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  Finally had a chance to sit down and blog about why I wrote my new app, Kepublicity: https://nathandyer.me/2026/08/28/kepublicity.html

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  DK64 Rekongpiled is out!! And, as with Banjo-Kazooie, there's an official Flatpak build 🎉 https://dk64recomp.com/

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  I was craving a cheeseburger tonight so my wife and I tried a new place that opened up in town. It was basically an ideal burger. Patties that were neither too thick nor too thin. Gooey cheese. The right amount of toppings. Soft potato bun. I've had a few better burgers in my life, but not many. For a basic $10 burger and fry meal, I was over the moon!

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  Been working on enabling translations for Kepublicity, and wrapping my mind around all the various workflows. I'm familiar with Transifex and Weblate (and have used both), and have passing knowledge about GNOME's Damned Lies platform, but I want to understand something at a higher level. Is the main benefit of a translations platform that it lowers the barrier to contributing language changes for people who might not be familiar with git? As a temporary workflow, is there anyth...

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  Had a chance to watch The Odyssey in IMAX (my first IMAX movie ever), so I took it! Even better than the first viewing. What a film!

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  I know it's dorky and cliche, but throwing Bob Marley on the bluetooth speaker while you make coffee in the morning elevates the experience from A tier to S tier.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@kilbery/117242669510059785 You should hire Kim! She's amazing!

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  When you haven't had it in months, you really forget how Starbucks coffee tastes like someone extinguished a cigarette in it before they hand it to you.

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  Pro-tip for running a booth at the flea market: make friends with the lady selling homemade carrot cake 😋

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  The Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for today (well, tomorrow really) is an absolute 10/10: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20260909000000/en

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  Disability pride month is coming to a close, so I took some time to blog about my own disabilities and some of the accessibility features I appreciate: https://nathandyer.me/2026/07/30/disability-pride.html

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116993753186047373 But surely this can't be true, they had a disc! 🙄️

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  Wow, the most mealy-mouthed statement from Mullvad I can imagine. "It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it. It most likely was a bad idea;" https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy

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  RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116951721140063749 Pretty soon the only use I'll have for my GitHub account is work. Nice to see so many projects moving to self-hosted Forgejo instances!

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  Does anyone out there use Forge Sparks (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.mardojai.ForgeSparks)? I'm curious if others reliably get notifications. I've had it running in the background for a few weeks, and today is the first time I've seen any notifications come through (and these were all from Codeberg). Nothing from GitLab or GitHub. Curious if it's a me thing, or if something is broken. I'm fairly confident I set up the tokens correctly, and running from CLI I see HTTP 200...

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  Linux (the kernel) is completely uninteresting to me as a technology. The only interesting thing about it is that it serves as a foundation for other projects to build on top of it, for the purposes of empowerment and liberation. My computing devices do my bidding, not the bidding of others whose interests are counter to mine. Plus, I love the feeling of building software as a community. That the tools we're making benefit not just the people building them, but everyone, and that anyone ca...

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  Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16. We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

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  Being able to use the GTK emoji chooser in Firefox rules 😍️🚀️👑️

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  I found this to be gripping and terrifying (and also, not remotely surprising) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=7cjjyPZIuS21UKXXq4Z-JNg5WJmVwq9FbLl-9yvqo1Y

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  Finally sat down and blogged about my recent switch back to Android, and the FOSS apps I've landed on. https://nathandyer.me/2026/04/23/foss-mobile-2026.html

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  First "proper" test of CoMaps and its lane guidance on Android. Can it get me all the way from Tennessee to Duke in Durham, NC without sending me on a wild adventure? The road awaits!

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  As is tradition, I updated to the latest Fedora release in a hotel room hundreds of miles away from home. Flawless and uneventful, as always.

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  Because I signed up for a printables.com account a million years ago, I just got an email letting me know I can reserve a custom oak cabinet to store a 3D printer for... *checks notes*... €6,200. Who could possibly be the target audience for something like this?

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  @hbons 'fraid they can't spare the CPU cycles on maintaining important free software projects like these, they have to find more efficient ways to help murder brown people overseas

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  TIL the place I clone all my git repos is actually an XDG standard https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html

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  Thank goodness Apple blocks installing apps outside of the app store (outside the EU), so that everyone stays safe. https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fake-ledger-app

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  GNOME Calendar has gotten *so good*, it just handles ICS files, multi-day events, multiple calendars, and mismatched timezones so well now. Hands down my favorite calendar app on any platform. If there's a "most improved app award", surely it must be a contender.

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  Most of the world has standardized on FLAC, a highly capable and patent-free audio codec, for its hi-res music delivery format of choice. I wish we could now do the same for video, using AV1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/