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On Social Media and ConnectionDesigning reactions that don't demand a response, and how constant visibility slowly redefined what we treat as connection.1 min readsocial-mediaattentionconnection

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  • 18 Sept 2026

    12:02 AM

    What is needed is attention: to see the thing as it is, and not add to it the flame of our own passion.

  • 17 Sept 2026

    11:46 PM

    I decided to maintain separate GitHub accounts for work and personal projects; this alleviates the mental burden of worrying about accidentally committing work-related material. Although Agents are far more capable now, mistakes still occur. I’m available at @brmtl, pronounced “bare-metal.”

  • 12 Sept 2026

    11:00 PM

    herdr is a game changer! I’ve tried tmux, Zellij, some homemade terminal multiplexers, and workspaces like cmux, but nothing helped me stay focused on what I was doing quite like herdr. Now it’s on every machine I use.

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  • 7:27 PM

    I think I finally have an Obsidian-native blogging system, powered by Astro + GitHub. At this point, the real time-saver is reusing systems instead of reinventing them. Just saying.

  • 10 Sept 2026

    1:48 PM

    Testing my new workflow with Joao!

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A ferry and riverboats on Amsterdam's waterfront at dusk, with gold hotel lights reflected in the water
A self-portrait of the author looking through a public telescope across the North Sea, with distant ships on the horizon
The glass-roofed interior of De Passage in The Hague, with ornate iron balconies, hanging flower baskets, and Dutch flags

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Practical patterns for writing reliable, scalable async code in C#.

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Grokking Algorithms

Grokking Algorithms

Aditya Y. Bhargava

An illustrated guide to algorithms and data structures — 2nd edition.

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