22 Jul 2026: Update - plancat. All special and extended characters now upload properly - brackets, symbols, box-drawing characters and ASCII art spacing are fully supported (see echo@plan.cat).
[pinned] plancat: important update
22 Jul 2026: Update - plancat. All special and extended characters now upload properly - brackets, symbols, box-drawing characters and ASCII art spacing are fully supported (see echo@plan.cat).
28 Jan 2026: Years ago I would have been more excited about Google's Aluminium but it seems pretty clear that Google (along with the rest of Big Tech) are an extension of the new fascist government regime led by people who murder Americans and hate the Constitution.
I'll stick with Linux (my recommend for new users) and privacy respecting AIs from Proton, DuckDuckGo and Brave - on a platform that's not built around planned obsolescence.
13 Feb 2026 (update): Google's cozy relationship with the Police State. (comments): The hiring practices have continued to this day. It really should be common knowledge that BigTech is an extension of the state. For a long time now.26 Jan 2026: Richard Stallman spoke Friday (23jan2026) at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies. Slashdot has a good summary and itemized list of his key points. (more at fossforce.com)
I've also been reading his political notes daily (RSS).
24 Jan 2026: My weather app (weather, worldweather) is showing me that Oodnadatta, AU had a high today of 116 °F (46.7 °C) (most of AU seems to be over 100 °F / 37.8 °C). At the other end of the thermometer... colder temps are expected to engulf most of the US this weekend.
25 Jan 2026: Two extremes (with 32°F/0°C being the center line)...
20 Jan 2026: Created a markdown test page on happynetbox.com (finger server) that turned into a static html page. Lots of lo-bandwidth text-friendly links. It'll be smolnet-centric as it continues to grow. Instructions here and a lynx screenshot (using alternate LSS file).
06 Jan 2026: A new front page section called "AI Said..." is shaping up into a collection of (subjectively) interesting articles. Is it AI slop? No. It's simply the result of a modern-day search that's presented in a better way than those found on legacy search engines.
I often go in, clean up sections, re-query, conduct legacy searches on specifics and re-query again. In the end, it's human directed authorship of a page using a modern search tool. If I like the original query and the end-result, it gets posted.
(Legacy searches have been annoying for years. So much time and energy wasted on clicking through an unending series of blog spam, dead links, partially done research, partial copy/paste of wikipedia sections. I do agree that AI creates many new problems but legacy search engines have failed us: I dare you to search president trump. That's why additional verification is necessary no matter the tool.)
30 Dec 2025: Simple little bash script wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Safe to run. It's just a bunch of echo commands to stdout.
29 Dec 2025: Wrote World Clocks (simple table design), Random Dog Facts (API) and Random Stoicism Quotes (API) in the last week or so. Lots of interesting APIs on this github list of public APIs page. Many more here.
13 May 2026, update: Rewriting Random Dog Facts and Random Stoicism Quotes because of API issues. They can be fixed but I want to avoid having to keep tweaking simple apps like these. The new rewrites will contain quotes (arrays) inside the same htmlApp.
14 Dec 2025: Wrote a new short story (with an accompanying txt2bin app). It has a little harmless satirical fun at the expense of no one. Lots of fun to write.
13 Dec 2025: Created a Scream into the Void page as an alternative to hbo.com's data-slurping screamintothevoid.com. Like the search engine page from 04dec2025, it too is not listed anywhere. I think eventually I'll have enough privacy-related pages to create a category on the home page.
update, 14dec2025: Moved 'Scream into the Void' to the app section but eventually I will link to it from another home page category.
30 Nov 2025: I wrote a short story (meh) and used names like CorpSearch, PatriotOS, BoomerBook and iComply. But are those names really the illusion, the distraction? Isn't the truth instead... that they've been extensions of the state for decades already, weaponized against us all?