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readbeanicecream<p>My Dumb Ascii Comic</p><p>Proof positive that I may not have enough to do today.</p><p><a href="https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smolweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/personalweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ascii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ascii</span></a></p>
C.<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Email</span></a> will always be plain <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>text</span></a>.</p><p>But some companies ...</p><p>Return-Path: &lt;bounces-456@bouncesp.monster.com&gt;<br>Received: [...]<br>Subject: [...]<br>To: [...]<br>Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_----9kSRfd7Enun64iOZEIFzXw===_B6/5E-12157-1C57EE76"<br>[...]</p><p>--_----9kSRfd7Enun64iOZEIFzXw===_B6/5E-12157-1C57EE76<br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable</p><p>--_----9kSRfd7Enun64iOZEIFzXw===_B6/5E-12157-1C57EE76<br>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable<br>Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"</p><p>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "<a href="http://www.w3.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">w3.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>=<br>[...]</p><p>Well played, Monster / monster.com.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rfc822" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfc822</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MIME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIME</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/multipart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multipart</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/testing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>testing</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rfc2822" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfc2822</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rfc2045" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfc2045</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rfc2046" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfc2046</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rfc1341" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfc1341</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MultipartAlternative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultipartAlternative</span></a></p>
Tim Chase<p>"MediaWiki has the most overwrought, over-engineered, over-complex syntax known to man. You might as well just write directly in OOXML and zip it up, along with your self-respect" (<a href="https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rldane.space/why-i-love-markdo</span><span class="invisible">wn.html</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span>)</p><p>Not terribly far off-base 😛</p><p>(and yes, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> is incredibly long-lived)</p>
Álvaro R.<p>I'm ocasionally asked if <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Journelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journelly</span></a> would ever come to <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>. I'm open to the idea.</p><p>👉 Please register your interest by emailing: journelly + android @ xenodium.com</p><p>If you haven't heard about Journelly, here's a blog post <a href="https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-eyes-only" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xenodium.com/journelly-like-tw</span><span class="invisible">eeting-but-for-your-eyes-only</span></a></p><p>Please boost for visibility</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/kotlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kotlin</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>OOPS</p><p>Wired: The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats</p><p>A new analysis of TM Signal’s source code appears to show that the app sends users’ message logs in plaintext. At least one top Trump administration official used the app.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050725&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=WIR_Daily_050725&amp;bxid=67a55b07e0b7ef5c690d6cda&amp;cndid=86140256&amp;hasha=7213f5fc65db9d9e956ca66e659c1114&amp;hashc=7d14e354e23b1d1b8a5f8095df3a496f14420a0f662aa69dcbdbd4c05c69f5f1&amp;esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&amp;utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/tm-signal-tele</span><span class="invisible">message-plaintext-message-archive/?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050725&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=WIR_Daily_050725&amp;bxid=67a55b07e0b7ef5c690d6cda&amp;cndid=86140256&amp;hasha=7213f5fc65db9d9e956ca66e659c1114&amp;hashc=7d14e354e23b1d1b8a5f8095df3a496f14420a0f662aa69dcbdbd4c05c69f5f1&amp;esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&amp;utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> Clone Mike <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Waltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Waltz</span></a> Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User Chats</p><p>A new analysis of TM Signal's source code appears to show that the app sends users' message logs in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a>. At least one top <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration official used the app.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tmsignal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tmsignal</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/tm-signal-tele</span><span class="invisible">message-plaintext-message-archive/</span></a></p>
Smitho.graphics℠ Logo Designer<p>Journelly iOS app by Álvaro Ramírez <br>@xenodium.bsky.social</p><p> <a href="https://apps.apple.com/si/app/journelly/id6470714669" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apps.apple.com/si/app/journell</span><span class="invisible">y/id6470714669</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journaling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/swiftui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swiftui</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/indiehackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiehackers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bootstrapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bootstrapping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/saas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/solofounderlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solofounderlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/makercommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makercommunity</span></a></p><p>❤️Original post: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6jihelfv263qrjig3cjsigi/post/3locduvdlbs2r" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6jih</span><span class="invisible">elfv263qrjig3cjsigi/post/3locduvdlbs2r</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>No idea what it means for downloads yet but Journelly is currently #8 under lifestyle paid apps in the UK 🤩🥺</p><p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journelly/id6470714669" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apps.apple.com/us/app/journell</span><span class="invisible">y/id6470714669</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journaling</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swiftui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swiftui</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/journelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journelly</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>🙏 My iOS app made it to the App Store, please help me get the word out and boost 🚀</p><p>Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)</p><p><a href="https://lmno.lol/alvaro/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-eyes-only" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lmno.lol/alvaro/journelly-like</span><span class="invisible">-tweeting-but-for-your-eyes-only</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swiftui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swiftui</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/journelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journelly</span></a></p>
Todd Alström<p>Plain text emails are awesome. 🤘</p><p>Be awesome. 👇</p><p><a href="https://useplaintext.email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">useplaintext.email</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/useplaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>useplaintext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/useplaintextemail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>useplaintextemail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awesome</span></a></p>
Ellane<p>At last — a hands-on, simple, portable plain text flashcard system I actually want to use! It's plugin-free and works in most Markdown apps, persistent fold-states preferred. </p><p>2-minute blog post: <a href="https://ellanew.com/ptpl/154-2025-04-28-spaced-repetition-in-plain-text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ellanew.com/ptpl/154-2025-04-2</span><span class="invisible">8-spaced-repetition-in-plain-text</span></a></p><p>Full write up of the method is in the works.</p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/languageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageLearning</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/study" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>study</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/plainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plainText</span></a></p>
Tim Chase<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/@phil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phil</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>simon_brooke</span></a></span> </p><p>And all that plain-text plays nicely with compression, with git (or whatever VCS you prefer), and with pretty much everything in the Unix toolbox. </p><p>Sigh…<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> 🥰</p>
Phil<p><span>Factors:<br>1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.<br>2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people </span><i>need</i><span> the fancy features advanced text editors introduce. <br>3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.<br>4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.<br>5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.<br>6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but </span><i>is</i> still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after <i>three years</i><span> of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)<br>6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.<br><br>TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.<br><br></span><a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/plaintext" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plaintext</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/emacs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emacs</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#txt</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/notepad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#notepad</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/bloat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloat</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/bloatware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloatware</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/saas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saas</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/googledocs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#googledocs</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/msword" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#msword</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/microsoftword" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoftword</a> <a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/tags/rant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a><span><br><br>RE: </span><a href="https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0</a></p>
Ellane<p>In today's piece on digital scratchpads I talk about leveraging micro-friction by placing a life dashboard where you'll see it every day. I'm coming from the perspective of keeping daily notes in One Big Text File, but the principles apply to any daily note practice.<br><a href="https://ellanew.com/ptpl-2025-04-14-append-obtf-to-craft-a-dashboard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ellanew.com/ptpl-2025-04-14-ap</span><span class="invisible">pend-obtf-to-craft-a-dashboard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/plainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plainText</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://taonaw.com/activitypub/jtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jtr</span></a></span>'s lovely post:</p><p>"Journalley blows this mental challenge away. It invites me to take notes and just notes. It’s the opposite of a chore. “Go ahead,” it winks at me, “spill the beans. Snap some pictures. We’ll work on the details later.” Suddenly, I’m free to let my mind go."</p><p><a href="https://taonaw.com/categories/emacs-org-mode" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taonaw.com/categories/emacs-or</span><span class="invisible">g-mode</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/swiftui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swiftui</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journaling</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/notetaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notetaking</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/@Linux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Linux</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClownFlare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClownFlare</span></a> is literally a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ValueRemoving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ValueRemoving</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RentSeeker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RentSeeker</span></a> that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MITM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MITM</span></a>'s traffic to capture <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Logins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logins</span></a> in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> &amp; also acts as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RogueISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RogueISP</span></a> hosting everything from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CSAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSAM</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybercrime</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a>.</p><ul><li>There is no legitimate reason to use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CloudFlare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloudFlare</span></a> for anything!</li></ul>
Herb Bowie<p>Published a new Notenik Adventure explaining my tech priorities for note-taking (which, not coincidentally) are the priorities addressed by Notenik. Includes a nice diagram!</p><p><a href="https://notenik.app/adventures/tech-priorities-for-note-taking.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">notenik.app/adventures/tech-pr</span><span class="invisible">iorities-for-note-taking.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/pkm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkm</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Notenik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Notenik</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a></p>
Ellane<p>This week I wrote about why the open-est of open formats isn't the one for me. Turns out there are some strong opinions on the longevity/convenience spectrum! I appreciate all of them and feel grateful for respectful disagreements.</p><p>Markdown cops some flack (slang: receives some criticism) but that's not putting me off. </p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/plainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plainText</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>html</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://union.place/@feralthoughts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>feralthoughts</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://graz.social/@publicvoit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicvoit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@hbowie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hbowie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@reichenstein" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reichenstein</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://ellanew.com/ptpl/151-2025-04-07-why-the-openest-of-open-formats-isn't-for-me" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ellanew.com/ptpl/151-2025-04-0</span><span class="invisible">7-why-the-openest-of-open-formats-isn't-for-me</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>Irreal’s initial thoughts on Journelly: “As for Journelly itself, I like it. A lot.” ❤️🤩</p><p><a href="https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12894" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">irreal.org/blog/?p=12894</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/org" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>org</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journaling</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/microblogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microblogging</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>This is why everyone should read their email in <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> because you get fun ones like this from PayPal!</p><p>Hello Robert,</p><p>We have tried to send you this email as HTML (pictures and tables and words) but it wasn't possible.<br>In order for you to see what we had hoped to show you, please click here to view online in your browser:</p><p>&lt;URL&gt;</p><p><a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Email</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newsletter</span></a></p>