Jekyll2026-06-20T18:37:42+01:00https://tmewett.com/feed.xmlTom MewettA long-overdue update2025-10-26T00:00:00+01:002025-10-26T00:00:00+01:00https://tmewett.com/blog/long-overdueHello again—been a while—I haven’t posted a newsletter since May. I’ve actually been really busy, in a good way. I started a new job in June and it’s the first time in a long while that I’ve actually been enjoying work. I’ve also just generally been spending less time at home.

At the start of the year, I set myself a modest target to write 12 posts in 2025. I’m completely off track! We’re almost in November and I’ve only written 6, so unfortunately I probably won’t succeed at that goal. I’m not happy with how slowly I’m getting posts out. I have probably hundreds of ideas for them, but that number keeps growing because it still takes me weeks to write something I’m happy with. I really want to improve on this next year.

Anyway, here’s what’s new since last time:

I wrote two posts:

Twitter/X is becoming less accessible to non-signed-in users, so I’m going to start re-publishing threads I particularly like. Here’s the first:

I added some links to the Self section:

I added some links to the Misc section:

I added some links to the From Mars section:

I added some links to the Software section:

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

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]]>Authenticity, compilation, and many links2025-05-10T00:00:00+01:002025-05-10T00:00:00+01:00https://tmewett.com/blog/compiling-linksPrevious newsletter: 13 Mar 2025

Hello again,

I have two new posts for you:

I also made public an excerpt I previously uploaded from an IFS book:

Internal Family Systems help sheet

Now that I have a few places on the site for links, I’ve been adding lots from my notes. Under the Self section is now:

Misc:

Software:

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

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]]>February-ish updates (Worm, hearts, recent changes page)2025-03-13T00:00:00+00:002025-03-13T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/februaryPrevious newsletter: 11 Jan 2025

Hello again,

What’s new from February? I’ve published two new posts:

I’ve added a new page which shows all recent changes to the site. I know the newsletters already function somewhat as a changelog, but I wanted a something a bit more direct. It’s pretty simple right now but it will improve:

Recent changes

On that page you’ll see the other changes from February:

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

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]]>20252025-01-11T00:00:00+00:002025-01-11T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/2025Hi everyone,

Happy new year!

Since my last update in November, a few things have changed on the site:

I published a new post:

How I review pull requests (the 5 questions I ask myself) 📝

I also made quite a lot of additions to my post about developing on Windows, about symlinks, line endings, Git config, tool incompatibilities, and MSYS2:

How to develop Linux-style on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL 🟦

I hope you enjoy! I really want to write more posts this year. I’m sitting on so many drafts… I’m going to try to write at least 12 posts in 2025. This is not an ambitious goal at all, since once upon a time I averaged about a post a month, but I’ve slowed down recently and it gives me room to aim high, maybe even for 20+. We’ll see how that goes…

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>And we’re back2024-11-17T00:00:00+00:002024-11-17T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/and-were-backHi everyone,

It’s been a while; my last update was all the way back in July… I’ve been moving flats and generally keeping busy. There have been some blog updates in that time though:

I published a new software post:

Homemade incremental programming, part 1: how and why to abolish update code, and what React has to do with anything

I also published a new From Mars post:

Genderless men

I updated a few older posts:

I hope you enjoy! As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>Dev on windows and the From Mars index2024-07-23T00:00:00+01:002024-07-23T00:00:00+01:00https://tmewett.com/blog/windows-marsHi everyone,

Here’s my updates for May, June, and July:

At work, I started developing on Windows for the first time, so I did a lot of research and wrote a guide for others like me with Linux brain:

Developing on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL 🟦

Secondly, after my article from last year about male mental health, I always wanted to write more on the subject. I have a few drafts that haven’t made it out yet, but in the meantime I made a landing page for the “project”, with links to some other articles that I found really good:

From Mars: a personal index of links about maleness

I hope you enjoy! As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>A new post and a homepage redesign (now with topic boxes!)2024-05-12T00:00:00+01:002024-05-12T00:00:00+01:00https://tmewett.com/blog/redesignHi everyone,

The April and March and part-of-May newsletters have been blended into one. Oops!

First, I redesigned my homepage to not be chronological—instead we now have nice topic boxes so you can actually find what you’re interested in. I was inspired by Wikipedia, but it’s also giving Gwern and maybe a bit LessWrong…

New homepage

I wrote a new post since we last spoke:

Myths about happiness 🌟 “If there was ever one thing worth understanding deeply, it would be happiness. […] Should I be so surprised when I’m unhappy, if I unconsciously believe it’s impossible, or boring, or unfair to be happy?”

Also, I finally got a job! It’s felt like a long search, and I’m pretty excited to start in a week’s time. It’s been about 18 months since I left full-time work.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>I guess I’m afraid of everything falling apart2024-03-11T00:00:00+00:002024-03-11T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/i-guess-im-afraidHi everyone,

Welcome to the February-ish newsletter! I wrote one new post last month:

I guess I’m afraid of everything falling apart

Not really trying to make a habit of angsty pseudo-poetry but here we are!

On the theme of this post, I’ve been trying to understand exactly what entropy really is, given that it’s about order/disorder - and how it connects to biological life and my kind of obsessive desire for neatness, efficiency, etc. The Veritasium video is quite good but I think I need to read more.

I submitted some of my older tech articles to r/programming. Most got a weak positive response, a dozen or so upvotes and no comments, but Why write Bash when we could compile to it? unexpectedly got a very strong negative response! But it also got way more views than the other ones. I guess it really is true that if you want engagement, you should make people mad.

I’m not going to set goals for March since what I did in February was nothing like what I said I would in the last newsletter!

Sadly still looking for work. I had a few more interviews, some final stage, so hopefully something pays off soon.

Some interesting links I found in February:

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>Episode 2024: A New Hope?2024-02-03T00:00:00+00:002024-02-03T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/episode-2024Hi everyone,

Welcome to the newsletter in 2024. I have two new posts from January:

Letting incompleteness exist: I’ve noticed that sometimes when I get stuck on something, it’s because I’m trying to force thoughts to be complete. […]

Advice: a poem?

I updated Everything I wish I knew when learning C with two new links:

I also made an anonymous message box, just to try it out? So you can now leave feedback etc without emailing me directly, if you prefer that.

Meanwhile, my job hunt continues. I’ve been playing some Lethal Company in the meantime, which is a very solid game. Article-wise I, as usual, have many ideas on the fire - I’m hoping to get some meatier reactivity articles out, going more in-depth on my library and how I’m using it with OpenGL.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com or leave an anonymous message.

Takk…
Tom

]]>Last newsletter of the year2023-12-21T00:00:00+00:002023-12-21T00:00:00+00:00https://tmewett.com/blog/last-of-the-yearHi everyone,

Thanks a lot for being a subscriber in 2023!

Before the year ends, I wanted to update you about another FOUR new articles on my blog.

Parts are real 👏 - “Somewhere in the last 2 years I discovered Internal Family Systems, and it’s been one of the most impactful things I’ve learned. […] Parts work is path to seeing the mind as more than a dumb machine of suffering […]”

What holds communities, and connection, back? - a collection of thoughts on physical spaces, cultural trends, etc. and how they relate to personal relationships.

Against self-discipline - I used to believe self-discipline was unquestionably good and that more = better, but not any more. Here’s why…

Conformity is a fractal cyclone of BS - “Any child who has to spend a lot of effort learning how to fit in eventually learns that it’s an endless game of losing. […]”

(I want to streamline how I make these newsletters so they aren’t so delayed versus the articles…)

As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send a mail to tom@tmewett.com.

Takk…
Tom

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