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Some color goes a long way 📷
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It’s Pie day for me.
Well, the pie day was in march - 3/14. But evey month, on the 14th, I decided I’m having a pizza. Otherwise, I don’t eat cheese. I stopped completely, besides unavoidable butter in some pastries and such. 📷🍕
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Technical debt, aka I keep forgetting about custom.css: https://taonaw.com/2026/05/14/technical-debt-aka-i-keep.html
Wait, how can something on a website be broken to one degree or another? Is it broken or not? Well, you see… CSS.
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Re: Who Knows That You Blog?: https://taonaw.com/2026/05/13/re-who-knows-that-you.html
I have a nuanced answer for this. I share personal topics while trying to balance privacy, and I’m open to discussions about my life. How do you feel about this?
#blogging #privacy #lgbTQ #neurodiversity #indieweb #community #personal
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Paying for the good internet (with an escape plan): https://taonaw.com/2026/05/10/paying-for-the-good-internet.html
Sal jumped ship from Bear to 11ty and Cloudflare, triggering my recurring “what if Micro.blog explodes?” angst. I do love it here, but as they say: it’s not if, it’s when. But who wants to manage more server stuff? I already break my Emacs config too often.
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It’s late… but I think I finally got my blog lists recommendations working on my Blogrolls page… whew. https://taonaw.com/blogroll/
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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.
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@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:
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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.
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ISO dates are back: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/18/iso-dates-are-back.html
Got ISO dates working on my blog again, just like the old days. Had to dig into microhooks and Hugo’s recommendation (hat tip goes to Claude for making those more understandable). Turns out that “2006” is not just some random year value that can be replaced. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you why anyway.
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So I fixed my blog again: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/07/so-i-fixed-my-blog.html
Spent days debugging my blog’s broken microhooks, only to find Hugo was using the “default” file instead of my custom one. Turns out, a flipped template and a missing dash in a title were the culprits. Shoutout to Qwen3-Coder for the assist. AI can be a great tutor. My blog matters more than I thought.
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maybe I'm tired and I forget some basics -
How do I tell denote in emacs to search for a term (say "linux") but NOT from my blog folder?
usual usage is with consult-denote-find, I want to have it ignore anything from the blog folder temporarily.
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Yesterday morning, I imported an old-blog post of mine, which discusses org-id and UUIDs in org-mode.
It’s a bit of a deep dive into how org-mode works. I find that I don’t do those as much anymore - probably because I mostly use Emacs “as is” with a few packages I use day to day, and my workflow has been pretty much the same (capture templates not included) for the last two years or so.
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I was a paid subscriber to 404 media, but I decided to let my subscription run out this year around. They started to feel too one sided and tend to focus only on AI. Still excellent reporting though, for those things.
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Using AI to edit and polish posts: https://taonaw.com/2026/03/22/using-ai-to-edit-and.html
Tired of Grammarly ghosting me on Linux and inspired by Doctorow, I hired an AI editor (Kimi via Kagi). It edits my posts, checks for repeat rants, fixes links, and suggests hashtags. Here’s what it looks like.
#AI #Blogging #Writing #Editing #Emacs #MicroBlogging #Kagi #Kimi #LLM #Automation
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About Stable Products: https://taonaw.com/2026/03/20/about-stable-products.html
I wanted to write a comment to Pete about his Stable Products post, but it turned into a whole rant, then a post with footnotes. Stable products can and do exist, but the US economy is not meant to support those (I told you it’s a rant).
#Enshittification #TechCritique #Capitalism #SmallBusines #economy
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This is a better video than I expected.
The main idea is nothing new, but the video games he mentions are perfect examples: I’m also looking for my next game after Hades 2, and I think thanks for this video, I found it. It’s about cats, how can you go wrong?