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How I back up my computers

How I comment regular expressions

Note 2 from 2025-09-04

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Note 1 from 2025-07-06

Simplifying the nav bar

Finally fixing the headings

A bureaucratic epistolary story

Note 2 from 2025-06-07

Note 1 from 2025-06-07

Note 1 from 2025-06-05

Skipping GRUB on Void Linux with EFISTUB

Should HTTP methods be progressively enhanced?

Note 1 from 2025-03-20

Essays moved

Automatic dark mode for Archive of Our Own

Two stories about aliens

Warmboot updates

Warmbooting Void Linux

Note 1 from 2024-12-09

Note 1 from 2024-11-30

Note 1 from 2024-10-29

Thoughts on the Hare programming language

Note 1 from 2024-07-31

The Shapes of Emma

Note 1 from 2024-07-26

They're all serial ports!

Note 1 from 2024-07-18

The spectrum of graphical user interfaces: From Wayland to Web

Note 1 from 2024-07-03

Note 2 from 2024-06-30

Note 1 from 2024-06-22

The deeply confusing nature of 'free and open-source'

Note 1 from 2024-04-13

Note 1 from 2024-04-10

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Note 1 from 2024-04-05

DNS-based network-level filtering (in theory)

Note 1 from 2024-03-15

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Some weird sci-fi

Note 1 from 2024-01-13

Hosting provider IPv6 support rubric

Note 1 from 2023-12-22

Note 2 from 2023-12-19

Note 1 from 2023-12-19

We can go crazier: 9/11 and the Apollo program (somehow, in this dream I had)

A design for an HTML editor

Interactive rebase is super-cherry-pick

Note 1 from 2023-11-12

EXHL 1.0 draft 1

Significant style changes

Note 2 from 2023-11-08

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Note 1 from 2023-10-23

EXHL RfCR 2

Enhanced XML Hypertext Language

Note 2 from 2023-10-21

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Note 1 from 2023-10-19

Note 1 from 2023-10-13

Configuring Firefox scrollbars to be decent

Have a cursed error page

How about gay mermaids?

Note 1 from 2023-10-01

Note 1 from 2023-09-30

Note 1 from 2023-09-27

Looking for a word

New avatar

NVIDIA vs. Linux: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and a three-letter DRM signature

Writing Wonders

Note 1 from 2023-08-10

Note 1 from 2023-08-05

On Web Environment Integrity

Cross-medium potentials of Inform 7

The Z-machine

Goodbye Google, goodbye Bing

Note 1 from 2023-07-14

Note 1 from 2023-07-08

Note 1 from 2023-07-01

[AO] Even more gay stories!

Note 1 from 2023-06-25

[AO] More gay stories, what a surprise

Note 1 from 2023-06-04

Note 1 from 2023-06-03

Note 1 from 2023-05-19

Kernel module lockdown

Bigger on the inside

Note 1 from 2023-05-03

Renewed PGP keys

Another story

Note 2 from 2023-02-14

Note 1 from 2023-02-14

How do you like your SQL?

Note 2 from 2023-02-06

Note 1 from 2023-02-06

Note 1 from 2023-02-01

More stories: Queer, sci-fi, and mythology

Note 1 from 2023-01-20

Note 1 from 2023-01-19

Note 1 from 2023-01-16

Separation of data and control

Note 2 from 2023-01-13

Note 1 from 2023-01-13

Note 1 from 2023-01-07

Oops CSS

Note 1 from 2023-01-02

Note 1 from 2022-12-28

Renaming myself

Note 1 from 2022-12-21

Homeworld fanfiction

Note 3 from 2022-12-20

Note 2 from 2022-12-20

Note 1 from 2022-12-20

Note 1 from 2022-12-18

XAML static sites

Note 1 from 2022-12-10

Objective-C#++

Note 1 from 2022-12-08

Some repatriated microfiction

[AO] Ehm, well...

Note 1 from 2022-11-30

Note 1 from 2022-11-27

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Note 1 from 2022-11-23

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Note 1 from 2022-11-21

Simultaneous SQL and XML crimes

Note 1 from 2022-11-20

Note 1 from 2022-11-18

Note 2 from 2022-11-17

Note 1 from 2022-11-17

The pain of XLSX

Note 2 from 2022-11-06

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Note 1 from 2022-10-15

Note 1 from 2022-09-26

Note 1 from 2022-09-17

Note 1 from 2022-09-12

Various stuff I've been up to

Note 1 from 2022-09-07

Reconfiguring our home network, part 2

Note 1 from 2022-08-25

Note 2 from 2022-08-20

Note 1 from 2022-08-20

Note 1 from 2022-08-19

More foot-shooting

Version 4.1: Going XSLT-only

Note 1 from 2022-08-13

Reconfiguring our home network, part 1

Note 5 from 2022-08-07

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Note 1 from 2022-07-31

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More evil SQLite

Note 1 from 2022-07-13

Some non-criminal database design: HIF

Note 1 from 2022-07-09

A crime against database design

Note 2 from 2022-07-06

Note 1 from 2022-07-06

'Broadcast' pipes on Linux

Note 2 from 2022-07-02

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Note 1 from 2022-06-30

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Note 1 from 2022-06-27

Note 2 from 2022-06-26

Note 1 from 2022-06-26

About BitTorrent

Note 2 from 2022-06-25

Note 1 from 2022-06-25

Linux filenames (and legal characters within them)

Note 1 from 2022-06-24

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Note 2 from 2022-05-30

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Note 1 from 2022-05-23

Note 2 from 2022-05-21

Note 1 from 2022-05-21

Version 4.0 and XBlog

XBlog for XSite blogging

Note 2 from 2021-10-07

Datalinks, An All-Purpose Model of Digital Information Processing

XSLT

Version 3.1 and XSite

alm 3.0 with custom CSS

Available on GitLab

Java would be good if not for the JVM

Dynamic vs. static linking

HTTP APIs

Azure hosting

Programmingwave.com 2.2 has launched

Now working on version 2.2

Version 2.1 & Jekyll

Programmingwave.com 2.0 has launched

More confusion about version 2.0