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On Not having Kids: the Choices we Make: taonaw.com

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Too Much to Say about Games and No Time to Say it: taonaw.com

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Nice day for a walk and a vote 📷🇺🇸

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Catching some needed sun. This is my favorite season. 📷

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Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 📚 doesn’t disappoint. Already half through it! Record time for me.

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@miljko just watched the first episode the other day. Sounds like there’s a lot to catch up on

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@csgraves thank you. I ordered some from Amazon, to try it out. It might be too bold… I like Earl Grey.

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RIP Patrick Stewart. Thank You: taonaw.com

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@manton I didn’t see the delayed check in, but I only had a minute to test. Is the android version more complicated because of Apple Maps? I try to leave my iPhone behind now when I leave (I should probably blog about why soon)

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Got Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 📚. I liked his villain book, and I like the guy from what I see online. One chapter in and I’m nodding and chuckling. I think I’m going to like this one.

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I picked up a new “Mozzarella cheese” from a vegan brand I like. I understand the marketing, but calling vegan products cheese or meat is bullshit. They don’t taste like the real thing. People who look to replace the real thing with the “fake” version get disappointed anyway.

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Isn’t “Cashew spread with herbs...

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181 Cabrini.

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@manton I totally understand especially after the whole Inkwell saga… Ok, waiting patiently 😊

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How do you Read it Later? taonaw.com

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@rkwb.micro.blog what is it for?

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@manton Glad to see it baking in the oven, I think it’s a great addition to the videos/photos/podcast support MB already offers. A few suggestions, if I may —

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  1. The option to post about something later should be prominent when tagging a location. It’s a safety concern, some people don’t want to tag in real time, and it would help if it’s delayed by a couple of hours by default maybe.
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  2. I understand Apple Maps usage at the start; I’m not sure how hard it would be to incorporate OSM. They are open and have hiking trails and maps stored which could be a good addition… maybe.
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  3. It would be cool if it could work with the Photos collections. For example, I have a coffee shop location I barely use (who doesn’t…) if the photo collection would also allow to pinpoint a map snippet or checkins of where these places are… it would be really nice!
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If you need any testers, let me know!! :)

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A Weekend Hike and Turning Off Work Mode \"Auto-generated\"Auto-generated : taonaw.com

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How do you Title your Posts? taonaw.com

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@manton you’re basically in my neighborhood - if you go up a couple of stations (190) you can use the elevator for free to go to Fort Tryon. There’s a French restaurant there and some good places around for coffee :)

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Afternoon Walks like these are one of my best life hacks. Boosts the mood and allows perspective that can narrow down to a tunnel vision during work. 📷

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@lmika made me think of this blog.lauramichet.com/i-went-on… which I read a week ago or so

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I love how one blog led me to another, which led me to a cool IndieWeb thing, which got me to write an email, which put me in a good mood to write a quick post like this. IndieWeb is live and well, and it’s good to have colorful blogs in the morning before I dive into the grind.

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@sacha Thanks for the suggestion Sacha! Hmm… it might? Does your daughter have columnar keys? This is part of what makes this weird. The pinky is not a part of the traditional WASD, which kind of short-circuits my brain. I have just the game to give it a try.

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On Pages that aren't Pages: taonaw.com

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@eludom nah, he doesn’t seem to have a QWERTY version for the Glove80, and I think I know why: you don’t really need one. It’s more about replacing a few keys, and I’m going to do that next.

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@eludom interesting… I’m looking through it. org-ql came up a couple of times as a suggestion, but I haven’t used it yet.

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Glove80: One Month In \"A\"A\"A : taonaw.com

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@eludom I was just looking his version for the glove80. Post coming out soon.

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It's not Enough, but it's Something: taonaw.com

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It's Time to Wipe my Desktop: taonaw.com

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@manton nah. If I wanted something like this, I’d in just go to Claude/ChatGPT whatever and that’s it. I do use AI in my writing, but I call it “post polish” for a reason. It’s carefully drafted prompt that checks my links, previous posts of the same topic, and suggests a title.

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Finished Silo season 3, and I have questions. Of course I do. That’s why they’re making season 4.

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The big one is still why. I was glad when Juliette started pushing people to ask that too, and I like that it was a good catalyst for what eventually led to the survival of Silo 18 at the end.

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What I don’t like...

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One thing I’m enjoying over at Bubbles is the non-tech blogs. Every other blog list I visit is usually mostly tech-related stuff, and then it’s usually developers. I’m a techie myself, and I don’t have anything against developers, but it’s nice to see more blogs about humans just being humans.

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Emacs Config Gems - Part 6: taonaw.com

","summary":"Part 6 of my Emacs config gems: abbrevs, and the two grammar checkers I tried. Harper is fast and light but basic; LanguageTool is thorough but needs Java and 10GB to get close (but not quite) to the online version. I don’t really use either today.","url":"https://taonaw.com/2026/10/11/emacs-config-gems-part.html","date_published":"2026-10-11T22:54:34+00:00","author":{"name":"The Art Of Not Asking Why","url":"http://taonaw.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F18%2F1315067.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jtr"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-11 22:54","date_timestamp":1791759274,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@jtr/117424738034490948","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cdwrhik3fuxgk5x4hgicpwad/post/3mxn3wni7b72p"]}},{"id":"98960062","content_html":"

I Don't Miss the Good Old Days: taonaw.com

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@manton very useful! I didn’t think of using collections for a single post. Is that a good use of it? Like if I take three or four photos at a park and I want them all to be in one post? Didn’t realize.

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@manton I guess I over simplify things. Giving people options is a good idea. There’s a financial cost involved, but you calculated that it makes sense now. How is adding an option a bad thing?

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If I don’t want to cross post to X, I won’t, same as I can do anywhere else. Arguing about a soul and morals when it has to do with tech is futile. It’s like asking if a hammer or a pen is evil.

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Thoughts about Silo: taonaw.com

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@rscottjones this is one of the simplest, easiest, and smartest tips I’ve gotten recently. Thank you!

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This wasn’t a fun night. My sleepy brain convinced me that removing it or taking out the batteries would set off the alarm, which was the last thing I wanted at 3 in the morning… So I tried to ignore the beeps until I couldn’t anymore and took the batteries out. Solved. I feel dumb. And tired.

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A walk in the park.\nThe neighborhood park. 📷🌼

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@vincent the sky though… or is that a wall behind it?

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@de Isn’t it great? It just makes so much sense, I don’t understand why the default option is this horrible contraption stuck between the two functions and it sucks at both.

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@miljko I need to expand on this, but in general? If you built your own before and you have the knowledge I am not convinced it’s worth it for a desktop.

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@swiftonsecurity.com I mean I’m poly and I have multiple relationships and I still do similar things on Saturday nights because geeking out is just plain fun

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@eludom the hardest part is when you just forget emacs things. Like jumping to the start of the buffer. My fingers only remember the shortcut, not what it was called, so I can’t find it. But mostly it’s either alt/control confusion.

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The keyboard itself is the right call. It just makes sense as what a keyboard should be.

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@tsutrav I’d say yes, but not first place. I can’t wait to get back into Silo again, now that was a show.

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@kev on my blog (and many others I presume) titles to post also serve as the permalink to that post. That means that new posts get accented, read once bland into the background. It’s a small but a nice thing to have.

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@jbaty what about pens and such, did you ever write about what you use to write? I usually see posts relating to what you write on or in, not with :-)

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@manton has what I think is called starter packs… anything like that for good accounts to follow? From X?

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