Meet Amon! 🖤🐾
He's an American Staffordshire Terrier (AmStaff), and despite his tough appearance, he's an absolute sweetheart. Such a gentle, loving boy!
Just enjoying a little drink by the pool. 💙
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Pablo MuradThursday, October 15, 2026
I've been trying to find a project I came across a few weeks ago that lets you preserve a website forever using the Nostr network. I thought it was fantastic, but apparently I forgot to bookmark it. 🫨
I've been using Pocket ID for almost a month now, and I'm really happy with it. I switched from VoidAuth, which is relatively newer, but I honestly found Pocket ID much easier to integrate, even though it only offers one login method. Thankfully, neither of them comes with the enterprise-level complexity of authentik. 😅
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
https://indie.pbl.md lets you check your microformats, rel links, endpoints, and metadata, and helps you spot things that might need fixing.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
“I like seeing people happy, too. I just haven't seen many who really are.”
A thought on forced laughter, empty conversations, and the strange loneliness of being surrounded by people.
— Charles Bukowski, Hollywood
Plato believed that Zeus split humans in two so they wouldn't rival the gods. When you think about it, somewhere in this world, each of us has another half.
I just read a three-page article explaining what happens if you plug a USB flash drive into a phone charger and then plug it into a wall outlet.
Three whole pages, just to conclude: "If it has an LED, it lights up."
Brilliant journalism.
Hammer, my SSH BBS, grew up this week. Door games through BBSLink and DoorParty (LORD, Trade Wars, Zork), inter-BBS chat over MRC, plus telnet, rlogin, FTP and even ports for the Commodore 64.
ssh -p 2323 hammer.pablomurad.com
Friday, October 9, 2026
I run a tiny photo log called phlog.space. You upload a photo and it comes back wrecked by one of 35 random effects: crushed JPEG, pixel sorting, VHS, CGA, fax, thermal camera, and now Kodachrome, Super 8, cyanotype and tintype. You can turn effects off.
Photos end up 400px, the original isn’t kept and EXIF/GPS is stripped. One “nice” and one short comment per photo. No ads, no follower counts.
It’s free. I approve new accounts by hand.
I spent the afternoon going through my photo archive, and was surprised to find nearly 150,000 photos in Lightroom. I photograph just about everything, as much as I possibly can, and I've been doing it since 2008, back when I was still living in Moscow.
I learned to love photography, colors, and light thanks to my ex-fiancée, Kate. She had an incredible eye for detail and a natural gift for the arts. Me? I was practically an orangutan.
Anyway, I deleted around 20,000 photos today, and realized that going through old memories might not be as pleasant as it sounds. I saw so many people who are no longer part of my life, and others who are no longer in this world.
That's a lot of memories. 120,000 of them.
Maybe I should just delete everything.
A photo from 2018. I'd gotten it into my head that I wanted a betta fish, and it ended up being the first fish I ever owned. Bettas are solitary creatures, and small, shallow pools of water are part of their natural habitat. I only learned how important solitude was to him later, when I bought a bigger aquarium and added a whole school of fish.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Second week in my new place, and I've only managed to unpack a quarter of my stuff :(
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Yesterday I had such a bad headache that I took the wrong meds. I accidentally took two sedatives, and now I can barely stand up straight... God take the wheel 💀