I'm a person. This is my site!
It's mostly about computers, but there is some other things here, too.
We have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to, too! (... if you don't know what an RSS feed is... OK I still got to write that article!)
Also note that the below list of articles is admittedly fairly ugly; we're still working on that part.
How to
subscribe to RSS feeds in Miniflux, just with a few clicks. (#67)
JavaStation and how we were
already running things in a browser as of 1996ish. (#66)
Self-hosting, security and how this compares to the
PC Era. (#65)
On Moxie's opinion on how people never want to run
their own servers. (#64)
How to give
names to machines on your LAN without messing with local DNS and DHCP. (#63)
Miniflux and how RSS readers are a different experience from e.g. Facebook. (#62)
A challenge to use
desktop apps for everything (#61)
How Google / FB logins or phone numbers are
anti-sybil services which we could do better (#60)
The concept of
mounting file systems and how it's not too user friendly (#59)
How programming languages are also about
talking to libraries and why bindings are evil (#58)
A short and incomplete
intro to the Fediverse (#57)
How
I write and publish posts, mostly by hand (#56)
Why
RSS is called that and why polling makes a bit more sense, given its history. (#55)
I did
end up using Facebook a bit. First impressions. (#54)
Why
the old internet, with all the personal websites, is not coming back. (#53)
Why
federated social media accounts should be more portable. (#52)
Why
5G is faster (I don't think it's just the tech itself) (#51)
Already
halfway through 100 blog posts! (with a pretty graph.) (#50)
Simplicity is a feature but adding code will not get you there. Also, airplanes. (#49)
Advent of Code keeps being cool in 2021, too! (#48)
Why having access to APIs feels
cooler to programmers than it should (#47)
A random snippet about how we probably
shouldn't think about users (#46)
Why is it so hard to change
DNS records automatically? (#45)
On
Amazon Prime and the exact ways it's evil. (#44)
VPNs and how you never end up doing things that are
trivially inconvenient (#43)
How to make low-latency RPCs by
passing in IDs instead of returning them. (#42)
Some thoughts during a
network outage. (#41)
What if
more people result in not just slower progress but in an irreparably worse product? (#40)
Syntax is overrated: just let computers have their trees! (#39)
Adding an RSS feed, with obnoxiously minimal added complexity (#38)
Backing up a MIDI instrument even if their web thing is broken... by looking at USB traffic! (#37)
QEMU is awesome (#36)
Big corporations are out to get you; they're also getting better at it. (#35)
Why is it so hard to
share a few gigabytes over the internet? (#34)
Why is it so hard to
install web services (vs. apps)? (#33)
Turns out I can make an entirely static site that is
still slow. (#32)
Why
TUI apps are popular and nice, despite their many disadvantages (#31)
Let's
memory-map an entire file system. (#30)
TempleOS, and how it kinda comes close to Lisp Machines in terms of flexibility. (#29)
SRV records, and how, yet again, everything is worse than it could have been. (#28)
UNIX, long-running processes and message pumps. (#27)
Code is Literal Magic, as in: it's a collection of soulprints of programmers. (#26)
Elon on engineering: his 5-step process, with some quotes. (#25)
Emacs as a mobile OS (#24)
On Discord and Openness (#23)
Vertical tabs: they're nicer than the standard ones (#22)
Designing stuff that works: why simplicity is nice (#21)
SSL and socat: a slightly broken SSH clone (#20)
Was the Windows Registry a bad idea? (#19)
UNIX the Language. (#18)
How init systems should be simpler to use. (#17)
SSH with Kerberos, part 2 (the debugging part). (#16)
Harry Potter is an API. (#15)
How to set up
SSH with Kerberos. (#14)
IP addresses, IP mobility and sockets. (#13)
GRUB and where it finds things. (#12)
Why
forwarding pipes over file systems should be a thing. (#11)
Capitalism and how it's about niceness differentials, not making the world better. (#10)
Adding a sidebar statically that auto-updates... kinda. (#9)
Self-signed certs: three one-liners (#8)
On how the Unix Philosophy is not a reason but a consequence (#7)
Binary formats are not as evil as they sound like (#6)
Weird ways of installing an OS (including one where you don't even switch on the computer) (#5)
Named pipes on Windows: are they weirder than Unix domain sockets? (#4)
Writing "shell" scripts in Common Lisp might be a good idea (#3)
Free Software in practice: will you actually sit down and modify things? (#2)
What if files were like sockets: a speculative dystopia (#1)