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I'm David Blue andI am not a software developer. Though I do fairly regularly author and distribute various tool-adjacent configurations you may find of value, I am fundamentallynot a builder, though I am relentlessly compelled to seek out spaces like GitHub where builders congregate around the context of work.

Similar limitations of mine have been allowed to prevent me from being all that great of afixer, either, in terms of methodically discovering and remedying obstructions. The late, pseudo-monastic theme of my life in the past year has been a resolute about-face in my behavioral and emotional reaction todetail as an abstract - I have earned or been granted (perhaps both) a drastically different sentiment toward the most minute avenues of Software History: I have found solace in this theoretical binary plane we have constructed.

My highest priority right now is learning how to "leverage" my personal growth in a way which produces value for other people.

I have formally decided to shoulder the burden of thoroughly documenting the stories, peculiarities, and most technical details ofusing a Bluetooth keyboard with an iPhone, but I am determined to do so as collaboratively as possible. I have also been documenting various other processes specific to iPhone (read: doing free labor for the most valuable company in the history of the world) which I hope to compile throughout the rest of the year into entertaining, thoughtful, andhelpful essays/guides onbilge.world.

Perhaps the most intriguing (or off-putting) endeavor of mine specific to GitHub has been publicly learning how to "write in public" using Git for version/revision tracking. I have discovered I was less original in this concept than I thought, but frankly, this process which I have begun to describe as ==Editorial Git== cannot be thoroughly explored within the context of academia.

You can find an outline of how I've learned to use GitHub for virtually my entire process in the README ofThe Psalms' Repository. Perhaps more importantly, said repository functions as a live virtually up-to-the-minute document of my work.

On the subject of transparency, you are welcome to contact me in virtually any medium you wish. This Notion Database functions as a directory of every one of my public-facing accounts throughout the Web. I have opted-in to GitHub Sponsors partially to explore it for the sake of a potential written analysis of Open Web Patronage Services, but also to express in a designed way that I am available to you (here to help) in any manner I can and if you feel compelled to reciprocate any value I may have added to your existence with $$$, that, too, will be public, and you will have the option of specifying how it's spent, if you wish. (See:Extratone's "GOD" Patreon Tier.)

However, it'd take a lot of cash to equate to the value I'd receive I'd receive from you leaving a voicemail telling the story of the first time you saw somebody using a Bluetooth keyboard with their phone in the wild. :)

Here's my personal phone number:+1 (573) 823-4380

Thank you again for your hospitality.

• How to Fuck Text
• On Drafts' Mail Integration
• Fucking Off Forever*
• Siri Shortcuts and the DJ Screw Discography
• Quick Key Command Formatting with ksc and Siri Shortcuts

†The Psalms (My technology blog. Entirely nonsecular, I promise)

🇪🇺End User (A solo "podcast" which I update now and then, talking to my phone - silence truncated - about things I've been exploring.)

⌨What The Fuck (An experimental WordPress installation.)

ƎExtratone (An online music magazine which I devoted most of my adult life to developing up until 2018.)

⍯Personal Wiki (Another experiment - this one in Notion.)

⎆Social Directory (An ongoing list of links to my profiles on every social service I can remember signing up for.)

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@DavidBlue">Mastodon</a>

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   Documentation for The Psalms - my blog about software’s intersection with culture. Not just for the website - for the entire process (correspondence, notetaking, drafting, *revising*, editorializin…

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2. ExtraKeys/keysExtraKeys/keysPublic

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   All of my iOS/iPhone-related documentation, files, media, etc.

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   Documentation/configuration files for Drafts.

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   Python-based command-line application that finds the two closest square numbers to a given input number.

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