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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

If you imported from Pocket CSV into Wallabag, and it didn’t include your favourites, here’s a script that bulk stars Wallabag entries by URL: www.autodidacts.io/star-entries-by-… #100DaysToOffload #ReadItLater #Wallabag #Pocket #Python

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

While working on KOReader plugin development, I hacked together a script that repacks & restarts an AppImage every time I hit save: www.autodidacts.io/hotreload-an-app… #100DaysToOffload #KOReader #Lua #AppImage #Tutorial #Kobo #ReadItLater #Bash

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

My free Silver price API now has an RSS feed with the day’s bid price Also, I now know about RFC-822 dates, which is not something I was interested in learning about www.autodidacts.io/free-daily-silve… #100DaysToOffload #Silver #RSS #Projects

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Someone I know started teaching a podcasting course at a better-than-average high school in one of the richest parts of one of the richest countries. After his first day, he told me, with wide eyes, some of the students don’t know how to move or copy a file […] [Original post on autodidacts.io]

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

An obvious solution to a simple problem, overlooked due to previous experience: www.autodidacts.io/i-fixed-my-crash… #100DaysToOffload #AWS #Swap #Linux #System Administration

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin (I check every year or so) www.autodidacts.io/parse-filter-jso… #100DaysToOffload #Rant #Spreadsheets #API #LibreOffice

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Sometimes reading the classics feels like being in on a secret. And the secret is that reading the classics is *fun* 🤯 www.autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-isnt… #100DaysToOffload #Books #Reading #Dostoevsky

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Writing a web app because I want to do calculations in a spreadsheet: I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I decided to make a super basic one. www.autodidacts.io/free-silver-pric… #100DaysToOffload #APIs #Silver #Preciousmetals #Finance

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

A paean to splashing through puddles, and the joy that is unlocked by overcoming fear of rain and bad weather: www.autodidacts.io/human-beings-are… #100DaysToOffload #Health #Lifestyle

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I have updated my post about my experience with @readeck@mastodon.online so far, adding more information about using it with KOReader (either OPDS or a plugin), article fetching success rate compared to Wallabag, etc. Overall, I'm really impressed. How […] [Original post on autodidacts.io]

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

For decades, I’ve contemplated capitulating and buying a proprietary dictation app, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. Now I don't have to. Because finally, there’s an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works! […] [Original post on autodidacts.io]

Whispering, open-source dictation app for Linux

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

I finally read The Lean Startup, and my main takeaway was that a business that doesn’t split test is like a plane with no altimeter: not likely to last long. I was using salez.ca as a test-case for the ideas in the book. The free #Matomo A/B testing plugin I […] [Original post on autodidacts.io]

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam? Here are a few hypotheses, expanding on discussions I've had with @cathy@spectralwebservices.com and @murat@muratcorlu.com on the Ghost forum: www.autodidacts.io/ghost-newsletter… #100DaysToOffload #GhostCMS

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

A CLI shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files, which I use every day: www.autodidacts.io/fish-bash-clipbo… #100DaysToOffload #FishShell #Bash

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

I know I said Wallabag won, but I spun up a @readeck@mastodon.online instance with one Docker command and it's really impressive. The main thing that caught my attention? The pageload times are *insanely* fast. So refreshing!

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

A while ago, I broke the screen on my e-reader, and figured out how to migrate all my reading data to my new device. Here are my notes: www.autodidacts.io/migrate-kobo-ere… #100DaysToOffload #Kobo #Reading

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

I wrote a script to export posts written in the Ghost editor and save them as Markdown: www.autodidacts.io/script-export-po… #100DaysToOffload #Markdown

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Regex is an incredible tool, and bothering to learn it is an investment that lasts a lifetime: www.autodidacts.io/horrible-amazing… #100DaysToOffload #Regex

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

My 7-month journey to find a read-it-later app that fills the gap left by Pocket, and migrate all my data, draws to a close. www.autodidacts.io/wallabag-wins-de… I'm delighted that in the end the open-source @wallabag@fosstodon.org […] [Original post on autodidacts.io]

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

In which I contend that sleep is a continuum, and whether you're technically "awake" or "sleeping" is kind of beside the point: www.autodidacts.io/sleep-is-a-conti… #100DaysToOffload #Sleep

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Six lines of Lua allow you to star Wallabag articles from the comfort of KOReader: www.autodidacts.io/star-wallabag-en… #100DaysToOffload

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

I have spent a long time trying to find a read-it-later service that works as well as Pocket on Kobo e-readers. Here's a list of the most promising public Wallabag instances I have found, with commentary: www.autodidacts.io/wallabag-instanc… #100DaysToOffload

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

New post! Does long sleep duration *lead to* higher all-cause mortality, or are both symptoms of something else? www.autodidacts.io/long-sleep-durat… #100DaysToOffload

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

A small tutorial on taming your RSS feeds: www.autodidacts.io/filter-rss-feeds… Specifically, how to filter out all my #100DaysToOffload posts!

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new open-source-ish 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price: www.autodidacts.io/cerelog-esp-eeg-… Probably the most interesting neurotech hardware I've run across since OpenBCI was released! #Neuro #EEG #100DaysToOffload

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

I’m trying #100DaysToOffload! First post is out: www.autodidacts.io/100daystooffload Thanks to @kev@fosstodon.org for cooking up this challenge. We'll see how long I last :)

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The Autodidacts @curiositry.www.autodidacts.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Published the 21st draft of a post on iteration on September 21st, four years to the day after I started it on September 21st 2021. www.autodidacts.io/iteration

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