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A digital garden exploring web development, the small/indie web, Gemini protocol, book reviews, and personal reflections.

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Entries

  • Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac

    On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separa...

  • 📚 The Anthropocene Reviewed

    This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my confo...

  • Blog questions challenge

    Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing ...

  • 📚 The Night Circus

    The Night Circus is a book I had wanted to read for a long time, as an enjoyer of other “magical circus” stories insp...

  • Default Apps 2024

    I don’t have a dedicated /uses page; only a little table on my about page that lists the development-related essentia...

  • The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content

    Let’s talk about feed readers: software that lets you subscribe to feeds to get updates when new content is published...

  • Removing comments on my posts

    A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing...

  • Webmentions

    Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site....

  • Hugo shortcodes in Lume

    Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for ...

  • Starting afresh

    It’s nice to set up your digital workspace again sometimes, from scratch. One that isn’t your main computer so as to ...

  • A new webring for the weird and wonderful personal web

    Following up on my recent post about colophons (“meta” pages), I’ve decided to create a webring to gather more person...

  • Writing Fonts

    In search of the perfect font for drafting and digital journalling. # Inter The story began when I was looking for Lo...

  • Custom syntax highlighting with Hugo and Tree-sitter

    I recently helped migrate the homepage of Cognate, a stack-based, lisp- and ML-inspired programming language, to Hugo...

  • Add a Meta page to your personal website

    Update (2024-11-11) I’ve made a webring! Read more about this topic at meta-ring.hedy.dev If you have a personal webs...

  • Typing vs Writing

    I type faster than I can write. But regardless of how I put my thoughts down, the speed at which my thoughts can keep...

  • Vim visual block mode for column editing

    The visual block mode in Vim lets you edit text simultaneously across adjacent lines, similar to the “Alt-drag” featu...

  • Setting up syntax highlighting for Hugo

    Hugo uses chroma as its syntax highlighter. All you need for having your code highlighted is to let chroma put the sy...

  • Multiple emails in git for different computers

    As someone who code on multiple machines to work on different projects, I like to commit with different emails. I don...

  • On rants about gemini

    Recently there’ve been some discussions about how Gemini “doesn’t fix anything” on Lobste.rs: Why Gemini is Not My Fa...

  • How this site works

    2023 Update I started writing this post on 2021, February 23 but I never completed it. So in 2023 I decided to finish...