R.L. Dane
Gratitude Day 15: Mental Health Awareness
Gratitude Day 14: Apple Video Codec
Gratitude Day 13: Re: G.A.S.
Gratitude Day 12: A-law & µ-law Audio Companding
Gratitude Day 11: Lossy Compression Algorithms
Gratitude Day 10: GIF
Gratitude Day 9: Run-Length Encoding / PackBits
Gratitude Day 8: Unsung Heroes, Human and Algorithmic
Gratitude Day 7: The Art of Translation
Gratitude Day 6: Music
Gratitude Day 5: Dates
Gratitude Day 4: Virtualization / Emulation
Gratitude Day 3: Cats!!
Gratitude Day 2: Personal Music Libraries
Gratitude Day 1: Text
A September Theme: 30 Days of Gratitude
My Failed Tech Predictions
Re: Ghosts in my phone
Re: Linkdump No 117, or "Thoughts on Computer Snobbery"
Re: Praying to St Jude: counselling the re-Googlers
Re: 5 Albums
Junited wrap-up
Junited 2026
Vim Carnival Entry: "The Motion that Changed Everything."
Quasi-Lucid Ravings
Don't Go Back There
A New Socratic Sign, or: Writer's Block as a Work of Grace
Mind the Shards
Package Manager Tier List
Breakfast at Der Waffle Haus
Re-thinking Sci-Fi Space Battles
My Mirror is Surely Alive
Mocking-up Photo Sharing over SMS
I Loved Computers Before the Internet was a Thing
The Cowardice Snowball
I Miss My Hometown
The Farmer's Station Wagon: A Parable
Book mini-review: "Gulliver's Fugitives" by Keith Sharee
Paper Books vs. e-books vs "librebooks?"
Examining The Ethics of Media Consumption and Sharing
Some Thoughts on Star Trek: Picard
Smartphone Minimalism: the Underappreciated Middle Road
The Past is the Future
How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
The Mad, Joyful Chaos of the Creative Process
Nietzsche's Heavy Declaration
The Scenes that Made Me: The Good Place (2016)
Monocultures Considered Harmful or: Why Linux Nerds Should Give BSD and Other "Weird" OSes a Try
Why You Need A Stack of Thinkpads
Random updates
Where to now?
Just a quick note...
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
Freedom
Fun Chance Meetings
Use what works for good
A Handy-Dandy Star Wars Guide
So, I Guess I'm a Vampire, Now
Two months later
The KGB, the Computer, and Me
FOSS Games, Part II
FOSS Games are actually pretty good!
LLMs are Perfect
NaNoWriMo Debrief
On "Zoomers" and Generations
Web 1.0 is (unironically) going great
On the Fediverse and FediFriends
Using `cal` and plain text to track things, Part II
I can fly!
*Don't* use what works for you
UNIX is "dead," Part II
How to Raise the Dead: An Instructional Guide to Necromancy, as it were
Fading into Memory (the cruelest stage of grief)
Loss
UNIX is dead. Long live UNIX
One month later
Too clean
Using `cal` and plain text to track things
Time for a new "Geek Code"!
That "corban" thing
The Linux Last Mile Problem
Melech - the character of a king
Fun with FreeBSD
Le Blerb, or: I guess I should write something, eh?
Christian Propaganda
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Beauty
A quick little terminal tip
"But my friends aren't on there!"
The Revolution is Being Televised