Notes

Daily notes that won’t necessarily happen every day. Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer.

2025-08-27

Getting all sorts of ideas for unnecessarily complex projects that I don’t have time to implement.

Browser tab bankruptcy

corrode.dev/dev/learn/
learning resources for Rust
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
one page, many layouts; always been a huge factor in why I avoid utility class frameworks for my CSS
Polyphony - Codeberg.org
“Free, open source, federated communications software, compatible with the Discord API and built with polyproto, Rust and love.”
The Sidebar: Every Layout
thinking about new visual designs for the site

Reading Node Weekly

Node Weekly Issue 591: August 26, 2025

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2025-08-26

right before sunrise proper
right before sunrise proper

Mrs Geek going through the process of what may be an interesting job.

She
oh god i totally forgot a cover letter
Me
WELL. For bullshit communications I heartily endorse a large language model.

I mean if they probably aren’t going to read it, why should she have to write it? I’ve written some cover letters that I’m downright proud of, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only person who ever read them or I’d at least get called out for the Diogenes references

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2025-08-24 Bouncy Dog travels prepared

Jumpy Dog and Bouncy Dog both enjoy the additional walk opportunities presented by the weekend. This time around Bouncy Dog was very keen on bringing the chew toy along.

two leashed black chihuahua mix dogs looking with interest to their left; one of the dogs has a plastic bone chew toy in his mouth
two leashed black chihuahua mix dogs looking with interest to their left; one of the dogs has a plastic bone chew toy in his mouth

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2025-08-25

The MCSS

New CSS framework just dropped.

The MCSS by Mike Mai

A modern classless CSS framework inspired by the typefaces of Matthew Carter

Carter is responsible for Georgia and Verdana fonts. The idea is a clean minimal theme, based on SuperMinimalCSS, which emphasizes these two widely available fonts.

Mainly I like how they do description lists:

mcss-dl
mcss-dl

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2025-08-24

  • Putting Ovid’s post on my AI reading list:
  • Most of the weekend’s been cleaning up old posts, replacing workarounds and Hugo shortcodes with Markdown that a render hook can handle. That simplifies things on the PKM side, and will eventually simplify them on the publishing side as well. You’ll be able to see my progress as backlink lists start growing.
  • 2025-08-24 Bouncy Dog travels prepared
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2025-08-23

Working on the export thing. Adding logic to skip private notes. Mostly because I’m more about allowlists than blocklists when I publish, even something as intentionally sloppy and organic as this iteration of Random Geekery.

Been lots of Torment Nexus moments

How to not build the Torment Nexus • Buttondown

I guess what I’m saying is that it’s getting close to impossible to be in this industry—at the moment—without being on the Torment Nexus Team.

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2025-08-22 No politics

“No politics” always means “only my politics”

Coinbase CEO Fired Employees Who Didn’t Adopt AI After Being Told to - Business Insider

“Some of them had a good reason [not to start using AI tools by the end of the week] because they were just getting back from a trip or something,” Armstrong said. “Some of them didn’t, and they got fired.”

I mean. No company really lives up to their mission statement, right?

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2025-08-21 sunset

Sunset

However you want to draw a cloud, it’s cool. It’s valid. The actual sky will one-up you for surrealism.

large dark clouds overlapping orange sunset, framed between two trees; wispy pinkish lavender clouds against darkening blue sky forms a backdrop for the whole scene
large dark clouds overlapping orange sunset, framed between two trees; wispy pinkish lavender clouds against darkening blue sky forms a backdrop for the whole scene

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2025-08-21

@benbrown on hackers.town:

@randomgeek fyi, the content:encoded field of your rss feed has relative links and image urls, while the description feed has absolute links.

Now I remember why I got into the habit of always using .Permalink instead of .RelPermalink in Hugo. .Permalink includes host portion—https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025-08-21/—which is helpful in contexts like RSS feed generation. .RelPermalink gives a server-relative path like /note/2025-08-21/.

Haven’t really thought about it for a while, so I forgot why and eventually forgot the habit.

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