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phalangion··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
> killing… my coworkers.

RIP

phalangion··on Make Tmux the OS
Or how a carpenter arranges their tools.
phalangion··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I built a world cup tracker into an LED matrix display, and now I'm working on making it useful after the world cup

https://www.schuetzler.net/blog/world-cup-tracker/

phalangion··on Fable 5 is Back
That’s the joy of prompting. Different prompts, different task details, different contexts, different results
phalangion··on Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Nah. It’s all part of the clickbait. You want to know which physicist, so you click
phalangion··on Time to talk about my writerdeck
I love this. Feel like I’m the same way. I also feel like some of this “focusing on the wrong thing” is sharpening the saw, preparing my mind and my environment for greater productivity. As long as I eventually return to the right things.
phalangion··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
If AI’m building isn’t a typo, I kinda like it as a way to accurately claim what I’m building with AI.
phalangion··on Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
How do you propose a journalist work without posting their writing online?
phalangion··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
hhtps://www.schuetzler.net - currently down because my home router died, but hopefully back up tomorrow
phalangion··on There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
Adguard Home and others can be configured to complete your DNS requests over HTTPS (using, for example, https://dns.cloudflare.com/dns-query).
phalangion··on Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?
Did you read the article? It’s about how to tell if your database is read or write heavy.
phalangion··on Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
That works for software, but not as well for services like YouTube
phalangion··on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
It really is exactly this. My default mindset is "everybody's busy with their own lives, so they probably don't have time so I won't even try to invite them to X." Change your assumptions a little bit to instead assume people want to do things. If they say no, so be it. But I've found that people want to be invited out to do more things than they are, so send the invites.

I started swimming with a community team two years ago, and about 4 months in I invited them to also lift weights with me. Now there are about 8 of us that are together 5 mornings per week. Took a chance and invited them on a trip, and now 5 of us are going on a week long trip together.

Find a group of people doing something you like. If it's a tech meetup, community organization, hobby group, whatever. What it is doesn't matter. What matters is that you find people with whom you share _an_ interest. Then take a chance there and say "hey, want to meet up for lunch next week?" Or just say "hey, I'm going to see X next weekend, want to come?"

phalangion··on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
> I think some people just have to be the inviters or relationships fall apart.

As annoying as it is, this is definitely true. I've only recently become an inviter, and it's made all the difference. It helps to recognize that not everybody is an inviter/organizer.

phalangion··on AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
This video shows the peanut butter and jelly problem in action: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?si=xIQpzNTvhRcGY4Nb
phalangion··on Bikes in the age of tariffs
Or the inflation worries with 8% inflation
phalangion··on 1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek
People complained about censorship within ChatGPT pretty quickly after it was released. The difference is that now people know to look for it, so the evaluations are happening both more quickly and more systematically.
phalangion··on Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life
Except the article explains in fairly easy to understand terms how the study came to this theory, and the original paper is linked from that article. The question here gives the impression that the asker read only the headline.
phalangion··on Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away
I’d guess money has a lot (everything) to do with it. The Linux gamers market is not big enough to be worth the investment.
phalangion··on Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone
I think your use of "thin client" here is literally redefining a thin client to be the opposite. The thick client software of MS Word does all the things locally, which is part of what makes it responsive.
phalangion··on Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies
One of the roles government can play is to take the negative externalities of an activity (e.g., pollution) and internalize it so that those costs are paid by those who are profiting. The way to do that is to create taxes, fee structures, etc. so that those making money on activities contribute to the overall societal cost.
phalangion··on Losing my son
It was a cardiac arrest during surgery. Likely nothing preventable or predictable. Just tragic
phalangion··on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
Because you must be a natural-born citizen of the US.
phalangion··on Ozempic could change the economy as we know it
I think there are a lot of theories about why people eat too much, and all of them apply to some people. I have been eating "healthier" for months, including about 5x as much vegetables as I had been previously into my eating, cutting back (but not eliminating) desserts. I still found that I did not lose weight because I was eating too much. I don't believe it was because I was not getting adequate nutrition - I just wanted food.
phalangion··on Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone
I love how every time a parent posts that they use a phone so they know where their kids are, it turns into the same argument about "surveillance." I have kids who are <10 years old, and a phone or watch that lets me know where they are makes me much more comfortable allowing them to roam our neighborhood. I can always get in touch with them and call them home from whoever's home they are playing in.

And then the argument becomes "when I was young, we didn't have phones, and we still found our way home." Which to me feels a bit like "I never wore a bike helmet, and I was fine." Not entirely the same argument, but along the same lines. Sometimes new technology helps us do things better than it was done in the past. Back in the day, we couldn't keep touch with our spouses throughout the day at work or especially while traveling. Now we can, and in my opinion, that's largely an improvement over what we had in the past.

Sure, some parents use it poorly to track and interrogate their kids about their location 24/7. But just because I track my kids does not mean I am spying on them or "getting them used to a surveillance state" like some arguments I have seen here.

phalangion··on YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole
Hit me for the first time this morning
phalangion··on Teaching with AI
I suspect it’s not being addressed well because it’s one of the fundamental challenges of school in the first place. For many, assessment and grades are the end goal, and any learning that happens is secondary.
phalangion··on ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. A web app having its own icon and spot in the dock/task bar makes it easier to switch to.
phalangion··on Moodle: Open-Source LMS
Moodle is about the only popular LMS I haven’t experienced. They’re all terrible in their own special ways.
phalangion··on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
Hopefully they can avoid the Scunthorpe problem.
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