https://somethingwonderful.eu Something Wonderful — a personal blog by Nathaniel Harari en-us Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:12:49 +0200 Emacs Org-mode https://somethingwonderful.eu/how-to-learn-celcius-and-dress-like-a-physicist.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/how-to-learn-celcius-and-dress-like-a-physicist.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 You're an American, and you're in Europe. You've been brought up on the inferior Fahrenheit scale (which makes no reasonable sense to any physicist), and you can't figure out what to wear. What do ... https://somethingwonderful.eu/the-interminably-obscene-timelines-of-social-media.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/the-interminably-obscene-timelines-of-social-media.html Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 I'm probably on the spectrum (never officially diagnosed as far as I know), but I get sucked into projects rather easily. This means that other things around me become forgotten or go unnoticed for... https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-journelly-to-sync-in-france.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-journelly-to-sync-in-france.html Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 As part of the whole "[[https://somethingwonderful.eu/pages/getting-off-of-the-american-tech-stack.html][Getting off of the American Tech Stack]]" thing, and eschewing iCloud as much as possible, I... https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-m-finally-set-up.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-m-finally-set-up.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 I'm finally set up. It's been an incredible ride. I'll have to update my page on getting off of the American Tech Stack. I know that many others have been documenting their progress on their own bl... https://somethingwonderful.eu/early-sunday-morning-cleaning.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/early-sunday-morning-cleaning.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 One of the things which I changed in my life is my schedule. I used to go to bed after dawn on most days. I liked the quiet time of the night. But then, I'd wake up around noon and felt like the en... https://somethingwonderful.eu/rss-reduce-enshittification.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/rss-reduce-enshittification.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Cory Doctorow has a wonderful piece out today called [[https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/#personal-disenshittification][Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026)]] in whi... https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-updated-the-list-of-magical-items.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-updated-the-list-of-magical-items.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 It's something I decided to do while waiting for my latest restic backup download to my local drive. Seeing as I was up at an ungodly hour (3:45 am), and having solved some issues with restic and a... https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-off-of-apple-podcasts.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-off-of-apple-podcasts.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 I've recently deleted everything off of Apple Podcasts. Keep in mind - I've used this app for years on a daily basis. It used to be reliably on my home screen - the first one, mind - at the bottom ... https://somethingwonderful.eu/deleting-google-stuff.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/deleting-google-stuff.html Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 One thing about revamping your entire system and going independent is that it forces you to finally consolidate everything under your own independent means. I forgot how much /crap/ i had over at G... https://somethingwonderful.eu/changing-my-email-is-a-pain.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/changing-my-email-is-a-pain.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 If there's one thing that is more time consuming than anything when changing your domain, it's changing to your new email address on every single website and service where you had your old one. https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-off-of-the-american-tech-stack.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-off-of-the-american-tech-stack.html Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 I wrote a long and generalized "how to" for getting off of the American Tech Stack as much as possible. I'm putting it in a static pages link so people can use it as reference if they feel like it.... https://somethingwonderful.eu/welcome-back-.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/welcome-back-.html Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Hello again.