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Christopher Buecheler
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• 🤔 "Beekler"
• 🌍 US expat in Paris
• 📖 SFF Author @ cwbwriting.com (Fox Literary)
• 💻 Dev Relations Engineer @ embeddable.com
• 🚀 Creator of SimpleRSS @ simplerss.dev
• 🦋 Creator of EmbedBsky @ embedbsky.com
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New book is coming along nicely! Terrible, terrible things have happened to our princess, but she's not a gentle wilting flower. She's got a plan. It's going to get ugly from here.

Call an ambulance ... but not for her! 😄

#amwriting #amdrafting #firstdraft #darkfantasy
An image of an excel spreadsheet, showing daily wordcounts since November 1st. The goal count is 1,500 daily. The current average is 2,134 words. As of today, the book is 34,878 words long. The line graph shows that progress is well ahead of anticipated (about 10,800 words ahead, to be specific)
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This shows up in Microsoft Word now in every single document even if you have Copilot turned off (which I do), and I'm just so tired of this stuff.
A copilot badge on the side of a word document, displaying three options: "Summarize this document," "Find key insights and questions," and "Prep me to discuss this document."
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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22,500 words on the new book since November 1st. Things are ... not going super well for Lachesse.
Willow hadn’t spoken her first word yet, would not turn a year old for another two months. Lachesse assumed it would be “mama” followed almost immediately by either “leave me alone” (a favorite of Ellis’s) or “don’t touch me” or perhaps “you made a terrible mistake ever marrying my father and bringing my brother and me into the world.” Sometimes these thoughts made her laugh till she cried, and then she wondered if she might be going mad.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A well-deserved black-n-tan after 12 hours of travel!

Three trains, a plane, a cab, another train, and a rather lovely short walk through town.
A lovely black-n-tan made with Guinness and Smithwick's Red Ale, sitting on the dark wood counter of my hotel bar in Sligo, Ireland
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Genuinely curious to see what, if anything, this ends up paying. I do have two books registered with the US copyright office that Anthropic trained their data on w/o my permission. I'm not thrilled with this settlement, but I'd rather get paid than just get nothing for the theft.
Dear CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER, Your claim in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement has been received.
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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It's hilarious that my wife and I have dined all over the world, including Michelin Star restaurants on three continents, and one of the best meals either of us has ever had was lobster rolls and perfect shoestring fries from an ice cream stand in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire. LOOK AT THIS
An insane lobster roll. The hotdog bun, which is perfectly toasted, is loaded to the point where it looks like a flat piece of bread. The lobster salad is all claw meat, including several whole claws. It's mixed with mayo and piled -- and I mean PILED -- atop a bed of lettuce.
October 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Paris Basket game came down to the last shot but they pulled out the win! Nice to go to a game that doesn't start at 8:30 PM on a weeknight, too!
A basketball court from the fifth or sixth row, near center court. Both teams are playing under one basket. A coach is standing with his hands on his hips. There is a significant crowd at the game.
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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If I were a billionaire, I would invest very, very, VERY heavily in these. Vastly higher carbon sink potential than an individual tree, produces safer biomass for fertilizing than animal waste, looks cool, thrives in urban environments that are rough for trees.

liquid3.rs
A liquid3 algae tank that also doubles as a bench / bus stop. It's basically a big tank full of algae that eats sunlight and stores a ton of carbon.
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Buenos dias from #ReactAlicante! Let's learn some stuff 😄
A stage surrounded by white and red lighting, with a huge screen at the center featuring the React Alicante logo
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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One of my absolute favorite things about living in France is getting to visit various parts of Europe WITHOUT jetlag. Cheers from Alicante!
A glass of red wine sits on a table next to a bowl of bright green olives. In the background are many more tables along a lengthy pedestrian strip, with tan stone buildings holding the restaurants associated with those tables. A line of lights illuminates the center of the scene.
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I built a fuzz pedal this weekend. It was fun! Sounds great, worked first try. Great kit from Stewmac.
A silicone mat sits on a desk. Atop it is a circuit board holder, which is holding a red circuit board. Next to it is a soldering iron and a soldering iron cleaning station. Solder, scissors, and pliers are also visible. Two transistors have already been soldered into the board All of the parts (transistors, resistors, capacitors, and a diode) have been soldered into the board, along with tree potentiometers and two trim pots. Wires have also been soldered on, with four of them connected to a separate, smaller red board for a footswitch The board has been mounted in the case and all of the wires are soldered to the appropriate places, including the input and output jacks and power jack. A white LED has been attached to the board and inserted into the case. All of the potentiometeres have been screwed into place. The pedal is complete and rests on a pedal board along with a Crybaby Wah, a Polytune 3 mini tuner pedal (white, tiny), and five JHS 3 Series pedals, all white: screamer, distortion, chorus, delay, and hall reverb. The fuzz pedal is a bit chunkier than the JHS pedals, but fits in with the look of the board.
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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I'm. Finally. Done.

I don't know if I'll ever replay #Silksong. It's an amazing game with a lot of stuff I really loved and a significant chunk I didn't. I'll probably write up my final thoughts on it over on cwbwriting.com this week.
The Silksong end screen, showing that the game is complete with 100% attained and a time of 81 hours, 50 minutes, and 49 seconds.
September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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In case you're in the habit of ignoring LinkedIn's emails ... which you probably are ... note that they are changing their terms of service in November and defaulting AI training from user generated content to "on" for people in Europe. You can turn it off in your settings.
A LinkedIn settings screen showing that "data for generative AI improvement" has been turned off.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Finished my kit guitar! It plays pretty well and sounds just fine. The tuners suck and I'm going to replace them, but that's honestly my only complaint. Here's a "how it started / how it's going" comparison 😄
A completely unfinished and unwired guitar body sits on a table. Below it, clamped to the table, is a guitar neck with a design drawn into the huge square headstock, but not actually cut out yet. The finished guitar, fully assembled. It's a stratocaster-style body, stained a dark reddish brown with a satin Danish oil finish. The headstock has been carved and sanded, and the neck is attached to the body. All the hardware is installed, along with a white faceplate.
September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"Chris, why do you hate Tailwind?"

Because this is an unreliable and difficult-to-read way to build things that requires way more refactoring when designs change than working with actual CSS classes. Having to hand-style every single piece of every single component misses the value of CSS entirely.
A span with thirteen lines of tailwind classnames instead of a single classname referencing CSS that holds those values.
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I'm more of a basketball guy rememberer, so here are some basketball guys I remembered while remembering some guys with Defector and Immaculate Grid.
Troy Hudson, Hakim Warrick, Stanislav Medvedenko, Eduardo Najera, Tyler Hansbrough, Daniel Gibson, Nazr Mohammed, Robert Swift, Yi Jianlian
September 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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QOTSA did their thing and a good time was had! Wish I'd taken tomorrow off but ... oh well!
Queens of the Stone Age live in a festival stage from about 100 feet away. They are bathed in purple and pink light, and lots of fog machine fog Queens of the Stone Age on a festival stage from about a hundred feet away. They are bathed in turquoise light, and there are huge screens on both sides showing Josh Homme singing and playing guitar.
August 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Followed up with Vera Daises and Fontaines DC. Both pretty fun. Not in love with Fontaine's singer but the music was really good. Now standing around waiting for QOTSA
Vera Daises, who had a real L7 vibe going on, at a small "new artists" festival stage. It's just her with a guitar, and a drummer. Fontaines DC from about a zillion miles away. They're on the mainstage and I can't really describe it beyond "it's a festival stage and between it and us are thousands of people"
August 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Arrived at Rock En Seine at 3:30ish. Queens of the Stone Age, the band I'm here to see (and the only one I'd ever heard of before today), don't play till friggin 9:50, but we've so far enjoyed King Hannah and Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. Not a bad afternoon! Now chilling in the shade.
King Hannah on stage two. The band consists of a woman singing and playing guitar, a guy playing lead guitar, a guy playing bass, and a guy playing drums. They're on a medium-sized festival stage with a good crowd in front of them Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. The band consists of a woman singing and playing the guitar (and sometimes keyboard), a woman playing synths, a woman playing guitar and synths, a woman playing bass, and a guy playing drums. They're on stage one, a somewhat smaller festival stage, but still with a good crowd, many of whom knew all the songs.
August 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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It is, in fact, fine!

www.threepanelsoul.com
A webcomic in three panels. First panel, a man with a trimmed beard and glasses says "With some humility, the departent of dudes would like to officially announce the results of its 5-year, $3-million study." Second panel: same dude says "You can was a cast iron pan. It's fine, actually." Third panel: dude removes his glasses and says, "The department would like to extand a sincere apology to the bureau of girlfriends and ex-girlfriends."
August 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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SimpleRSS.dev is almost ready to launch in beta. So excited to potentially make twelves of dollars a year off this service!
A screenshot of the pricing page for SimpleRSS, showing that there is a free tier, and two pro tiers (same features, just with an annual discount vs. monthly). Currently the screenshot reflects beta pricing, $1.99/month or $19.99/year.
August 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Cha, her sister, and her niece are at the beach. I love the ocean but don't really care for the beach, so I walked with them and then continued on to our favorite bar in town. Picon bière, sketching, and a cool breeze. All is good!
A small sketchpad with a pencil sketch of a male portrait (face and shoulders). He has short spiky hair, is facing forward, and he's wearing some kind of strange toga thing. There are way too many construction lines visible in the sketch, because I am still an amateur. Also on the table: a glass of beer, a pencil sharpener, a 4H drawing pencil, and a "four in one" eraser.
August 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I have updated the SimpleRSS.dev alpha! Yes, I know I'm on vacation. This is fun for me. 😄 Here are the latest patch notes. If you'd like in on the alpha, DM me!

#webprojects #webapps #bootstrapped #indiedev #webdev
10 August, 2025 - Patch 0.0.10 Notes Bunch of stuff happening in the background that doesn't directly affect the site but does affect our ability to launch the beta. That said, here's some stuff you can actually see/use! - Compact view and expanded view now show the entire headline even if it breaks to multiple lines. If you want it truncated, you can still use minimal view (the only view that I personally use!). - Middle-clicking with the mouse should work in both the grid view and and the timeline view. This will open the link in a new tab, and mark the item as read. - Now if you hover over an item in the grid view, it will show you the entire title (in case it's being truncated for space). The hover's currently set on a 500ms delay, so it won't show up immediately. Let me know if you think this is too long or too short!
August 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Sundays at Le Pouliguen are free for alls but there are usually gallettes available. My choice of ingredients: leftover beef, mushrooms, leeks, cheese, egg. Served with cidre brut.
A picture of the gallette described by the post
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I take this picture every year. First walk to the beach (literally two minutes from the house).
A vast white sand and she'll beach, currently at very low tide. The seaside condos and hotels of La Baul are visible in the distance, as is the Atlantic ocean.
August 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM