Part 3 of Federation Across Networks. Part 1 covered Bridgy Fed and AT Protocol. Part 2 covered Threads' entry into the Fediverse. This series sits inside the broader Exploring the Fediverse umbrella.

The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals, 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals. This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final status for each of the goals (many of which continue as part of the 2026 period). Full details for any particular goal are available in its tracking…

In my last post I wrote about borrowing a Fujifilm X-E5 to find out whether the grass was greener. My conclusion was that the film simulations are good but not better — just different — and that Nikon’s Flexible Picture Control on the Z5 II and Z6 III looked like it could produce richer results. I found a deal on a Z6 III, ordered it, and waited.

The camera arrived. First order of business: set…

As I mentioned last post, I love Mattermost, self hosting its open source Teams Edition for myself and friends as a private replacement for Slack or Discord. Like Slack, it is extensible with plugins, so with the time saving aid of Claude Code (without which these just wouldn't exist, due to that aforementioned time, which is quite a constrained resource), I've made some custom plugins to fill…

As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I recently found a cache of quotes and poems in my old Google Keep. Among these, I was surprised to see more than one poem written by young me (and many of them are quite good, probably even better than what I would be able to write today)!

I want to give these a new home, so every now and then I'll be sharing one of them here. I haven't yet gone…

Despite my best efforts, I sometimes (always) worry about what others think of my writing. It's definitely been getting better (the more I write here1, the less I think about it), but it's still there.

This is something I've been wondering about for a long, long time. It comes from way before I even started this blog. Ever since I was little, I've always cared about what others think of me. I…

In my last post, I made a solemn vow to not touch Kapsule for a week. Focus on the day job. Be a responsible adult.

Success level: medium.

I _did_ get significantly more day-job work done than the previous week, so partial credit there. But my wife's mother and sister are visiting from Japan, and they're really into horror movies. I am not. So while they were watching people get chased through…

Time to get practical. Set up Git, version control your network configs, learn branching and merging the hard way (by breaking things), and open your first pull request on GitHub.

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Hi, welcome to my Now page! You can see previous versions here.

Hi! It's been a while since I updated my now page. If you've been following my blog, then you know I've been busy-really busy-posting almost once every day for the past fifty days or so (see context). I've, in fact, been so busy that I've pretty much put aside any other writing projects. However, I…

In my last post, I laid out the vision for Kapsule—a container-based extensibility layer for KDE Linux built on top of Incus. The pitch was simple: give users real, persistent development environments without compromising the immutable base system. At the time, it was a functional proof of concept living in my personal namespace.

Well, things have moved fast.

It's in KDE Linux now

Kapsule…

I edited this video 100% with Codex: YouTube video**

If you want the full experience with images and videos inline, *** read it on my blog. I personally think it’s just easier to read there. But I have also reformatted here as best as I could just the inline images are links instead of previews.*

I’ve started using Codex as my personal video editor.

My first experiment was animating…

Hello, dear readers—it's been a while. Since I last blogged, I've graduated from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities with my Master of Arts in Leadership in Spiritual Direction. In July, my partner and I bought a house. I finished the last of my classes in August, and have since been decompressing and rediscovering beloved hobbies that had taken a backseat while I was in school—I've…