icco @icco@merveilles.town

#introductions

I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.

When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.

Took Friday and Monday off. Normally I'd take these days off for my birthday and go to a museum or something. Instead I'm trying to get my second book out the door.

... Taking time off of work to do work is something I always feel weird about.

I realize I've been tooting for a while on Merveilles and never wrote an intro. so sorry for the delay... of 12 months or so?

#introductions

I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.

When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.

My work (timebyping.com) is looking to start donating small amounts of money to open source projects that sanctify or save time.

As a common theme of merv is journaling and time tracking, I'd love to hear suggestions from you all.

One of those days where I'm just too overwhelmed to do anything.

https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/ fun hardware hacking revitalizing old kindles!

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lisperati1000-raspberry-pi-project is neat. I couldn't use it tho, would totally mess up my back at that angle.

https://playb.it/ makes me think of this community. Cool idea.

https://ben.akrin.com/?page_id=9650 this is cool! A diy plotter.

Yesterday I coded up a Golang library for https://lunchmoney.app - https://github.com/icco/lunchmoney

I found some bugs in their API while doing it, thankfully Jen, their founder, is incredibly responsive.

Have any of you regularly woken up before 6a? I'm thinking of starting my day significantly earlier (I currently wake at 6:45a, thinking of trying 4a). I'm curious about how folks structure their day, what problems they ran into with early start times.

Two and a half years after it was published, I finally built a marketing page for my first book. https://realworldsre.com

PRs to make it better are welcome https://github.com/icco/realworldsre.com

https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/-/issues/498 wow, be nice to your local open source contributor.

I'm enjoying journaling more again. How I journal has gone through lots of iterations, but rewriting https://github.com/icco/etu has made it a great platform for me to write. Still not back to the level I was at in 2018, but here's hoping.

https://etu.natwelch.com/pages is a read only list of stuff now in the journal / wiki / memex.

I have a cli editor, I wanna build a mobile app, but that's in the future.

Cloudflare is garbage. It hosts tons of hate websites. Has since it was founded. https://who-hosts-hate.com keeps track of all of the horrible websites they host. Stop giving them money. They don't even make a good product.