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Speak UNIX or Die

Collective Shout

I Can Tell You Why Dating Sucks

Goodbye, Ozzy

RE: Why Are Men Like This?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Who Owns Your Talent?

My Spam is So Goddamn Boring

No Remorse, No Regrets, and No Need for Second Chances

Never Mind the Adjectives

No Kings

RE: I want to comment on your blog post

No, We Cannot ‘Connect’

Skeletá

Condition Ahuman

RE: Social media platforms: what’s wrong, and what’s next

Twenty-Five Years

C. J. Cherryh’s Morgaine Cycle

On Hating LinkedIn

RE: Don’t Be a -1

They Too Are God’s Children

Three Videos Giving Me Life This Week

Can You Spell ‘Anomie’ Without AI?

Sex Without Women? Fuck That Noise.

Reconsidering POSSE

Saturday Scenes (2025-03-15)

All That I Leave Unwritten

Saturday Scenes (2025-03-08)

Give Conservatives Something to Cry About

starbreaker.org NOW: February 2025

Time Machine

Personal Web, Personal Sovereignty

All Anti-Vaxxers Lie

Four Words for Jeff Bezos

Money as a Means and an End

The Song of Achilles

God Damn the King

Interactive Fiction?

RE: Blogging for traffic not design

Macbook Necromancy

I Need a Longer Plank

Street Cultivation

To the Democratic National Committee

Zoom is No Substitute for In-Person Interactions

Advertising Will Never Be Great

I Still Don't Have a Career

Nuke Fossil Fuels from Orbit

Counter-Thaumaturgy

Weekend Work

Libertinism as Protest, Sodomy as Praxis

Butt Thetans

Music Questions Challenge

“A Man Who Reads”

Ayn Rand

starbreaker.org NOW: January 2025

Popovers in HTML

A Long War on Two Fronts

RE: Finding the Authentic Web

The Milgram Battery (a Starbreaker story)

Notes on Email Filtering

Substack, Freedom of Expression, and Tolerance for the Intolerant

Unplatform

Feeds Update

RE: The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love

Using Sublime Text in 2025

Blogging is Dead: Just Like God and Rock 'n Roll

These Men are No Mere Cowards

This is Not My Side Hustle

Star Trek: Section 31

Fuck Trump

Concerning the TikTok Ban

Neil Gaiman

If Liking Some Pop Music is Gay, Then I’ll Be Gay.

Free Our Feeds? Oh, Please.

Why I Don’t Use AI, Particularly Lex

I Would Not Blog

Read for Pleasure, or Not At All!

Anarchism As I Understand It

Armor Your Heart in Ice and Shadows

I’ll Read It

Social Media Has Been Worthless for Years

RE: “I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life”

RE: Blog Questions Challenge

Then I shall make noise!

Angra — Angels Cry (1993)

Black Sabbath — Cross Purposes (1994)

GNU Emacs From Scratch

Running GNU Emacs in the Linux Console

Terminal First

I don’t blame Cathode Ray Dude at all, really.

An Apology to the Subscribers

“Ballade of Ladies and Times Gone By”

Fighting the Crab Bucket Mentality

Marriage Needs No Defense

In the Hands of Strangers

True Love is Expressed

Blood Money? I Don’t Think So

The Self-Educated Soul

Weaving the World’s Dreams

One Nation Above God

Have Mind, Will Travel

nine 𝑥 to know me

“Dregs”

starbreaker.org NOW: December 2024

2024 in rock

On Seeking Community

Reasons I Refuse to Go Vegan

Letting Christabel Crowley Speak for Herself

A Masculine Mystique

Computer Says, “Fuck You”

Who’s got a foreign key on this table?

RE: Topic Blockers

Street Justice

Gimme Back My Headphone Jack!

Gun Control

Finding the Sweet Spot: Purple Prose and Fire Emblem Fates

starbreaker.org NOW: November 2024

TANELORN (Strike the Balance)

Are the Electors Paying Attention?

How to Ruin Your Franchise

Your Body, Your Choice, Forever

The Sword: “Locomotive Breath”

Something Short...

Wearing Bigotry On One’s Sleeve

Fortress of Solitude

Self-Care or Self-Indulgence?

Blogging Collectives

A Shield of Silence

Not This Asshole Again

I Voted (2024)

Impact

Freeing Time From Clocks

Twenty Years

The Lost Boys (1987)

Conservatives at a Casino

Using a Personal Laptop at Work?

NVDA; or, The Punishment Detail

Hitler’s Generals

Guys, Let's Talk About Periods

Speaking English on the Multilingual Web

Morgan Cooper: Dirty Work

Sharing Optional

Recursive Bulk File Renaming

RE: The Static Site Paradox

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Dracula (1931)

Power Underneath Despair: Roundup

The (Plain Old) Web

Power Underneath Despair: Last Call!

RE: The Right to Remain Silent

Let God Speak, Dammit

The Substance (2024)

Prometheus Unconquered

Fourth Dominion

Psycho Cat Daddy

RE: You Should Go To Conferences

A Day with a Kensington Expert Mouse

Some Thoughtcrime for 9/11

RE: Software Should Cost Money

RE: Bullies

The Power of Satan Compels Me

Power Underneath Despair

RE: On Email Addresses (Again)

Transgressing the Law of Jante

Xennial Memories

Email is Still Useful

Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant?

Humbuggin’

Let's Talk About Whiteness

Behind the Mask

Techies Who Don't Read Fiction

A Place for Every Page and Every Post in Its Place

Single? Looking? Why Not Make a /dating Page?

How About Some Toast and Eggs

Better Than You

Another Vacation, Please

Personal Websites are for Personal Use

Writing with Large Language Models

Talking Shit About Harry Potter

Blocking Unwanted Referrers with .htaccess

People and Blogs

Something for the Smol Web Newbies

“I Know Where You Live...”

starbreaker.org and the Holy Grail Layout

Toward a Tao of Vengeance

robots.txt: the Nuclear Option

Proprietary Social Media Tags Considered Contemptible

I Don’t Belong, Either

Pronatalism is White Supremacy

Limited Fediverse Integration

mailto links in RSS

Pride Month

Developer Experience: JSON vs XML

Concerning Age-Appropriate Content

SaGa Emerald Beyond

Oceanborn

Making a Grimoire

Footnotes: No Fun to Create, Either

Matters of Faith, Problems of Evil

Providing JSON Feeds in Addition to RSS

Indecision 2024

Touch Grass?

It’s Not Your Feed Reader

No Glove, No Love

Heavy Time

JS Naked Day

Good Enough; or, Never Give Your Best At Work

CSS Naked Day

Is Reggaeton at 9am Really That Bad?

B. Bergeron on Progressive JPEGs

On Loneliness

Ideal Breakfast?

Things to Do in April 2024

Happy Easter

IndieWeb Carnival 2024: Accessibility on the Personal Web

Reset, Part Two

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

The Right to Change Sex

A Modest Proposal for MAGA

Kitty Doesn’t Think Things Through

Hacker News, Again

Storming Heaven

IndieWeb Carnival 2024: Digital Relationships

Robb Knight on Using Eleventy

A City on Mars

Shoggoths Away!

A Cure for Atheism

Too Much Greek Mythology?

Concerning Trans Rights

Reset

HTML5 Needs a “partial” Element

Your Site, Your Rules, Your Way

The Last Post for This Version

Isabel Hogben: a Victim of Conservative Grooming

RE: Why Are Websites Embarrassing

Dictionary Integrations

Viewpoint Limitations

Little Spoon

Contributing to the Cacophony

RE: A Key Feature of NFTs Has Completely Broken

RE: Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?

I Finally Got Without Bloodshed Taken Down

Tears in Rain

Boots: a Haiku

Adam Winfield Needs a Mirror

Writing Wonders: August 2023

Cathedrals on Quicksand

Web Environment Integrity: Expectations, Reality, and Entitlement

Silence Implies Consent

They Abandoned Their Children to Fortnite

From The Archives

Spiral Architect: Patient Privilege

No Bottling the Genie Again

Stormageddon, Fluffgoddess of the Next Apocalypse

A Cat Meets the Emacs Doctor

Spiral Architect: Little Sunshine and more…

RE: The syndicate

Flaming Telepaths

Spiral Architect, Chapter 5: Prima Donna

Zuck’s New Threads Are Lame

Burn the Mothers Down

Writing Wonders: July 2023

Been Sick

Books I Never Finished

Reworking My Blogroll

Insomnia

You Are Not Normal

Now I Have a Mailing List

RE: Acting Your Wage Will Atrophy Your Abilities

Our Revels Now Are Ended…

RE: Makefiles for Fun and Profit

Theme, Variations, Eternal Return

I Was Banned From Tildes, Too

They Came From Hacker News

Would You Recommend Us to Your Friends?

Writing Wonders: June 2023

Microservice Architecture is a Recipe for Pain

More Cleanup

A Bit of a Cleanup

My Manhood, My Property, My Way

Programmers and Grimoires

Make Them Reject You

A Well Known URL for Your Resume/CV

Not For Her Sake

RE: Date and Time with a Static Site Generator

After 1989: A Trip To Freedom

Fun with Dates and Emacs

Trying Friendica

Your Screen Is Tasty

Alice Cooper, Live in Hershey

Dammit, Apple

RE: Mastodon Preview Cards

Disdain for Profanity is a Luxury Belief

I Just Bought a Piano

Florida Man Bans Abortion

Parental Rights

John Daker has seen some shit

Preventing LLM Scraping

A Letter to NPR Management

Jesus He Knows Me

Scarlet Dorn

First World Problems

Poem for a Mass Resignation

Companies Are Failing Everybody

The Ides of March

RE: Stop Using Custom Web Fonts

RE: The Ultimate Linux ARM64 Workstation

RE: All You May Need is HTML

Fertility Crisis? You’re Welcome!

Persona 4 GOLDEN

Always Remote

Living for Pleasure: an Epicurean Guide to Life

Ticketmaster Delenda Est

I Quit Mastodon Again

smile, he said

silent defiance

A Seed of an Ending for Soft Doctrines

RE: Does a Blog Need to Integrate?

No New Years’ Resolutions in 2023

Hello Again, World

Salary Range or GTFO

Things Do Not Have Friends

a Phishing Attempt for PayPal Users

Shadowbanned

RE: Static Site Generators

The Magician and the Parrot

Holy Smoke

cicadas

The Village Voice Isn’t Really Back

Gloomy Monday Thoughts About Computers

Learning Vue

Random Thoughts on Game Streaming

Little Changes

Still Derisive About Marketing

An Archetypical Tech Recruiter

Notes on Pancreatic Cancer Screening

Building a Site for My Fiction with ‘pblog’

Web3 is Coming For Authors

Creating YouTube Thumbnails with a Shell Script

Paying Strangers to Watch Me Work?

RE: High Property Taxes Are Good, Actually

Nothing Like a Bad Phishing Attempt

RE: Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It

RE: Really Getting Started with Hugo

Crypto Direct Deposit? WTF?

RE: Thoughts on RSS

Extending pblog

Blocking Crap with a Hosts File

There Goes Your Feed (Again)

Roe v. Wade Was Overturned Today

COVID-19: One Megadeath Later

Podcasts Have Always Sucked

A Reality Where HTML Never Existed

Party Like It’s 1989

Playing as a Woman in Final Fantasy XIV

Using GNU Recutils to Generate a Playlist Feed

Going Dark (Building A Shinobi Site)

RE: The Box of Doom

About My Ad Blocker

Hellbound; or, Curse God and Live

Personal Websites as Self-Portraiture

Questions for Your Cast

Amazon’s The Wheel of Time

Fuck Trump; Let’s Go Brandon

RE: Thoughts on Silly Hats

Literature Ain’t Burger King

Of Course I Worked There. So What?

Hearing Rainfall

Is the Thought of an Incel a Real Thought?

How to Ruin a Date

Does Therapy Work for Men?

Don’t Worry. I’m Still OK.

My Father is Dead

Installing Devuan 3.1 and Migrating to Ceres

The Cancellation of Emily Wilder by the Cowardly Associated Press

What Five Stages of Grief?

My Father Is Dying

Wife First, or Mother?

a haiku from my study window

Entries for a New Devil’s Dictionary

Why Should I Go Back to the Office?

Not This Shit Again; or, ACAB

Then I’m Against You

Maybe I Don’t WANT To Be Reached?

YouTube Kids a Vapid Wasteland? No Shit, Sherlock.

Goddammit, Jon Schaffer

It’s Just Some Other Asshole’s Computer

Tina Guo

The Wrong Kind of Diversity

Parallel Transcoding from FLAC on Linux

Unpleasant Truths About Culture Fit

Glory and Blame

Gina Carano Will Be Fine

XTerm: Because Worse is Better

Parler Had It Coming

Thoughts on the Insurrection

My Wife Gave Me an AlphaSmart 3000 for Christmas

Aspects of Tyranny and Oppression

More Stuff I Might Use Later

Shite Hustle (No Revenue)

The Cop in My Head

Making Meaning

RE: Naming Computers

Leftist Dating Advice Considered Harmful

Egoism, Neutrality, and Zeal

Bostock vs Clayton County, GA

Text Mode Weekend, Part Deux

The NoFap Hoax, by an Anonymous Psychology Professor

What if Internal Wifi Was a Mistake?

Text Mode Weekend

Choose Life?

RE: Against Bingeing TV

Relevance Junkies

On the Imperative of Niceness

How to Avoid Reply Guys

The Racist H. P. Lovecraft vs. Self-Righteous Internet Leftists

What Really Caused Nationfall?

Dragon Hunting; or, Helvetia delenda est

Vocabulary Lessons

I’m a Sodomite and I’m OK

Three Mile Island Dirty Rice

Final Fantasy VII Relived

Why I’m Going to Block You

A Decade in Review

Real Sex Education

Containment, Social Media, and the Dangers of Imitation

I Want My BSD!

Proprietary Video Games

On Religion as Blasphemy

On Allyship

Harry Frankfurt: On Bullshit

Turning Forty

The Truth About US Taxes?

Leaving the Cult; or, Getting Free of Toxic Tech Culture

The Definitive Count of Monte Cristo

C.L. Moore: Queen of the Pulps

I Know I’m Fat. Did You Know You’re An Asshole?

Programmer Passion Considered Harmful

You Should Listen to Galneryus

Sally Wiener Grotta: The Winter Boy

Richard Zane’s Fantasmagoria

The Alpha Male Myth

Derelict by L. J. Cohen: a YA Worthy of Heinlein

Worldbuilding: Mutual Aid vs the Welfare State

Post-IPO Facebook: Echoing the Dot-Com Boom

Just Married!

Veteran of the Psychic Wars (2000)