Rubenerd
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