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\nEnjoyed Adam Wunn’s post about FileMaker, via ATP. I’ve never used FileMaker, but as an avid reader of the technology section of the Green Guide back in the day, I always saw ads for it and wondered what it was. I guess one could, if they were be uncharitable, describe it as something akin to Microsoft...
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95049413","date_published":"2026-08-01T22:41:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 22:41","date_timestamp":1785624097,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95049312","content_html":"I must say that I happy to be so lucky my taste in music is such that the pieces I listen to could never be mistaken for AI slop. It helps that most of the pieces I usually listen to predate the frickin’ Internet.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/02/i-must-say-that-i.html","date_published":"2026-08-01T22:38:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 22:38","date_timestamp":1785623904,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3ms2jyxzhum2u"]}},{"id":"95048871","content_html":"@crankreport Ooh, that sounds like an interesting project. I do wonder if Obsidian should try and take on more of a workplace wiki role. There are a few people at work who use Obsidian, including myself, and piling them all together in a central repository sounds useful.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95048871","date_published":"2026-08-01T22:22:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 22:22","date_timestamp":1785622969,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95048425","content_html":"@kev She’s a beauty. Looks like she’s settling in quite comfortably.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95048425","date_published":"2026-08-01T22:10:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 22:10","date_timestamp":1785622246,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95048371","content_html":"@jean I’m sorry for your loss. He sounded like a wonderful man.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95048371","date_published":"2026-08-01T22:09:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 22:09","date_timestamp":1785622153,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95000675","content_html":"\nSee what happens when you fall down rabbit holes? You learn about things you’ve been wishing for a while. It’s beta at the moment but I tried it out on a headless Linux server and it seemed to work (at least in one direction). This opens up the possibility of using Obsidian for things....
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\nJust in time for NPM to finish installing a few billion packages. 😜
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/01/census-done.html","date_published":"2026-07-31T23:49:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 23:49","date_timestamp":1785541765,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mry5hlbf2q2z"]}},{"id":"94998997","content_html":"\n\n\n\nSo many links in one post. I ended up going down all kinds of rabbit holes off the back of this single post.
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Followed Kev down that rabbit hole and I agree. It was quite the journey.
\n\n\n\nThe backbone of the internet is the hyperlink, so go forth and link out to your fellow bloggers with reckless abandon. It’s what makes the web, the web. 🕸️
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Paying it forward in kind. Thanks, Kev, for the links.
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\n\n\n\nThe problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens everything on its way: [bold, italics, etc.] None of these are “style.” This is actual information that should not be removed. If you wire PAMS as your main ⌘V shortcut, or even if you use it occasionally, you might remove valuable data from text you’re moving around, without even noticing.
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I can sympathise that styles might be valuable information to some, but there must remain a way to remove this, leaving only the text. Too many apps implement styles badly, and most of the time, I...
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/94950243","date_published":"2026-07-31T03:47:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 03:47","date_timestamp":1785469649,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94944808","content_html":"I’m liking Zed but there were some features that Goland really excels at. Their handling of Git, for example. Rebasing, resolving conflicts, and doing branch comparisons on a single file were easier to do in Goland compared to Zed. Debugging is another one. Might keep that Goland license around.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/94876563","date_published":"2026-07-29T21:52:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 21:52","date_timestamp":1785361940,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94876538","content_html":"Well, the “glow” of my new monitor lasted a whole… what? Five days? Last night I noticed a dead pixel near the middle of the display. It’s frickin’ tiny so I don’t think it’s worth going through the hassle of getting it replaced. I’ll see if I can live with it for now. 😩
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/07/30/well-the-glow-of-from.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T21:51:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 21:51","date_timestamp":1785361897,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mrsvxprpw32a"]}},{"id":"94876333","content_html":"@numericcitizen I’m not entirely sure myself. I think good defaults explains a lot.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/94876333","date_published":"2026-07-29T21:46:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 21:46","date_timestamp":1785361565,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94875895","content_html":"I wish something like HyperTexting was available for Android. I hate to admit it, but having something mindless to scroll while commuting would be welcome, and the social apps I use have a bit too much “person X said thing Y that I hate.” It’s exhausting. What HyperTexting has feels right.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/07/30/i-wish-something-like-hypertexting.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T21:33:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 21:33","date_timestamp":1785360828,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mrsuy6oblm2h"]}},{"id":"94874993","content_html":"Unsung: “Gravity is worth asking about.”:
\n\n\n\nNot only is it very hard to create interfaces that have limitations, but a bad decision is not just precedent – it’s code that can be copied and reused. Existing code always had tons of… well, gravity, even before LLMs.
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Perfect analogy about how the existence of something in a UI usually results in more of that thing down the line. Code might be infinitely malleable, but it still takes effort to change. And as soon as you’ve paid it for adding just that one thing, adding thing two is significantly cheaper. This also applies to backend too.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/07/30/unsung-gravity-is-worth-asking.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T21:13:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 21:13","date_timestamp":1785359587,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mrsttsrgmq2h"]}},{"id":"94874023","content_html":"@tkoola Oh yeah, I understand completely. I do the same thing: not knowing when to down tools to prevent something being “overdone”. We’ll get there.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/94874023","date_published":"2026-07-29T20:56:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 20:56","date_timestamp":1785358573,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94834676","content_html":"What is taste? Is it deciding what to publish? Maybe, but equally important is choosing what not to publish. Maybe more so. 🤔
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/07/29/what-is-taste-is-it.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T06:56:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 06:56","date_timestamp":1785308180,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mrrdxphbzg2o"]}},{"id":"94816687","content_html":"Maybe my colleagues are right: maybe I can learn to like working on infrastructure. I’m migrating something from a EC2/systemd service to Kubernetes Cronjob at the moment, and it’s an interesting task. Must be the novelty of it all but hey, a bit of novelty is never a bad thing.
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/07/29/maybe-my-colleagues-are-right.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T22:10:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 22:10","date_timestamp":1785276646,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mrqgkomb4q2p"]}},{"id":"94813083","content_html":"Moonset over station.
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/25293/2026/pxl-20260728-202945193-m.jpg\")
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\n\n@lmika I need to start a “lizard ingress” counter of some sort. This is number 3, maybe 4, this year? Not that I mind finding them around the house.
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\n“Oh? Will they be getting the ads too?”
\nThat’s the thing about vendors who puts ads in software. The moment you’ve done it at least once, you’re now a vendor who puts ads in your software.
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\n\n\n\nLike with most such apps, you can press R to record playing an instrument. However, if you forgot to start recording, or were just goofing around and stumbled upon something wonderful, you can press ⇧R and the recording will appear anyway
\n\n
This sounds like a really useful feature. There’ve been times I would play out a riff, found it good, reach to record it, only to completely loose the feel of it. I think recording all MIDI events since the start of the session is simpler than the whole discard-after-20-min-pause. It’s 3 bytes per event; we’ve got the space.
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