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2026
Jan 04
A recap of the ManageMyHealth data breach so far »
2025
Dec 04
Exploring the game files of Battlefield Bad Company »
Oct 27
How I made my wrestling sign for WWE Crown Jewel Perth »
Sep 20
Small Tweaks »
Sep 05
Entering the Machine »
Aug 06
Magic »
Jun 21
Congestion Charging Privacy Research »
Jun 02
Day Three »
May 08
Internal Inconsistencies about Time Travel »
Apr 03
Cringing is growing »
Feb 09
It's good to periodically test the bounds of what seems reasonable »
Feb 02
Receipt Forest »
2024
Dec 31
App defaults entering into 2025 »
Dec 01
Lessons from a year with Beeminder »
Nov 02
A fascinating attempt at Steam phishing »
Oct 02
Portable gaming with the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro »
Sep 02
30 »
Jul 23
Managing private Go repos with Renovate »
Jun 26
Claude makes the case against Boeing »
May 27
Competence Neverending »
Apr 27
How my learning workflow looks as of 2024 »
Mar 20
Beeminder is neat »
Jan 21
Writing for your worst self »
2023
Dec 31
A small reprieve from poorly executed ideas »
Dec 17
One possible death for Discord »
Nov 21
What does vehicle congestion tracking mean for privacy? »
Oct 09
Spreadsheet to visualisation: How I created towing.utf9k.net »
Apr 11
I don't identify as anxious »
Jan 29
Miserable presentation tips »
Jan 17
Habit forming in the least efficient way possible »
2022
Oct 22
So you have (or are) competition »
Aug 08
Sampling all the way down »
Jun 03
Do demo iPads have a canonical owner? »
May 28
Using Fastmail with CalDAV libraries »
Feb 12
Plex + Tidal = A Nice Match »
Jan 22
I didn't want to be an astronaut as a kid »
2021
Nov 28
Brief thoughts on crypto »
Oct 27
Day Two »
Oct 01
Twitter, could you please fix your image servers? »
Sep 24
Who is software even for? »
Aug 29
Taking holidays is important »
Aug 12
Conditionally setting your gitconfig »
Jul 12
Creating debug reports with Hugo inline shortcodes »
Jul 04
Time Dilation »
Jun 03
Let your streaks end naturally »
Jun 01
Remind the user what your service does »
May 22
Ride the curve »
May 14
Has Bootstrap eaten the world yet? »
May 11
You can always count on sales »
Apr 27
Dropbox is way too clingy »
Apr 18
Starbucks Rewards or: Whether a Coffee Shop Can Be a Third Place »
Mar 03
We are all that person who reads a book while walking »
Feb 21
Address book sorting »
Feb 17
FAQ driven configuration »
Feb 13
Emacs probably isn't right for me »
Feb 13
Google recently surfaced awful results for movies and tv »
Feb 11
Using a blog like a zettelkasten seems like a good idea »
Jan 31
Is anything happening behind the curtain? »
Jan 29
Latency as a forcing function »
Jan 11
Managing subscriptions with an extra debit card »
2020
Dec 01
Will we ever get solid systems? »
Nov 23
Tidying up towing data with Pandas »
Nov 20
Configuration magic »
Nov 02
Fruit Plate »
Oct 11
Digital Spring Cleaning »
Oct 06
Relying on the internet as a business »
Aug 30
Day One »
Jul 01
Quicksand »
May 12
Data hoarding seems like a large mental overhead »
May 06
Setting up Emacs inside of a WSL2 distribution »
Apr 13
Reducing my everyday carry during 2019 »
Mar 08
My bookmarking categories in March 2020 »
Feb 07
You should publish your older works »
Jan 06
Dealing with multiple git hosts »
2019
Sep 26
Double checking if an email address exists »
Aug 19
25 »
Jul 29
Retrieving credentials from Jenkins »
Jul 20
Fixing a WSL2 VHD conversion issue »
Mar 20
What is the future of emergency services? »
2018
Dec 12
Recovering lost Python results in the REPL »
Dec 03
When automation goes horribly right »
Aug 18
A brief guide to OIAs in New Zealand »
Feb 28
Humans don't come with lore tabs »
Feb 15
Day Xero »
2017
Dec 24
Installing Arch Linux on my Intel NUC »
Dec 18
Some thoughts about running a wiki »
Feb 05
Deepfakes »