2021 post archive
- Variety in PCs, after years of the Mac
- Defaulting pedestrian traffic lights to green
- Making mistakes with NICs
- Education cuts are a national security threat
- Installing stable Perl with Perlbrew
- Using sudoedit to sudo… edit
- The other Pop Up Parade Quintuplets
- Accounting for empathy in automated systems
- Electron software follow-up
- Flyers, and blogs from the golden age
- Using someone’s childhood to conclude anything
- Premature optimisation when choosing stuff
- Don’t invest in cryptocurrencies
- Playing female characters in games
- End of year thoughts on consolidating stuff
- Reading people’s blog archives
- Wait, where did I see that thing?!
- Krita version 5
- Articulated buses are the devil’s conveyance
- Oroville Dam Spillway reconstruction
- Beginning Pokémon Brilliant Diamond
- Formatting SD cards in the Nintendo Switch
- If nobody wants to use smartphones, what then?
- Christopher Eccleston on machoism
- The Nintendo Switch Lite is my new 2DS
- The Sinatra Christmas Album
- Accounts calling out the duped
- Weather outside you wouldn’t endure inside
- Hololive English’s second holiday stream
- Cosmopolitanism in a cup
- A 2021 retrospective
- Billy Joel and Cyndi Lauper’s Code of Silence
- Hales Horticulture Ltd.
- City Beautiful on the need for corner stores
- Lance Ulanoff on social media addiction
- Genetics behind black coffee drinkers
- Kate is a fantastic text editor!
- Wave Dreamtech Ayanami Rei fig
- James’ Coffee Blog Advent of Bloggers
- They foyer of One Canada Square
- Trying @geofftech's challenge in Sydney!
- The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine
- NIAN’s Nero from Fate
- To do this one thing, scroll down that far!
- Log4Shell
- RSS feeds with pictures of the day
- Crypto-“currency” snakeoil
- I knew a guy, he called it shut put
- The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
- Proposed Coventry linear park
- Faux chatbot notification tabjacking
- More than techno: a history of electronic music
- My little sister got married
- Benefit for all, via @PicardTips
- The word “best”
- Keanu Reeves on NFTs
- Benelux has a logo
- The cloud is just someone else’s pager
- When did it become: “delivered to your inbox”?
- The Heinzelmännchen unsaving your changes
- Robert F. Kennedy quoting George Bernard Shaw
- Trying The Old Reader
- Sitting in that comfy chair
- Annus horribilis
- To the coolest uncle ever, Dave Ross ♡
- The iPad mini 6
- The @Om Malik on writing
- Gauguin, The Market Guardens of Vaugirard
- Answering @buzzyrobin about burnout
- Chancellor of Earth: Advertising
- Spam calls
- PBS Frontline documentary on the 737-MAX
- We should rename Australian things
- Not just the algorithm, it’s Zuck’s company too
- My favourite StackOverflow answers
- Rest in peace, Bert Newton
- The Economist’s insight into Big Tech during Covid
- It’s not (always?) the algorithm
- My Kyoko Kirigiri grail fig
- Australia doesn’t do cappuccinos
- Independent video sponsorships
- My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?
- Taking small victories
- Joke images on social media as a signal
- Organising posts by date
- New metal cladding on buildings
- Limitations of Go date format logic
- My popular opinions
- The B1M discusses Hudson Yards
- George Benson, Dance
- Brandon Quakkelaar on the beauty of RSS
- Car-centric culture in recycling
- Listpost for week 42, 2021
- Spycrowsoft on reusing stuff
- Bear identification
- Dell 27-inch 4K panels as Retina displays
- Stephen Diehl on NFTs
- GitHub’s preview cards aren’t that useful
- Wordpress.com’s password advice
- Being sick of stuff
- My science teacher on lateral thinking
- Dark mode theme now live
- The M1X MacBook Pros
- Hales on Javascript-loaded assets
- The simplex ambidextrous?
- Privacy and trust as a luxury good
- Tech firms adjudicating on what’s appropriate
- One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
- Top Shelf: The Olive Branch White Hommus
- OpenBSD 7.0
- James Taylor, Carolina in My Mind
- Disparate thoughts about VPNs
- Using NoScript in 2021
- First coffee shop in four months
- macOS relocating my /private/etc/shells
- Week numbers in LibreOffic Calc
- The @ourokronii on laughter
- James Gallagher’s IndieWeb Search
- Dreaming of soap and door nomenclature
- The 747-300
- Clara’s and my Minecraft server anniversary
- Internetting good, via @heyjovo and @jkloss4
- Saved search issues on Thunderbird for Mac
- Sascha Segan on manga and ebook readers
- Introverts and accommodation
- The Chancellor of Earth: Leaf blowers
- Peter Mulvey’s Green and Grey
- Martin Fowler on the impact of software
- Brevity is often important
- Archiving 24 years of personal email
- Thoughts, week #40 2021
- Revisiting Kobos for reading manga
- Japan’s new PM Fumio Kishida
- Rem is the anime waifu queen, according to stores
- Burnout and healin’
- Taking a break
- Greyscale screens for anxiety
- Frank Gehry on going places
- My first shipped DOA drive
- Robbie Williams: Bodies
- Always-on chat apps, and not just saying “hey”
- Bob Seger going to Katmandu [sic]!
- A suburban Buenos Aires train
- Amit Kapila on PostgreSQL 14 Logical Replication
- The scripting spiral
- When the computers failed pizza people
- Music feedback from Michael Harley
- Vaccinated aren’t as likely to spread Covid
- The @Zoomosis on ZFS, tape, and external drives
- Mix “tapes” in 2021
- Repairability of laptops
- Nora Tindall on the modern web
- Feedback from my week 38 links post
- Simon Whistler’s cat
- Driving to West Berlin during the DDR days
- Links for week 36, 2021
- A 1 TB DIMM, with a clock speed of 2!
- The @ceresfauna built a Minecraft kitchen
- Considering the context of IT systems
- Apps are a poor replacement for hardware
- Tim King gives us permission to not give a fuck
- The best we can do with passphrases now
- The future of the Jekyll static-site generator
- Our Covid travel bubble
- Favourite game meme feedback
- Favourite game meme
- Anti-vaxxers
- Music Monday: Violet, Ninomae Ina’nis
- One year of Hololive-EN! #mythiversary
- Your own platform is king
- Feedback on Braun shaver cables
- Last night’s sunset
- Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys
- Omake refresh, and the state of blogrolls
- Rebrand Philadelphia’s transit system to The Metro
- Humans don’t have ECC memory
- Kronii, Bae, and Mumei discuss flower
- The paralysis of decisions
- Discovering Vim Awesome
- Feedback on my “not sure if UNIX won” post
- The state of second-hand GPUs in 2021
- What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share
- When contacting IT support
- Legal Eagle reviews Batman
- Yeah but, like, you weren’t there man!
- Something incoherent for the week’s end
- Redundant passphrase requirements are
- The @tsukumosana and @hakosbaelz's culinary adventures
- Being an open source contributor to have thoughts
- It’s the first day of spring
- Unix Text Processing
- Conflating security with privacy
- What’s your Starbucks name?
- A video call with a failed mute button
- Hakos Baelz’s debut stream #ratpack
- Researching GPU options for my sleeper PC
- Nasal breathing, and other observations
- Monotony grows wings on time
- Ouro Kronii’s debut stream #krotime
- The monkey grabbed his neck and said “Now listen, jack!”
- Docks charging more than just kettles
- People returning to offices
- The buzzard tried to throw the money off of his back
- Tsukumo Sana’s debut stream #sanallite
- The monkey thought that everything was on the square
- Nanashi Mumei’s debut stream #watchMEI
- A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air
- Nuts to that last weekend!
- Ceres Fauna’s debut stream #faunline
- Nix desktop ricing
- Another new anime streaming service
- Adelaide Metroticket words of inspiration
- It started as a post about game machine language
- Pavolia Reine’s new outfit reveal
- That’s a few typos
- The @SimonWhistler renames Business Blaze
- Tech and online meetings
- The 1Password Electron debate is good news for the industry
- Afghanistan in 2021
- The Cloud Media Remote for the PS4
- Simon and Garfunkel, Feelin’ Groovy
- Boss Coffee’s comfy promotion
- Decluttering Fandom.com with uBlock Origin
- Covid lockdown decluttering
- IRyS’s first collaboration with HoloEN
- Thinking about a reversible sleeper PC
- A rough week for Apple users
- Things you’d like, if not for the fans
- The LG Gram: does it have PC Screen Syndrome?
- The @elkeee schooling me on obliviousness
- A silver lining with Australian vaccinations
- What I miss during These Times™
- Missing things in our home
- Who in the world is Pitney Bowes?
- Hololive’s bossa nova jazz mix
- NCSC’s passphrase advice
- Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail
- Mobile phones, and always being available
- Soundtrax: No music download for you
- My sleeper PC... curse!
- The Men’s 50 Kilometre Race Walk
- Our carpet rainbow
- Micah R Ledbetter’s ErgoDox feedback
- Aiyo in the Oxford English Dictionary
- Why do you timezone, Ruben?
- Expanding our FreeBSD home file server
- Australia’s Internet fun this morning
- Clarelynn Rose, Copperfield
- Another short collection of life lessons
- Feedback for week 30, 2021
- Sunisa Lee’s All-Around Gymnastics win
- KTMB USB keys, and what do we call them?
- Read at school, avoid in adulthood
- CISA’s exploited vulnerabilities report for 2021
- Train journey bucket list, via @JKloss4
- This site is mobile friendly
- Mental health at the Olympics
- Australia’s new Covid reality
- A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière
- Fourier transforming X-ray diffraction patterns before computers
- Ashe on motivational interviewing
- Harukana Receive, and Olympic sports
- Michael Franks, Heart Like an Open Book
- The need for personal iRL concurrency
- Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails
- Motherboard standoffs for weird case sizes
- Morning routines; tech and otherwise
- Robbie Williams, Good Doctor
- Comparing PC all-in-ones to the iMac
- Energy, or lack thereof, out of nowhere
- Defensive blogging
- Finally buying a Compaq spaceship
- Feedback about the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard
- What if we’re supposed to feel it?
- The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 2019
- The @JKloss4 on rails
- Australian swimmer quits, and I’m not surprised
- Katsushika Hokusai travel portrait fig
- Whatever happened to Office 4.0?
- Making your booleans consistent, y/y?
- Acer’s antimicrobial laptop
- Teaching financial literacy
- SQL LIMIT versus FETCH FIRST ROWS
- Hitting random on geographic articles
- Getting our first Covid jab
- Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD
- What sort of learner are you?
- Audacity fork Tenacity
- Melissa Davey on migraines
- … the size of Rhode Island!
- Even Nintendo is shipping OLEDs now
- Feedback on repurposed eBay packaging
- Henry David Thoreau
- Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo Remix Miku
- Dodgy listings using repurposed packaging
- The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
- Erroneous systemd Ghost errors in FreeBSD
- Verbal ticks that never change
- Official Gurren Lagann art book announced
- Jokes as alternative input for Cunningham’s Law
- A report on exercise and sleep
- RSS feedback from Simon Ruderich
- You can search line numbers in Firefox!?
- Al Jarreau: Fallin’
- Being simple
- Revisiting webcam covers
- Feedback on duplicate RSS dates
- British Rail’s Pacer trains
- Full circle: TV ads on streaming platforms
- Searching for a CD storage system
- Today I learned what ISCO-08 was
- Simon Whistler on road trips
- Revisiting my emacs and Vim/nvi post
- Rubenerd’s Law of Food
- Finding which coffee types decrease CLD risk
- Exploring HTML cite attributes
- Cory Wong limited-edition vinyl!
- Duplicate RSS 2.0 date elements
- A Commodore 128 shipping update
- Best career advice you received at uni
- Some of my posts appearing on NetBSD Planet
- Some of these kitchen gadgets we do need
- James’s (aka capjamesg’s) coffee blog
- Retrospective on John Oliver’s Bitcoin episode
- Laptop, tablet, smartphone, or phone?
- Umar Getazazov helps me fix things
- Happy International Webloggers Day 2021
- Inline links to videos with play buttons
- Firefox 89’s Proton UI
- Mori Calliope’s new loading screen is dope!
- The @davewiner does a bank experiment
- pkgin’s manpage
- Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD
- What Americans don’t understand about Australia
- Feedback about FreeBSD, Linux VM gatekeeping
- Reddit’s /r/blogging, and my own advice
- Rhett and Link on boolean algebra
- Block jquery.nicescroll.js to make sites responsive
- Motivation myths
- Geri Halliwell on material science
- The most dangerous things in tech
- Stepping into an alternative dimensional floor
- Tom Gauld’s science headline generator
- Explaining geometry with pizza
- Tech people starting their sentences with “So, ...”
- Audioboom found and archived
- NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location
- State and mess in our computers
- Great bird site quotes this week
- FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
- Comparing and contrasting
- What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc
- Singapore and Japan dialogue on Covid
- Esther Golton, All The Room I Need
- Credit card cachet in an era of phone payments
- Replacing XML::XPath with XML::LibXML in Perl
- The ignominy of relegation
- LCD Android phones to sync with FreeBSD
- When Ubuntu is off topic for Ask Ubuntu
- Be kind to retail staff
- JJ Kale
- Super blood moon, 2021
- Twitter account for this site is back
- Alicia Wanless on tackling disinformation
- The @andrewhuang on streaming “success”
- Add to my to do list: bait and switch
- More cores are good
- Hololive English: Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
- Clearing nginx’s cache
- Speed-reading app advertisements
- There probably won’t be a post-COVID reset
- Interpreting the OPML type attribute
- Comestibles containing holes
- Trying Perl signatures
- Testing from Big Sur
- Troubleshooing Palm Desktop on Windows 2000
- David Gerard’s IT job description
- The M1 Mac: “seems fine”
- John Oliver on hair
- David Gray, White Ladder LP
- Applying Georgina’s framework to anxiety
- A simple bar of soap
- I’m not sure that UNIX won
- What’s a manufear?
- When your customers want your service down
- Your most annoying things about TV
- Coffee shop chats
- Other factors behind unhelpful comparison sites
- The spotted wood owl
- Megaprojects video on submarine cables
- GHOST / 星街すいせい by Suisei
- Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs
- When image positioning attacks
- Two types of comparison sites
- ACIC’s expanded surveillance submission
- Answering @klarainc: Where I started with ZFS
- Mathematician’s answer, via Screenbeard
- My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions
- If you have two loaves of bread, buy a CD-ROM
- My new (replacement!) Palm IIIx
- Reading audiobooks
- A term for accurate, yet pointless responses
- Linus Tech Tips: Nothing EVER works!
- Pyramid schemes
- I’m now a part of @pavoliareine's Royaltea!
- Disabling memberships in Ghost 4 blogs
- Minecraft, and mental health
- Palm LifeDrive in a Windows 2000 QEMU VM
- The ten important things about blah
- Named arguments in Swift
- Increasing irrelevancy of award ceremonies
- Practical Engineering on cavitation
- Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose
- I have a Linktree
- Managing encryption in the enterprise
- I’m now in @ninomaeinanis’s tentacult
- My Palm LiveDrive!
- A personal atlas
- Thoughts on Dockernetes orchestration
- Moccona Hazelnut instant coffee
- Rhyming socks
- We’ll party like post alone!
- Whimsy and the new coloured iMacs
- It’s not the name they call you
- Palm PDA nostalgia on its way!
- 03:00 thoughts
- A 580 pixel blog width
- Being so confident
- Buy Esther Golton’s music as a bundle!
- e-life @ Suntec
- Effectiveness of the Free Software Foundation
- Opting out of Google’s FLoC
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE sources via Git
- A mysterious LibreOffice Calc £
- DOS-friendly bootable ISOs with mkisofs
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE available!
- Perceptions of remote work
- A 740-page Tennant Schrobmachine
- The XTree Fan Page
- MediaWiki toasts the sunflower logo
- Feedback about a slow CF card
- Antranig on blogging regularly
- How do you use your computer?
- An updated clearance sign
- Newer CF card slower in my Pentium tower
- Holidays versus journeys
- Repairing, not replacing old parts
- The tech in fintech
- The @watsonameliaEN and @pavoliareine
- The rise of online readability scrapers
- The Texas power failure
- What was the first thing you were flamed for?
- The FIRE approach for clearer thinking
- We don’t always need to extract maximum value
- Survey on the perceptions of migraines
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
- Hong Kong MTR station colours
- Rediscovering one of our family computers
- A mini, portable display for Commodore gear?
- Now obsolete MacBooks still have better screens
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2
- How I blog regularly
- A monoculture question from 2005
- Arena swimming blog discusses breathing, anxiety
- Letting people find themselves
- Feedback from Thomas Jensen
- No more JavaScript frameworks
- Motives aren’t sufficient on social media
- Wedge the Ever Given anywhere
- An evergreen post about news reactions
- Holo Bass and Amelia Watson, Pop on Rocks
- Best attribute for 8-bit enthusiasts: patience
- Our bathroom hippo
- Email signatures that wake you up
- My experience with an Australian bank broker
- Redirect your @FSF donations elsewhere
- grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD
- Don’t write “how it looks like”
- Testing SD cards with QEMU and MS-DOS 6
- Dover and Dover again
- “Vinyl saved us, but CDs are the best”
- But I’ll just replace them, rent free!
- Random Wikipedia Article: Niigata, Japan
- Saying goodbye to my Commodore 64
- Painting by Emily Carr
- Chromium monoculture marches on
- Thinking about movies
- The VIA VT82C586B PCI, PC97 controller
- No, RSA is not broken
- tulloch4801’s video on the 3801 relaunch
- A Commodore 128 and TED monitor stand
- You can (not) bracket
- Women’s mental exhaustion in IT
- Rubenerd.com linked to on Lobste.rs
- My Commodore 1571 drive arrived!
- Quote from @Aral on debugging
- Minecraft won’t launch on macOS
- Commutes before and after the pandemic
- Seeing the 3801 steam locomotive
- Bathroom design affordances
- Jokes at the expense of retail staff
- Fortress Australia and New Zealand
- Why did initials on MOS chips disappear?
- Hackers are malicious
- Reliability of cassette tapes and disks
- Minibarring people who use your system
- Music Monday: acoustic piano
- Anxiety tips: stop playing personal FUD
- Moving on from Apple
- Hales on unexpected LiveJournals
- Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one
- My jail post was read on BSDNow!
- Missing MacBook Pro features returning
- Rubenerd.com has a LiveJournal?
- Gura and Cali on TED Talks
- Headphones as a social signal
- Crime shows, and the money motive
- NHK: The Sanriku coast train
- Retr0brighting my Commodore 128 keyboard
- Slanty road barrier things
- Troubleshooting a Commodore 1541 disk drive
- I won’t watch it if it’s inaccessible
- Truth in advertising hits Twitter
- WWR: Singer Songwriter Heaven
- Necessity versus rarity in online auctions
- The Internet interprets censorship as damage?
- Email unsubscribe fail: Trustwave
- Follow me on Mastodon
- Gadget-like computers, or computer-like gadgets?
- Stores for Commodore 128 components
- Can’t set Firefox new tabs to use local files
- Commodore 128’s 80 column mode in VICE
- Comprehensive Breville BKE395 kettle review
- Fixing my unbootable Commodore 128
- Pop Up Parade’s Quintessential Quintuplets
- The SS Golden Eagle
- Almost wrote about my Commodore 128
- Replacing Facebook news with RSS feeds
- Cord cutters, and the age of streaming
- MTG words of wisdom
- Crown can’t operate in NSW
- Ain’t no scheduled posts
- Introverts and Covid
- Douglas Brebner on integration and complexity
- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6
- Chick Corea ♡
- fstab in FreeBSD jails
- Hobby judgement as an adult
- Music Monday: Haachama’s Big Red Heart
- That grumpyness spiral
- A point to consider before retr0brigting
- That complexity inflection point
- There’s more to the story
- Alice Di Micele on ageing
- Marie Kondo would say this kicks arse!
- Reinventing visual metaphors for no benefit
- Jim Kloss on art
- Being victim of another data breach
- Trickle-down economics
- Room in New York
- You want Chanel? You buy me Gucci!
- Ideas waiting for their time
- Going to Shadu
- To go work on personal projects
- Apology for spam #9001
- Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2020
- Yale University Press Blog
- The circular Delaware border
- Not just the price limiting EV adoption
- Talk to me… goose?
- Today’s errors
- New year resolutions, goals, and what’s important
- Our belated leave
- That one specific spammer who can’t pad
- That distinctive ALCO engine rattle
- Microblog, week 3 of 2021
- You can just pay more taxes/wages/etc!
- Many of my software icons are green
- A 1980s PBS documentary about early diesels
- Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages
- Difference between 19200 and 19200R ECC RAM
- Random article: The Circus Building
- “You wrote about X, can you link to me?”
- Abandoned blogs as time capsules
- A royal pain in the toe
- John Roderick and Bean Dad
- We might have a Hololive FreeBSD problem
- Rejoining, or losing Scotland
- The SS Martin Mullen
- The joy of music collections
- Dynabook screens
- The best laptop bag I've ever owned
- Jim Kloss on headaches
- Microblog, week 2 of 2021
- Whole Wheat Radio whipped the llama’s arse
- Taking a Twitter break
- Drowning in popups, part two
- Graphics cards getting even pricier
- Why I’m not talking more about Covid
- Merging power buttons on appliances
- Concatenating images with ImageMagick
- 2.5 and 5GbE adaptors
- Network backdoors and layers
- Prussian blue
- Hololive EN New Years, 2021
- Wordle for 2020