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  "title": "mallchin — field notes",
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  "description": "dev, film & odd little tools",
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      "id": "https://mallchin.com/blog/a-brief-history-online/",
      "url": "https://mallchin.com/blog/a-brief-history-online/",
      "title": "A brief history online",
      "summary": "From a 1200-baud Acorn Electron to a GeoCities homepage at 3329 Sunset Strip — and a 29-year-old backup that brings my first website, and its long-lost RealAudio, back online.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "web",
        "archive"
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    {
      "id": "https://mallchin.com/blog/the-immutable-truth/",
      "url": "https://mallchin.com/blog/the-immutable-truth/",
      "title": "The immutable truth",
      "summary": "DOS, Windows, Slackware, Gentoo, macOS — a wander through the operating systems I've lived in, and why I've settled on an immutable one that runs itself.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "linux",
        "essay"
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://mallchin.com/blog/just-the-two-of-us/",
      "url": "https://mallchin.com/blog/just-the-two-of-us/",
      "title": "Just the two of us",
      "summary": "I remember a scene from Pulp Fiction that, as far as I can tell, only one other person on Earth remembers too. A note on memory, the Mandela effect, and side B.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "essay",
        "memory"
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    {
      "id": "https://mallchin.com/blog/toasty-balls/",
      "url": "https://mallchin.com/blog/toasty-balls/",
      "title": "Toasty balls",
      "summary": "After Dark kept our monitors company in the early '90s. In homage, a couple of little KDE wallpaper-screensavers of my own — winged toast, falling balls, and a stowaway.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-26T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "kde",
        "wallpaper"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://mallchin.com/blog/mind-the-gap/",
      "url": "https://mallchin.com/blog/mind-the-gap/",
      "title": "Mind the gap",
      "summary": "AI might be the most transformative thing we've built — so why is it so easy to write off? A note on excitement, transparency, and knowing what happens when you take the suit off.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "ai"
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