Damus
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Writer (software and prose), epistemologist.
Fedi user since 2019 → fedi dev → quit fedi → [you are here].

I contribute (occasionally) to a lot of projects, and help upkeep some of the akkoma project's infrastructure (among others).
Besides that, I do my own little research and things that I find useful/interesting.
I want software to be beautiful to read, and to spark joy at runtime, a bit like (some) writing (though my prose is not that).

Assigned "Tumblr Lesbian" by my gay wife, confirmed by fedi.

Sometimes my wife (Hélène) posts on my account.
If you want to know whose post a particular one is, you must pick up the honored internet tradition of identifying people by vernacular, punctuation, and way of thinking.

Relays (1)
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write

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The name tag thing is fun
If I brought my laptop I probably would have tried to get bad apple on it, you might be able to do it as a stream over wired to avoid memory issues
Maybe I’ll do it later and show it off whenever I go to another event
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today on tosti blogging: How I Use Shell (2026 Edition)

it's long, it's ranty, it's probably incoherent at parts
in this, I very quickly go over what my history with shells is, where I'm at today, what a shell even is for me, what I think about all the shells I thought were relevant to talk about, what I'm willing to recommend to people, and finally some completely arbitrary and disjointed bits and bobs as to my actual usage that honestly are not that interesting

get it while it's hot!
https://blog.toast.cafe/shell-26
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... IME you can get better, but it's truly a LOT of work, so you have to take it incrementally
you're "free" of it, but the way it essentially works is you're susceptible to it for the rest of your life, so if you stop taking care of yourself or get shaken up enough it starts coming right back (though ofc it's not "all at once", also incremental, so you have plenty of opportunities to try and catch it)