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Desperately Seeking Preview.app

What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS

Why Do We Blog?

My Favorite GUI Programs, Part II

My Favorite GUI Programs

Why I Love the Command Line

Songs to Improve Your Mental Health

Anker SoundCore P30i mini-review

Why I love vim

My Approach to Online Notes

A Fine Vintage of Sass

A Time-Traveler's Guide to Affordable Computing

What is a blost, anyway?

Speedrunning life with a Rube Goldberg brain

Thinkpad X390 Yoga mini-review

Some thoughts on Android launchers, or, The Need For Spatial Regularity In Touch Interfaces

Some thoughts on *Severance*

The Scenes that Made Me: Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

Unix Data Compression Shootout

The Scenes that Made Me: Star Wars

The Scenes that Made Me: Star Trek

I (again) want Star Trek to be real

I really wish the Fediverse had more permanence

Gathering Hashtags from the Fediverse

Device mini-review: One by Wacom

A Toast to the Prolific ones

Blog Questions Challenge: Ten Pointless Facts About Me

Used laptops are wonderful... except when you need batteries

I Miss RC

Blog Questions Challenge: TV Shows Edition

Why I love Markdown

Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition

I miss the days of ubiquitous portable data storage

The Switch 2 is a Tone-Deaf Moneygrab

Libraries are awesome

A KSP Design Log

Technology has promised so much, has *delivered* so much, and yet, I'm horrified.

Responding to The Linux Cast's Vitriolic Diatribe

The Case for AVIF

I kinda hate "apps"

How I Mitigate Horrible "Apps"

You can *never* be apolitical

Loops is... interesting

The Last Stage of Loss?

"Online" documentation should be offline

Blog Questions Challenge 2025

You don't need to share that clip

"Ableism" and the Linux Aristocracy

Joy Will Not Be Contained

100 Days to Offload — Kicking 2025 Off Right

A 2025 Resolution

Do I Know You?

My Favorite Bosses

How I Watch YouTube

You Really Can't Go Home

Keep Buggering On

Laptops: A Romance

What We Lost Along the Way

I Miss Palette Rotation

My Odd Relationship with Minecraft

My Every Day Carry, Part V: What's on My Phone?

What is FOSS?

No More Excuses

The Joy of Bespoke Hashtags

Hashtags, Part II: Global Search and the Right to Not Be Discovered

Hashtags are Poetry

My Every Day Carry, Part IV: So, I Kinda Helped to Start a Cult

My Every Day Carry, Part III: Fountain Pens are Awesome!

My Every Day Carry, Part II: Backpack Edition

My Every Day Carry

Why would you use Perl in 2024?

Love is a choice

How to love your neighbor...

My Socratic Sign

Magical Moments

Goodbye NaNoWriMo, hello Writing Month!

Which Linux Distro *shouldn't* I pick, and why?

Android Messaging, Part II: Life Limped Along at Sub-sonic Speeds

FOSS ROMS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad State of Native Messaging on Android

Collections

A Grief Exchanged

Adoption

Mozilla and the Death of Virtue

Getting Back In Shape (For the Acutely and Chronically Under-Dopamined)

What Kid-Me Wanted To Do When He Grew Up

I'm not a gamer, an introspection

A Grief Fulfilled

An unexpected game of "Musical Laptops"

Organizing photos by geolocation from the command line

A first foray into miniblogging: `blogme`

Gesture navigation is lame

Nearly a Quarter Century of Mobile Phones

The Toxicity Dance

Time

Six Months a Mourner

The unfolding horrors of Toxic Masculinity

How did we *survive*?!?

Amiga: My Alternate History

A Breath of Fresh Air