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To do and accomplished, of Week 11 of 2026

Posted on March[²⁰26], Sunday 15.March[²⁰26], Sunday 15. By Shrimple No Comments on To do and accomplished, of Week 11 of 2026

First thing that stays in my immediate ambitions is to get small tasks going in the C codebase of Links2. Picking up from Links 2, a graphical browser I wanna build upon. And a quick look at how ELinks is doing. Another is making a new theme for this blog with Block Editor in WordPress…

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Meta, Smol Web Habits

How I ran a dev localhost Akkoma instance (commands listing!) on openSUSE, fixed a bug, investigated terminal emulator

Posted on March[²⁰26], Saturday 14.March[²⁰26], Saturday 14. By Shrimple 1 Comment on How I ran a dev localhost Akkoma instance (commands listing!) on openSUSE, fixed a bug, investigated terminal emulator

I wanted to run this Elixir web application to enable myself to contribute sometime someday. I knew I was in for a ride.

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Guides to Free Open Source

Replace `chardet` Python library immediately

Posted on March[²⁰26], Saturday 14.March[²⁰26], Saturday 14. By Shrimple No Comments on Replace `chardet` Python library immediately

Generative AI.

Replace with charset_normalizer.

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Influencing Society, Programming Technologies

Create Block Theme with Block Editor in WordPress Playground — a first

Posted on March[²⁰26], Thursday 12.March[²⁰26], Thursday 12. By Shrimple 1 Comment on Create Block Theme with Block Editor in WordPress Playground — a first

I’ve started out with reading I’m supposed to prepare a local development environment to get started with developing an own WordPress theme. I followed unofficial outdated instructions trying to get WordPress Studio running. Reading about WordPress Studio, I’ve read it is based on WordPress Playground, running PHP compiled to WebAssembly. I first wrote about that here.

But I’ve learnt of WordPress Playground now. So I searched it and found Streamlining block theme development with WordPress Playground and GitHub from January.

And from that post I found out about the Create Block Theme plugin, the name of which the abbreviation of seems to be much in favor with them throughout the blog post.

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Programming Technologies

Trying to run WordPress Studio, failing

Posted on March[²⁰26], Thursday 12.March[²⁰26], Thursday 12. By Shrimple 1 Comment on Trying to run WordPress Studio, failing

At last, I got fed up with my WordPress theme just enough.

> how to write a wordpress theme

Theme Handbook > Tools and Setup

Setting up a local development environment

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Great reads as of late / Blogs I follow

  • Chris Siebenmann, The things that make me so attached to xterm as my terminal program
    https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTermWhyAttached read March 4th
  • Andrew Nesbitt, https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/13/respectful-open-source.html read March 14th.
    Wishes for a git request-pull world, rather than obligating maintainers to review.
  • Cedric Beust, www.beust.com/weblog/i-am-the-reason-for-hungarian-notation-in-android/
    (found thru https://curlie.org) | article read March 15th
  • Ariadne Conill, ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
    | read March 15th
  • Winthrop Gillis, wingillis.github.io/posts/2025-02-17-email-categorization/ read March 16th.
    Combines classy focus on LLM reliability & low-level purpose, privacy & reliability advocacy.

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changelog.complete.org

unsung.aresluna.org

bold-edit.com/devlog

https://dorotac.eu

https://ploum.net

daringfireball.net

https://snkrgirl.cfd

https://lists.sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk-devel

mitjafelicijan.com

https://famfo.xyz

https://code.curly.kiwi

https://blogroll.org

https://ionathan.ch

https://maia.crimew.gay

uwu.network/~sink

https://fokus.cool

https://unixdigest.com

https://cliophate.wtf

https://roytang.net
(avoid “Weeknotes”, they start with geopolitics of war)

https://matduggan.com

https://naildrivin5.com

https://ratfactor.com

https://bstn.info

discuss.coding.social

blog.dougbelshaw.com
(Doug has posts that don’t seem about AI yet they are about AI)

https://swyx.io

https://danieltperry.me

https://codeberg.org/fogti/public-docs/src/branch/main/blog/2026

https://mtekk.us
(flooded with announcements for Breadcrumb NavXT)

https://xeiaso.net
(recent posts about AI have the word “AI” in different places in the title)

https://fourtonfish.com
(thru https://curlie.org)

https://raily.net
(thru https://curlie.org)

https://underlap.org
(thru https://curlie.org)
(Glyn has posts that don’t seem about AI yet they are about AI)

https://samhenri.gold

https://noumenal.es

blog.arkstack.dev

https://jaketrent.com

jasongullickson.com

unplannedobsolescence.com

https://billwadge.com

internet-czas-dzialac.pl

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