Raphi Rambles

Hello World

raphi — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:30:00 +0200

1, 2, Testing...

Tooltip Odissey

raphi — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:00:00 +0200

Or how a quick afternoon hack led to paying tribute to one of my heroes. And also to some lessons in UX design, I guess.

So You Wanna Get Into Bluegrass Lead Guitar

raphi — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:00:00 +0200

A handful of tips to make getting started on the road to country / bluegrass soloing (hopefully) less scary.

Let's Build a Thing

raphi — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:20:00 +0200

Feeling like playing around with RSS feeds, which seems like a good excuse for some quick old-tech evangelizing.

I Made A Thing

raphi — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0200

Post mortem on a trivial script and a quick rant about Python's type hints.

I Don't Care About Star Wars Anymore

raphi — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0200

Is Star Wars trending these days ? If not, then it's probably time to chime in.

Learning Touch Typing

raphi — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Do pianists make for better hackers ? I suck at those keyboards too, so I wouldn't know.

Implementing Dark Mode

raphi — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:30:00 +0200

Minor site update.

Dark Mode: Followup

raphi — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Warning: This article contains way too much Javascript.

Happy Pony

raphi — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0200

My two cents on the django web framework, which just celebrated its 20th birthday.

Markdown + Lilypond = ?

raphi — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0200

Spending an afternoon building a simple tool that may or may not prove useful in the near or far future.

MarkyPond out on Github

raphi — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:30:00 +0200

MarkyPond extension is now on Github.

Don't post when you're pissed

raphi — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:00:00 +0200

AKA know when it's time to stop everything and go get a drink.

Microsoft is stealing my vimrc

raphi — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:20:00 +0200

Yet another rant about AI crawlers and how they're ruining the web.

Getting started on the mandolin

raphi — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200

Applying concepts from Harmony 101 to explore a new instrument.

Half-assed banjo tuning

raphi — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:45:00 +0200

How to jazz up a blues tune out of sheer lazyness.

Where the hell is Patrick Costello ?

raphi — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +0200

A quick tip of the hat that grew into its own post because the internet sucks.

Why Do The Bad Songs Always Last So Long

raphi — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

Stumbled on a song I wrote some years ago and figured I'd share it on here.

Unsung Heroes

raphi — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0200

A bitter, 14 years late eulogy leads to asking who we should pay attention to and why.

Never Surrender

raphi — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0100

Some quick nerding out over a story about stories.

Please stop selling me my future

raphi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:30:00 +0200

How I stopped caring whether or not people would call me an old fart so I could keep ranting.

Still enjoying the mandolin

raphi — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200

Progress being made. Still a long road to go.

A tune from Canada: L'air mignonne

raphi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

Here's a cute little tune for y'all.

The quest for quests

raphi — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:00:00 +0200

Game dev is hard, but doing it badly is still pretty fun.

The history of the Web

raphi — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200

Sharing a pretty cool resource about how the web took shape.

Spot the difference

raphi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200

I don't care if you use AI. I'd appreciate being told if you're gonna use it on me, though.

Please don't poop on my books

raphi — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0200

Losing Alexandria all over again.

.git/info/exclude is awesome!

raphi — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0200

Let's be enthusiastic about something for a change. And then apologize for a stupîd mistake, because nice things are no fun if you don't mess them up.

Doc Watson lick on the mandolin

raphi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:30:00 +0200

Rambling about music day and stealing from the late Doc Watson.

A pelican plugin to avoid publishing drafts

raphi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200

My quick and dirty solution to avoid spamming your feed with crap.