gemini://larsthebear.me/ gemlog : Lars the Bear Lars the Bear lars@larsthebear.me gemini://larsthebear.me/transylvania_bran_castle.gmi Dispatches from Transylvania (III) : Bran Castle 2026-06-19T15:33:23+01:00 2026-06-19T15:33:23+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/mbook_samples.gmi E-books in MBook format 2026-06-09T11:24:56+01:00 2026-06-09T11:24:56+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/transylvania_bears.gmi Dispatches from Transylvania (II) : bears 2026-06-03T19:48:33+01:00 2026-06-03T19:48:33+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/transylvania_first_impressions.gmi Dispatches from Transylvania (I) : first impressions 2026-06-03T18:15:17+01:00 2026-06-03T18:15:17+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/gemtext_paragraphs.gmi The real problem with Gemtext: no paragraphs 2026-05-20T13:17:23+01:00 2026-05-20T13:17:23+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/trees_fall.gmi Life's a beech: trees sometimes fall -- and they do it in unpredictable ways 2026-05-14T19:53:20+01:00 2026-05-14T19:53:20+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/not_all_racists.gmi Despite appearances, British people aren't all racist 2026-05-09T18:29:48+01:00 2026-05-09T18:29:48+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/md2gem.gmi Announcing md2gem 0.1 -- a cross-platform, best-effort converter for Markdown to Gemini Gemtext 2026-04-27T17:15:22+01:00 2026-04-27T17:15:22+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/apostrophe.gmi Why the grammar snobs have it all wrong about the apostrophe 2026-04-20T10:39:11+01:00 2026-04-20T10:39:11+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/fahrenheit451.gmi Is Fahrenheit 451 becoming relevant again? 2026-04-20T09:49:17+01:00 2026-04-20T09:49:17+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/why_i_degoogled.gmi Why I de-Googled 2026-04-19T16:22:36+01:00 2026-04-19T16:22:36+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/embarassing_injuries.gmi Embarrassing injuries 2026-04-18T15:32:39+01:00 2026-04-18T15:32:39+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/dogs.gmi Pets or space exploration: which represent the more egregious waste of resources? 2026-04-18T08:18:30+01:00 2026-04-18T08:18:30+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/centralization.gmi Centralization: wasn't there a baby in that bathwater? 2026-04-11T09:10:52+01:00 2026-04-11T09:10:52+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/moon_rocket.gmi Did somebody just launch a Moon rocket? 2026-04-02T07:54:36+01:00 2026-04-02T07:54:36+01:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/arguing.gmi Why do even Gemini enthusiasts argue about Gemini? 2026-03-26T08:04:28+00:00 2026-03-26T08:04:28+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/perfect_enemy_good.gmi On letting perfect be the enemy of good in the small net 2026-03-23T11:52:58+00:00 2026-03-23T11:52:58+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/mandatory_smartphone.gmi Mandatory car, mandatory smartphone 2026-03-23T08:00:45+00:00 2026-03-23T08:00:45+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/birdwatching.gmi Birdwatching for fun and no profit 2026-03-18T17:43:18+00:00 2026-03-18T17:43:18+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/graduation_blues.gmi Graduation blues 2026-03-17T10:10:40+00:00 2026-03-17T10:10:40+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/small_web_big.gmi Oh, my -- the small web is big 2026-03-16T14:54:22+00:00 2026-03-16T14:54:22+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/what_goes_around.gmi AI and programming jobs: what goes around, comes around 2026-03-15T19:07:49+00:00 2026-03-15T19:07:49+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/how_the_web_has_changed_2.gmi How the web has changed (II) 2026-03-14T09:33:48+00:00 2026-03-14T09:33:48+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/how_the_web_has_changed_1.gmi How the web has changed (I) 2026-03-13T18:45:43+00:00 2026-03-13T18:45:43+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/phone_anxiety.gmi Phone anxiety 2026-03-12T16:41:22+00:00 2026-03-12T16:41:22+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/cassandra.gmi Just call me Cassandra 2026-03-11T08:35:16+00:00 2026-03-11T08:35:16+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/rewild.gmi Woods do not re-wild themselves 2026-03-10T12:46:30+00:00 2026-03-10T12:46:30+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/chainsaw.gmi Why I bought a wood 2026-03-07T17:56:10+00:00 2026-03-07T17:56:10+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/llms_and_ics.gmi LLMs and integrated circuits 2026-03-05T14:33:39+00:00 2026-03-05T14:33:39+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/good_manners.gmi Goodness and good manners 2026-03-04T14:36:14+00:00 2026-03-04T14:36:14+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/bug_murderer.gmi I am a mass murderer... 2026-03-03T15:28:50+00:00 2026-03-03T15:28:50+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/calories.gmi The trouble with Calories 2026-03-02T18:50:27+00:00 2026-03-02T18:50:27+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/ignoring_problem.gmi Ignoring a small problem eventually leads to a terrible, huge problem 2026-02-25T14:55:29+00:00 2026-02-25T14:55:29+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/retired.gmi Retired a year; still don't know what I want to do for a living 2026-02-25T08:35:21+00:00 2026-02-25T08:35:21+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/statisticsfor.gmi Rant: statistics is actually for something 2026-02-24T17:02:02+00:00 2026-02-24T17:02:02+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/back_to_gemini.gmi Back to Gemini 2026-02-23T12:55:52+00:00 2026-02-23T12:55:52+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/lung.gmi On losing a lung 2026-02-19T10:22:57+00:00 2026-02-19T10:22:57+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/textbook.gmi On writing a textbook, and why you shouldn't 2026-02-23T15:59:19+00:00 2026-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 gemini://larsthebear.me/cpap.gmi On living with CPAP 2025-07-21T07:51:22+01:00 2025-07-21T07:51:22+01:00