2019 post archive
- A personal retrospective on the 2010s
- Our own small brush with a bushfire
- Anders Enger Jenson: DiscoVision
- Show 400: The Quadricentennial episode
- Rearranging The Verge’s tech flops list
- Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
- Comparing BSD potatoes in liquid nitrogen
- Here’s your PIN, here's the eBay PIN…
- Fate/Stay Night UBW Xmas
- Revisiting ten ways to reduce stress
- Greta Thunberg
- New KDE/FreeBSD team website
- Bushfires, with comments from my dad
- Impeached Mr Orange
- Solution to blocking home recording
- ATAR results, via @BADCATBAD_
- Curly quotes broken in Goldmark, Hugo
- Overnightscape Central: More Topics
- That holiday scene from the Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi
- Music Monday: I Bought You a Plastic Star
- Firefox reporting blocked trackers
- Wikipedia’s mathematics articles need work
- Do you agree to accept our cookies?
- Yahoo Groups deletion follow up
- Consuming media
- Overnightscape Central: Misfit Toys
- What a FreeBSD guy uses NetBSD for
- Chatswood sky, April and today
- Music Monday: Rhythm is our Business
- Talking at FreeBSD events
- Twitter threads should be blog posts
- The career skill of accountability
- Data centres, and blue skies for once
- Tech questions, and mobile/cellular in laptops
- Where life expectancy is above 80
- Funding bhyve VirtFS/9p completion project
- Music Monday: Fanfare for the Common Man
- The Hyperion luggable from 1983
- The Tesla Cybertruck
- The Indian Roller
- My friend on the way to school
- Lorimer Street
- Searching for FreeBSD ports
- Spelling Good Mythical Morning
- Angus Taylor’s metadata adventure
- Music Monday: Null
- A Potemkin mind
- Trying the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
- Unsub me already: Sprint, fail
- What I’m excited about
- And now, Sydney thunderstorms!?
- Open source being a Trojan Horse
- Another smoky Sydney morning
- Site updates, late November 2019
- Overnightscape Central: Top Ten
- A smoky Sydney morning
- Chaining addresses in FreeBSD ipfw
- Music Monday: Walk in the Rain
- Pronouncing Project like Progress
- The letter versus spirit of the law
- Cody’s sunflower lab
- Using brew cask search
- Replacing the phone
- 16-inch MacBook Pro
- Out of stock, now with free shipping
- Australia’s ruling class on bushfires
- Ubiquiti’s phoning home issues
- Mythical Chef Josh
- Fitbit and Yahoo Groups
- Manga swimsuit follow-up post
- Thanks everyone for your positive thoughts!
- When companies underpay staff
- FreeBSD 12.1 available
- Union Pacfic’s steam turbine locos
- Thanking Medicare and RNS staff
- Overnightscape Central: Funny Animals
- Pet Shop Boys, Only the Wind
- Android biometrics in October 2019
- Condescending responses to tech questions
- 1977 kept coming up
- Remember the Mac PowerPC to Intel shift?
- Fate/Grand Order Babylonia key visuals
- iOS 13.1 is still pokey
- Van Morrison, Cleaning Windows
- Fun with online ECC memory shopping
- Small homes out of trucks
- Worrying out loud about EOL
- Australian broadband adventures, Q3 2019
- Lessons from hours screaming in a metal tube
- Current ThinkPads with HiDPI
- Consolidating all the things, also watches
- When you book hotels online
- David Hodges was an audio visual
- What I'm reading, 2019 week 42
- Relieved to see Perl 6 being renamed
- Fixing Hugo JSON-LD
- Cisco’s internal network issues
- iPhone typing accuracy declines
- That Fate/Grand Order fragment from 2004
- #SG19 Singapore Botanic Garden coffee
- #SG19 Back to Sim Lim Square one last time
- #KL19 A Berjaya Times Square Starbucks lounge
- A terrifying Fate/Grand Order Parvati smile
- #KL19 Iomega in 2019 Plaza Imbi
- #KL19 Seeing Kuala Lumpur from Menara KL
- #KL19 Nostalgia in Mutiara Damansara
- Overnightscape Central: Marvel Comics
- #SG19 Jurong East is cool!
- #SG19 Treasures in Isetan
- #SG19 Working in a Toast Box
- Choosing a new pocket camera
- Google against W3C privacy push
- #SG19 Coffee Bean at Bishan, take t(h)ree
- #SG19 Revisiting Jalan Pemimpin
- SEA ME WE3 Singapore-Perth cable cut
- Gross and tiny security errors
- Custom awk delimiters
- #SG19 My mum’s 64th at our old local
- Prickly IT pears
- #SG19 Those Swensen’s chip cones
- Hales fixes my RSS
- Infosec Jack Sparrow
- Overnightscape Central: Fun Times
- Discouragement in IT
- SortedFood Mystery Box with liquorice
- Stack Exchange changing licences
- Deciding on a bank based on their mobile apps
- Fixing Hugo pagination in 0.58
- Cape Town Civic Centre
- Please don’t use fixed-position navigation bars
- Housing as an asset class
- The Sony StorStation Ditto tape drive
- C2C Genius as “jitters”
- iTelephone 2019 wish list
- The xkcd password leak
- Everyday Canteen
- Australia’s uninterrupted economic growth…
- Rambling on biology and tech
- iOS always forgets what audio I was playing
- Windows games on FreeBSD via Homura
- Woolloomooloo coffee in the morning
- Fate/Grand Order Nero Fest and Summer 2019
- Carrie Lam and Boris Johnson
- Helpful internet people
- Back at a Dôme
- Cleaning compromised servers
- Bidding salamat tinggal to the Q on Harris
- Japanese tourism
- GCC being removed from FreeBSD 13 base
- Colin Bass: Return to Earth
- Anime I hate, love, find overrated, etc
- Some more jot numbers
- Doug DeMuro on multiple dead-ends
- More sun, less grass
- Shock jocks and free speech
- Music Monday: Opportunities
- Fun with a phpMyAdmin honeypot
- Goodbye again to the Linux Journal
- The SS Grampian
- ThinkPad feedback from @sjdorst
- Steve Hofstetter on Robin Williams
- Anime motorbikes and scooters
- The ThinkPad X40, an all-time favourite
- Huntington State Park
- Common myths about private browsing
- Music Monday at Milsons Point
- Lesson 11 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
- Decluttering: Mofo Soap
- Your Sunday morning economics snippets
- Reading list for early August 2019
- Can’t change Slack private channels to public
- Siri response grading
- 2019 Good Smile Racing Miku
- Concerns for Nikon
- Goodbye, Caffetini
- Choosing a NAS
- Maid skateboarders by すずしろ
- Even with the best of intentions...
- Music Monday: Hare Hare Yukai~
- The new Funan Centre
- Where do you find the time to blog?
- When someone close nearly got phone scammed
- Running NoScript in 2019
- Feedback from @infinitary
- Simple VyOS port forwarding
- Music Monday: Window Washer’s Dream
- 10x Engineers: The brilliant jerks
- Comparing SimCity 3000 railways and subways
- The issue isn’t privacy, it’s privacy?
- Dual-boot NT and NetBSD on the Libretto 70CT
- False dichotomy of human rights or privacy
- Evangelion battle alpacacs
- TWG Tea
- Boris Johnson, and malicious joy
- A brief history of KornShell time
- Music Monday: Youssou N’Dour, 7 Seconds
- Love for Kyoto Animation
- John Roderick on Portland
- When’s the best time to use a plane lavatory?
- Using Subversion with GitHub
- My 2019 essential tool list
- Australian solar to Singapore via undersea cable
- Rhett and Link on equine identification
- That time he whinged about a headache
- Design anti-patterns: Misleading buttons
- Automatic Korn Shell aliases
- Unlimited plans are almost always flops
- San Francisco Muni: Two Car, Shovel
- Australian IT firms not consulted about #aabill
- Covering laptop cameras, revistied
- Some random things I learned today
- ThinkPads and MacBooks
- New Sailor Mercury Figuarts Mini
- Mr Smooth
- Ayako Kawasumi at Anime Expo
- URLs, URIs, URNs
- Dan Benjamin on computers as tools
- ZFS isn’t just for NAS boxes
- Ken Akamatsu on the Raspberry Pi 4 model B
- Ansible name parameters in cron
- President Widodo raises plastic at G20
- Why do most PC laptops have awful screens?
- Sashin’s House at the Top of the World
- Streetcars in the US
- Spellging mistaes for this week
- Disambiguating licence plates
- Ansible authorized_key and user variables
- HPE buying Cray
- When people say Straight Pride
- Versions of ksh93 in macOS, FreeBSD
- Speaking of plastic
- Don’t forget the -y with FreeBSD Ansible
- When CDNs say you have malware
- Yurucamp Nendoroids
- Benjamin Wittes on the Mueller Report
- Thanking Dropbox for the final stick
- Reading atlases, and Stepanakert in Artsakh
- Plastic straw ban follow up
- Manchester Baby, and Elizebath CityCenter [sic]
- KVM trolley suggestions for data centre operators
- El Goonish Shive
- Just live without your phone for a week? Yeah, no
- Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley
- Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
- The Mid-range utility Mac
- Not if they win the lotto!
- Roman numeral IIII on clocks
- Capitalise first letter in Perl
- Anti-trust suits, then and now
- Rhett and Link on baking gastronomy
- Apple’s new campus not attached?
- A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
- Plumbing drafts: Now
- Tweeting about FreeBSD, NetBSD
- Hugo generator deprecation warnings
- Percussive maintenance
- Re:Zero’s Rem on a collared shirt
- Cropping a single row of pixels with ImageMagick
- Pitfalls of Windows 2012 R2 USB boot keys
- Cadillac Fleetwood Mac
- Next macOS to use zsh by default
- Relief for the 2019 Mac Pro
- Mid Valley Johor Bahru
- He’s back, with housekeeping
- Tigerlily
- Hard drive capacities: a 2008 retrospective
- 2019 MacBook Pros
- When did you learn version control?
- Luminary and the future of indie podcasting
- Australia lost, again
- Bob Hawke
- Michael W. Lucas: Control your platform
- Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
- SE.RA.PH: Defeat 10 servants from the East
- Microsoft Linux or IBM Linux
- OrionVM launches Melbourne PoP
- Richard Di Natale on Australia’s #aabill
- Photographing cosplayers, with attribution
- Snippets from my personal wiki
- Type fast and break prose
- Rename IPSec peers in VyOS
- When people answer questions with “why?”
- bzip2 and KornShell fun
- Miku Expo 2019 Taiwan and Hong Kong
- Kao laundry powder scoop analysis
- SCSI to CompactFlash for vintage PCs
- Changing to the middle seat
- Elizabeth Warren breaking up big IT
- Alamy Kiwi stock photos
- BSD questions from @romanzolotarev
- Hetalia and Free! boys
- Add new Postgres schema to search path
- Commodore SFD-1001, and the Teac FD-505
- Intermittent fasting, and metabolism
- User 'polkitd' disappeared during update
- The Cayenne Convection Oven
- Perl 5.28.2 in ports and perlbrew
- Wadarco’s art in Chaldea Ace Volume 2
- Fully-recyclable Adidas shoes
- DuckDuckGo features keep surprising me
- Disabling SELinux on CentOS, RHEL
- Hunting for a Dropbox replacement
- Who’s Chef Boyardee?
- FreeBSD devd files need a .conf extension
- Don’t confuse gohugo by adding symlinks
- The Aquantia AQC107 10GbE controller
- Curly bracket substitution in sed, nvi, Vim
- Brexit silver lining
- Serverless
- Music Monday: French coffee
- Event Horizon Telescope sees a black hole
- Attitudes to mental health
- Tipping culture
- Another (site) bites the dust
- Subversion in OrionVM FreeBSD templates
- We almost got Arena manga swimsuits
- PF in FreeBSD and NetBSD
- A second chance for FGO Bride Umu
- Estonian government-in-exile
- AAPT on moving off copper
- Sceptical of synergies
- How web businesses surprised me
- Buying philosophy for computer hardware
- DW Documentary on North Korea
- Australian IT in the budget reply speech
- Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
- Our first aviation go-around
- The @georgiecel on what to read
- New Japanese Reiwa era announced
- Back at the best blog park bench
- Back at Namba Parks
- Coffee at the Urusei Yatsura pop-up café
- Ichigaya station on the Tokyo Metro
- Late night Tokyo egg sando
- Donating billionaires
- Inline substitution with NetBSD sed
- The Christchurch massacre
- pngcrush with reduce
- Tethering is still voodoo
- The 737 MAX
- Medhi’s Mother of All Fullest Bridge Rectifiers!
- Spam disclaimers
- The Sorted Gents
- Excitement over Windows 7’s demise
- Peak California... on Medium
- Another new newsletter abusing email lists
- Making a macOS Mojave USB key
- Fate/Grand Order Valentine Rerun
- No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
- Storage versus RAM configurability
- My colleague’s MT3 profile board
- Dropbox isn’t case-sensitive
- NetBSD devpubd as a FreeBSD devd equivalent
- Roderick on the Line: Turtles
- Music Monday: Uptown Funk
- Good planning
- Little things with Outlook, Apple Mail
- Technical reasons may often be insufficient
- 1993 Computer Chronicles on Spectre
- Opening a Kensington Orbit Trackball
- Facebook’s lobbying against global privacy laws
- Learning about shell indirect expansion
- Flat design on websites
- Bosnia and Herzegovina has a coast
- ElectroBOOM! on eddy currents
- Josh Nunn on week numbers
- FreeBSD sh getting set -o pipefail
- Back to school specials!!1!one!
- Lateral thinking: sponges
- George Pell found guilty
- Austin and Doug on the Yugo
- Testing HTTPS/TLS sites
- Ergolux corner standing desk
- macOS not downgrading Wi-Fi security
- Moving out of the way of commuters
- FeedReader: Generally safe
- Simpson Strong Tie Set Xp Msds
- And now Sydney is frigidly cold?
- Anxiety plus ignorance, it is!
- Apple’s rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro
- Pop Up Parade anime figs
- Homebrew no longer accepts options
- When client-side validation attacks
- Our moving NBN adventure
- FreeBSD shared object libssl.so.8 not found
- Baby Shark on Wikipedia
- The unfortunately-named bought Eero
- 144dpi images in ImageMagick
- Delivering blog post text in RSS
- Remembering Le Cornu in Adelaide
- Exporting data from closing web services
- Decentraleyes
- Airbus ending the A380
- Pinterest’s CEO and his service
- The golden-headed cisticola
- Box doesn’t do Markdown
- Digital Dark Age, even within sites
- Overnightscape Central: Book Series
- Scott Morrison loses a vote
- I came across Latest Posts with $5,900,000
- Tony Benn on refugees
- Openrsync: A BSD-licenced rsync
- Do parliaments need a separate executive?
- Posting regularity
- Lazy Sunday, anime figs, missing email
- Stack Overflow survey 2019
- Firefox disabling auto-playing video
- Fixed podcast descriptions in iTunes
- qemu HAXM on NetBSD
- Goodbye, AT&T data centres
- Churning to Superloop
- Happy Birthday @JamieJakov and Rin!
- Source RSS namespace has moved
- A list of lightweight laptops from 2018
- fd, the find alternative
- Churn in anti-virus vendors
- Ranking of laptop keyboards
- Dublin Core in HTML5
- State of Apple in 2018
- Ending mandatory religious classes
- Going loud in the morning
- Midsomer Murders: Vixen’s Run
- Pointless Rubenerd stats: The
- Moving with figs
- After the jump
- Day after Australia Day picnic
- Not ranking well for certain keyword phrases
- Being told a Tumblr post had been reviewed
- It’s been a month since the 25th of December
- Moving to Chatswood
- Companies leaving over Brexit
- American Express jellyfish
- It has numbers in them
- Peter Cook and Microsoft Bob on The Bard
- Forum signatures
- Mark Bittman: No-knead bread
- Finding the current week number
- Kanaya Resort in Hakone
- A decade ago: appearing on blogged.com
- Self-redundancy
- What blogging is
- My final answer on mock meat
- The folly of haircut instructions
- A Yoko Littner fig... in 2019‽
- A certain new chat application logo
- Create a mirror of an FTP site with wget
- IBM agrees to buy Red Hat
- Katelyn Ohashi’s 10 point routine
- The Australian people
- Setting FLAC compression in FFmpeg
- How likely are you to recommend this survey?
- Having another Brexit vote
- Scientology’s Australian recruit struggle
- Firefox application bundle sizes
- Sakura on ufotable’s Twitter
- A lyric like that
- Predictable issues with video doorbells
- The European Space Agency store
- Buying the Chrysler Building
- On entrepreneurship
- He’s just not that great a negotiator
- Just test the damned pills
- Financial hardship in invoicing
- Summoning Musashi in Fate/Grand Order
- Bell Canada wanting permission to track customers
- Cheaper, and more affordable
- Vulfpeck on whale feet
- Information war
- Overnightscape Central: Fire
- Some café quotes from this morning
- Vortex Race 3 keyboard
- SortedFood sandwiches
- Sydney trains late, crowded
- Max’s apartment from Double Decker
- Selectively disabling gohugo RSS feeds
- TigerVNC on macOS Mojave
- Life advice
- The Ghost blog editor
- Road Work on snark
- Can’t killall on Debian 9 Stretch
- The Opal Tower conflict of interest
- Stack Exchange first response: why?
- Ball & stick but bill wurtz is missing
- Windows versus BSD and GPL
- Why OLED phone screens suck for some of us
- CoreTypes.bundle still has some classic hardware
- Our 2019 New Years