tiny and tucked at the bottom of the screen.

That finale of Foundation season 3 👨🏻‍🍳👌🏼💋

I used to travel a lot. I used to commute to Australia for work. Realised today I haven’t left New Zealand since 2019. And haven’t been north of Hawkes Bay or south of Nelson since 2022. And you know what? I absolutely do not miss it.

We didn’t really have a summer at the beginning of the year. And winter has been calm but dark. I’m so glad the days are getting longer. It’s so nice getting home with some leftover daylight.

I see YouTube videos with subject like building a “cyber deck”, or “pocket computers are back” or “I built a computer into a keyboard”. And as much of an IT professional and Linux/CLI person I am, when it comes to practically, yes these are cool projects, but I just use my phone for the same things.

I’ve actually encountered a useful application of AI - automatically written git commit messages. Makes documenting changes extremely easy. Of course it’s a free feature, so won’t stop the approaching AI bubble bursting.

There are many things which bug me about Star Trek Picard, despite me enjoying it. But the most egregious in my option is they renamed the USS Titan (NCC-80201-A) to the Enterprise G. It should have been called the USS Picard. It was right there.

After years and years and years I can finally use git like I know what I’m doing.

I’ve been musing since buying my new M2 MacBook Air. There are very few things I actually need an Apple computer for. One is my Photos in the Photos/iCloud and I like to have my own copies backed up. The other is Messages and a Unix-like OS with a native terminal. A Pi 5 could be enough…

In concept, a 16 TB NVME-based NAS would be great. The thing holding me back is that’d cost thousands of dollars, and spinning disks are still way, way cheaper. My current NAS is a jank 4TB mirrored BTRFS mount on a 10 year old NUC, accessible via a ProxMox VM. It works… but a man can dream.

Dr Bashir in Foundation!

The season 1 finale of Murderbot 🥲

So glad it’s been renewed for a second season.

Instead of getting therapy, men went ahead and developed Kubernetes and Terraform.

The DuckDuckGo web browser is really good. Only downside I can se is there’s no tab groups and device-device tab group sync like I use extensively in Safari.

The 11th of July is the season finale of Murderbot and the season 3 premier of Foundation. And then the week after is the season 3 premier of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. It’s a golden time for TV sci-fi.

It’s been a week since I’ve had a laptop again. And it’s taken that long to get my email inbox from ~300 emails down to 3. Inbox zero is in sight.

After working for 3 years returning into the world of IT, I can confidently use vi to edit files without wanting to murder everyone around me. Not that I enjoy using it. I’ll be an EMacs man until the day I die.