Francis Spufford once said that Bletchley Park was an attempt to build a computer out of human beings so the credit for this metaphor belongs to him. But it can be generalised to any bureaucracy. They are all attempts to impose an algorithmic order on the messiness of the world, and to extract from it … Continue reading The Vatican is the Oldest Computer in the World
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Boxing Time & Losing
Over the course of writing this blog, I've come to view writing as an important activity, like meditation. And like meditation, I find my motivation comes in fits and spurts. One thing I found helpful with this site is the "don't break the chain" method. Simply create the expectation and the space that you will … Continue reading Boxing Time & Losing
cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2022 Why Ergo? Forecasting a Cryptocurrency's Price Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary Installing LineageOS on a Samsung Device The Asshole Filter Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux A Quick Introduction to … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
You may have noticed that I have been posting to cafebedouin less lately. It is partially because I have been more involved in using Twitter. Why? One thing I like about Twitter is that it is a larger, socially constructed version of the kind of thoughts that we have moment to moment. Reading the timeline … Continue reading Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
Get Blogging!
"Your easy guide to starting a new blog. A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes." -https://getblogging.org/ I've been blogging since January 2017. In those five … Continue reading Get Blogging!
Streak 1, 600 Days
It seems like a long time, and yet, not long at all.
Smol Pub
Smol Pub is tiny blogging service.- Web interface and CLI to manage your posts. - Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.- Storage for your images.- Write custom CSS for web.- Attach your custom domain with SSL.- Export your posts.- No JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology. On the back of My Writing Advice post from yesterday, … Continue reading Smol Pub
cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2021 Why Ergo?Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryInstalling LineageOS on a Samsung Device (updated in December 2020)Forecasting a Cryptocurrency PriceSeedvault: Encrypted Backup for AndroidBook Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton WilsonMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrcA Quick Introduction to StumpWMThe Asshole Filter Posts That Deserve More Visibility … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Hang In There Until You’re Sixty
"...try to hang in there until you’re sixty. Then you’ll find you don’t have to worry about what people say any more and, as a consequence, life becomes a whole lot more interesting.Entering your sixties brings with it a warm and fuzzy feeling of freedom through redundancy, through obsolescence, through living outside of the conversation … Continue reading Hang In There Until You’re Sixty
Store Bought is Fine
"I’m the store-bought version of Ina Garten. Cooking my way through all 1,200+ of the Barefoot Contessa’s treasure trove of recipes."-https://storeboughtisfineblog.wordpress.com/
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
"It’s the writerly act of organizing and assembling inchoate thought that seems to helps me. That’s what I did with this blog; if I blogged something for “Beyond the Beyond,” then I had tightened it, I had brightened it. I had summarized it in some medium outside my own head. Posting on the blog was … Continue reading Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
cafebedouin.org: 2019 Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2020
In 2019, I posted 931 entries, all post views were up to +14,000 views by +9,000 visitors to cafebedouin.org, roughly three times the level of last year. Most of the views are concentrated either on the main page or the most popular posts: Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2019 Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2020
45 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Blog
"Always be networking. Always." —"45 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Blog – Which You Can Use to Grow Yours to 225,000 Visits / Month, Like We Eventually Did." CodeInWP.com. April 27, 2019. Good advice if you want to drive traffic to your site, become an "influencer," make money off your blog, or … Continue reading 45 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Blog
Nazi Gold
"Legendary skateboarder and artist Jerry Hsu started his blog Nazi Gold in 2009 as a repository for the cell phone photos he’d been collecting alongside his more traditional photography and film practices: shots of friends and strangers, roadside curiosities, and anything else that seemed to merit instant sharing with both peers and the public. In … Continue reading Nazi Gold
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