Tracking git metadata never crossed my mind (git privacy). My understanding was that metadata can’t be sole ground truths anyway. Known real–world contributors increase trust/triangulation.

Reality is not always in sync with metadata, for example; rebasing repositories as 1 commit, using different names/emails, travelling (without updating tz) or working inside time drifted virtual machines.

I’d imagine that simpler anonymization involves anonymous contributors sharing the same metadata. In short, the deniable we are one, we are many, we are legion cloak.

Strange. In the last few years, I’ve abandoned search engines for most programming related queries by chugging along happily with Recoll. If I had the time I’d sit down and hack out a web front–end for its Python API but the desktop interface supplied with HTML from my own web crawlers works beautifully (medoc92/recollwebui also exists).

In the end my blog here ended up as a public note taking system — oh well. It’s kinda prickly though because I’m linking out in most posts and don’t have a workflow for auto–archiving the destinations yet.

Chances are that when I return to older posts links inside will be dead. Archive.org isn’t infallible – ya better locally archive anything remotely interesting. Y2Z/monolith is good at creating self–contained web pages.

Writing assistant: Vale. I heard somewhere that writing/speaking at a 6th grade level is a surefire way to be relevant… whoops.

$ vale extensible-stylesheets.md
1:1     suggestion  Grade Level 11.02.              thedro.Readability         
16:3    error       Use code tag `XML` instead of   technical.CodeSubtitutions 
                   'XML'.