2020 post archive
- Cane toads, the “seenzone” and message state
- Things I was thankful for in 2020
- The world’s chunkiest card reader
- The joys, and not, of studio apartments
- Merry Xmas, 2020
- Tribblix m24 available
- Feedback on my blog-as-a-business post
- “Turn your audience into a business”
- Neptunia fig re-releases, and Yuru Camp
- Ann Reardon on viral fake, food videos
- How we respond to crises
- The media's culpability in the NBN
- Friedrich Nietzsche on purpose
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE
- Felicia Day’s rant about RSS
- Talking about chips
- Toodles and Michael Tsai on OLED iPhones
- Ques Q’s VR 1/7 Mashu figure
- Cory Wong: Ketosis (feat. The Hornheads)
- Starting with FreeBSD jails
- CentOS, as we know it, ends
- The golden-headed cisticola
- Trying WordPress again after a few years
- Block copy disk over SSH with gzip
- Experience of flying back to the US
- Antranig moving from macOS to FreeBSD
- Data and algorithms aren’t neutral
- If you don’t like it, Mori Calliope has the answer
- Responses to my new homelab server
- Claire Saffitz makes focaccia
- Building a new homelab server
- Turns out, not a brush with Covid
- After the rain on the interstate
- Unlearning unsaved unbuffers
- “Don’t start a podcast”
- Acronym Finder isn’t one
- Recdiffs on why people are the way they are
- It’s not that people don’t want kids…
- Spelling mistakes for week 48, 2020
- Security flaws in smart doorbells
- Arm-wrestling Gura and Ame
- 737 Max issues were people
- An online place of record
- Boring description of my favourite anime
- Video conference fatigue
- Takeuchi Mariya, Plastic Love
- School memories, and can I just take it down?
- Gawr Gura on poultry identification
- Marco Arment on the Apple Watch sport band
- Tom Scott’s video on copyright
- With whom I normally disagree
- My first Hololive EN supachat
- Lessons learned from the 2016 Australian census?
- My first anime crushes, via @_BADCATBAD
- Clickbait
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- Interfering with opening in new tabs
- Using RSS: Awesome RSS plugin for Firefox
- @Spycrowsoft on OLED sensitivity
- Tears for Fears, Pharaohs
- Clara’s and my first buried treasure
- Context switching
- Ramen, and the secret to success
- Scatterbrain Apple M1 chip thoughts
- Unlimited web services aren’t
- Feedback on my Vim post
- An abandoned coffee shop full of letters
- Relationships with podcasters and bloggers
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD
- Thinking out loud about Vim
- Pet Shop Boys, DJ Culture
- A celebratory New York cheesecake
- Trying an alternative to RSS topic folders
- Being a customer, not a producer
- That map we’ve all been watching
- Word of the day: Diffident
- Enterprise IT, where tech goes to live
- Microservices and containerisation
- Rebecca Hales on more manga fitness
- GMM on computer science
- Hales warns us of greymarket electronics
- Music Monday: J.D. Lasica
- Everything normal again? Sort of, maybe, kinda
- Where to find the BBC’s RSS feeds
- Equinix data centre advice
- Debian 9 Stretch breaking in Xen guests, clouds
- NetBSD 9.1, FreeBSD 12.2-R, OpenBSD 6.8
- Tech in the two-speed Covid economy
- Another reminder not to use seasons in tech press
- American friends: please vote
- Om Malik’s GR III San Francisco photos
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD
- Antranig Vartanian on RSS, HiDPI, Apple Silicon
- Becky Hansmeyer, Dan Benjamin on the iPhone 12
- The United States of Apathy?
- Abandoned virtual worlds
- Al Jarreau on Hololive
- Wait, that heatsync isn’t really copper?
- Firefox 82.0 resolves macOS stuttering scrolling
- Our Minecraft Chunnel
- Raf Czlonka on BSD licencing
- Do good
- Being worthy of social security
- Microbreaks
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing
- It’s 20:10 2020-10-20 (AEDT)
- Band names in console output
- How my latest Twitter break is going
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
- OLED-sensitive people left out from the iPhone 12
- That Outlook for Mac sloth
- The ultimate 2020 conspiracy theory
- Now Captchas are just messing with me
- Missing music
- Merging migrated Git repos
- Mac Dock persisting in Full Screen mode
- Rhett on opening coconuts
- Homeless people in media
- Some mid-spring Sydney fog
- Re-containerising VP9 from webm to MP4
- Tech journalism’s either/or fallacy
- The Scorpions: Wind of Change
- Cleaning another Mac Bitcoin miner
- John Naughton on the Internet-of-Things
- Hacktoberfest needs to stop
- Thirty years since German reunification
- My new-ish 16-inch MacBook Pro
- Derek Muller’s video on Penrose Tilings
- Apologies for not posting your comments yet
- Feeling guilt upon buying something
- AC3 is not AAC
- The Australian government’s NBN backflip
- OpenSSH 8.4 released
- Rodriguez and Sailor Moon
- Hacker News: Why aren’t we all more serious?
- My September 2020 iOS application picks
- SortedFood oranges
- A talk show host apology
- Linux Journal is back!
- Consolidating running software
- It also has numbers in it
- Hacker News on my audio kill switch post
- Life lessons from Hololive’s Amelia
- When scp’s misleading warnings attack
- A turkey, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Ethernet papercuts
- The Kobo Forma as a manga reader?
- The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education
- Twenty posts per page
- Holstein Switzerland
- If we could demand the same security answers
- Music Monday: Yasutaka Tarumi on the duduk
- Feedback on my Mr Orange post
- When services always had RSS
- The US West Coast fires
- Homework load in Singapore
- Forgetting to set UTF normalisation on a ZFS pool
- We need physical audio kill switches
- Some more spelling corrections
- That guy in the GoToMeeting splash screen
- A KONE lift diagnostic test tool and decoder
- Bloomberg TV, back in 2020
- NBN already outdated
- Oblivious advice
- Empty code blocks
- Easier to read, maintain, and extend
- Dr Beckmann’s Floor Carpet Stain Remover
- The Cranberries: Dreams
- System76 laptop displays
- Mr Orange, and Joe Biden’s hires from tech
- ATO overcharging tax for salary sacrificed super
- FOSS laptops and subpar displays
- The roles of OSs have changed
- Goodbye, Bon Appétit test kitchen?
- We can’t all work from home
- Photo of Bishop Hill in New York state
- A social network’s inaccuracy
- Journalism: make them care
- Firefox’s situation reminds me of OpenSSL
- Banpresto’s 1994 Sailor Mercury poster
- Goodbye to the Three Beans in North Sydney
- It it the tool, or the people using it?
- Technical support airing personal details in public
- You lock your data with us, we cannot fail
- Bruce Schneier on blockchain tech
- Uncommon Advansys Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI-II cards
- Coalgirls signing off, and toxic people didn’t help
- Today’s word: Allocable
- The Galaxy Towers
- To static site, or not, again
- When the industry dismisses qualitative metrics
- New computers don’t feel faster
- Type-Moon Racing Umu fig announced
- Working from home still tenuous sometimes
- You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS
- 10% the flu rate in New South Wales
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Blogging
- Phones before the iPhone
- Music Monday: Kris Delmhorst
- Those email-unsubscribe reasons
- Still buying digital and analogue music in 2020
- Casey Liss on memories in restaurants
- Remote work as a platform
- Update on split username-password forms
- Kamala Harris’s comments on US standing
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Both sides
- Tech hardware fails, as written in 2012
- A thousand drafts
- COVID, science, and emotion
- Ljubljana from Nebotičnik Tower
- MiniDisc, sign in, be respectful
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Backups
- NHK World-Japan on the Apple TV
- Music Monday: Book-end, Happy-end, again
- Our current software and web slump
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Glasses
- Airgapped devices and networks
- Feedback on audio magazines
- On the function of Heisenberg compensators
- Trademarks disputes in tech
- Wait, 7,000 posts?
- Friday Fanmail: Machon SERP, and a novella quote
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Dolphins
- Testing a new machine
- Ferdinand II on the King of France
- Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020 dialogue
- FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD
- Allan Jude discusses ZFS on Level1Linux
- The 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Music Monday: Al Jarreau, Tell Me
- Social network CFO says iOS 14 to hurt tracking
- Movies I’ve seen more than five times
- Vending machines in anime visuals
- John Roderick did have some points about millennials
- SimilarTech’s site analysis only half wrong
- Science is beautiful
- iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Permission denied
- Being yourself on your blog
- Raf Czlonka on my ice cream post
- An analysis of native IoT advertising
- RMS Aquitania’s Grand Staircase
- Bryan Hughes on intentions
- What Carl Sagan would say about mask protests
- Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD
- Daniel Andrews on empathy for COVID testing
- Why aren’t you more serious?
- Josh on how to peel garlic
- nvi2 in FreeBSD ports
- The Kos Porta Pro X headphones
- Uncle Roger’s rice reaction
- Young and knowing, or old with money
- The Cassiopeia, Katoomba
- Naming five Hi-Fi brands
- Taking a Blue Mountains break
- Semantic discussion of macOS plists
- What are the biggest lies you’ve been told?
- Vanilla or chocolate first
- Irrational computing feedback from Jim Kloss
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value
- Bitcoin scam sites
- Pasquale Sciarappa’s One Pan Pasta
- My new/old Technics SL-J300R turntable
- Irrational things I still do with computers
- Charging Australians to come home, with apologies to Clarke and Dawe
- 죠지, 오랜만에 (George, After a long time)
- These measures aren’t political statements
- Andranig Vartanian on Solaris, with more nostalgia
- A late morning Sydney walk
- Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI
- Making RSS prominent again
- Remembering Sun and MySQL in 2008
- Fate/Grand Order 3rd Anniversary craft essences
- Colin Percival on the zeroth-system effect
- Renaming git default branch to trunk
- Cancel culture
- Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
- John Siracusa on WFH holidays
- Historic Kyōto in 2010
- De-politicising COVID responses
- RÜFÜS DU SOL, live from Joshua Tree
- Booting from an ISO on OrionVM
- Identifying vegetables
- Peter Dutton in contempt of court
- Follow-up to AT power supplies
- Michael Dexter on software project communication
- Algorithms directing art
- The Athena AT40 400W AT power supply
- My ratings for foods Bon Appétit rated
- New stock market records… wait, what?
- The second half of 2020
- BSD Now discusses my encrypted ZFS on NetBSD post
- Music Monday: Butterfly by Bump of Chicken
- Exporting starred Github repos
- Blog retrospective: 720K floppies
- Universally-applicable pip design decisions
- Add MJ12bot to your web server spam lists
- Selling your fire extinguisher
- Two-factor auth codes need to be chunked better
- “Your unpopular opinion about Re:Zero”
- Goodbye Home-Fix, and Singapore’s DIY scene
- More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
- Music Monday: The Vanilla Bean Situation
- Still getting mail from a leaked database
- Bringing my own git in-house
- Making better tea
- Feedback on Markdown’s square brackets
- Markdown links have brackets backwards
- ARM Macs (but RISC-V would be cooler)
- Text::Template as a Perl Jinja alternative
- COVID resources from our building’s strata
- Installing pkgsrc fonts on macOS
- The speed of technology
- Borders around Burundi and Rwanda
- Sleep patterns and home isolation
- This SCO module contains...
- .dotfile management
- pngcrush’s loco crush option
- Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
- The web we lost: a retrospective
- My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
- The 2020 iPhone SE
- MDF disk images to ISOs
- csh feedback from @debdrup
- Pro-p’s K-On! fanart
- Exercise during isolation
- What’s missing from NAS reviews
- One-liners: Downloading a https cert as text
- Race riots
- Music Monday: Japanese aviation fuel train
- SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the ISS
- Wealth inequality and falling interest rates
- Shinjuku station in Fate/Grand Order
- Custom tab completions in oksh
- NetBSD used to default to csh
- Costa Rica recognises marriage equality
- It’s Alive! Brussel sprout kimchi
- Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD
- Ships classed as trains for a 1960s database
- Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full
- When reCAPTCHA attacks
- ACCC’s March quarter 2020 report
- Kyary Pamyu Pamyu performing Candy Candy live
- Colour ls on NetBSD
- Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
- Seinfeld has been to our apartment
- Live video feeds of Tokyo trains
- I’m relieved that...
- Your local cafe is an expensive habit!
- COVID is the ultimate externality
- Post-US world on display
- Remuxing old FLVs to MP4, without re-encoding!
- That’s You, to the power of Us
- RSS is more than plumbing
- eBay Saved Search emails ignore geography
- NetWare IPX/SFX slides
- IoT, and Hypponen’s law
- Conflating implementation with intent
- Ministers not wanting the COVID tracking app
- 686 pages
- Official Hige Dandism - 115万キロのフィルム
- Other SMR considerations
- Err…
- Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault
- A prophetically-appropriate AKB48 song
- Hidden shingled-drive follow-up
- Locking down SSH to specific IPs
- If there are silver linings to any of this
- Guardian flag quiz, and some of my favourites
- Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD
- Kevin Rudd on Australia and NZ's relative COVID success
- Savage Garden: Thousand Words
- Colourfully-stunning Morino Rinze fig
- The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle
- Photo of Gangtok in the eastern Himalayas
- Algeria is massive
- Goodbye Windows 2008 R2 and 7
- Comparing footprint of cities I care about
- Digital connectivity is oil?
- Follow-up to my fintech security post
- Try and pick the fake COVID story
- Even respected sites are failing to address fintech security
- First late night walk in ages
- Change is a measure of competence
- $100 million on your first letter
- Music Monday: Why Spring Ain’t Here
- Working remote
- Correcting the record
- FreeBSD consolidation, and spam apologies
- Chaldea Broadcast System for March 2020
- Music Monday: Santana, Foo Foo
- Delightful 27th March things
- The Onkyo C-707
- A happy birthday jiggly pancake
- FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
- Givin’ It Up for Love, Al Jarreau and George Benson
- Anecdotal Ethernet interference
- Techmoan’s puppets on The Italian Job
- Erashkigal art from Megami, March 2020 issue
- Gigolo failed to mount Windows share
- How to version control LibreOffice spreadsheets
- Reducing Perl memory usage
- Dangerous new anime figs for 2020
- A meta-thinking realisation
- Figuring out Hi-Fi component dimensions
- Initialising a new self-hosted remote Git
- An update from Stack Exchange on licencing
- Anime Festival Sydney 2020
- LibreOffice 6.4.2.1 fixes macOS text regression
- New neighbours
- Removing characters with tr
- Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news
- CSS didn’t decouple content from presentation
- FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop
- Adwaita themes in FreeBSD
- 2020–02–29
- An old domain whitelist text file
- NOTNULL in Postgres
- Kenwood DEM-9991D circuit diagram
- A final farewell and thanks to YNAB4
- Flag of the Canary Islands
- HO-scale R-761
- Physical symptoms of job stress
- The Weeknd: Blinding Lights
- Arena Unix II swim cap
- NNTP
- Writing without backpacks or spaces
- Using spreadsheets as databases
- When junk blogs stifle troubleshooting
- Owner-occupiers driving house demand
- Smartphone book readers on the train
- What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD
- STRICT_ALL_TABLES now default in MariaDB
- 3801 is back in Thirlmere
- Processing text
- Australian FTTN and metadata surveillance
- Both sides to saving money on cafés
- Why we prefer subtitles
- Fog in Sydney yesterday
- Coronavirus info from data centres
- Music Monday: Samba Pa Ti
- TeX graphicx changing page margins
- Another post on open source civility
- Stepping on anything other than unsubscribe
- Surface of the Sun
- Empathy for Scotland rejoining the EU
- Help NetBSD test 9.0 Release Candidate 2
- Music Monday: Follow That Man
- 2020–02–02
- Rediscovering LaserDiscs
- LibreOffice is great; just not on the Mac
- Some delightful late January spam
- Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn
- Fifteen years of posts
- Digital rights and political impunity
- fetch: authentication error on FreeBSD
- Windows Insider takes cake for worst unsubscribe
- Curly quote fix coming for Hugo 0.6x
- Music Monday: IBM PS/2 It!
- Gotchas when adding a drive to an existing ZFS pool to make a mirror
- Changing my mind on light text, dark backgrounds
- Apple Wallet boarding pass ergonomics
- The envelope method, and 64-bit YNAB4 works
- The first FreeBSD conference in Australia
- Cancelled flights between Sydney and Melbourne
- Overnightscape Central: Detectives
- Overheard C and Python
- Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
- Living in electric dreams
- I may even republish their spam
- Music Monday: Janet Devlin, Mad World
- A technical admission
- 666 pages
- Technical accuracy, and the whole product concept
- Bushfire news is too much
- Richard Feldman on functional programming
- Installing Hunspell on FreeBSD and macOS
- My favourite anime in the 2010s
- Enabling /dev/diskid and /dev/gpt on FreeBSD
- Overnightscape Central: Abstract Novel Again Again