People used to steer me away from visiting Paris for years because it’s pricey, unsafe, dirty and generally not worth it. But I just got back from there, and you know what? I loved it (as a tourist)! Especially at Christmas time when the city is all lit up. It felt like being in the European New York, but way more fancier. I think it’s the most beautiful city I’ve visited so far.

OK, it’s pricey! But… the streets were clean (seriously). I felt safe walking around different districts at night. The public transport was great — convenient and fast. The architecture was breathtaking. And the French people were kind and helpful.

A completely different experience from what I expected.

We should praise RSS more. It’s one of the greatest inventions for consuming media that respects you and your time. It sounds funny, but seriously… did you ever feel a fear of missing out while using RSS? If so, then I’m sorry, but it’s really hard to be overloaded with it. Even if you take a break from reading, and come back after one month, everything just waits for you exactly where it was.

Also with RSS you usually subscribe to more quality content than on social media, where everyone has to be the first, the loudest and so on — it’s more like quantity vs. quality mode. No more BREAKING!, THREAD and other shitty stuff. This is your safe and calm space. In the RSS world, nothing fights for your attention. That’s how I see it.

And the main reason why it lost its mass popularity is because you can’t make a huge amount of money with it.

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I’ve had RSS available on my website since I’ve started writing my thoughts here (instead of social media), but from today it’s more accessible¹. You can choose which channel you want to subscribe to.

I love Hugo (mostly because I’ve learned so much from using it), so it was a little painful to watch that the theme’s website hasn’t been updated for so long due to several external issues that popped up in the building pipeline. I know that they have a lot of work releasing Hugo so I thought that maybe it’s a good time to contribute to my beloved project and fix something I understand.

And now the site is up with fresh data, working again. That’s why I like open source and I love debugging and fixing stuff.

††† — The Epilogue

Cool to have a small cameo on Chuck’s video. Hugo FTW!

They say that you should not deploy to production on Friday. So I deployed Terminal.css v2 with presets on Saturday. I hope you like it. Waiting for your contribution guys!

I’m currently reading John Romero’s bio — “Life in first person”, and discovered that DOOM Ultimate Edition has a really, really cool box cover.

Only today and on Monday, all my open source stuff is free! Total discount is 0%! Get it now!

Working on the second version of Terminal.css. More granular settings to match the old Terminal Theme styling and… community presets!

What is this Zed? Just let me open my project. I don’t want to see any of this AI shit — I have turned it off in the settings… Right? We are done.

This is how all promising projects fail. You have an idea, but then the hype (and investors I guess) comes and you end up with some crap that does more than you need because “you need it anyway”. Like, no? It’s sad…