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Blog Pagination: The Notebook Way Rethinking blog pagination by treating blogs as notebooks with fixed pages instead of dynamic, ever-changing indexes.

What do you think?
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Someone takes all your electronics. Laptop, desktop, disks, mobile.

Do you have a recovery plan?

(Other than, my password is "pass123" everywhere, I get new devices and login.)

Jujutsu - Wikipedia

> "Jujutsu" thus has the meaning of "yielding-art", as its core philosophy is to manipulate the opponent's force against themself

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu

Check it out: github.com/vrypan/bckt-mcp

It requires MCP support, so it will work with Claude Desktop, but not ChatGPT (maybe with the lates dev version supports MCP, not sure).

So, why not publish the blog post directly from the AI tool?

When you are satisfied with your blog text, bckt-mcp lets you ask "bckt preview" or "bckt save" and a nicely formatted markdown file will be saved exactly at the right path.

bckt-mcp: a MCP server for the bckt static site generator.

The idea is simple:
1. It is usually annoying to have to write the front matter by hand.
2. Most users have integrated (or will, soon) and AI tool in their blog posting flow.

My blog, from diary to content repo How my blog changed over the years.

blog.vrypan.net/2025/10/07/m...

Is it possible to make a static site work as a PDS?

For example, pre-render the expected API responses?
And if it can't be done 100%, which parts can and cannot?

(atproto noob questions)

GitHub - vrypan/bckt: bckt is an opinionated but flexible static site generator for blogs. bckt is an opinionated but flexible static site generator for blogs. - vrypan/bckt

Static site generators are simple, but if you've used them long enough you know there are a thousand details that can make your life easier or harder.

I finally built the SSG I always wanted: github.com/vrypan/bckt

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

(2024) Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on how governments work.

I wonder if they see a problem with the current administration.

Mother Fucker.

Where is this?

Monopoly Round-Up: U.S. Farmers Revolt Over Trump's Argentina Bailout The White House, facing angry farmers over a bailout of their competitors in Argentina, is trying to offer favors. Like cracking down on agri-business. Plus cringe shutdown politics, and more.

US bails out Argentina, soybean farmers feel betrayed. Interesting analysis.

> the real problem for Trump is that this bailout pits two very loyal constituencies against each other, hedge funds and soybean farmers.

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

1. No idea

2. Me neither. But in democratic countries:
- Police is allowed to use force against people inside the country
- Army is only (with very specific and rare exceptions) allowed to use force outside the borders of the country.

Not police. He posted:

>At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect war ravaged Portland [..]

Police is not part of the Ministry of War.

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Then anyone would be able to deploy one, and overload it with the functionality they like: recovery, co-owners, you name it.

And the contract address, would be my identity.

I see.

Expanding on the idea: Why limit ourselves to a specific smart contract to hold Identity and not define an Identity ERC, that allows a smart contract to act as my identity. With functions like owner(), and metadata(key), and publicKey(), and name()?

People wanted easy because (the people that moved most of the online economy, i.e. the West) the took the rest as given: freedom of speech, access to banking, personal liberties and the rule of law. Imo, we are approaching a breakpoint in global politics, that will push "easy" down the list.

Sure, but not different than DNS.

What about ENS? FIDs have some advantages (for example recovery), but ENS offers a much richer identity. Or not?

What I need is a leaf blower noise canceling device.

Slow Horses season five review – not even Gary Oldman can salvage this TV mess It’s the worst outing yet for the Slough House gang, with main characters having unnerving personality transplants and ‘action’ sequences taking place in penguin enclosures. Yikes!

Slow Horses season 5 is out, but the reviews don't seem good.

Big fan, will watch it nevertheless.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I started blogging 20+ years ago, when nobody cared what a blog was. Many didn’t even know the Internet. It felt free. Then an audience came, self-awareness crept in, and posting got harder. I long for that freedom. Or is it I were 20 years younger too?

Trying to build this would be a nice experiment to actually learn how atproto works... Adding it to my list.

Noob questions:

1. Is there a way to have long posts in AT Proto?

2. Does it make sense to try and convert a self-hosted blog into a self-hosted PDS?

Thanks!

They are social places, not networks Even though the connections of each individual user are his social network, these sites (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.) are not social networks. They are social networking places.

Written 12 years ago, but still holds.

blog.vrypan.net/2013/07/11/t...