I noticed that the markdown version of my daynotes was not displaying links and upon review of the source I notice that it has HTML tags that are not rendered in Dave’s markdown browser, which he is calling BonBonWeb. I had Claude update the script to convert HTML tags to markdown.
I’ve been meaning to have Claude edit our opml_to_markdown script so that the markdown version of my daynotes is in chronological order rather than reverse chronological order, which I think make more sense when reading it as a document. You can see the result here.
A random dea. What if there were an iPhone Duo emulator for the iPad mini? As I read about the app updates and new apps developed for the Duo UI I recognize that while those apps will run on the Mini it likely won’t run the same as they do on the Duo, which means the Duo inside screen functionality isn’t available although the screen space exists.
I have uploaded a markdown version of my daynotes site to my shared server and you can click here to view that version in Dave’s markdown web browser. One thing I notice is that HTML links are not rendered.
Dave has shared a demo of the markdown-web browser that he is developing. I very much like clean text on websites, so I find this approach appealing. Something work keeping an eye on.
I think my lessons from the 2020 election need to be revised. In the 2026 election the Republican lone strategy of fear was overcome by the realities people face every day. Everything in the United States is more expensive and the party in power is to blame. Further, many people have lost or will lose healthcare, adding more stress to already stressful lives, and the only reason why is to make rich people richer.
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For me the most important thing about the election is not just how many Democrats won but the margins of their victories being large because that sends a message. Some may be tempted to declare this a victory for democracy, but while the act itself was an exercise in democracy I think the results are more a consequence of the economy. Where democracy may have begun regaining some ground is in state legislatures where several super majorities were broken.
Several years ago I built a server to host a wiki based on the Federated Wiki app and I maintained it as my digital garden. The server was hosted on Digital Ocean and I made the the bad choice of choosing a 32-bit version of the operating system that meant I couldn’t update to the latest versions that required the 64-bit operating system. I intended to migrate but never found the time and yet had been paying a modest fee to keep that server online.
Now that it has been several years since I added anything to that wiki, I decided to take that server offline and I redirected the domain to another server that responds with a simple message. I suspect the origin of requests to that wiki will come from my own sites such as this one. I apologize for creating the dead links but at this time I decided the money spent keeping that server online is better spent on something new.
Three years ago I wrote, Just Looking In The Rear View Mirror, which I think is one of my better essays. Here is a paragraph that I think holds up:
The current obsession with polarization means more interest is in the argument rather than progress. I am not sure either side really wants progress because whenever either one has the ability to make progress disagreements within their ranks prevents it from happening. Polarization is focused on getting one’s way and beating the other and lost is any amount progress that in past times was born out of debate between the two points of view.