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De-optimize your search terms to skip the SEO slop

PSA: local AI handwriting recognition is usable now

TIL how to accidentally overwrite a decade worth of data in LibreOffice calc

Taking responsibility for my energy levels

Sonder is a word I like

An unexpected benefit of docking my laptop beside my desk

A strange workaround for when the capacitive touch screen of your e-reader isn't responding to dry fingers: use your nose

Handy.computer is the Linux dictation app I've always wanted.

Maybe don’t optimize conversion rate?

Insomnia isn’t a waste of time

How to increase Ollama context length

Star rating support has been merged into the Readeck KOReader plugin

Something good happened to my memory, and I have a theory about what caused it

How to pause and resume a resource-intensive process on Linux with SIGSTOP: specifically, Ollama LLM inference

OCR Typewritten Documents with a Local Vision Model (Qwen3-VL:8B + Ollama)

An extremely silly bug

In Praise of Earnestness

Autodidacts Newsletter #24

Script: bulk star Readeck entries by URL (with URL cleaning)

Script: bulk star Wallabag entries by URL

A basic way to hotreload an AppImage

My free Silver price API now has an RSS feed with the day’s bid price

You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble

I fixed my crashing AWS t2.micro instance by adding swap

It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin

My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live

Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult

I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one

The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols

Human beings are waterproof

And then there’s Readeck

Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works

Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript

A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files

What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?

How To Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations To New Device

Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API

Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way

Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing

Wallabag wins, despite its flaws

Sleep is a continuum

Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support

A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit

An unsolved question in sleep science

Filtering RSS feeds by tag

Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price

I’m trying #100DaysToOffload

Foodie vs Athlete

What Counts as an Iteration?

I can haz knowledgebase

My Favourite Ways to Avoid Spending Money

Tortoise Mode vs Hare Mode

On Troubleshooting

Scroll-to-text fragment bookmarklet

How to Migrate a Discourse Forum from DigitalOcean to Linveo

Days Are Easily Made

Autodidacts Newsletter #23

Autodidacts Newsletter #23

How to Get the Most Out of a Conference

Implementing Elegant Timing

How to use an Aeropress without it blowing up in your face

Treating Everything as Practice

The Joy of Selective Attention

Towards Universal Keybindings

Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale