I remember Lindsey Graham as a senator who took principled stands. He compromised and reached across the aisle to get things done, even when it made him unpopular with his party.
\nI’ve been mourning him for over a decade.
\n", "date_published": "2026-07-12T10:37:23-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/07/12/i-remember-lindsey-graham-as.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/06/12/thinking-about-how-i-want.html", "content_html": "Thinking about how I want to do side projects, optimizing for having fun while building over other considerations. To that end, is there a set of common interfaces for patterns like the PSR interfaces in PHP in other languages like Swift or Rust?
\n", "date_published": "2026-06-12T11:25:33-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/06/12/thinking-about-how-i-want.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/05/31/had-possibly-my-best-shot.html", "content_html": "Had possibly my best shot off the tee this morning… 😇 #discGolf
\n![\"Picture](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2026/827d67eb43.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-31T14:14:48-04:00",
"url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/05/31/had-possibly-my-best-shot.html"
},
{
"id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/05/26/really-really-trying-to-accept.html",
"content_html": "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).
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-26T21:25:13-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/05/26/really-really-trying-to-accept.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/05/18/the-original-inspiration-for-smolblog.html", "content_html": "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.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T22:02:45-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/05/18/the-original-inspiration-for-smolblog.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/05/15/believe-me-i-really-really.html", "content_html": "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.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-15T16:13:41-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/05/15/believe-me-i-really-really.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/05/07/i-dont-know-what-hurts.html", "content_html": "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…
\nOr the fact that Apple’s the one doing this.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T19:39:59-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/05/07/i-dont-know-what-hurts.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/04/26/looking-for-feedback-chat-transcripts.html", "title": "Looking for feedback: Chat Transcripts in Markdown", "content_html": "I write short stories, and I vastly prefer writing in Markdown to a word processor. I’ve got one series with a lot of texting/group chat, and I’d love to represent this better both in the Markdown and the resulting HTML.
\n ] #chat name\n ]\n ] [@Other](https://micro.blog/Other) Person:\n ] Hey, have you written that novel yet?\n ]\n ] [@Me](https://micro.blog/Me):\n ] I came here to have a good time and\n ] I'm honestly feeling so attacked right\n ] now...\n ]\n ] (that's a no, BTW)\n ]\n ] (and now a third message for comedic\n ] effect)\n ]\n ] [@Other](https://micro.blog/Other) Person:\n ] I kinda figured :)\n(Ignore any Markdown-style links in the examples; Micro.blog thinks I’m trying to mention people. Maybe that’s a point against this?)
\n] (like block quote except not >)# (like an IRC or Slack room)@ and ends with : (to avoid a normal message that starts with a mention and allow spaces in names)Group chat:
\n] # A Perfectly Normal Group Chat\n]\n] @EternalSneptember:\n] (pw change logs out all other devices/browsers)\n] \n] Ideally remote wipe but IDK if that's an option.\n]\n] @EarthStars:\n] Thanks for the reminder, Snep. Remote wipe is an\n] option but would cross a line.\n]\n] @BuckTheWorld:\n] Ugh, this sucks. How bad, @EarthStars?\nDM/SMS:
\n] # Mom\n]\n] You're up late!\n]\n] No judgement, of course. 😜\n]\n] I'll judge for you LOL Working late?\n]\n] Binging a new show. I'm a bad example.\nAnyway, wall of text over, thanks for reading, honestly I just want to talk through this with other Markdown users. I’m not making this for everyone, but I want to make something good enough for someone other than me to use it.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T20:41:45-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/04/26/looking-for-feedback-chat-transcripts.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/04/24/trying-to-parse-lol-the.html", "content_html": "Trying to parse (lol) the remark docs so I can write a Markdown extension, and, well…
\n\n\nExtend the syntax of markdown means […] Defeating the purpose of markdown: being simple to author and looking like what it means
\n
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.
\nSo there. 😜
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-24T22:11:03-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/04/24/trying-to-parse-lol-the.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/04/12/car-manufacturers-of-america-i.html", "content_html": "Car manufacturers of America, I am once again asking for an electric vehicle with
\nI 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?
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T16:53:23-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/04/12/car-manufacturers-of-america-i.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/04/02/reading-over-cloudflares-emdash-and.html", "content_html": "Reading over CloudFlare’s EmDash, and my thoughts are:
\nHey Apple, can you tell me why the 🤬 Launchpad search can’t find stuff in the 🤬 Applications folder anymore?
\n(Maybe why you felt the need to integrate it with Spotlight instead of just filtering the list like before?)
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-31T09:47:46-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/03/31/hey-apple-can-you-tell.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/03/26/a-systemonachip-architecture-with-unified.html", "content_html": "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.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-26T21:14:40-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/03/26/a-systemonachip-architecture-with-unified.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/03/18/somehow-an-infinite-loop-got.html", "content_html": "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.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T21:13:52-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/03/18/somehow-an-infinite-loop-got.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/02/27/im-glad-anthropic-is-sticking.html", "content_html": "I’m glad Anthropic is sticking to their principles and not giving into pressure from the United States Department of War. I wish they weren’t working with them at all, but I’m glad they are holding to the principles they do have.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-27T22:37:03-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/02/27/im-glad-anthropic-is-sticking.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/02/08/meanwhile-i-was-afraid-the.html", "content_html": "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.
\n(Mine’s Mew)
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-08T22:40:15-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/02/08/meanwhile-i-was-afraid-the.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/02/08/not-me-tearing-up-over.html", "content_html": "Not me tearing up over Rocket Mortgage showing us the helpers while playing Mr. Rogers’ song…
\nLet’s imagine a better world. And then make it.
\nIs it a problematic commercial? Absolutely. Heavy-handed? Probably. And selling a product that encourages over leveraged debt and is more and more out of everyone’s hands thanks to uncontrolled private equity? Yes.
\nI’m so tired.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-08T20:38:10-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/02/08/not-me-tearing-up-over.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/01/25/if-they-can-retroactively-defund.html", "content_html": "If they can retroactively defund PBS they can retroactively defund the “immigration enforcement” that is killing US citizens.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-25T09:56:25-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/01/25/if-they-can-retroactively-defund.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2026/01/10/towards-the-end-of-apple.html", "content_html": "Towards the end of 2018, Apple threatened to pull the tumblr app from the App Store over the presence of CSAM on the site. Tumblr responded with a radical change in policy that affects it to this day.
\nToday, despite similar concerns, the X app has not been pulled.
\nCome on, Apple.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T11:54:15-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2026/01/10/towards-the-end-of-apple.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/12/31/how-is-plaid-still-a.html", "content_html": "How is Plaid still a thing? No, I’m not entering the password for my bank account anywhere other than my bank’s website, thank you very much!
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T12:25:16-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/12/31/how-is-plaid-still-a.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/12/04/you-banned-my-account.html", "content_html": "YOU 👏 BANNED 👏 MY 👏 ACCOUNT
\n![\"Text](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2025/2f507eb063.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-12-04T09:19:49-04:00",
"url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/12/04/you-banned-my-account.html"
},
{
"id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/12/02/i-need-help-ive-got.html",
"content_html": "I need help. I’ve got two 4K monitors and a boatload of USB peripherals that I want to switch between my 2-4 computers. My current KVM switch is flaking out, and the replacement I bought might be bad. All the known KVM brands are $$$ with features (EDID, hotkeys) I don’t need/want. Recommendations?
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-02T22:20:05-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/12/02/i-need-help-ive-got.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/11/24/so-cvs-will-text-me.html", "content_html": "So CVS will text me incessantly about picking up my meds, but they tell me about a recall via physical mail?
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T22:02:52-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/11/24/so-cvs-will-text-me.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/11/14/in-what-i-can-only.html", "content_html": "In what I can only describe as divine intervention, the PHP script threw the “out of memory” error from the actual file where the problem was occurring after chasing this bug down for over a week. Just… wow.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-14T21:41:12-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/11/14/in-what-i-can-only.html" }, { "id": "http://oddevan.micro.blog/2025/10/31/no-i-havent-shipped-smolblog.html", "content_html": "No, I haven’t shipped Smolblog. But I have taken some of the code and codified it as its own framework. Let me introduce you to Cavatappi, a PHP framework very much in progress for making complex applications simpler.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-31T18:39:11-04:00", "url": "https://oddevan.com/2025/10/31/no-i-havent-shipped-smolblog.html" } ] }