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A stream of consciousness.

Origins

meta

A traditional first (and often only) blog post is “here is how I set up my blog”. You could call this a negative first blog post, because I haven’t actually set one up yet, but this will be posted to it when I have.

On Mastodon recently someone said they had opinions they wanted to write but didn’t want the whole rigamarole of a blog, and I joking suggesting finding a Unix shell and writing a .plan file. For those who aren’t ancient, Unix machines traditionally came with a command called ‘finger’, and if you ran finger on a username one of the things it would do it print out the .plan file in their user directory. It was sort of a very early proto-Twitter.

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