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Taylor Jadin
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✴️ Dad, husband, geek, teacher, musician
💼 Systems Administrator and Director of Operations @ Reclaim Hosting
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A Backwoods CMS Adventure
Tired of your same old CMS? Maybe take a small vacation from it and try this out. I'll be your trail guide for this rustic web authoring adventure. While this is a vacation and it will have its charms...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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📝 AT Protocol, Identity, and Self-hosting

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September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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📝 Raspberry Pi 500+

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Raspberry Pi 500+
The Raspberry Pi folks have a new retro-inspired-the-keyboard-is-the-computer-thingy, the Raspberry Pi 500+. I have never bought one of these, but I've always wanted to, as I think they are so adorabl...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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My favorite reason to have a 3D printer in the house is to solve tiny problems

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An animated gif of a part in a 3d printer's slicing program, moving up layer by layerAn animated gif of a part in a 3d printer's slicing program, moving up layer by layer
April 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Documenting and note-taking is blogging too

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Using GCTools with Ghost on Reclaim Cloud
A somewhat quick "here are my notes" style blog post! Today I needed to do some work with bulk user management of folks on https://blog.reclaimhosting.com/ as we re-organize our newsletters offerings...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A really intriguing self-hostable bookmarking tool
I've been using Raindrop for years, and it's not too expensive, but I really need to give linkwarden a shot: GitHub - linkwarden/linkwarden: ⚡️⚡️⚡️Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collec...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Indirect Prompt Injection
Indirect prompt injection is going to be a huge concern as companies build platforms where LLMs can use tools. Tools in this context means LLMs can interact with other systems, like send and receiving...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Big update to one of the easiest ways to emulate Windows 95
Super awesome update to a pretty easy to use tool to virtualize Windows 95 on modern machines: Release v4.0.0 · felixrieseberg/windows95Welcome back! Largely thanks to a lot of good work in windows95...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Why I'm excited about Ghost getting ActivityPub support
The little video preview from the Building Activitypub ewsletter that shows a peek at the interface of Ghost's activitypub interface, and it shows off why I'm pretty excited to try this out when it co...
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February 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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My new alternate-timeline alt-smartphone toy
I've got a bit of blog catch up to do, but in the spirit of blogging small, I have some quick posts to get out there first. I got a new toy a few weeks ago. The uConsole is an enclosure/case thing fo...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism is Suddenly Viral
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly ViralThe World War II-era “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.404 MediaJason Koeb...
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January 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Blogging small
I love Maren's post on kickstarting your blog: In the best tradition of blogging about blogging, today’s post is all about getting started with or getting back into blogging. Recently I have had lots...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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New post:

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Links to Text Fragments
Alan blogged a really cool trick I didn't know about: This ability thought suggests you can make a link to goes directly (i.e. what they used to call a “deep link”) to specific chunk of text in any w...
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January 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A post on my favorites from the second half of AGDQ:

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My favorite speed-runs from the second half of AGDQ 2025
Following up a few days late on that part 1! Near the end of the week, was a "No Logic Randomizer" run of Ocarina of Time. This is a modified version of the game where every is in a random location. ...
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January 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Ghost and comments
Tim's post, and the conversation below it, has me rethinking comments on this site. I really want to make Ghost's built in comments work, but I similarly do not like the login requirement. That all be...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Trying out RetroNAS
I'm playing around with RetroNAS today, which seems really interesting. GitHub - retronas/retronas: Use a Raspberry Pi, old computer or VM as network storage for different retro computers and console...
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January 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A blog post where I gush about speed-running and GDQ:
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My favorite speed-runs from the first half of AGDQ 2025
One of my favorite events, that comes along twice a year, are the Games Done Quick charity speed-run marathons. I've been tuning in to these in some capacity for almost 10 years, and I figure I should...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I’m definitely making an entire slide deck with this at some point

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The Death Generator
The Death Generator
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December 10, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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Who is this?
Alan writes about the trick with identity on the Fediverse, when you are using multiple tools/platforms: One of the oddest wraps is that as you take on more fediverse tools, you actually end up fragm...
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November 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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November 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Some progress
I spent some time doing some basic theme stuff with the Ghost blog tonight. I ended up ditching the paid theme I was trying out, and instead forked the Dawn theme and made some small layout changes, t...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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Pretty proud of (Wisconsin native!) The Onion right now

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Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing
Satirical news publication The Onion has bought Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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November 14, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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2/4 I don't however think Bluesky is the answer. I'm a skeptic. Been burned too many times. But if this is what you like to use, I will cross-post here. Until the next Musk buys them, which I'm pretty sure is where this thing is going, imho, btw, ymmv.
November 10, 2024 at 5:26 PM