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About to embark on a 6 hour flight. It's stressful. Bringing The Forever War along for the ride. #travel #anxiety #booksky

Civil duty complete. Let's take the dictator's lunch.

Been working on the Read Along/Watch along idea for a while now. Select a book for now, and then you can capture excerpts as you read. No need to repick a book every new entry, with a slider to track progress and keep your library updated. Out now to try. #buildinpublic #commonplace #booksky

Here's the new RSS feed in a little creator hub I'm working on in the beta. #buildinpublic #booksky : locuscommunis.com/signup

Oh hey, I wrote a book review of Brut by Sam Tallent #booksky #bookreview #books adversaria.locuscommunis.com/p/review-bru...

Maybe it's because it's the day I fly home, maybe it's because I finished a book, but I'm pretty depressed. Oh well.

Apparently Sam Tallent is someone I have to read more of. This is my feeling today, and it ain't funny. #booksky #fiction #reading

Dogfooding Book Clubs. Reading Brut by Sam Tallent, only just started but it's pretty fun. Give it a try in the app if you'd like to read along. locuscommunis.com/clubs/join/t... #booksky #fiction

I'm reading: Brut by Sam Tallent, I'll update my book club later for anyone who wants to read along with me. #booksky

I don't enjoy vacationing as much anymore. Everywhere I look at the blatant wealth disparity throws off any enjoyment I have of this beautiful place. It's strange, being from New York, that it's a different feeling than seeing wealthy people there. Maybe it's just immaturity. #bahamas

I wonder if they think it's a good idea to try to invade Cuba right before midterms. Seems like a bad fever dream today.

Looks like I made a bug that breaks @hardcover.app book search. Joy of joys.

Stepping back through: Dungeon Crawler Carl Time to let some lines stick with me. #dungeoncrawlercarl #booksky #commonplace #journal

I'm on the last few parts of Act 2 as Theodora in #fireemblem and boy howdy did the difficulty just trickle up out of no where during this act. I don't hate it, but now I feel underleveled. #videogames #switch2

"The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus #books #philosophy #camus #booksky

Leaf emails are live for those after 5 new excerpts saved. XP tracking for the book built in for future unlocks. #buildinpublic locuscommunis.com #booksky #commonplace #journal

Woot first site signup since the last day in August. That's reassuring!

Trapped in #Dallas thanks to plane maintenance and storms inbound for home. Bummer dudes. 😔

gonna do some analog and digital commonplacing with @locuscommunis.com ! come hang out for RIVETING NOTE-TAKING

Me watching this game: Maybe there will be some hope this year. Also Me: This year will be the darkest year in the timeline. #nyjets

"Living is keeping the absurd alive." — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) #booksky #books #philosophy If you get a second, please check out locuscommunis.com to start your own Common Place book, or add to the Public Book. #buildinpublic

Is anyone actually interested in a 2000 buck iphone?

So I've been playing Blood of the Dawnwalker. Just a recommendation, don't be like me and rush to meet Anca right after the game opens up. I'm fighting a boss severely underleveled, and while fun...it certainly is frustrating. #gaming #rpg

I don't know what I am sick with, but after 3 days of various versions of pain...relief. How absurd life is.

Resisting the urge to turn my site into another gamified TTRPG backed reading tool, but not well. I built achievement mechanics and unlocks, now I need #artists to work with to turn this thing into an adventure mode to unlock journaling tools. Stickers, themes, that kind of thing.

I logged on and saw 30 notifications on my @locuscommunis.com account. Then saw it was a bug. Oh well, one day maybe. #dreams #buildinpublic

What are my words trying to tell me today? #books #booksky #commonplace

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching #books #philosophy #taoism #booksky

Hey, if you're an #author #bookclub aficionado, or a #reader who likes to journal I'd be delighted to connect. Just give me a shout!

Motivation is coming to me slowly this week, and it's dragging down my mood. Going to try to cook some dinner.

Dudes I'm struggling today.

One day, my brain will wrap it's head around UI design that isn't crap.

"In a world still medieval in practice, defined by fear and persecution, being a free or unconventional thinker was a risky proposition." Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work #books #philosophy #stoicism #booksky

I'm really proud about this in something I created that is online: Sharing is always opt-in. Your book is private by default... You are always in control of what is visible and to whom. #buildinpublic #booksky #journaling #privacy

"Only the living may be dead, the waking sleep, the young be old." Heraclitus, Fragments #books #philosophy #ancientwisdom #booksky

@bookjanitor.bsky.social I'm ready to test OCR/Scan to Create today if you're interested in checking it out I can flip it on for your account.

Working on OCR today, we'll see how that turns out. Using Google's Vision API, hopefully that makes things a bit easier than hooking into a LLM and then exposing data to the bots. #buildinpublic

Stopped by a bookstore today. Guess which one I finished already. #books #booksky

Now the question is how do I build out some storage that lets people clip art without copyright issues... #buildinpublic

This quote gets me every time. It's a doorway into ancient humor from the other side of time and space.

Why is it that existential dread hits the hardest when I'm trying to sleep? It's a battle my mind has been waging against me for years. I hope it gets easier to reconcile life and whatever it feels like after. Maybe it's just the wave of depression crashing again. I should write about this more.

Found a couple of major bugs in the code today. Leaf is no functioning properly, no shuffles until there are enough entries to get one. Had to nuke some rows in the DB to get it to behave, but settled that and the encryption recovery phrase confirmed good. That was stressful. #buildinpublic

Why am I up too late watching election coverage in states I don't live in? The state of the world, that's why.

A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky

"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet." Joe Abercrombie, The Devils #books #fantasy #grimdark #booksky

I'm going to have to sell a kidney to get some art for my site. But it will be worth it right @salvaterra.bsky.social ?

Sometimes I think this is the best quote in all of media. Like right now. #gravityfalls #commonplace #journal

One thing I didn't expect while aging. I get to become the authority on certain things I've always been messing with. It's a big responsibility, but I remember Uncle Ben.