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RIP David Lynch… I hope you’ve gotten to a place both wonderful and strange…

EDIT ALERT! I have to correct my music album list of 2024. I don’t know what happened and how I could forget about one of the most beautiful albums I’ve ever listened to: Hang Massive — Wisdom in the Roots

Switching to KDE Plasma on my Framework with Ubuntu was an excellent idea. This desktop environment is superior to Gnome. It feels like using a computer from the past… The Good Old Past, where windows actually look like windows — having frames, title bars, explicit buttons, etc. It’s that kind of a good UI that gives you a great UX.

Funny that small things like this can bring you so much joy.

Let’s end this year with a little music albums summary. Here’s my top 5:

  1. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — Challengers (this album hits so hard, a true banger)
  2. ††† — †††
  3. All India Radio — The Slow Light
  4. Sea Power — Disco Elysium
  5. Wouter Veldhuis — Blue Forest

Btw. someone needs to re-think Spotify’s UI, because it’s probably the worst living example of broken navigation right now.

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 fancy. 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.

  1. At the moment of writing, it’s in the upper right corner in the site header. And you can choose between: Thoughts, Photos and All. ↩︎

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.