# Blog posts for October 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** 22 Blog\ **Created:** [October 5, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975 "2026-10-05T05:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/1 "2026-10-05T05:25:48Z")
> **[Life Admin MCP access now requires a Pro account • Blog • Johnny.Decimal](https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0254-mcp-las-gated-to-pro)** > > You could previously use it with a Personal account, but this wasn't financially viable. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/2 "2026-10-05T06:01:58Z")
> **[MCP server 'move in' is live • Blog • Johnny.Decimal](https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0255-mcp-move-in-service)** > > Your AI agent can now 'move you in' to the LAS or SBS. And it's amazing. is mostly a link to [![](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/59eb7fcdd200abd9e545ff38f1d02afc97d0de40.jpeg "Your mess, organised by AI, in an afternoon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGbKJUMmvw) ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/3 "2026-10-08T09:33:52Z")
Sounds like you’ve given a lot of thought the whole workflow and safety issues and such. I hope the final version has you in a Picard costume the whole time because that would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/4 "2026-10-09T02:23:04Z")
I had a Star Trek uniform once. We decided to have a party one of those times some crackpot group proclaimed that the world was going to end. We figured we might as well have a nice time before it did. So the dress-up theme was just “the thing you’d always wanted to be”, because this is your last chance. 🖖🏼 ---
**Author:** ![DavidK](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/davidk/32/1913_2.png) [@DavidK](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/DavidK)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/5 "2026-10-10T14:50:56Z")
You have to make money some how. JD systems don’t grow on trees. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/6 "2026-10-11T11:36:40Z")
> **[Johnny.Decimal en français • Blog • Johnny.Decimal](https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0256-jd-en-francais)** > > Si vous parlez français, allez voir le site de Monique. Elle écrit sur Johnny.Decimal et d'autres techniques d'organisation. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/7 "2026-10-21T05:25:44Z")
> **[Get 18% more keys for free with this one crazy trick • Blog • Johnny.Decimal](https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0258-18pc-more-keys-for-free)** > > You probably only have 78 keys on your keyboard. So why do you never use 12 of them? ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/8 "2026-10-22T05:49:45Z")
I know, eh. I think I discovered this once when I installed a new distro and the Function Lock happened to be off. That is — I believe what you’re referring to is the equivalent of turning off Function Lock on a PC keyboard\[1\]? It’s so nice to have dedicated keys for things. It makes my laptop feel a little more like an airplane cockpit. Once you get used to it, it’s no problem to hold the fn key when wanting to use the function printed on the key\[2\]. My ‘volume’ keys are used in non-function mode to create new tmux windows, and navigate between them. And f9 is mapped to `:write` in vim, and also exits isert mode if applicable. It’s so nice to have a single key for that. * * * 1. It’s so meta that to turn function lock on and off, I have to use the Fn key: `Fn+Esc`. 2. It’s less confusing than switching trackpad scroll directions. I still insist the screen is a viewport that I direct with my mouse, and not a piece of paper that I swipe up and down. But even this I can get used to, whenever I need to do some sysadmin on my wife’s computer. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/9 "2026-10-22T23:50:17Z")
Ooh I should assign some F keys to tmux! I never remember how it works and have the ‘interrupt’ key set to backtick currently. What’s your setup for inspiration? I’d like to be better at tmux. ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/10 "2026-10-23T05:51:38Z")
Here’s my tmux.conf. I don’t pretend to understand tmux, and I don’t expect I ever will, although [this tutorial](https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-configure-tmux/) gives me a bit of hope. Those github.com/tmux-plugins plugins are pretty interesting. tmux-continuum and tmux-resurrect are pretty handy. I don’t know why I’m not using them now. Probably because I couldn’t understand them. ```bash set -g mouse on unbind C-b set-option -g prefix C-a bind-key -T prefix C-a send-prefix bind | split-window -h bind - split-window -v unbind '"' unbind % bind -n M-PgUp previous-window bind -n M-PgDn next-window bind -n F2 new-window bind -n F3 previous-window bind -n F4 next-window # switch panes using Alt-arrow without prefix bind -n M-Left select-pane -L bind -n M-Right select-pane -R bind -n M-Up select-pane -U bind -n M-Down select-pane -D # List of plugins set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm' set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible' set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-open' #set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect' #set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum' set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-yank' #set -g @continuum-restore 'on' #set -g @resurrect-strategy-nvim 'session' # Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf) run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm' ``` ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/11 "2026-10-23T23:17:42Z")
I had an _oh my god_ moment with tmux when I was visually screen-sharing my remote Mac. From this laptop I was tmux’d in – actually my shortcut to ssh to all of my remotes is now a tmux command, so I’m never _only_ ssh’d, I’m _always_ tmux’d. Hence wanting to learn it better. Anyway, I’m in a terminal in my Mac and I think, might be better if I do this on the desktop of the remote, that I’m already screen-sharing to. So I open a terminal there, and fire up tmux. So now it’s running, same session, on both. One on the left, one on the right. Imagine my surprise when I typed in one window and saw it literally _mirrored_, as I typed, on the other! That was the _duh_ moment, the realisation that it truly makes no difference whose terminal window I’m using. It’s 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 same. This goes as far as the smaller of the two windows drawing a little terminal border … wait I’m just gonna replicate this because it’s too hard to explain. ![z-CleanShot 2026-10-24 08-17-28@2x](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fde42430bae3c9c1ea6a38b3a729b34adb61d914.jpeg) How cool is that! ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/12 "2026-10-24T06:07:13Z")
I know, it’s magic! You may enjoy what [pico.sh](https://pico.sh) has to show. I mean, you can do multicast realtime prodcasting, [through ssh](https://pico.sh/pipe#send-a-public-message)!!! Most of this is doable with plain ssh, but I find it so cool that people are actually offering infrastructure to make it all easier to use. ---
**Author:** ![jan0sch](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jan0sch](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/jan0sch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/blog-posts-for-october-2026/2975/13 "2026-10-24T16:04:30Z")
FWIW this makes me remember the days when we abused it for pair programming sessions via ssh. 😄