2022 post archive
- The great Commodore/Atari engineer swap
- Fascinating new pencil soldering irons
- Another smart camera leaking information
- That elusive Commodore 128 80-column mode
- Rejected cards and waking an IT team up
- CallMeKevin, and the quarter life crisis?
- Some blog ideas I’m considering for 2023
- Hanging out with nice people
- The encouraging pushback against game NFTs
- Using Blender as a video editor
- Password managers must encrypt metadata too
- Happy Yuletide to you and yours :)
- Flickering caused by a hot MOS 8565R2
- Brand loyalty isn’t always irrational
- High idle power on AMD’s RDNA3 cards
- A late review of the M1 MacBook Air
- Marcel Bischoff discusses commercial radio
- Cleaning and retr0brighting a Commodore 64C
- Sideloading on iTelephones
- 2023 Racing Miku, via @_BADCATBAD
- New music is old
- Exploring Sydney’s Xmas decorations
- The Doughnut Hole emulation problem
- The Fractal Ridge Mini-ITX Case
- Feeling validation for Apple Pay anxiety
- Half-baked thoughts on software subscriptions
- Cleaning out my notes folder, 2022
- I… bought a Commodore 64C
- You searched for a user’s guide, sir?
- We are so lucky to be here
- Why I live out of FeedLand for RSS now
- Zettelkasten
- Grailed Jeanne Alter in FGO quotes Daft Punk
- The patch in my Commdoore 1541 was official!
- Another lacklustre RSS pitch
- Goodbye Chris Seaton ♡
- Boeing finishes its last 747
- Elective Surgery is the “micropayments” of health
- FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE available
- Speeding up FreeBSD jail start times
- Music as an analogue for thought processing
- Demand for ads on the receiving end
- The SMS turns thirty
- Black Friday as an opportunity to unsubscribe
- Dave Winer on “micropayments”
- It’s Xmas Season 2022
- Website security word salad
- Feedback about Gemini and Gopher
- Jeff Geerling: Just say no
- Maya Angelou on cynicism
- Travelling to Japan during post-Covid times
- BitTorrent language
- Thinking aloud about Gemini and Gopher
- From Tokyo one evening
- The “joy” of retro IT web searches
- Ben Sidran, Ballad of a Thin Man
- News for week 45, 2022
- On leave again
- Querying TXT records with drill(1)
- Waking up to coffee shop chatter
- An app to not be run over
- What’s going on
- The 86Box PC emulator
- Book buying is aspirational
- Shoko Miyata’s 2022 qualifier floor routine
- End of October 2022 links
- Taking a break e312643b
- Five things I’m thankful for, October 2022
- The wonderful tee(1) command
- Targeting civilians with outdated maps
- What you’d want in a dream home
- Alan Kohler explores remote work
- STH’s Supermicro X13SAE-F board review
- Canon Canoscan LiDE220 review
- Mispronunciations I remember
- Fixing a Comet server after misconfiguring S3
- Cam from Blacktail Studio on practice
- Windows 2000 in QEMU on an M1 Mac
- Thinking about AMD’s 7000 series CPUs
- A hot dog is not a sandwich
- Content, engagement, and extraction
- Using Network Location in macOS
- Do you log out of sites?
- The sham referendums in Ukraine
- Blander logos are good, via @NeilIreland
- Do I need line numbers? Yes
- Raspberry Pis in racks or PCI slots
- David Gerard’s cryptocurrency talk
- Archive it if you care about it
- Ahiru and Jim Kloss are Good Civ
- This news site link may surprise you
- how.complexsystems.fail
- Music Monday: My favourite theme songs
- It’s three months until Christmas
- A great relationship with his garbage contractor
- How minds process bad news
- Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
- Running Windows 11 for games
- Sitting outside with a coffee
- If you want to understand reality, don’t be pedantic
- Countdown with Keith Olbermann is back
- aria2 can download torrent files, then their files
- P.G. Morgan’s insights into D.B. Cooper
- The pushback against decluttering
- Peter Millard compares and contrasts sanders
- Bombardier ends Learjet production
- Software engagement versus utility
- WHO claims Covid “end in sight”
- My favourite USB key ever: The Toshiba PA5003A
- 747 engine part lands on Belgian house
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Backing the VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board
- The iPhone 14
- Kent Ridge Park in Singapore
- Let’s circle back on this nuanced lede
- Discovering 850 watt SFX power supplies exist
- Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
- AMD Ryzen 7000
- The Mentour Pilot on responsibility
- Today’s spam: customers have tills?
- Answering “yeah, but is the solution secure?”
- It’s the first of September already
- Goodbye, Gorby
- My first shower thought in a while
- Running Unix commands in real life
- Switching to black coffee/tea as we get older
- Railway interest in IoT devices growing
- Handwritten HTML sites
- Latvia’s Soviet-era monument removed 🇱🇻
- Heroku cancelling free and inactive accounts
- DW: Forty years of CDs
- Hyundai’s AES key was lifted from an example
- Wouter Groeneveld on how much one earns
- Gloria Tells: Out of Control
- It sure felt like a long weekend!
- Unproductive beverage adventures
- Digital.com are spammers
- More thought for landlords than tenants
- The NCR-80 vintage mechanical keyboard kit
- Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners
- The quest for high-resolution album art
- NetBSD 9.3 and whimsy
- WFH being used to dismiss staff
- Former Australian Prime Minister Morrison’s secret portfolios
- Jorge Fábregas and I discuss blog cadence
- A lot happening in this lift
- How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter
- Cleaning two decades of family music
- Too hard? Take more steps
- Guess who paid off their student debt!
- Features every microwave should have
- Calling git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech
- A list of games I’ve enjoyed
- A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
- Machismo fascination with conflict
- Moving forward, with @kiriappeee, @geofftech
- svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base
- A local planter now has a lovely plant
- An obstinate port-forwarding router
- New-ish theme for 2022
- Baristas are councillors
- Thinking aloud about web engagement
- People who end comments with an ellipsis…
- Links for week 31, 2022
- Feedback from @Tubsta, @Crosse3, Paul Traylor
- Superficial Linux distribution reviews
- When CDNs and DDoS vendors go offline
- The limits of personal social capital
- Yahoo Mail looks… good!
- HOLOSTARS-EN TEMPUS
- Swensens durian mochi
- Suburban wheelie bins and repeated effort
- Goodbye, @tsukumosana 🪐
- Migraine advice and treatments
- Numbers that don’t have eight in them
- Thanking Yee Cheng Chin for MacVim
- Trent Zimmerman writes why the Coalition lost
- Feedback on English bands
- Time involved in healthy eating, by @FoldableHuman
- Russia withdraws from the ISS
- GPU prices a bit closer to normalcy
- Which 3 English bands would you save?
- Q&A about my NW-A55 Walkman
- Resource use of FreeBSD desktop environments
- Ukraine/Russia peace talks “didn’t make sense”
- Tech you like that’s gone
- CNBC on why Starbucks failed in Australia
- Number pads
- Ten years with @kirisviel
- Jeff Geerling’s all-flash NAS
- (Initial) Vitamin D
- Social media and tourists
- rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too
- Autochrome Lumière Mauretania
- Cory Wong and Victor Wooten, Direct Flyte
- A dream without a phone
- A decade since Ano Natsu de Matteru
- NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server
- B-words that are a letter off another
- Philanthropy only attacks the symptoms
- Making interactive sqlite3 more useful
- The reason Linux something something
- Denial by Potentiality
- Sri Lanka in 2022
- The Uber files
- How we run Minecraft
- She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
- Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
- Why I tend to avoid reading social news comments
- The Brussels Effect
- Uses for tangled earbud cables
- A decade without blog comments
- Headaches are (almost) invisible
- Hamaji Neo reviews Gateron Yellow switches
- Australian housing and mental health
- July doesn’t feel like the seventh month
- My first dev job, and using double pound
- Music Monday: Muji BGM
- The Internet’s short memory for retrocomputing
- Australian AG Dreyfus on data privacy law
- My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review
- Booting Fedora into XWayland when Xorg breaks
- The Willie Wagtail
- Interest rates in 2022
- The 4–3–2–1–0 Backup Rule
- Clarke and Dawe, Australia’s energy market
- Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD
- Finally ascending BB in Fate/Grand Order
- The tech nostalgia bathtub curve
- The difference between good and bad people
- Adventures with mould and dehumidifiers
- Edward Luce on the impact (or not) of law
- Ukraine and Moldova granted EU candidate status
- Happy Birthday, Clara!
- Singapore, Ukraine, and some Mahathir irredentism
- Stephen Marche discusses AI
- Web design 101: field order matters
- Happy 80th, Paul McCartney!
- Claire Saffitz makes creamed spinach pie
- Cathode Ray Dude on retro hardware collecting
- Cryptocurrency waste, in all senses of the word
- Winter coffee shops compared to home
- People vote for leaders in parliaments
- Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches
- Comparing vaccine hesitancy to tobacco
- Quest for a thocky split keyboard like my Topre
- Cryptocurrency crash reducing CO₂ emissions
- The No. abbreviation for number
- My own drive reliability stats
- The Queen’s Birthday, and the Whitlam dismissal
- The Rémilly–Saarbrücken railway
- Our sites are now on FreeBSD 13.1-R
- “Get anything you want. No, not that!”
- Portable digital audio players still exist
- If you can automate it in your life, try
- Zelenskyy: Keep sharing about Ukraine
- Things I don’t like aren’t the worst thing (usually)
- The CERBERUS 2080
- Techmoan on people who listen to cassettes
- Music Monday: McCartney III
- Social media trains us to think in black/white
- It’s a small container, or a bucket
- Using meaningful email subject lines for alerts
- The @vermaden, @BasementTrix on FreeBSD not being a native PC OS
- Broadcom buying VMware
- The wondrous LG A9 CordZero vacuum cleaner
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- US DOJ won’t charge for security research
- We Serve. Coffee
- Hobbies becoming work, and getting space
- Why bought sites get taken offline
- Kyle Lanchman on iOS navigation, and music
- Penny Wong’s first speech as foreign minister
- The two identities of the Australian ATO
- The @Om summarises music software
- Prematurely labelling RSS feeds as inactive
- Confusing toll-free numbers for 2FA codes
- Brad Alexander on hostname schemes, sci-fi
- The first iPhone, and portable music in 2022
- Britannica came up before Wikipedia
- Angélique Kidjo, Azan Nan Kpe
- Karen Mathison Schmidt’s Country Garden
- Australian prime minister Morrison is out
- Impulse-purchased junk near checkouts
- Cryptocurrency doesn’t solve fraud
- Feedback on Vim plugin installs
- Elude and allude, from Tommy
- Goodies from @GamersNexus arrived!
- Time splits between various OSs, via Mark C.
- Mentally resetting during the day
- Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
- FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE available
- Vim plugin feedback
- Pete and Dud’s Frog and Peach
- Figuring out things before the Internet
- A quick look at console file managers
- A modern web payment login process
- The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe: Please play it!
- Expertise is expensive, conspiracies aren’t
- Voting in the Australian elections by post
- My journey back to Fedora Workstation
- How Ukraine’s banks continued to operate
- The hot (running) AMD Radeon 6950 XT
- Firefox turns 100
- Rhyming grilled cheese sandwiches
- TNL’s Nine Pillars of Digital Justice
- Twitter, Netflix, and infinite growth
- The European Rail Traffic Management System
- Doing things before you need to
- EasyJet seats
- Music Monday: Stellar Stellar by Suisei
- Fun with AIOs: The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
- Trying vim-plug
- My Hahndorf Inn Hotel mug
- Music Monday: JJ Lin, Practice Love
- Waycross derailment in the US
- GamersNexus launches a Ukraine charity shirt
- Dealing with depression (fun!)
- A Sydney (Harbour!) wave and a smile
- Vintage social network sentences
- Remote railfanning, and a live GP38-3 in Florida
- A market failure with sunk costs
- Feedback on fake requests and back doors
- OpenSSH 9.0 released
- A list of my first computers
- “Did you bully the weird kids?”
- The selfcare.tech bot is a new favourite
- Buy LG fridges, not Westinghouse
- Computers and the passing of time
- Fake law enforcement with encryption backdoors
- Actions that separate the world
- Some more coffee shop chatter
- FDR on the early bird
- Why are you always frowning?
- PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure
- Day 404 of 2022
- Alexander Schneider has a blog!
- The African emerald cuckoo
- isapc with 16-bit colour in QEMU
- Pet Shop Boys, Shopping
- Singapore–Malaysia Causeway reopens
- Track skipping from ripped CDs
- RFC: What to offer after CentOS 7?
- Evaluating tech, via @encthenet
- Beautiful photos from the US @Interior
- Arigato, K.G.Kobayashi
- Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti
- The vaccines cause autism lie
- The most satisfying connectors
- Social media filters need image recognition
- My favourite Train Simulator routes on special
- The BNSF has a store
- Birthday Ryzen Minecraft shaders!
- Pop Up Parade’s Rei Ayanami
- Down to my last Aeropress filter
- There are still mechanical turks everywhere
- Rebuilding the Antonov Antonov An-225 Mryia
- paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD
- My Apothecary Coffee mug
- Street-running trains
- John Jakes, March Into Darkness
- Long forms select for those who can write
- Version of Perl I use, via @pinkopanterata
- David Hazeltine, Look What I Found
- “But you can just disable it!”
- The NATO expansionism narrative
- 8,000 post feedback, and regular writing
- I17n in character sets and home media
- The @ourokronii power washes into our hearts
- Pouring one out for David Boggs
- 8,000 blog posts!?
- Challenges with mini-ITX builds in 2022
- Another mention on @BSDNow!
- The RTX 3070, and chasing the shiny
- Kevlin Henney’s procedural programming talk
- FedEx MD-11 flap issue at Sydney Airport
- Groucho Marx’s literary review
- View of Earth from the ISS in 2015
- Choosing audio codecs, via Wouter Groeneveld
- Teaching history
- The surprising backlash against RSS
- Bob Malach, Michel Petrucciani: For All Time’s Sake
- My essential Firefox fixes (and add-ons) in 2022
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials
- Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma
- Comparitech are spammers
- Beeping fire alarms taught me about irritations
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
- Feedback on 4K KVMs
- Learning about fan controllers
- A @SimonWhistler reaction face
- The new iPhone SE is still good
- Say You Love Me, Fleetwood Mac
- Sydney rain adventures
- Bought a GPU or mattress? Here are ads for more!
- Are DisplayPort or HDMI KVMs any good?
- The double-barred finch
- “De-Nazifying” Ukraine
- Cancelling my Presario Sleeper PC project
- No bad products, only bad prices?
- Personal technology insight and cynicism
- Bandcamp bought
- Walter E. Williams, “All It Takes is Guts”
- Trying (and liking!) KDE Neon
- Debating whether to have blog post types
- Helping Ukranians via Etsy
- Happy birthday @dekopatchi 🎂
- Facts over feelings
- The iPhone 8 (and SE) are still better iPhones
- My podcast used as a metadata example!?
- “Sexy cosplay” spam
- Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu
- What Ukraine and Putin have accomplished 🇺🇦
- Chatswood’s round trees
- Sad to see @1Password’s blockchain shenanigans
- Aral Balkan on bean counters
- Review: @PCCaseGear in Australia is awesome
- Ukraine UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya
- Client-side name and location validation
- Free university course videos
- JayzTwoCents on guilt about hobbies
- Chilling effects on defensive social media posts
- 2022–02–22
- Daniel Pennac on learning for fun
- Identity, Ukraine, and thinking aloud
- Go Jazz Nakano Miku BlueSCSI, in a box!
- The great Chatswood blackout of 2022
- LibreOffice 7.3.x Skia stability issues on macOS
- Geographic domain spam
- Hammer problems in coffee shops
- Graphics card feedback
- Defensive social media posts
- Tweaking my blog theme fonts for *nix users
- CallMeKevin’s ancient bear proverb
- Phantom phone vibrations
- Slow Debian 11 installs with IDE to SATA adaptors
- Buying a new graphics card
- Highest praise one can give software
- A numbered list of encountered tech
- Comparing lzop and plzip compression
- Villa del Parque station in Buenos Aires
- You should check out Marian Bouček’s blog
- Starting a blog, and unoriginal ideas
- The “fundamental problem” with NFTs
- UI design is as much about expectations
- Fire preparedness, and the SCDF emergency handbook
- A 12 TB SATA Ultrastar hard drive saves the day
- Flight or invisibility, with Clara!
- Why IPv6 isn’t more widespread
- Australian energy company data collection
- Black★Rock Shooter: Inexhaustible and Dawn Fall
- Eight things I don’t regret buying
- Git not being a version control system
- KDE Plasma 5.24 released
- Clara’s and my first Woodland Mansion
- Raspberry Pi OS is now 64-bit
- The Dassault Mercure could have succeeded today
- Revitalising neighbourhoods
- Change git repo to use SSH not HTTPS
- Expelled from Paradise seven year anniversary
- Alan Baxter on writing
- My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022
- BioGraphics discusses Augustus
- Pop Up Parade Fate/Grand Carnival figs
- Edgar Allan Poe on ciphers
- Using innocuous prompts as hooks
- 2022-02-02
- Firefox dark mode issues
- The iPad Mini 6’s weird aspect ratio
- I’m triple-vaxxed for Covid!
- Losslessly optimising images
- Real Engineering on natural gas and renewables
- Music Monday: Jack Johnson, No Good with Faces
- Having a uniform
- Clara and I at the Tokyo Tower
- Windows 3.1: CD audio MCI driver not installed
- The PinePhone keyboard case
- What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS
- Retrocomputing can be more than games
- Doc Searls versus printers
- Jeff Geerling on burnout
- Leigh Dodds on in-language
- Some useful tips
- Always check for the wrong item too
- US train feedback, and distributed power
- 26th of January
- Battery-powered trains
- Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD
- Finding a cute 386 or 486 desktop
- Paying with cash, old school
- Are video games addictive? I don’t know
- Wouter Groeneveld digresses
- Our January 2022 apartment cleanout
- Why are people falling for NFTs?
- Microfibre cloths
- My “new” IBM WorkPad 20X Palm PDA!
- Account spam from @PayPal?
- Show 421: The flying progress episode
- HippopoPenguin’s Rin as Ishtar
- A home NAS of the future
- Farewell to my Kindle Paperwhite
- Jeb Brooks on the California Zephyr
- This post only has the word “bagel”
- What year is The Future now?
- You must have only done it for the money
- Programming language names
- The current state of Linux gaming
- Michael Franks, Songbirds
- Already seeing pandemic-related knock-on effects
- Steps towards more recycling in Singapore
- Lewis Mumford on urban cars
- Vivaldi’s Jon von Tetzchner on crypto-“currency”
- Self-doubt
- Beige-o-Vision introducing the PiDP-11
- Lists are great!
- Feedback pending post number #9001
- Learning of BlueSCSI
- Migraines Australia’s new fact sheets
- My favourite Australian decaf beans
- Number of posts last year
- Press and politicians abusing medical terms
- Boulevard of Enthusiasts, Naberezhnye Chelny
- Uniforms of the future
- Comestible aromas, via @Georgiecel
- Dev, system design, and screwdrivers
- Trying out the Windows Package Manager
- Tire evidence by Peter McDonald
- iPhone desktop sync has Walken’d away
- URL trends from 2013
- Homes and furniture
- SgLinks the next URL shortener to go
- The Ricoh GR IIIx
- Fine art accounts on The Bird Site
- Goodbye to Plastikitty
- Lew Wasserman
- Redundancy in IT isn’t
- The Maja 2 split keyboard
- Shopping MallDova
- Happy New Year 2022
