I looked into my Unix past and used nroff to format a short letter. I even defined the .PP macro with info from the 1980s troff manual.
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager in X11 https://swaywm.org/
A Vim guide for advanced users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-advanced/
A Vim guide for intermediate users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-intermediate/
Is Vim really not for you? A beginner guide - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-beginner/
My website bio now has descriptions and links to the writing projects I'm working on with hosted Git sites http://passthejoe.net/about/
I am looking into floccus browser bookmarks sync even if Google decides not to bar Chromium browsers from the Chrome sync service https://floccus.org/
Look at this Community Update from @rocky_linux. They are doing it right. This will be a much stronger project than @CentOSProject in terms of governance, community involvement and transparency. All good! https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-february-2021/1934
How Garfield helped me make peace with a culture in decline - Dan Brooks/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/magazine/garfield-twitter.html
I updated the archive links on the right column on Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts http://updates.passthejoe.net/
I very much like writing for Twitter and Mastodon in my own app because I can use the text editor of my choice, write once and post to both microblogging services as well as my own microblog. http://updates.passthejoe.net/
Hello, world
This is my Updates archive of social-media-style posts. My main sites can be found here and here.
My original Ode site lives! You can find it here.New: Every post on one page
See EVERY post in this microblog — all 3,500+ — on one HTML page. This archive updates once daily.
Counter
There are 3567 updates in this microblog.
Social updates, or why this site exists and how it works
This site is dedicated to social-media-style updates. For longer pieces, see links to my main sites above. In this microblog, I am using a command-line script written in Ruby to feed this site and my Fediverse account on Mastodon.
In February 2026, I fixed this microblog and changed my configuration in the blogPoster script so I could start posting to it again. Even though I'm a regular Fediverse user, I see some value in keeping my own microblog in this simple form. It's basically a blog that can be easily fed and which doesn't show post titles (though every post does have a title, the blog HTML hides them).Goals in 2026
I'd like to begin work on a new blog-posting GUI app that makes it easy to write and post to a Hugo or Zola blog. I have sites using both static site generators, but the Zola site is where I'm writing these days.
No databases were harmed in the making of this web site
You're seeing this blog, powered by Ode, through the magic of the Perl programming language and the Common Gateway Interface. Also involved: the Apache web server and Linux operating system.
The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.
Ode does not use a database to store content. Instead, every entry exists on the web server as a "flat" text file.
Counter: Thanks to Rob Reed for the Ode system that runs this blog as well as his help on the Counter addin that provides the post-count feature seen above.
What happened to the Ode project?
I don't really know.
The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.
Contact me
E-mail: stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com
Who am I
and why am I here?
My name is Steven Rosenberg. Journalist. Programmer. Husband. Father. Fixer of the broken. I currently run desktops with Debian Bullseye and Bookworm.
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Steven Rosenberg's microblogging posts at this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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