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Jugband Blues | Fran's Realm Pink Floyd's saddest song

Jugband Blues

https://iamfran.com/notes/jugband-blues/

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity | Fran's Realm Lessons from 1976

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

https://iamfran.com/notes/laws-human-stupidity/

terminal-interface

MarkdownDO: Manage tasks from your terminal

https://iamfran.com/notes/markdowndo/

Who's the murderer? And how do you top this? | Fran's Realm Agatha Christie exhausted the possibilities

Who's the murderer? And how do you top this?

https://iamfran.com/notes/agatha-christie-three-novels/

Quick Notes 2.0 is out now Quick Notes has a major update out now that has my favorite new feature in the app, a whole new design, the long-awaited ability to pause or restart recordings with ease, and oh yeah, iCloud sync. Brainstorm Mode Quick Notes has always been very good at listening to you speak

🔗 Quick Notes 2.0 is out now https://birchtree.me/blog/quick-notes-2-0-is-out-now/

Introducing Bombshell Bombshell is a growing collection of open source tools for building modern terminal interfaces in JavaScript.

Hey, we're Bombshell 👋

We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg‍.pr.new.

We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.

Excited to show you what we've been up to.

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GitHub - i-am-fran/mdt: Command line markdown todo list manager Command line markdown todo list manager . Contribute to i-am-fran/mdt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here the changes I’ve added until now:

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This is such a nice little project!

I’ve added a lot of easy to use commands and simplifications to the original project and now it works exactly how I need it.

Each folder has a TODO(.)md file and I control all of them or each one individually from the terminal.

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Using mdt to manage project tasks

https://iamfran.com/notes/mdt/

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A Flexoki theme for Marp

https://iamfran.com/notes/marp-theme-flexoki/

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Flexoki theme for Marp

https://iamfran.com/projects/marp-theme-flexoki/

Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume) McKinley Franklin: White House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive) Highlights Guests include director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Linsa

🔗 Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume) https://birchtree.me/blog/trump-invited-his-friends-over-and-youll-never-guess-who-happily-showed-up-with-movie-snacks-i-can-only-assume/

Working with AI | Fran's Realm A GitHub repository

Working with AI https://iamfran.com/notes/2026-01-15-1154/

That I can believe.

Haven’t opened it in ages honestly. I recently came back here but I don’t know how long this will last…

For a while I’ve been using tech only for work and one personal project, so I lost the habit of checking in.

You *enjoy* LinkedIn?

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

You can do this. You can do SOMETHING.

There's a Flexoki theme for Nova | Fran's Realm Another app with the beautiful inky colour scheme

🔗 There's a Flexoki theme for Nova

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"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..."

No, people are asking the app to make the images.

IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.

Shortcuts: Saving markdown files | Fran's Realm Finally a solution for this

✍️ Shortcuts: Saving markdown files

Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid.

For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt.

But I write everything in markdown...

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A small logo update | Fran's Realm 2026 smallest revamp

👨‍🎨 A small logo update

AKA 2026 smallest revamp

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A screenshot of Claude Code in the terminal (left) to proofread and edit the file in iA Writer (right).

You could just start a Claude Code account with a small budget per month and see how it goes... It's extremely flexible and it can be used anywhere (apart from mobile), that's its power.

Here it runs in the terminal (left) to proofread and edit the file in iA Writer (right).

I'm using Claude Code for almost everything.

Different folders have different `CLAUDE.md` files and agents. Using iTerm I can quickly switch between them and have a personalised experience in each of them.

Occasionally I also use the classic Claude app, but it's more for single questions.

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A bridge above a frozen canal in Frankendael park

A path in the snow between the woods in Frankendael park

Amsterdam under the snow 💙

Apps defaults (2025) | Fran's Realm A list of apps I use every day

✍️ Apps default (2025)

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Galleria Subalpina in Turin

Corso Roma and Piazza San Carlo in Turin

It's always nice to go back to Turin

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What happened to the gift of synthesis? | Fran's Realm It should've been a movie...

Just finished the first season of Pluribus and I can’t take this shit anymore.

What happened to the gift of synthesis?

More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: “This should’ve been a film.”

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