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New comment by tinkelenberg in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

tinkelenberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:45:13 +0000

Reminds me of Succession when the next CEO of Waystar Royco was described as a “pain sponge.”

New comment by tinkelenberg in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

tinkelenberg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:42:08 +0000

Another option I like: organic.

To Sit by the Water

tinkelenberg — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:45:16 +0000

Article URL: https://tinkelenberg.com/posts/to-sit-by-the-water/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548022

Points: 4

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The History of Stoner.com

tinkelenberg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://ron.stoner.com/The_History_Of_Stoner_._com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330355

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Offline 23 Hours a Day

tinkelenberg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://sive.rs/off23

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226397

Points: 25

# Comments: 5

New comment by tinkelenberg in "The past was not that cute"

tinkelenberg — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:12:08 +0000

A lot of what appeals to people about the past isn’t so much about returning to a golden age but recapturing authenticity. We rarely get the real thing nowadays.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

tinkelenberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:51:49 +0000

Fixed it for you.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

tinkelenberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:40:06 +0000

It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

tinkelenberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:33:11 +0000

Every blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Social media began as an attempt to make the spirit of blogging a low lift for the noobs.

Today, you’re talking to an audience that is online, willing to venture outside social media, and opting to actively read content rather than passively listen or watch. That’s far from everyone and that’s okay.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "The Lost Spark: How Modernity Flattened Real and Imaginary"

tinkelenberg — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:45:05 +0000

Another way to describe it is mystique. There is an absence of mystique when everything is explained and optimized to the nth degree.

Websites used to be delightfully weird. Now, they’re truncated into templates with hamburger menus. That tension can be cultivated once again.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Why do we need dithering?"

tinkelenberg — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:30:10 +0000

This is the best explanation I’ve come across. I enjoy dithering as a playful way to compress file size when it makes sense.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tinkelenberg — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:29:48 +0000

BSDs are known for a simple, monolithic OS design, a commitment to long-term stability, and permissive licensing.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tinkelenberg — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:23:17 +0000

Thank you. I will try again soon. BSD is too compelling from a philosophical standpoint to set aside completely.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tinkelenberg — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:00:45 +0000

I recently looked into the BSDs for a desktop project before going back to Debian. I love the philosophy but they’re for the initiated.

The onboarding rails just aren’t there these days. Everyone says the BSD documentation is superb, but the man pages are more of a reference than an onboarding guide.

One major challenge is LLMs have a hard time with BSD-related prompts. They’re trained on so much more Linux content, and there’s just enough overlap between both systems that hallucination rates are extremely high in my experience.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work"

tinkelenberg — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:54:48 +0000

A teacher told me once that editing poetry is like trying to open a glass jar. Eventually, you have to set it down or you’ll break the thing.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

tinkelenberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:20:53 +0000

One way to look it is to approach it as a creative practice. A good part of any practice is devoted to developing technique.

Some are just fine with a standardized but unoptimized tool while others are fascinated by building their own high-flying TUI. The journey is the destination. If all you create is a config file, it still counts.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

tinkelenberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:10:55 +0000

I’m exploring a similar implementation and am honestly torn between NixOS and a more monolithic experience like Debian or OpenBSD.

As much as I love the idea of declarative builds, I’m struggling to justify the investment of learning and maintaining Nix for an individual setup. I’ve dabbled with it and mostly encountered footguns.

Whatever makes a nice, clean slab is what I’m after.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"

tinkelenberg — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:43:55 +0000

Definitely not. That said, sitting in front of a typewriter was probably the healthiest thing some of these people did.

Writing is an isolating profession, and its demons compound when you introduce other vices.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"

tinkelenberg — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:01:38 +0000

It goes to show that for how much we mythologize the lifestyles of 20th century writers, their lives weren’t necessarily healthy ones.

New comment by tinkelenberg in "Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World"

tinkelenberg — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:42:07 +0000

I like the term “organic literature.” A significant amount of readers have no interest whatsoever in generated prose, so there is definitely a viable market in human provenance.

An independent certification body is quite an old-world solution for a problem like this, but I’m not sure this is something that can be done mathematically. A web of trust may be all we have.