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bnb.im
also I complain about GitHub a lot but tysm @github.com for the free compute that makes building this project possible
screenshot of my ci.yml for locallibrary
November 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
lexhyn.bsky.social
Almost done with my break and spent it reading book 8 of #dungeoncrawlercarl #dcc #ebooks #locallibrary
November 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 205 📚 for 2026. The author's rise in the 90s music scene mostly escaped me (law/grad school, with babies at home), so on that front it was very educational. Like so many of her time, 9/11 slammed the door on her zeitgeist. A very solid read. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of Hole & Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's 2026 book, Even The Good Girls Will cry: A '90s Rock Memoir. The author is shown playing in front of a live audience, as taken by a concert photographer, Mitchell Gerber.
November 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
bnb.im
it seems like there's only so much you can do to speed up writing to FAT32 drives (if you have tips lmk) but it's nice to find those things and get them implemented
screenshot of the merge queue for localnetwork, with the top PR being merged being "perf(locallibrary): write libraries to USB drives in three quarters of the time"
November 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 203 📚 for 2026. There's a lot going on here. I wound up liking this book, but felt like 2 books were smashed together and I do like the feeling of 1 tone. It does feel...insider-ish, and as messed up as my childhood was, game recognizes game. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of writer, poet and musician Johanna Hedva's 2024's memoir, How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. The cover is pink with many red stars sprinkled throughout. Near the bottom of the cover, a Da Vinci-esque representation of a human form that may? still be al**e is being surgeried by five different human hands holding various tools of surgical import.
November 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 201 📚 for 2026. History can be bent in so many ways, and 17th-century Englishmen (and nearly always men) were ready to get bendy right alongside in the pursuit of huge economic profits. Not first time for old ideas to be used in new, evil ways. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of Harvard social studies lecturer John Samuel Harpham's 2025 book, The Intellectual Origins Of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. The art of the book shows a ship of the time, with several white sails barely visible in the superimposition on the pale-ish gold cover of the book. Trade routes, as if drawn on a map, are also superimposed. The text of the cover is very Patrick O'Brian-esque, with spaces in between each letter and no text bolded.
November 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 200 📚 for 2026. Wrapped up the series (or did I?) as our bot M uses one of its favorite quirks to perhaps its best use, getting its humans out of danger. I would definitely rec this whole series, and willing to take your recs under advisement! Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries #7, System Collapse (2023). Here, our bot M is appearing to face off against a dreaded ag-bot, which is looming just ahead, with a space-looking sky in the distance, with multiple colors (red, orange, yellow, blue and purple) indicating a nebula? A weirdly-toned star's appearance on the planet M and the bot are on? Not sure! Does it 100% matter? Not really! It's Murderbot!
November 2, 2026 at 7:18 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 199 📚 for 2026. Always enjoyed the JuliusGoat tweet threads there and here, plus just joined up the newsy-letter, I believe you'd all appreciate @juliusgoat.bsky.social's second book. Best mixture of rage and hope extant aside from Elie Mystal. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of A.R. Moxon's 2026 collection of Reframe essays, Fighting in the Dark: Essays 2023-2025. The book is black, but the word 'Fighting' in the title text is printed seven times and appears (on the actual book) to be darker in blue hue than this version, imo.
October 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 198 📚 for 2026. I liked the insiderism throughout the book as author explored NYC during the no wave era. It's definitely a music I do not know well. Because of that, I'd hoped for more about the scene generally, but this didn't promise that. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of Contortions/Bloods musician Adele Bertei's 2026 memoir, No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene. Here, the author is with two band member friends while they appeared at New York City clubs in the late 1970s. All of the text is bolded and appears at an angle. The title text is bolded lavender, with the subtitle and author's name text in bolded blue.
October 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 197 📚 for 2026. I have no family experience with natural magic per se, but book offered some practical exercises for those who might love trees. A lot of mental visualization and evocation of thought into feelings. An unusual approach for me. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of British author and Druidic lecturer Penny Billington's 2015 book, The Wisdom of Birch, Oak and Yew: Connect to the Magic of Trees for Guidance & Transformation. Examples of the leaves of each, as might be found in a sketchbook or a painting, are located on the cover, along with a pair of oak acorns. The cover very much gives pastoral English vibes.
October 27, 2026 at 1:53 PM
sbs10570.bsky.social
When the friends of your local library book sale is really good.

(artistically really excited about the folk art from Papua New Guinea, these repeating patterns remind me of some of my own stuff). #books #art #locallibrary
October 25, 2026 at 5:44 PM
blackwyvere.bsky.social
Books from the Local Library. If it wasn’t for the local library - I, more likely than not, would not have read these.
I’m glad to have read them 😊
#OctoberReading
#PhysicalBooks
#Reading
#LocalLibrary
October 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 195 📚 for 2026. Orzabal takes us on a wild run through childhood and adulthood, with music in the middle, about pain, and loss, recovery & much astrology. He doesn't ask reader for love, but their understanding. Didn't love but worth the time. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of Tears For Fears songwriter, guitarist and occasional lead singer Roland Orzabal's 2026 book, Welcome To Your Life: Love, Death, and Tears For Fears - An Astrological Memoir. The text is simple, title text in blue, author's name in white text over a black shirt he's wearing, at bottom. It's just a head-and-shoulder shot of Orzabal, who is now bearded and has shoulder-length grayish-white hair. Side note: It inspired my present look, with beard and a bit longer than shoulder-length grayish-white hair.
October 24, 2026 at 2:29 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 194 📚 for 2026. Thoroughly enjoyed this read, and largely agree with the author that the South might be the soul of America -- if that soul is tortured, riven in two and lying in a gasping shadow of itself, by its own hand. I do recommend. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of Princeton African-American studies professor Imani Perry's 2022 book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. A boll of cotton is framed in the main cover art, with part of it shriveled and black, part of it white and 'healthy.' Title and author's name text is in red, author's name at bottom of the cover, with the title and subtitle text in the top third.
October 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 193 📚 for 2026. Not quite as freewheeling as her later works, Southon's initial foray into book world works quite well, as her preference for text with verve doesn't get as presentism-y, yet still keeps the reader engaged. Will review her other books next year. Available at your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of English historian Emma Southon's 2019 work, Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World. The top half of the cover shows Augusta walking toward a boat in all her Roman glory, the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of emperors. Title and subtitle text follow, highlighted in orange, with the author's name in light orange and superimposed over a black border at bottom.
October 20, 2026 at 1:21 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 192 📚 for 2026. I did enjoy the read quite a bit and I have quite a bit in common with the author's story. It does get a little Jesus-y, and does feel -- without any deprecation of the family facts -- like an effort to save career relevance. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of author Matthew Quick's 2026 memoir, Dad, Love, Me. There is a portion of an abstract painting, or a child's painting, that highlights the word 'Love.' Otherwise, title text is in blue and author's name text in orange, with the word Love appearing in white text superimposed against the painting.
October 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 191 📚 for 2026. Had to work at it but glad for it, the world Chu builds requires belief in how quantum mechanics might work; almost a scientific explanation of magic. Sibling rivalry subplot, however, I understand very well; hits close to home. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of John Chu's first full-length work, The Subtle Art Of Folding Space (2026). There are three quanta of things happening in the cover art; on the surface is an Asian dumpling meal, with tea and another accoutrement; below it are at least two quanta where worlds are being manipulated in the same deft manner with which the meal is being handled up top, with two more quanta underneath those.
October 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
callmejon1989.bsky.social
Thanks to #Tubi and my #LocalLibrary my #Retro50s sci-fi monster and horror movie marathon for #Halloween2026 is going great. Movies so far include:
- It Came From Outer Space
- The War of the Worlds
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Next up: “Them!”
Followed by: “It Came from Beneath the Sea”
October 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 190* 📚 for 2026. Expert on voting rights puts on historian cap and walks us through southern & small-state strategies to keep the people's will down in this country & shows us the small fights happening. What about big ones? Not as much there. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary
Journalist Ari Berman (national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones)'s 2024 book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It. Book is white in cover, all text is bolded, most of it in blue, with just the 'M' in Minority showing as red. A chessboard is also showing as cover art, with eight blue pawns surrounding one red king.
October 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 189 📚 for 2026. I had to sit with the first 3 chapters to absorb writer's idea of global apocalypse. Write what you know, so they say; what is known was some DnD*, some Hunger Games, a bit of Running Man here, a bit of Dark Knight Rises there. It works, but just OK for me. At your #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of Matt Dinniman's 2020 book, Dungeon Crawler Carl. The font of this title is very interesting, on a black cover, the text is all very! bold! and yellow! There are some artistic choices that are key (a trophy, three skulls, a pineapple, and a cat's eye), and the space in between "Carl" and "Matt" shows the protagonist and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, evading... (spoilers).
October 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 188 📚 for 2026. In what I can only describe as a Klosterman-esque narrative -- positing the thesis by pulling from various strands of expert thought in a nonlinear pattern -- is weaved a thoughtful summary. Might be the anti-Tenorio approach. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of longform journalist and author Nick Greene's 2026 book, How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game. A white cover with unbolded text (title and author's name in black, subtitle text in a kelly-green). The cover art depicts Socrates (not the Brazilian legend of the 70s/80s), holding a stone pad and his body bent as though he were Lionel Messi, about to deliver a free kick into the left corner of the goal).
October 13, 2026 at 1:32 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 187 📚 for 2026. Solid, yeomanlike work on recent MLS history by The Athletic's senior soccer reporter. Good bits on Messi, w/out it fully becoming about Messi. Good bits on MLS behind closed doors. Has Messi changed the future of American soccer? Available everywhere, including yr #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of the new book written The Athletic's senior soccer reporter, Paul Tenorio, entitled The Messi Effect: How The Global Legend Changed The Future Of American Soccer (2026). Basic text, all of it bolded in some way, with light blue coloring for the subtitle text. Here, world soccer legend Lionel Messi is being lifted up by his teammates after Inter Miami won the 2025 MLS Cup.
October 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 186 📚 for 2026. A cynic would write this: Family of privilege; dad/writer bored with cushy job; gets wild hair to travel & combine love of history; learns Founding Father is both awful & great; whole family changed by experience.
Good thing that I'm not cynical. Available at your #LocalLibrary.
An image of the front cover of lawyer and travel writer Derek Baxter's 2022 book, In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father. The book is black in cover (at least mine is, I think I have a revised edition; this cover has a map of Europe as a watermark for the blackness. A cutout of Jefferson's head, in general terms is in the center of the book, with (French? Virginian?) countryside displayed on a sunny day. The title text has "Jefferson" as The Man signed it, with white text otherwise; author's name and subtitle text in yellow.
October 9, 2026 at 1:12 PM
bnb.im
I’ve also got the hardware for a project where when I get home I just plug in my SD cards and it will automatically start uploading them to my cloud storage of choice 🤭

I think I’ll probably poke at both of these once I’m ~done starting the localnetwork/locallibrary tools :)
October 8, 2026 at 1:17 PM
chawkeye.bsky.social
Book 185 📚 for 2026. I'm entirely unbiased when I tell you this is the best book on bass guitars you can read.* (Wife: Yeah. Uh-huh, rolls eyes). Author provides intimate knowledge of the major makers, with vivid pictures and interviews with other players. Available everywhere, incl yr #LocalLibrary
An image of the front cover of Rush bassist Geddy Lee's 2018 book, Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. It is black in cover, with a portion of one of his guitars photographed. This cover also has a very ornate design around the front cover; my cover, from HCL, is just plain black. Le sigh.
October 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM