Techpriest Baunach

I made a little html document loop with the Umbrellino prayer for technology: https://saintmaker.xyz/university-library/tradition/machine-prayer/landing-dark.html A while ago I made a bash script of the prayer (https://techpriesthub.xyz/forgejo/terrantechpriest/prayer) and ever since wanted to make something easier to access. Exciting thing for me is the html docs and the pixel art amount to no more than 45 kB, so it's incredibly lightweight, and that's with two color themes! #catholic

A little #solarpunk sharing on this beautiful morning. Been following Way Out West's channel on Youtube for a while (unfortunately they don't seem to have a website or any presense off Youtube), and have found their projects incredibly interesting: a human-sized railway around their farm for hauling stuff, a peddle car, an induction heater, and various engines, including plans for a windmill. If you're interested in a break from the doom and gloom, their latest video is about making a cart for their railroad to help with the garlic harvest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBd0A3o5Xz4

Hand #sewing nerd thing: finally figured out how to splice thread, and having potentially never-ending thread on a project is giving me so much joy! This video is what made it click for me: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Iacr1totn8A I believe it's only really possible for me because I use thicker thread, and I really can't wait until I can try it out next time I do sashiko.

This is about as patriotic as I can get today. "My country 'tis of thee, dark land of slavery..." https://railyardghosts.bandcamp.com/track/my-country

I wrote a mini essay on my adventures in making my own clothes: https://davidbaunach.com/writings/a-soft-rebellion.txt In particular, I'm proud of the minimalist illustration on how to put together the Japanese farmers pants: https://davidbaunach.com/images/farmer-pants.txt

# What I'm Listening To Found some new (and/or new to me) music over the last few days. Quite different from my typical fare, but they're all fun in their own right. Happened across this one first: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xKH3Hj4lqLs Was shared on a dumbphone forum I peruse on occasion. Some of the lines hit pretty darn close to home, particularly "Watch the bombs go off paid for by your taxes." The second song: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=es9-YEgzcVI Is from the singer who played the influencer in the vid above. A true earworm. Which lead to the third song: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=thupOV0MUFk Because I was thinking about other earworms, and recalled Beauty and a Beat by Bieber, and wondered if there were any cool covers of it. Turns out there was, and it led me to... The fourth and final song: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xXZO4uZmo7E Which I got to by a convoluted path from the previous song that is too difficult to explain. In a few days I'll probably be back to playing Available in All Colours by One Minute Silence non-stop, but until then, this has been a nice bit of variety. --- Also, Youtube has been being a jerk about Invidius recently, so here's the Youtube links if the above don't work for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKH3Hj4lqLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es9-YEgzcVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thupOV0MUFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXZO4uZmo7E

Wrote a short essay about my frustration with the pop culture appreciation of Pope Francis: https://davidbaunach.com/writings/pope-woes.txt

So I stepped way out of my comfort zone, and tried to figure out adding rss to my site. I found a few examples of the minimal viable xml file, and gave it a go. Here's what I came up with: https://davidbaunach.com/rss.xml And it works! Or at least, sort of. I tried it out on Akregator, and everything works beautifully. But then I tried it out on BlogCat and it completely breaks the reader. I'm open to any thoughts or corrections or directions! My goal is to keep it as simple as possible, but if there one or two other tags that need to be in there to make it work for more feed readers, I'm fine adding a few things.

Made these (re-imaginings of a few of the Stations of the Cross) last year during Lent, unfortunately all three are still relevant: Nothing new under the sun.

Been in a bunch of meetings recently, so some doodling had to happen. Mixed a few different techniques I've used before, I'm digging the mix:

Wrote a 'getting started' guide for Tilde Friends, one of the two maintained clients for SSB, this guide is for the Android version: https://davidbaunach.com/writings/tilde-friends-startup.txt

Came across some cool stuff about nomadic foragers recently, did a write-up on my website: https://davidbaunach.com/writings/the-hoop-and-nomadism.txt

Cool article about the practical stuff when switching to a dumbphone, covers a lot of the pain points: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/14/switching-smartphone-for-dumbphone-guide?CMP=share_btn_url

A test crosspost from Openvibe to my Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky accounts

In my smolweb explorations, found that all browsers I tested will render a txt file. This is interesting to me for many reasons, but the main one is it makes it easy to run a handwritten website where regularly changing stuff is just txt files linked by the homepage. So far, I've updated the Homilies section of my website (davidbaunach.com), all my homilies in one txt file, new ones added to the top (whenever I remember). But it's just text, even with ten years of homilies, the file would remain small. Text is best.

Had to turn the most metal line from the second reading today into some art: