At 8:50 this evening, I realized I might have Achilles tendonitis.
My foot took a real heel turn around one of my favorite puns.
Ernie Smith
Ernie Smith
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Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine.
Support what I do here: https://ko-fi.com/tedium
Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance
Most newsletters publish their holiday gift guides around Black Friday. Not us. December 22nd, baby.
That’s because it’s secretly a year-end wrap-up. Here’s where @npub1pfje...v6tr took us in 2025:
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
2025 Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide: Later Than Ever
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of ...
For anyone looking to buy a Commodore 64 Ultimate, I have a bunch of referral codes because people keep buying with my link. The referrals can't be stacked so they're not useful beyond a single code.
Which means: Bug me if you want a $10 coupon.
I thought this was an interesting chart of my work life at the moment. I should note that this only covers billable tasks for regular clients, project work is measured separately and generally not tracked hourly.
Honestly, this is a good thing. Finding it hard to complain rn.
#freelance
My childhood friend Chris Zolinski died after a long, hard-fought battle with cancer on Friday. His family—a wife and two daughters—could greatly use financial support in this difficult time.
Please consider supporting their GoFundMe.
https://gofund.me/87725c824
Over on @npub1pfje...v6tr tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @npub1n6lz...zmz9 zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux.
Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer ...