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Canceled my SetApp subscription

At $10/month, SetApp is a good deal, especially if you use more than a handful of the included Apps. I’ve been a subscriber since early on. I have two Macs, so the subscription is $15/month. Still a good deal, but I did the math and realized that

Software

[Repost] My new notetaking system: Don't take notes

I wrote the following in 2021 but can’t find where I posted it, and I’m feeling it again, so I’m recording it here It feels like everyone (or at least those in my bubble) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows, processes, backlinks, and on

Notetaking
[Repost] My new notetaking system: Don't take notes

I can't even be bothered to blog about it

The past week has been weird for me, blog-wise. Normally, I fire up a daily post every morning because I want to. I then keep my eyes peeled for interesting things to post about. I like posting stuff on the blog. Lately, though, I haven’t felt like it. Examples?

Blogging

Sunday, June 01, 2025

There are things I want to talk about, but I don’t feel like writing any of it. Mike Hall: There’s an addressable market of 1. What finally made it “work,” if our definition of “work” is “make code that does what I want with about as many obvious

Journal
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Running on FreeBSD

As of Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM, all of my static websites are being served using Caddy on a FreeBSD server from Vultr. Yesterday everything was on an Ubuntu server at Hetzner. I would have prefered to stay at Hetzner, but they don’t seem to offer

FreeBSD