All the ramblings from Mastodon and Bluesky.
Lot of clean up of homelab and personal projects tonight, I guess it was all much needed maintenance. Just more work. work work work.
Also worked on my website - Added some information about PESOS and POSSE to /indieweb.html, Took a step to implement PESOS by pulling mastodon and bluesky feeds into /social.html. It's not _perfect_ but what ever is. Tightened up /notes.html a little bit too - https://roylindauer.com/notes.html .
I need a break from the INTERNET lul
It’s kinda weird that I am now able to materialize software on demand.
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2026-03-22-software-on-demand.html
We may be going home this year )‘(
Personal computers have become too good and that is why there is a powerful effort by big tech to take that away.
Why own when you can rent? Why freedom when you can “walled garden”? https://roylindauer.com/notes/2026-01-15-personal-computers.html
The Firekeeper doing a little spin when you use certain emotes is the most adorable shit I have ever seen in any fromsoftware game. 10/10 darksouls 3 is the best game.
So much <3 to all of the folk working to support asdf-php, php-build, phpenv, etc. Not an easy task. And a thankless one at that.
https://roylindauer.com/dev/thinking-about-php.html
Juggling multiple runtimes for various projects has me thinking about how much dealing with PHP is a huge pain in the ass.
Why is that though? Maybe it’s not? Maybe it’s just me? I don’t know. Why is the Ruby & Go ecosystem so much more pleasant from the developer experience? Why do they seem more developer friendly? I think I can answer "why"
- Ruby and Go assume the runtime belongs to the project.
- PHP assumes the project belongs to the runtime.
Cory Doctorow delivered a speech entitled “A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” for 39C3 in Hamburg, Germany.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
> The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the post-American internet is upon us: a new, good internet that delivers all the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 so that our normie friends can use it, too.
Fuck yeah let’s go!
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2026-01-01-post-american-internet.html
The darkest of nights passes and the sun is reborn.
My favorite way to play a soulslike is to become hilariously over-leveled and steamroll through every boss.
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-12-17-my-favorite-way-to-play-soulslikes.html
What even is a “web browser” today?
What does AI powered mean for a “web browser”?
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-12-17-firefox-in-2025.html
Mozilla directing Firefox down a path that seems counter to what the kind of people that use Firefox actually want from a browser is a clear signal that I have no fucking idea what is going on XD Best to just, walk away, and focus on the things that actually bring me joy in this world.
https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing
> Like Camus’ Sisyphus, we are condemned to push the boulder of our own systems uphill—one fix, one refactor, one script at a time. But unlike the story of Sisyphus, the curse is not placed onto you by some god. We built the boulder ourselves. And we keep polishing it on the way up.
I want to quote the entire article. This may be the best blog post I have read this year.
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-12-15-the-curse-of-knowing-how.html
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-11-22-gemcoop
Gem.coop is a new server for sourcing Ruby gems. It's easy to switch.
I switched because Ruby Central's actions left me feeling uncomfortable. Supporting the folk who are doing the work rather than, whatever Ruby Central does, feels better and better aligns with my values.
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-12-06-macos-is-unix
I often forget that macos is a unix and that many of the underlying tools are just bsd tools. `auto_master` for example, to configure auto mounting various network shares and disks.
I also forget that i can use `apropos` to figure out _where_ to learn about a tool and of course use the `man` pages.
so i guess, friendly reminder that (to myself) that macos is a unix.
TESTO
hmm except for the part where it crashed all of the various cosmic apps I had open :( will need to keep an eye on that lol
COSMIC Text Editor seems nice. A simple text editor, not trying to be an IDE, not vscode based. Having some things like code formatting is nice but honestly it's not a deal breaker.
Starting to feel like goldilocks over here trying to find a text editor 😂
Neovim is too goddamn turbonerdy, VSCode is too microsoft...
https://roylindauer.com/notes/2025-11-15-indieweb A website is a garden to tend to, and the IndieWeb is a guide for how to grow a garden that yields higher quality. Or something like that. Anyway, i have done a lot of small updates on my site to better support.
https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/11/12/hanami-23-racked-and-ready/ heck yeah now to actually build something with it :)
testing testing testing.
