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Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

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    Words and identifiers are at most substitutes for intangibles that cannot be expressed. The power of naming matters more than the name itself.

    Am I cool now? :)

    “The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

    — Lǎozi, The Chinese Monist Philosopher

    “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”

    — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene II.
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    Remember when it was thought that all combustible materials consist of two parts? Phlogiston and dephlogiston (calx). Goodness, someone today just made me remember the most random thing from chemistry history (from when I was in school).

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    The ‘best current practice’ category of beats any blog post you can read for a topic. For example, I recently got tired of my domain host’s flakiness and did my own thing.

    I couldn’t fully remember how serial numbers worked for secondaries and rfc 2182 showed me the money real fast. The alternative is sludging through multiple of ad spam.

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    It’s unusual, but my favorite part of blogging is coming up with the most boring and anti–clickbait titles possible. In another life, I’d be an undercover agent.

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    Most software, framework, and programming debates online reduce to disputes over company or personal preferences — mindshare. Technical and architectural debates are rare — those fights are the most interesting because that’s the important part, at least .

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    I’ve noticed that attacks are becoming commonplace on my domain hosting provider’s name servers (Porkbun).

    Looks like they’ve migrated over to Cloudflare to remedy the situation, but the migration was wonky.

    In the end, having full programmatic control over dns records, transfers, and zones is priceless. So… with a few glue records and zone files — my dns is now back under my control with bind.

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    There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire ( reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?

    It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the programming language % numbers on GitHub? Do they waste time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.

    GitHub’s Language Savant
    GitHub’s Language Savant Linguist
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    Squint hard enough and it sure looks like a command line interface.

    Google’s Search Suggestions
    Google’s Search Suggestions for the command apk add
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    Follow a sufficiently diverse set of feeds and you’ll eventually see filter bubbles in “real time”. Across countries, technology, corporate blogs, politics, news, food, entertainment, you name it — there’s selective information filtering. All of us are in our own distorted perception of reality.

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    I now think (lost a bet) that there’s a pathology that drives genres (tags) in content propagation. If you observe people “consuming” content then you’ll inevitably realize that there’s an overwhelming consensus for just more of the same, but not forever.

    Diversity and homogeneity

    Organizing content “strictly” into genres is a compromise. Auto–generating tags looks like a trap though. Is this even a muse?

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