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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I made my own new-tab dashboard (somewhat similar to Momentum) that aggregates notifications from all kinds of places, but now I have to look at my ~1K unread RSS articles every time I open a new tab. Fortunately, that number is only from a handful of […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

Site icons with notification badges. A feedbin bage shows 977 unread items.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm a complete idiot for not properly checking out hledger before last week.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

This might just be the dumbest #woodworking idea I've attempted to realize so far. Instead of making my first butcher block a reasonable size, i..e. a simple cutting board, I took some laminated oak offcuts from a friend and am currently trying to turn them […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

You know the little overflow inlet that prevents water from running out of your sink in case it fills up entirely? I just saw a slightly larger one in a reservoir lake:

Big concrete overflow inlet in a reservoir lake

The same inlet, seen from far away, looking much smaller

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

TIL: euro boxes fit perfectly on top of German beer crates.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

This road trip was a bit silly, but I got to visit so many good friends on the way:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Polish people really love their karp:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Tried to make Overpass API requests fail (which usually happens quite often) to test a nicer error UI, but today it doesn't want to:

Map search results for cafes in pretty much all of Berlin, with most of the map covered in red markers

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

When I was standing in front of this terrarium, it took me quite a while to find that little guy with its perfect camouflage.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

TFW you're on your way to the evening #hackerbeach computering sesh at the brewpub on the beach, and it just looks unreal.

Small dirt road toward a beach with tall palm trees shortly after sunset

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

When you feel broke, but the local 7-Eleven tries to elevate your mood:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

We're making our own espresso at the coffee shop now, because someone brought a whole travel setup. #hackerbeach

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

My Khe Beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Christmas tree latte art in Vietnam:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Won a battle with iptables, and now I can connect to non-ZeroTier-enabled devices at the house remotely via ZeroTier on a custom subnet.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Winter is coming. Going to freeze us some chicken broth...

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Terrible design. Completely illegible and what exactly is the improvement? www.w3.org/blog/2025/w3c-logo-refre…

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Drying some socks and some Laurel (bay leaves).

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

This is a neat visualization of what fiat currency inflation does to wealth distribution over time. It increases the numeric value of assets like homes and stock portfolios, while the real value of salaries and currency savings evaporates. And the earlier you […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

A pie chart made of an actual pie, showing wealth by generation. In the U.S., baby boomers own half of all the wealth, Gen X about a quarter, millennials and Gen Z about 1/8, and seniors from before the USD went off the gold standard also own about 1/8.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

The almonds around here are ripe and delicious now:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Looks like I'm finally joining #caturday with our newly adopted kitten. Mute the hashtag if you don't enjoy random cat pics!

A kitten sitting on a lap in front of a desk with a computer

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

realclearwire.com/blog/2025/08/30/p… A friend of a friend brought us to a speakeasy pulque hall in Mexico City once. Not my favorite drink, but it could be worse. They had multiple flavors on […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

I didn't even know spring onions could grow like this. It's almost 3 feet tall now:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

One of the most German things I can remember from my childhood: fresh bread rolls from the fridge, because even the bakery was closed on Sundays.

Knack & Back package containing fresh dough

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

Ran into a crate of this in a supermarket in Berlin today. I guess we have an official @kosmos beer now:

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

Right through the middle. Fortunately, it was a quiet night.

Photo of an airplane seat display, showing the flight path through the Middle East, in the middle between Iran and Israel.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

How did I not notice before that you can find and copy emojis directly in #GNOME Search? All this time (when outside of UIs with integrated emoji pickers), I was opening the Characters app and using the search in there, like some kind of caveman.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025

This butcher was pretty serious about Valentine's Day:

A meat counter, with various cuts of meat arranged in heart shapes

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

In Vasai, North of Mumbai, you can find the ruins of an entire city that the Portuguese once built and fortified there.

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