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max @notplants.net · 06/09/2026

been hard at work on some new slop the past weeks (more info coming soon)

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max @notplants.net · 04/08/2026

canoe that my roommate just finished making

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max @notplants.net · 12/05/2026

this is where I work usually

a picture of a laptop on a table, and a cat, surrounded by plans and various items

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max @notplants.net · 07/05/2026

@gbl08ma.com so from my reading, we are using tempfile::tempdir, which by default creates directories in env::temp_dir() which is set by TMPDIR env var or defaults to /tmp doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.t... docs.rs/tempfile/lat...

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max @notplants.net · 06/05/2026

@gbl08ma.com was cool to clone your repo and see the site from your perspective after cloning i was able to replicate the issue and i think find a fix

screenshot of lichen cms ui with site of @glb

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max @notplants.net · 05/05/2026

@ngerakines.me would you accept a PR if I change the instrument of this function to: #[instrument(err(level = Level::DEBUG))] so it doesnt log an error message if its expected failure? or i might be misunderstanding something

docs from instrument error level at https://docs.rs/tracing-attributes/latest/tracing_attributes/attr.instrument.html#examples-2

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max @notplants.net · 05/05/2026

vibe coding is a funny name for this kind of thing

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max @notplants.net · 23/04/2026

excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it

Pixel-art illustration of a person, sunflower, stones, cat-like creature, mushroom and tree. Created by https://www.instagram.com/frsw_franz/

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max @notplants.net · 12/04/2026

we believe the file trees and git commit histories are now converging with arbitrary amounts of peers and edits

a screenshot of two editors with the same filetree shown

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max @notplants.net · 04/04/2026

working on my novel

screenshot of collabora showing the text "lorem ipsum, after much debugging, it is working now"

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max @notplants.net · 29/03/2026

cherry blossoms in vancouver

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max @notplants.net · 14/02/2026

⚘ nyc co-op cloud convergence #2 ⚘ this thursday february 19th at ridgewood commons from 8pm to 11pm

a flyer image of a terminal with pixel art flowers in the background. the terminal shows a user typing commands in natural-ish language and getting errors from bash:

please just deploy me some infrastructure, save me from Google
bash: please command not found

no surveillance, no ads, looks nice, works well, no mistakes pls
bash: no command not found

oh also community-operated and in a federated network with other tech co-ops
bash: oh command not found

ideally none of those "message failed to decrypt" warnings but ill take what i can get
bash: ideally command not found

dang this isnt working is it, i may need to use co-op cloud
bash: dang command not found

please also make it cute and gay, ty
bash: please command not found

another flyer image of the terminal with flowers in the background. it shows the event information in a cat command:

cat <<EOF

coop cloud nyc convergence

thursday feb 18 8pm to 11pm

@ ridgewood commons

5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385

<3

EOF

a third and final flyer image of the terminal, shows figlet command outputs which create ascii art text of the inputted strings

figlet "co-op cloud"

figlet "on thursday!"

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max @notplants.net · 07/02/2026

⚘ permacomputing meetup nyc ⚘ this tuesday february 10 in nyc at ridgewood commons from 6pm to 8pm organized by @exquisitecorp@merveilles.town

flyer for permacomputing and programming meetup. showing a screenshot of a simplified almost mathematical flower diagram and the info about when and where the event is (tues feb 10, 6pm to 8pm at ridgewood commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385)

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max @notplants.net · 12/01/2026

if you are in nyc or nearby, come join this sunday for the first ever nyc co-op cloud convergence, at 2:30pm at ridgewood commons ❄️ co-organized with paul & calix flyer created by @halopoem more info about co-op cloud at coopcloud.tech

Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or flowing branches along the edges. Event details read: Sunday, January 18th at 2:30 PM at Ridgewood Commons. Schedule: 2:30–3:30 PM, tech co-ops and co-op cloud; 4:00–6:00 PM, co-hacking; 6:00 PM onward, cooking and dinner.

Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or branches along the right side. Bullet points read: Learn what Co-op Cloud is and learn about tech co-ops; Meet Co-op Cloud co-operators; Donation-based dinner afterwards; Masks required before 6 PM, masks optional after 6 PM. Text at bottom reads: Come for any or all parts. Location: Ridgewood Commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

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max @notplants.net · 20/11/2025

sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

screenshot of paper "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

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max @notplants.net · 11/10/2025

if you can say “tailscale funnel and cloudflare tunnel” five times fast, without thinking of the edward snowden “ssl added and removed here!” meme, then you don’t need gateway co-op gateway.commoninternet.net

an image of the infamous ssl-added-and-removed-here slide (source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ssl-added-and-removed-here)

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max @notplants.net · 12/06/2025

for reasons I don't yet understand, it appears my home server network traffic increased by around 5x on 5-28-25 after pretty consistently being ~1gb per day before then may need to start breaking this down by domain somehow to actually understand this (output of vnstat -d)

output of vnstat showing network taffic by day

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max @notplants.net · 11/06/2025

excited to share the third round of class projects from solidarity infrastructures: from local archives of neighborhood street art, to an rfc for maintenance dinners, to a self-hosted signal directory, and many other experiments and reflections on servers and infrastructure infrastructures.us/e...

screenshot of website showing class links to class projects

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max @notplants.net · 09/06/2025

@dame.is @asura.dev here is an article which mentions google and microsoft www.forbes.com/sites/jemmag... also this article which it cites: archive.ph/DTxB , which cites archive.ph/VWBSR which cites a google report from 2024 which is quoted in the screenshot

"In 2023, our total GHG emissions were 14.3
million tCO2e, representing a 13% year-over-
year increase and a 48% increase compared
to our 2019 target base year. This result was
primarily due to increases in data center
energy consumption and supply chain
emissions. As we further integrate AI into
our products, reducing emissions may be
challenging due to increasing energy demands
from the greater intensity of AI compute, and
the emissions associated with the expected
increases in our technical infrastructure
investment"

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max @notplants.net · 30/05/2025

always a lover of the accidental intermediary stages of things in the process of making them

screenshot of lichen-markdown UI showing the background of a web page weirdly repeated many times

screenshot of solidarity infrsastructures website with Miete? nein danke. repeated many times

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max @notplants.net · 27/05/2025

the year is 2025, perhaps surprisingly im still in patchwork, connecting to a little private network of pubs through various tunnels -- more explanation coming soon

screenshot of patchwork connecting to two different pubs

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max @notplants.net · 01/05/2025

sure. so the site is made with lichen-markdown, and @chillygorilly.bsky.social and I share the login to the admin interface, so we can both add and edit pages. we sometimes chat about it, or just spontaneously add things and tell the other. so far just the two of us, but could grow

screenshot of the flowers.commoninternet.net lichen-markdown cms interface

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max @notplants.net · 05/04/2025

this release also adds the ability to rename files and folders (spent some time making it look pretty)

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max @notplants.net · 14/03/2025

internet radio idea of the day... *-*-*-*-* curious how the following idea would relate to legal definitions of internet radio? & the line between a livestream, and a store and forward network ?

p2p internet radio :: body-double-radio (inspired by https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/being-socially-motivated-is-not-a) ::

- as I play music, what I listen to is broadcast as internet radio
and my friends can tune into my stream
- my stream is not just broadcast live, but broadcast with a 24 hour play history, so people can see the last 24 hour history and tune into any part (inspired by store and forward gossip networks with broadcasts via relays)
- the player that tunes into a stream "plays before downloading", so its a broadcast not reproduction (but clients have seamless built-in analog hole plugins to save streams with the correct metadata)
- imagining a terminal-user-interface for this whole thing kind of like cmus, but with an extra window to see all of my friends/peers who have play history in the last 24 hours along with a browsable timeline of their play history along with possibility to leave little notes with songs on your broadcast

... sort of a halfway-house in between soulseek, spotify friends are playing, and internet radio...

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max @notplants.net · 07/03/2025

working at a cafe, channeling inspiration from older person i saw shamelessly playing starcraft with a mouse at the public library ten years ago

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max @notplants.net · 27/02/2025

a lot going on in this page from "gay berlin: birthplace of a modern identity" by robert beachy

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max @notplants.net · 31/01/2025

this thread could be seen as an argument towards more solutions like @cblgh@merveilles.town social-norms-based crdt-replacement ideas

screenshot of interface where "you pass the word" to pass authorship

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max @notplants.net · 12/01/2025

feel like this comic is a bit utopian about open source and its own issues, but also continues to be relevant xkcd.com/743/

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max @notplants.net · 03/01/2025

> The Resilience Journal uses the idea of data-tracking as an objective tool for holding space for illness. The data is neither good or bad, it just… is. I wanted to show myself and others that living with chronic illness/disability is not always something that needs to be fixed or struggled against

image of a page of the journal, showing a circular data visualization for the month in blue colors

image of the resilience journal, with a circular diagram on the front

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max @notplants.net · 29/12/2024

somehow used ncspot for months assuming you had to use keyboard shortcuts and there was no mouse interaction ... then yesterday realized you could use the mouse and was happy about it lol

screenshot of memory footprint of ncspot and spotify

ncspot: 46m
spotify: 1000mb

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max @notplants.net · 22/12/2024

no one: she continues reading at the poetry open mic:

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max @notplants.net · 07/12/2024

in permacomputing news, lichen-markdown is now in the yunohost application catalog 🌿 apps.yunohost.org/app/lichenma... #yunohost #lichen-markdown #permacomputing

screenshot of lichen-markdown in the yunohost install interface

screenshot of readme for lichenmarkdown_ynh showing the level 7 integration

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max @notplants.net · 06/11/2024

according to this fifty year calendar, in 48 years, in 2052, the calendar year will be the same as 2024, and november 5th will also be a tuesday and also an election day assuming the continuation of the current us election cycle

Image of small circular 50 year calendar

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max @notplants.net · 30/10/2024

the new round of sfpc class for winter '25 is out now, classes are from january 12 to march 27 sfpc.study/sessions/win... * Drawing Data by Hand * Gift Interfaces * The Browser is Already a Game Engine * Solidarity Infrastructures

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max @notplants.net · 23/05/2023

enjoyed this list of “queer” animals

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max @notplants.net · 07/05/2023

heard were doing photos of ourselves with flowers & plants, heres me in berlin on a friends balcony

Max with an orange flower in their hair on their friends balcony

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