Thom Bruce
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Thom Bruce
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Hi, I'm Thom. But who am that?

https://www.thombruce.com
I've always struggled with blogging. Social media too. I have no idea what my "personal brand" is supposed to be and I kind of balk at the very idea.

Rehashing tutorials seems boring and writing content just to have content frustrates me.

But I think I've settled on a plan I finally like.
Once More, With Feeling
I've come to the conclusion that I've been managing my blog here all wrong. I don't know how many times I've rebooted my blog at this point, or for how many years (decades, really) I've been doing thi...
www.thombruce.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow, AI is really, really good at SEO...

...and really, really bad at writing accurate information.

What a combination! Factually incorrect articles that soar to the top of your search results. We live in hell now. 🙃
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My toxic personality trait is I just really like Pug over HTML.

It's a fatal flaw, inherited from forever using HAML in my Rails projects.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So long, tmux! You did a lot that I loved, and I'm gonna miss your floating popups...

But Kitty does almost everything else more natively.

.dotfiles changes: github.com/thombruce/.d...
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fun fact: The first S in CSS actually stands for Sisyphean.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Remind me to, I dunno, write a love poem to oil.nvim and Harpoon or something.

These are like file-management and navigation plugins for Neovim that are basically alien technology.

They take a little minute to click into your brain, but when they do… goddamn!
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It has taken me ages to get comfortable but I guess (?) I'm using Bluesky now. Definitely looks like I'm using Bluesky now. Here I am, using Bluesky now. 🤷‍♂️

I have nothing on Mastodon and I haven't posted to Twitter in over two years, so this is officially the most social media I've done in a while.
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ribena is the Emacs to Vimto's Vim.

So what's nano? Just orange juice, I guess.

Listen, no further questions...
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Can’t tonight 💕babez💕, I’m ricing my Linux 💅
October 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Successfully installing Arch Linux is better than drugs, dude! Fuck.
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Okay, hear me out…

What if I actually posted on Bluesky?

Might be kinda neat.
July 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM