Tag: Computers

• 09 Feb 2026

  Shopping online, warts included

  Found myself in the market for sweats and windbreaker pants. ChatGPT found a myriad of decent items meeting my criteri...
• 08 Feb 2026

  Comprehending MELPA's size

  For reasons, I grabbed the entire [MELPA](https://melpa.org/) archive of published Emacs packages to grep against. Som...
• 07 Feb 2026

  Learned Quake 2 modding to recreate Instagib Blasters

  After a bout of nostalgia, I learned the basics of Quake 2 modding then created a mod that's currently live. Learn how...
• 05 Feb 2026

  My custom bash prompt is nearly 5 years old

  A small milestone, and a quiet test of whether my approach holds up: I've been using mostly the same custom Bash promp...
• 04 Feb 2026

  My Quake configs are managed by Emacs

  Woops. I guess I recreated configuration management inside Org-mode. The Org file is where I think; the actual config...
• 29 Jan 2026

  MPV is my jukebox

  [MPV](https://mpv.io/) does all my local media playback --- videos and music. I start MPV with: - `--idle` - `--i...
• 28 Jan 2026

  Nuked GitHub repos

  Every once in awhile, a public GitHub repository goes missing. This isn't new. The internet is an organic thing, and ...
• 25 Jan 2026

  Computer science classes sometimes don't reflect reality

  Recollecting my experience in my Systems Programming class. We had a 50 MiB quota on a Debian oldstable server. There...
• 25 Jan 2026

  Trying discovery writing with GNU Ed

  > Tools _can_ work against you as much as they work with you. And there I go, finding myself using [GNU ed](https://ww...
• 21 Jan 2026

  Deskthority is no more

  Deskthority has begun to be gutted. - The wiki no longer loads - The forum is intermittently failing The site was...
• 19 Jan 2026

  ChatGPT has gross fonts

  I don't know exactly what fonts ChatGPT uses, but it's definitely not my browser default. Behold the grossness. {{< f...
• 15 Jan 2026

  RouterOS made DNS over HTTPS painful again

  This is a field note from debugging RouterOS DoH breakage, written on a three hours of sleep + annoyed. Probably mista...
• 06 Jan 2026

  No AI (Organic) Seal

  Over a testy but light-hearted debate with my favorite IRC ~~curmudgeons~~ pals, we joked about a label for products th...
• 30 Dec 2025

  Mash keys in MPV to learn them

  Check out `mpv --input-test --force-window --idle`. This opens an idle MPV window to eats all keyboard inputs and repo...
• 28 Dec 2025

  Haiku's filesystem attributes

  Apparently Haiku (and its spiritual predecessor BeOS) can store arbitrary attributes and data on any file **within** th...
• 24 Dec 2025

  Sqlite parses JSON in ZIP files

  Pondering over Sqlite's [CLI documentation](https://sqlite.org/cli.html) and discovered if one invokes `sqlite3` with a...