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The wide world of TCG card folders

Gen(erate losses)-“AI” bailouts

Family retrocomputer trash and treasure

Coming up with a list of spacer tasks

I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner?

Choosing a Plus! 95 theme

If I don’t, you still can

Dreadlock Holiday ♫

My “cursed” trusted brand list

Being positive about tech right now

A retail dark pattern worked on me

English speakers don’t say: So do I?

The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?

The Rubenerd LLM Licencing PAC

Sadly, I can’t recommend KeePassXC anymore

Postgres wouldn’t take my pg_hba.conf changes

The BookArc and Bolt laptop stands

freebsd-update hanging on “rebuild these ports”

Learning is supposed to be uncomfortable

Xfce is great

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, APT

A Macintosh SE FDHD!?

Being comfortable with “trying”

It was HOT in Sydney yesterday

Messing with uuid() in SQLite3

Blockchains and Australian coffee cards

Shame surrounding spreadsheets

Goodbye Xmas 2025

What I watched, Week 1 2026

“You shouldn’t make New Year’s Resolutions!”

That’s too expensive… for me

Tea over coffee first thing has worked oddly well

The primary purpose of lift lobbies

Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now?

Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud

Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!

(Thinking about) getting new printers

pkgsrc 2025Q4 released

An “AI” check-in

The Haneda Problem, and “seeing why you would”

Coffee technique works for cheap stuff too

We had a White Xmas (cough)!

Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD

Requiring iOS 26 to fix security issues

Remembering with cheese keeki, 2025

The Silver-Breasted Broadbill

ZuluSCSI, and an Ultra SCSI Power Mac G3!?

Quick reviews № 01

Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15!

Goodbye to the Hexham Oak and Hungry Jacks

Typing is physical and wonderful

Finding (digital) houndstooth

Cold Lemonade

netbsd-users: IBM Model M issues

BSD Now 642: Look Harder

Banner for December 2025

My first bootleg manga (that I returned)

A moment of calm, from Yosemite

Undo your last git commit before you’ve pushed

Hatsune Miku hanging out on an old CD-ROM

Canary Islands, and the Rule of Tincture

This is my worst theme ever, and I love it

Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited

Things I’ve decided to live without

Vietnam blog post update

A Swedish furniture store in Sydney at Xmas

Social media history to enter the US

Flight Simulator 98: Inside Moves

App defaults, 2025

Don’t flounder in the Lake of Options

Pronouncing “southern”

Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders

Another social media break

My blog opens too many files

Tag soup

What I’m reading, week 49 2025

Pouring one out for Crucial

Vietnam, and where does one go from here?

Using List::Util instead of List::MoreUtils

The Llama Book

#Vietnam2025 Typing from a Phê La cafe

Off to Vietnam for two weeks

Eskild Hustvedt’s joy rediscovering Perl

I’m your new BSD Now podcast co-host!

Mozilla’s latest quagmire

Mozilla’s latest quagmire

It’s not included if it’s not listed

Be kind to retail staff

This was an incredible espresso

Building a new NetBSD machine

Fun facts, aviation edition

A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser

Problem exists between printer and chair

Small and boring system updates

Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots

What’s the point of a retro case “???”

“Backalog”

We have Nvidia snow

Unboxing the new Silverstone FLP02 retro case

Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable

When a clear film wasn’t

Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill

With thanks to Steven Rosenberg

I did a thing, and exit excuses

Helping friends can boost your mood

Did they say that?

Injunctions aren’t helping data leaks

Eventually getting an Android phone

A 64-bit PCI Adaptec SCSI card

Offset bank accounts for mortgages

The BSD, OpenZFS, and illumos communities

Apple Stores make me anxious

Feedback on what to call this site

Merging Minecraft worlds with Worldedit

I watched my first YouTube shorts, and I’m confuzzled

An affinity for specific versions

Paul Simon, Train in the Distance

Mastodon: if it could happen, doesn’t mean it did

Is this a journal, or a blog, or what?

Reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3

Þe time I reduced my caffeine intake

Bring back the letter thorn (þ)

96% keyboard layouts

Pre-sales engineering

My Retro Corner has overtaken my blog? Kinda!?

AWS outage last night

Jack Johnson, Belle

I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs

I found a Rubik’s Cube

Stuff I read, week 42 2025

Our twelfth mortgage payment

Putting the www back in URLs

The LED BlinkHAT for the Motorola 6888x

Celebrating five years on our Minecraft server

Do I recommend Hugo for blogging?

My Macs can’t mount SD cards almost half the time

The Blue Mountains and Wentworth Falls

George Benson Beyond the Sea

The utility of digressions

64-bit PCI versus PCI-X

Outlook for Mac fun

I was wrong about Steven Pinker

Feedback on those “Written by Humans” buttons

My filofax was cancelled

“Written by Humans, Not AI” badges

A highly-processed shipment

Tech optimism outside the commercial space

Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?

Modern games implementing N64-style graphics

Feedback regarding AA batteries

Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji

Visiting the historic Coal Loader in North Sydney

Younger people and AA batteries

Dingbats > emoji?

Renewables overtake coal for first time in Australia

The weather outside is gorgeous

When to replace hard drives

Sorry for the dupe

The dubious Nagorno-Karabakh anniversary

Something for the #TODO list: stick with one

Treat those who give you things well!

#SciArtSeptember: Accrete

#SciArtSeptember: Scattering