Notes

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I really want to like HyperTexting (an iOS app that will turn feeds into a scrollable social media interface), but when I first opened the app, it auto-subscribed me to 20+ feeds I have no interest in, and now the first post on the list is an ad to buy a sponsorship for their app.

I get that good software requires people to actually make money, but this is a little much for an app that hasn’t even shown me it’s worth using.

iOS screenshot of the HyperTexting app’s Timeline, showing a sponsored post — an advertisement from the verified @hypertexting.com account promoting their “Weekly Sponsorship Program.” The ad explains that advertisers can promote products to free users with text, links, images, audio, video, and PDF downloads, and that free users will see one sponsor per week, displayed once per day. Below the ad copy is a link preview card with a money bag emoji linking to hypertexting.com/sponsors.

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Built a docs site for astro-jsonfeed, powered by Starlight. Setup was painless. Took an afternoon.

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I built a new website, Yarrow. It pulls a three-card tarot spread every time you visit. A fun side-project built with Astro, Svelte, and Tailwind. I’ve got a bunch of ideas for it, but wanted to get a basic version out first.

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Love this poem I found:

They/Them
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infact bright of morning

the to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

A printed poem on cream-coloured paper, photographed close up. The title reads "THEY/THEM" in small caps, with an italic dedication to Nex Benedict beneath it. The poem is set in a serif typeface, its lines built from ampersands as it moves through times of day — dawn, dusk, sunset, twilight, morning — before closing on a two-line stanza about binary perception and the divine.

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I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

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I created my first NPM pcakge today for astro-jsonfeed, my Astro utility for genreating a JSON Feed. Check it out https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-jsonfeed.

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I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).

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I built a parody of Tumblr called Windfall.

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1,253 new Slack messages is not the Monday I ordered.

Slack's empty unreads screen reading "All done. The future is yours." with a green "1,253 New Messages" badge stacked on top of it.

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claude code removed my buddy 😢

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Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander, took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window.

Photogrpah of Earth from the Orion sapcecraft's window

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Instagram is a photo grid owned by a company that would prefer you never leave. It used to be kind of nice.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/trellis and it’s just photos, in a grid, on a website I own.

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Line drawing of 1RG’s street view.

Line drawing of the street view of 1RG. Brick upper floor, bay window, large grid windows, and a side door marked 2557.

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This Is My Jam was a music sharing site that let you declare one song your jam at a time. It shut down in 2015 and I still think about it.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/this-is-my-jam and will be updated whenever the mood strikes.

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Curret mood.

Adora from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, shown from the shoulders up in a tight close-up. Her blonde hair is pulled into a high ponytail with a swooped poof at the front. Thick dark brows pull into a scowl over grey-blue eyes, mouth set in a flat frown. She wears a red jacket with a tall cream collar. Behind her, a hazy desert of red rock under a mint-green sky.

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Started playing Cairn on my Steamdeck, such an amazing game.

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I’m really enjoying The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.

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Charli XCX commenting on John Cale’s Instagram post, “defo text me any time!”.

Screenshot of John Cale’s Instagram: photo of John Cale with Charli XCX. Caption: ‘Can I speak to you privately for a moment?’ Charli replies: ‘defo text me any time!’

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My Spotify Wrapped for 2025.

Spotify Wrapped card showing I listened for 19,049 minutes in 2025, equal to 13 days.

Spotify Wrapped card listing my top genres: Indie Pop, Freak Folk, Art Pop, Indie Punk, and Folk Punk.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my ‘listening age’ as 25, based on listening to music from the late 2010s.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my top song, ‘Lover’s Spit’ by Broken Social Scene, with 22 streams.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my top five songs: ‘Lover’s Spit’ by Broken Social Scene; ‘Archie, Marry Me’ by Alvvays; ‘Ode to a Conversation…’ by Del Water Gap; ‘Sexy to Someone’ by Clairo; and ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ by Wolf Alice.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my top album, TANGK by IDLES, with 223 minutes listened.

Spotify Wrapped card listing my top albums: TANGK by IDLES; Could Have Done Anything by Charlotte Cornfield; Five Years of Brutalism by IDLES; What’s Another Night? by Apes of the State; and flounder by quinnie.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my top artist, IDLES, with 534 minutes listened and a Top 2% global fan badge.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my top five artists: IDLES, Charlotte Cornfield, Taylor Swift, Lucy Dacus, and Suki Waterhouse.

Spotify Wrapped card showing my listening role, ‘Collector,’ with an illustration of a meditating flower character.

Spotify Wrapped card for March 18, 2025, labeled Repeat-Heavy Day. Highlights that I listened mostly to Madelline tracks like ‘dopamine,’ ‘Participation Trophies,’ and ‘training wheels,’ with indie folk and pop later in the day. Shows 221 minutes, 69 plays, and 38 artists.

Spotify Wrapped card for April 24, 2025, labeled Most Diverse Day. Summarizes listening across 57 tracks and 64 artists—ranging from Edward Sharpe to The Magnetic Fields and Suki Waterhouse—with genres including folk, electropop, bossa nova, and riot grrrl. Total 198 minutes.

Spotify Wrapped card for July 18, 2025, labeled Biggest IDLES Day. Describes a day dominated by IDLES songs like ‘POP POP POP,’ ‘Roy,’ and ‘Gift Horse,’ including live Glastonbury recordings. Shows 196 minutes, 54 tracks, and 3 artists.

Spotify Wrapped card for September 19, 2025, labeled Birthday. Describes a punk-pop heavy day featuring IDLES, DITZ, Warmduscher, Lola Young, Your Smith, and DEADLETTER. Shows 257 minutes, 80 tracks, and 25 artists.

Spotify Wrapped card for October 31, 2025, labeled Biggest Music Listening Day. Highlights a full-day indie pop marathon featuring bülow, Your Smith, and Jaira Burns. Shows 689 minutes, 216 tracks, and 90 artists.

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The Society of Brevity is for those who believe most sentences can end sooner. We honor concision, condemn excess, and keep introductions short.

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Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.

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I don’t appreciate Duolingo’s pro-horse agenda.

Screenshot of Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, In the countryside, I hear the horses, to French. I successfully translated it to Á la campagne j'entends les chevaux.

Screenshot of a Duolingo French lesson. It's asking to translate the English sentence, This horse is very beautiful, to French. I successfully translated it to Che cheval est tres beau.

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I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.

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Template errors in Laravel are the hardest bugs to figure out.