Really really trying to accept flawed tools that let me do more now instead of deciding to build my own thing to get that last 10% (and then getting burned out on building said thing).

The original inspiration for Smolblog was a decentralized Tumblr free of Verizon’s meddling. Tumblr’s in better hands now (yes, still better hands), but I haven’t given up on the idea. Today’s experiment: rebuilding the theme editor in Svelte, featuring the design from my first Tumblr. https://oddevan.github.io/smolblog-pwa/theme

Believe me, I really, really want to embrace the web app future. But I keep running into things like scheduled actions and SFTP access and just pure “how do I get a normie to install this” that I’m afraid I can’t commit.

I don’t know what hurts more: not being able to pull up the music I transferred to my phone because I have to agree to a privacy policy while I’m not driving…

Or the fact that Apple’s the one doing this.

Looking for feedback: Chat Transcripts in Markdown https://oddevan.com/2026/04/26/looking-for-feedback-chat-transcripts.html

Trying to parse (lol) the remark docs so I can write a Markdown extension, and, well…

"Extend the syntax of markdown means […] Defeating the purpose of markdown: being simple to author and looking like what it means"

With all due respect, I’m extending the syntax because I want it to be simple to author and look like what it means. I want to differentiate between a handwritten note, a chat transcript, and a normal block quote as quickly as I differentiate between normal text and something emphasized.

So there. 😜 https://remark.js.org/

Car manufacturers of America, I am once again asking for an electric vehicle with

NACS charging,
200-mi range, and
is a sedan or hatchback and not another 🤬ing crossover.

I have a low-mileage VW I am happy to trade in for this car. But none of y’all make it. Maybe now you will? https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/march-2026-to-change-everything-tipping-point-for-global-ev-adoption-1.500484007

Reading over CloudFlare’s EmDash, and my thoughts are:

You can’t call it a successor—spiritual or otherwise—to WordPress without plugin/theme compatibility.
What am I even doing with Smolblog?
…no, seriously, what am I doing… and why am I doing it…? https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/ https://smolblog.com

Hey Apple, can you tell me why the 🤬 Launchpad search can’t find stuff in the 🤬 Applications folder anymore?

(Maybe why you felt the need to integrate it with Spotlight instead of just filtering the list like before?)

A system-on-a-chip architecture with unified memory doesn’t leave room for a modular system with discrete RAM and GPUs. RIP Mac Pro. (For real this time.) https://512pixels.net/2026/03/the-mac-pro-is-dead/

Somehow an infinite loop got past most of my unit tests and didn’t show up until the integration test. So here’s how to run Xdebug on the command line for the next time this happens. https://xdebug.org/docs/step_debug#activate-debugger-cmd

Meanwhile I was afraid the one with Trevor Noah and Charles Leclerc was going to be some stupid AI thing. Never been happier to see Jigglypuff show up.

(Mine’s Mew)