• March 20

  Playing with chunk size when writing :: Sacha Chua

  

  sachachua.com

  How long is a blog post? Some people write short posts with one clear thought. Others...

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• March 24

  mastodon.el: Copy toot URL after posting; also, copying just this post with 11ty :: Sacha Chua

  

  sachachua.com

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• March 20

  Old-school blogger :: Sacha Chua

  

  sachachua.com

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• March 10

  An appeal to the community for non-algorithmic recommendations - ~talk

  

  tildes.net

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