The email dark-mode bug that hides between light and dark
A headline in a test email came out white on white. The code said dark gray. The mail client said dark mode was off. Both were telling the truth. ## What I saw The email is a newer card-style layout:…
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October 2026
Two days to replace Leantime, 75 days running on it
On August 6, 2026 I replaced my project management tool by editing one line in a config file. The line told my coding agent which MCP server to call. Before the edit it said Leantime. After it,…
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Every herdr space gets its own alert sound now. I made them with sfxr.
**TL;DR.** herdr plays one sound when any agent finishes and another when any agent needs you. With seven spaces open, that tells me something happened but not where. herdfxr is a herdr plugin that…
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Doctorow owns his feeds now. They're still a firehose.
Cory Doctorow's Bluesky account is 227 days old and has 17,374 posts in it. That's 76 a day, on a server he runs himself, under a bio that reads "I post long threads." His Mastodon account has been…
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Hashtags are the algorithm you can see
Last night I posted a question on technomusicology.club, a social network I run for people interested in the science of musical sound. The server has 20 users. My account has 176 followers. The post…
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