Notes hebdromadaires 34 – lamecarlate.net Voyage en train ; pain d’épices interdit ; traumas ; poney rose ; Samson ; Culture ; IAg ; poisson magique & petite chatte mignonne.

Voyage en train ; pain d'épices interdit ; traumas ; poney rose ; Samson ; Culture ; IAg ; poisson magique & petite chatte mignonne.

Notes hebdromadaires 34 : https://lamecarlate.net/carnet/notes-hebdromadaires-34/

#blog #carnet #100DaysToOffload (25/100)

List of Helpful Mastodon Resources Handmade list of resources for the federated social network Mastodon covering, how to use, find an instance, find people, tools and more.

Updated: List of Helpful Mastodon Resources

- Add Posty Link

Handmade list of resources for the federated social network Mastodon covering, how to use, find an instance, find people, tools and more.

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#blog #mastodon #Fediverse #100DaysToOffload

Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and Second Melissa Llanes Brownlee, 2022 A novella in flash fiction chapters about Hawai'ian gods living in late-stage capitalism. Kahi, the chaotic destroyer, and Lua, the philosophical cr...

A novella-in-flash about Hawai'ian gods navigating late-stage capitalism.

Through keen observations of modern life and immortality, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social uses the characters to reflect on the beauty & sadness of existence.

write.as/larrys100/ka...

#Books #100daysToOffload #flashfiction

Tigers, mice, and strawberries oh my!? What do you do while you wait? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/tiger-and-strawberries/ #Philosophy #Zen #100DaysToOffload

Tigers, mice, and strawberries oh my!? # A Parable _- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones #18_ > Buddha told a parable in a sutra: > > A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger waited to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. > > Then two mice, one white and one black, began little by little to gnaw away the vine. > > The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. > > _How sweet it tasted._ This is another favorite koan of mine. It feels fairly straightforward. What do you do when you're stuck somewhere and can't escape? There are times where we are in a no-win situation. We can't always be Captain Kirk when he was confronted with the Kobayashi Maru, where he changed the rules of the game. As much as I aspire to not be in a no-win situation, life can be like that, even in small ways. The Parable above, shows that life is fleeting. Time, like the mice, nibbles at us. So what do we do? We make the most of it. We eat the strawberries. One of the outcomes of my [depression] journey is that I work hard to find joy when I can. What the Army used to call "hunt the good stuff" in their Master Resilience Training (MRT). When I was at basic training or when I deployed, there was often very little I could do to change my circumstances. So I found the joy in sun on my back while eating an MRE. Or enjoying the beach, even if I missed my son deeply. Finding the joy is what keeps me going. It allows me to enjoy the shitty times more and focus on what I _**CAN**_ control. It's made me healthier, and I like to think, sets a good example for my son. It's even shaped how I approach other people's problems. I'm not ignoring the bad, I'm looking for the good. Because without the good, what's the point? Eat the strawberries, enjoy the sun, and hug your loved ones. Life can be hard. Might as well enjoy what's in reach. * * * #100DaysToOffload 18 / 100 posts written

Tigers, mice, and strawberries oh my!? What do you do while you wait? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/tiger-and-strawberries/ #Philosophy #Zen #100DaysToOffload

Tigers, mice, and strawberries oh my!? # A Parable _- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones #18_ > Buddha told a parable in a sutra: > > A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger waited to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. > > Then two mice, one white and one black, began little by little to gnaw away the vine. > > The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. > > _How sweet it tasted._ This is another favorite koan of mine. It feels fairly straightforward. What do you do when you're stuck somewhere and can't escape? There are times where we are in a no-win situation. We can't always be Captain Kirk when he was confronted with the Kobayashi Maru, where he changed the rules of the game. As much as I aspire to not be in a no-win situation, life can be like that, even in small ways. The Parable above, shows that life is fleeting. Time, like the mice, nibbles at us. So what do we do? We make the most of it. We eat the strawberries. One of the outcomes of my [depression] journey is that I work hard to find joy when I can. What the Army used to call "hunt the good stuff" in their Master Resilience Training (MRT). When I was at basic training or when I deployed, there was often very little I could do to change my circumstances. So I found the joy in sun on my back while eating an MRE. Or enjoying the beach, even if I missed my son deeply. Finding the joy is what keeps me going. It allows me to enjoy the shitty times more and focus on what I _**CAN**_ control. It's made me healthier, and I like to think, sets a good example for my son. It's even shaped how I approach other people's problems. I'm not ignoring the bad, I'm looking for the good. Because without the good, what's the point? Eat the strawberries, enjoy the sun, and hug your loved ones. Life can be hard. Might as well enjoy what's in reach. * * * #100DaysToOffload 18 / 100 posts written

Tigers, mice, and strawberries oh my!? What do you do while you wait? #Philosophy #Zen #100DaysToOffload https://mike.helmers.me/blog/tiger-and-strawberries/

Progressive Web Apps What's a progressive web app? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/pwa/ #Apps #Web #Pwa #100DaysToOffload

Progressive Web Apps # Progressive Web Apps As you may know, I like self-hosting things. Cloud storage, recipe books, media, and more. One of the more limiting factors with some of these tools/systems is the lack of a mobile app. And that makes sense. Many times, these open-source developers are building software with limited resources. So having an Android app, an iPhone app, and a web app is a lot. Enter the world of the progressive web application, or PWA. ## What are they? A PWA is a web application that can be installed on a device of your choosing. It's not tailored for just Android or iOS. I think that's pretty cool. Essentially, your phone's web browser creates a cached version of the website, allowing you to access the site as a standalone app. ## Why are they cool There is an open standard for these, using a "web app manifest" and a "service worker." These define the app and allow it to communicate with the backend server if needed. PWAs are primarily written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — which means they can be developed universally, not limited to a specific operating system. These apps also take up much less space on your phone. They run faster. They sync to a website, so you're always running the latest version. ## Where they fall short PWAs can't use your phone's hardware as well as a native application. So a fitness app would be limited in what sensors it can use. Apple doesn't provide full support for PWAs. This is a business decision, as Apple prefers you use their App Store, their own way of enshittifying. ## Final thoughts I think they're neat. I like technologies that help you escape vendor lock-in. I shouldn't have to pick between phones based on what applications I want to use. I should be able to use what I want, on what I want. And PWAs enable that. ### Examples worth checking out Check out the list below of PWAs that I think are neat. Merry Sky in particular is used daily for my weather questions. Merry Sky - Weather App quickstuff.app - Neat utilities progressivewebapproom - An app store of PWAs guitar-tuner - A guitar tuner * * * #100DaysToOffload 17 / 100 posts written

Progressive Web Apps What's a progressive web app? #Apps #Web #Pwa #100DaysToOffload https://mike.helmers.me/blog/pwa/

Progressive Web Apps # Progressive Web Apps As you may know, I like self-hosting things. Cloud storage, recipe books, media, and more. One of the more limiting factors with some of these tools/systems is the lack of a mobile app. And that makes sense. Many times, these open-source developers are building software with limited resources. So having an Android app, an iPhone app, and a web app is a lot. Enter the world of the progressive web application, or PWA. ## What are they? A PWA is a web application that can be installed on a device of your choosing. It's not tailored for just Android or iOS. I think that's pretty cool. Essentially, your phone's web browser creates a cached version of the website, allowing you to access the site as a standalone app. ## Why are they cool There is an open standard for these, using a "web app manifest" and a "service worker." These define the app and allow it to communicate with the backend server if needed. PWAs are primarily written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — which means they can be developed universally, not limited to a specific operating system. These apps also take up much less space on your phone. They run faster. They sync to a website, so you're always running the latest version. ## Where they fall short PWAs can't use your phone's hardware as well as a native application. So a fitness app would be limited in what sensors it can use. Apple doesn't provide full support for PWAs. This is a business decision, as Apple prefers you use their App Store, their own way of enshittifying. ## Final thoughts I think they're neat. I like technologies that help you escape vendor lock-in. I shouldn't have to pick between phones based on what applications I want to use. I should be able to use what I want, on what I want. And PWAs enable that. ### Examples worth checking out Check out the list below of PWAs that I think are neat. Merry Sky in particular is used daily for my weather questions. Merry Sky - Weather App quickstuff.app - Neat utilities progressivewebapproom - An app store of PWAs guitar-tuner - A guitar tuner * * * #100DaysToOffload 17 / 100 posts written

Progressive Web Apps What's a progressive web app? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/pwa/ #Apps #Web #Pwa #100DaysToOffload

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Announcing sandogasa (why? it's a Japanese straw hat often associated with post-apocalyptic robots) - a collection of tools and libraries for @fedora packaging workflows.

With emoji support!

Status: 🥱 out of hours […]

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Hi, my name is Michel, and I (reluctantly) use #LLM

Since I'm about to announce the existence of some tools I wrote to help with some workflows in the Linux distribution space, I figure it's only fair if I first write about why I ended up (having to) use LLM […]

Original post on hachyderm.io

hole in my sock
letting spring
in

~ Raymond Roseliep #haiku

#Spring is here, and I managed to find time to update my blog again!

Brief post for now, touching on #Lent, lenten discipline and some belated #Resolutions2026

michel-slm.name/posts/2026-03-23-on-lent... […]

100 days of #100DaysToOffload Well. Something that should have taken just 100 days to complete has taken me over 5 years and 4 jobs. Starting on August 31st, 2020, it’s taken me 2006 days to complete the #100DaysToOffload…

What blog post have you wanted to write but didn't? On my list are:
- Passive-aggressive blogging
- Leave it alone
- Tell the truth
- Mates-rates
- FFS
- What is your problem?
What's yours?
www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/blogging/100... #100DaysToOffload #Blogging

Notes hebdromadaires 33 – lamecarlate.net Représentation ; mot du jour & voyage des noms ; genre, système, fiction & méta ; electropunk ; anniversaire et loukoums ; peuples isolés.

Représentation ; mot du jour & voyage des noms ; genre, système, fiction & méta ; electropunk ; anniversaire et loukoums ; peuples isolés.

Notes hebdromadaires 33 : https://lamecarlate.net/carnet/notes-hebdromadaires-33/

#carnet #blog #100DaysToOffload (24/100)

nycmidnight NYC Midnight hosts inspiring challenges for storytellers around the world. Writers receive prompts and have a limited amount of time to create flash fiction, microfiction, screenplays, and short stori...

Just submitted for the @nycmidnight.bsky.social #MicrofictionChallenge100 I was assigned

Genre: Sci-Fi
Action: Bumping
Word: Brilliant

I love participating in these challenges and thrilled I helped 3 writers in our flash fiction writing group get theirs in too!

#100daysToOffload #microfiction

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Just submitted for @nycmidnight #MicrofictionChallenge100 I was assigned

Genre: Sci-Fi
Action: Bumping
Word: Brilliant

I love participating in these challenges and excited by the story I wrote. Equally thrilled I helped 3 writers in our flash fiction writing group get theirs in too! […]

#100DaysToOffload

What am I Carrying? I put that woman down hours ago. Are you still carrying her? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/what-am-i-carrying/ #Reflection #Zen #100DaysToOffload

What am I Carrying? ## Waking up today Today was hard. There's no particular reason for that. I have depression, and that comes up from time to time. Sometimes I wake up, and can't. Today was one of those days. Days like this, I struggle to pinpoint why I feel a certain way. So I turn to my tools. As of this writing it's not published, but I'm working on my Depression Protocol. A series of things that I can do to help myself when I'm feeling down. One of those tools, is Zen. Shortened from "Za Zen", meaning "to sit", Zen is a branch of Buddhism. I've never been one for organized religion. Christianity sounds nice, but in practice, it's never been appealing. In my spiritual journey, primarily thanks to my Dad, Buddhism came up. Specifically, Zen Buddhism. Now, I'm far from an expert, and take an "ala carte" approach to religion and various world philosophies. Using lessons and stories from a variety of sources, I've taken a variety of items I like, and left the others behind. In the Zen tradition stories, called "koans", are used to stimulate thought experiments. You listen/read a koan, and then reflect on it. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a collection of Zen texts, containing koans. There is a handful of these that I often think of. They help focus my mind, and drive decisions on how to handle things. Today, I'm thinking of the story of "Muddy Road". ### Muddy Road > Two monks, Tanzan and Ekido, were traveling together down a muddy road after a rainstorm. Coming around a bend, they encountered a lovely woman in a silk kimono, unable to cross the flooded intersection without ruining her clothes. > > Without hesitation, Tanzan picked her up, carried her across the mud, and set her down on the other side. The two monks continued walking. Ekido said nothing, but for hours, he stewed in silence. > > That evening, when they reached a lodging temple, Ekido could no longer contain himself. "We monks don't go near females," he said, "especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?" > > Tanzan replied simply: "I put that woman down hours ago. Are you still carrying her?" ## What am I carrying? Learning from the story, what am I carrying that I should have set down a while ago? Now, there might be an answer. But I won't share it here. This is an example of how I process through my thoughts. I woke up feeling in a funk. Now I'm making the time to think about it. Is it parenting related? Something from work nagging? Or maybe it's nothing. Thinking that I'm carrying something and it's not actually there is a very real possibility. Regardless, it's time to breathe and reflect. To figure out what I'm carrying. And maybe, finally, set _**set it down.**_ * * * #100DaysToOffload 16 / 100 posts written

What am I Carrying? I put that woman down hours ago. Are you still carrying her? https://mike.helmers.me/blog/what-am-i-carrying/ #Reflection #Zen #100DaysToOffload

An old woman with a staff is shown surrounded by monkey-owl type creatures on the cover of Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon.

#100DaysToOffload continues with a book review: emilygertenbach.com/2026/03/19/b...

Emily Gertenbach — Thoughts on SEO, AI, data privacy, books, and breaking up with big tech Collected writings from Emily Gertenbach, professional writer / SEO consultant / AI skeptic

Starting a new posting-for-100-days challenge, kicking things off with a blog about a little local win for the people vs. Big Tech:

emilygertenbach.com/2026/03/18/i... #100DaysToOffload

Mes gabarits pour Obsidian – lamecarlate.net Petit tour d’horizon de mes gabarits pour Obsidian.

Petit tour d'horizon de mes gabarits pour Obsidian (c'est la mode, apparemment :D ).

Mes gabarits pour Obsidian : lamecarlate.net/carnet/mes-gabarits-pour...

#carnet #web #obsidianMD #100DaysToOffload (23/100)

Week Notes - 2026-11 Last week that was a short but busy week culminating in a short break with family, plus a visit to National Trust Stourhead on our travels. We had great w...

Week Note - 2026-11

https://www.jamesleighton.com/week-notes/2026/11/

#Weeknotes #100DaysToOffload

My Fedora setup and hardening process - Jarema's digital garden I had to reinstall Fedora, so I documented the thing. This is the setup, the hardening, and everything I do to get it to a state I'm comfortable with.

‪New blog post, this time on Fedora :D

had to reinstall Fedora, and i actually wrote down everything i did this time. setup, hardening, apps, extensions, the likes. buckle up it's long 🐱

jarema.me/blog/2026/03...

#blog #tech #Fedora #Linux #100DaysToOffload (2/100)

Notes hebdromadaires 32 – lamecarlate.net De la justice et des patounes, gomasio et apocalypse.

De la justice et des patounes, gomasio et apocalypse.

Notes hebdromadaires 32 : https://lamecarlate.net/carnet/notes-hebdromadaires-32/

#blog #carnet #100DaysToOffload (22/100)

This is also my first post to the challenge #100DaysToOffload. The goal is that you have to write 100 posts in a year.

For context, I have written 11 posts since July 2024, so you can imagine it's going to be quite a challenge for me :p

Default apps for 2026 - Jarema's digital garden An update to my go-to apps on my laptop and my phones.

New blog post: Default apps for 2026!

This is basically a list for the apps I have on my laptop, the ones that are gone compared to 2024, and how I use it.

jarema.me/blog/2026/03...

#blog #tech #apps #100DaysToOffload (1/100)

The challenge is called #100DaysToOffload. You have to write 100 posts in a year.

For context, I have written 16 posts in the last 5 years, so it's obvious how big a challenge this one is going to be for me.

I'm going to use this as a thread to link to the posts.

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Un logo pour HTML ; langage de gabarit ; afficher ses touches ; se renommer dans git ; comparer des images de façon accessible ; la règle de Miller ; snippets pour Obsidian.

Trouvailles design et tech 8 : lamecarlate.net/carnet/trouvailles-desig...

#carnet #blog #webdev […]

100 days of #100DaysToOffload Well. Something that should have taken just 100 days to complete has taken me over 5 years and 4 jobs. Starting on August 31st, 2020, it’s taken me 2006 days to complete the #100DaysToOffload…

the list of posts I didn't write is almost as long as the ones I did for the #100DaysToOffload blog series, incl.
- Echo chamber
- Stop being an a*se
- Mates rates
- Mediocracy in abundance
www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/blogging/100... #Blog #Rant