My review of Doctorow's Red Team Blues might have been different if I knew less people in the tech sphere or perhaps hadn't had too much of an angst for "smol PoC characters sans the token" in literature.
The more fiction I read, the higher my bar becomes. In a way, it's not too difficult for an adept writer to mimic what's cool (or replicate a pattern and paint it with their own take). And that's … a means of making money.
Catching up on things and I'm kinda convinced that either I need to "pivot" my life or shed some stuff (headspace wise). Lost an interview (I imagine it looked like I took too long but I couldn't even send a text let alone hold a video call) that adds to the list of rejections. I was really hoping on having something lined up by now but I'm going to have to push for another month (just the dance of the interview takes two weeks in itself).
If you haven't had a chance to, borrow (or buy) a copy of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger_(Klein_book). I've been reading it (and others) — it's both eye-opening to the depths of the far-right (and far-out!) and forcing a bit of self-reflection. Let This Radicalize You has been stuck behind this book (only because I picked up one of these in person).
Additionally, I'm going to be rereading this. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm. Because like Kwame Ture has said, after some point, we need to leave the reading and get to action. That's also why I put Kaba and Kelly's book up next (ha). And why despite not having stuff, I'm still getting up to do what I can. Because I still can.
I want to talk more about what the whole point of being away was about but that's really not my story (yet). I do want people to do anything they can to break the neoliberal notion of "individualistic community" and lean into the truly revolutionary form of speaking to people near you, giving them what they need and humanizing those who the State has deemed as sub-humans by divorcing them of homes, stability and security.
Going to leave the lobby soon but I'm seeing the appeal of doing day-centric posts versus sporadic one-off ones. If/when I finish remaking my site, I'll orient it around this, a bit like how https://rhiaro.co.uk/ has it set up.
If you haven't had a chance to, borrow (or buy) a copy of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger_(Klein_book). I've been reading it (and others) — it's both eye-opening to the depths of the far-right (and far-out!) and forcing a bit of self-reflection. Let This Radicalize You has been stuck behind this book (only because I picked up one of these in person).
I'd have no problem being offline more often if I could sync whatever's "remote" whenever I did come online and was able to queue up operations to happen (that might have in the past) to send out when I do come online.
Of course I missed the one interview this week. Can't blame anyone but myself right now (didn't set up calendaring on my laptop because I relied on the browser too much for that and browsers working offline is a bit of a joke, tbh).
Fuck my life, lol.
So, with no phone at home, i have to go back to sneaking behind this store near where I live. Which, tbh, is going to put me on a "networking" diet. Less fucking around online and more doing what I need to go and then going. Probably for the better.
Another thank you to everyone who helped with the fundraiser because if that was still hanging over my head … yeah. Thank you.
This also means no texts — obviously. Unless I can figure out to mock my old IMEI on the Pinephone but that's in the closed source parts of the phone, I figure.
So, with no phone at home, i have to go back to sneaking behind this store near where I live. Which, tbh, is going to put me on a "networking" diet. Less fucking around online and more doing what I need to go and then going. Probably for the better.
I was out walking Stella and saw this in the water! After taking her back in, I pulled out my camera and got excited to use it for the first time in years. Cleaned up this shot in Shotwell. It's also the first time I've uploaded something to Flickr in some time. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackyalcine/53369900592/in/dateposted/
Spotify Wrapped 2023
James shared his Spotify Wrapped and prompted others to do the same. Usually, I would wait for the beginning of January to also collect my Last.fm data, but I can do that later and still include Spotify’s information there.
This here came with some interesting surprises. Not only is my phone in Dutch, and therefore the Spotify Wrapped too, but apparently a lot of Dutch songs are in my top songs. Here you have the shared images from my Spotify Wrapped:
RAYE is the absolute number 1 this year, which is slightly expected. I’m so sad I could not get a ticket for any of her concerts in Amsterdam… I highly recommending checking out her music. Then we have Miley, Froukje (Dutch), Tove Lo and MARINA. It’s quite different from last year: only MARINA survived my Spotify Wrapped.
I seem to have listened to slightly less music on Spotify: around 10 000 minutes less than last year. Maybe that can be explained by the fact we now have a vinyl player and we listen to quite a lot of records that do not go into digital statistics.
Have people used the package functionality a lot of Forgejo or Gitea? https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/packages/ Looks like a good self-hosting alternative to relying on GitHub. I'd imagine GitLab also has offerings.
YES!
Henry Kissinger, known for being the United States' premier war instigator and consultant of countries like the cursed, murderous and wasteful Vietnam War (which was a prime example of American's push for global capitalism — remember the Western/Capitalist Bloc), fighting against Cuba in keeping Mozambique and Angola free from imperalistic forces (who was one of the many people Frantz Fanon was warning us about in The Wretched of the Earth and prescribed in A Dying Colonialism), his involvement in Rhodesia, Chile, Argentina — the list goes on.
Fuck them. I'm so glad he's dead — he's murdered so many all to further the peverted goal of this country.
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
One big HWC, for anyone who is available. People from all parts of the world are welcome.
Pacific refers to the timezone(GMT-8) where the event time is centered.
What's Homebrew Website Club?
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!
What Are "Chat" and "Etherpad"?
If you have questions, ask away in the the IndieWeb chat channel, usable from a browser, IRC, Slack, or Matrix.
Let's make this a regualr thing — me going to these events!
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
One big HWC, for anyone who is available. People from all parts of the world are welcome.
Pacific refers to the timezone(GMT-8) where the event time is centered.
What's Homebrew Website Club?
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!
What Are "Chat" and "Etherpad"?
If you have questions, ask away in the the IndieWeb chat channel, usable from a browser, IRC, Slack, or Matrix.
itch: I want something that can alert me locally of build failures in CI. This is kind of silly but it's handy when testing CI plugins (right now, I'm mashing together something for Rust and Drone at https://git.jacky.wtf/drone-plugins/run-rust-tests-with-coverage as a bit of a learning exercise).
Made an update to the Rust library for Microformats. One upside is that I can see what cases the parser fails for as part of its test suite. The downside is that, lol, implied photos will currently overflow your buffers — I'm working on that one. That enabled me to also update the Rust library for some IndieWeb algorithms and standards. That has some cleanup for IndieAuth and the start of helper binaries (like sending Webmentions for a URL or grabbing a IndieAuth token from the terminal). Gooood stuff.
Last week at Homebrew Website Club I was expressing my excitement over the default apps jam going around (if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s sharing which applications folks use for a specific list of functions, inspired by a podcast). This trend is the first big network effect I’ve seen in the blogosphere. More than 200 people have joined in — those are social media numbers! With blogs! 🙌 There’s a neat “network” view that visualizes how the posts interlink.
Someone asked if I’d posted my own yet, and I explained that I hold myself back from participating in stuff like this… because I’m chary of posting things just for fun? Uhhh, didn’t realize that till I said it out loud! (I may also have some residual iffiness over “things we all do together” from one friend being super into BuzzFeed quizzes back in the day?)
Joe Crawford chimed in that he likes it when people do fun things on their websites — and we should do more. I agree! I like fun things on personal websites! And I love people being social with their websites. So, in the spirit of supporting a lively blogging scene and making myself have some dang fun, I’m joining in 😄
I’m on Windows and Android, not Apple — so I use a lot of Microsoft and Google products.
My default apps in 2023
📨 Mail Client: Gmail
📮 Mail Server: I think my custom domain emails go through my webhost’s mail servers? 🤔 Like DNS, I find email behind-the-scenes to be semi-mystical and one of those over-my-head “if you touch it you’ll break it” things 😂 I have only correctly configured half of my custom domain email accounts so I don’t trust them and thus don’t use them 😓 leaving me stuck using my gmail account for everything *sad trombone* (Or I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some Google-blocking-small-mailservers thing since the settings all match but some send, some receive, and one seemingly does both 🤷♀️)
📝 Notes: OneNote and scraps of paper 😎
✅ To-Do: 💚 Excel 💚 for my backlog, post-its on a kanban (white)board in my office for current to-dos
📷 Photo Management: Do other people actually manage their photo libraries? 👀 I should do that maybe. I’m on Android, my photos back up to OneDrive 🤷♀️ Sometimes I delete bad photos 😂
📆 Calendar: Google Calendar
📁 Cloud File Storage: OneDrive
📖 RSS: Feedly because I’m legacied in to having more than 100 feeds for free — I access it primarily through the browser on my phone to discourage myself reading too much but it has not proven a sufficient deterrent 😉
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: I wouldn’t say I manage my contacts… but they are technically, theoretically stored in Google, who “helpfully” added everyone I emailed from like 2006 – 2010, except not the people I actually want saved, so I can email someone I did one group project with in 2006 or the help desk person from an order placed in 2009, but it can’t find my cousin’s current email address 😒
💬 Chat: Discord is my preference; WhatsApp is extremely begrudgingly on my phone for the one friend who cannot communicate with any other platform 😒 (If I like you well enough to keep a Meta product on my phone I really like you 😉)
📑 Read It Later: Pocket — but I hate that now it sends you to the original website instead of using their nice reading view for any site with a paywall 😑 so I might be in the market for a replacement…
📜 Word Processing: Scrivener for fiction, Microsoft Word for everything else
📈 Spreadsheets: 💚 Excel 💚
📊 Presentations: PowerPoint
🛒 Shopping Lists: I take a photo of my fridge whiteboard for grocery shopping, Pinterest 😕 for saving items to my wishlist
🍴 Meal Planning: I stash recipes on OneNote because it’s the notes app my husband prefers (why)
💰 Personal Finance: 💚 Excel 💚
📰 News: I rely on my RSS and micro.blog feeds to keep me in the loop on current events
🎵 Music: MusicBee on desktop — I find it a bit overwhelming and confusing though; AIMP, Bandcamp, and Amazon Music (for my purchased music libraries) on Android (plus PanoScrobbler for last.fm scrobbling) — I am currently sans streaming service and I have not yet figured out a way to play music I own from my desktop on my phone so I’m dealing with three apps to access a mere portion of my music library 🙄 I think I need a home music server.
🎤 Podcasts: I don’t listen to podcasts regularly, so I listen to any one-offs in my browser
⌨️ Blogging: in browser on both desktop and mobile; on Android I use the WordPress app for bulk image uploads but I believe it doesn’t work for posting on WordPress.org sites, either that or I borked the setup 😂 (or it’s my stupid webhost with the mod_security issue again)
⏳ Time tracking: RescueTime, at this point mostly to track how much time I spend browsing on my phone… which come to think of it, my phone tracks for me, so I could probably stop using this 🤔
📄 PDF reader:Adobe Acrobat on both desktop and mobile
If you’d like to see more people’s default apps lists, Robb Knight has collected a list of more than 200 participants and growing (it was at 200 yesterday and 208 today!). A few people who I’ve seen chime in with theirs are Benji, Colin Walker, and Manuel Moreale. It also has a template of the list if you’d like to join in too 😉
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