2023 post archive
- Building a new Apple II?
- Russian oligarch’s Australian sanction complaint
- My computer as a house
- Daylight savings in Sydney (AEDT)
- The Dutch gave us “gherkins” and “pickles”
- How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone
- Max Miller makes butter
- Every forum reply on a commercial vendor site
- Mobile SEGA “Forever” games delisted
- A non-exhaustive list of HPs
- Trying the GNOME desktop for a few weeks
- Why is web search getting worse?
- Congrats to Grady for Practical Construction!
- If in doubt, be polite
- Marc Durst, Jet Set Swing
- Irreducible complexity
- Goodbye to some Sydney coffee shops
- Not stopping the escalator
- Commodore, the Apple II, and how things could have been different
- Premature web form validation
- Starflight III Minstrels
- Lawsuit against OpenAI, and generative AI theft
- Taking care of house plants
- No more X11 on Fedora 40
- “Hate it? Sell it to me”
- The art of Blue Archive
- Data privacy in Musk’s data centre move
- A hot spring weekend ☀️
- My “Aldi” Commodore 64 case
- R U OK day 2023
- New services aren’t only Twitter replacements
- Fake 486 cache chips
- Which BSD did you start on?
- The Sun SPARCStation 5’s 13W3 connector
- Macroblogging
- What colour is the Commodore 64?
- A generative AI provider almost gets it
- Saying hello to Qantas again
- Hardware Unboxed’s podcast, and benchmark misconceptions
- Exclamation marks
- Another Am386 30-pin SIMM replacement
- Banning electric scooters
- Combatting RSS overload
- The Pacific Motorway, and building for trucks
- @Omegatron on the POPCAKE
- A morning at the Royal Botanic Gardens
- Expanding science beyond English
- Visiting the Rialto Towers again
- The version of vi shipped with the BSDs
- Back at the data centre in Melbourne
- The POPCAKE airport lounge pancake maker
- Overheard coffee shop chatter, late August 2023
- A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower
- Voicing quotation marks
- Pluralism makes us stronger
- Those free supermarket deals aren’t
- The “Bring Me a Rock” phenomenon
- Missing my 876-page milestone
- Bob Geldof, The Soft Soil
- Configuring Adaptec SCSI CD-ROMs on DOS
- The pushback against productivity hacks
- Using what you have is better than not!
- YAXI Ear Pads for the Porta Pro
- An comp-sci anime fig citation?
- Archiving from The Internet Archive
- Finding myself in a video rendering studio
- Accepting New Zealand as an Australian state
- Steam cleaning chewing gum
- Reconciled down to the cent again
- Ugly American truck follow up
- Electronic bookends
- Getting back into GUI development
- Don’t wash your Commodore 64C too hot
- Drive encryption is no panacea
- Spelling misatkes (cough)
- E-readers, and feedback from Daniel O’Connell
- Ugly American trucks
- Some August housekeeping
- Security and feature updates should be discrete
- Alexander Woolcott
- LMG, and navigating responsibility with larger audiences
- My daily carry in 2023
- Paul Simon parodying Bob Dylan
- The ASUS Media Bus
- Memories of Lotus Organizer
- Creativity under legacy constraints
- Three legs
- Distracted drivers at a meta level
- Adrian Black takes apart a 1980s scope
- The longest word you can type on the first row
- Shareholder-in-charge
- Mashu’s Pure Hearted Shield
- Eighth of the eighth, 2023
- A sixth installment of coffee shop chatter
- Music Monday: End of the Line
- Ohms being expressed with R instead of Ω
- Goodbye, Bram Moolenaar ♡
- The weirdest HP Pavilion I’ve ever picked up
- We noticed a new login to your …!
- Coach Gowron on growth
- Supporting (very!) legacy systems
- Cory Doctorow on privacy
- ATX bracket for the Cooler Master NR200P
- Ride sharing and autonomous vehicles cause traffic
- My Commodore 16 keyboard is fixed!
- Reconciling down to the cent
- URL changes and password managers
- I got Merlin in FGO!
- Whats the worst advice you’ve received?
- Your tech event doesn’t have to be exciting
- Cracking down on SUVs
- Camera specs don’t tell the whole story
- Sources in my saving video post
- Your generative AI wouldn’t steal a fleet of cars
- Twitter renaming to X
- We can do more than one concurrent thing
- Some new planter plants
- Using the “right” social networks
- What if the Brits French’d their royal family?
- FPS and resolutions we’re used to
- Wear patterns in coffee shops
- Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB
- If you come to a fork in the road
- GaryH Tech discusses Linux desktops
- Meaning of the word “fid”
- If you care about it, archive it: take two
- Pavolia Reine discusses her 3D debut
- Web form has a free text field? Say thanks!
- Daniel Jalkut projecting good
- Fight or flight mode in your computer chair
- Troubleshooting my Am386SX’s RAM issues
- Pavolia Reine’s 3D debut!
- Childhood car (in)dependence
- Fun Facts #101–110
- My home IPv6 network plans
- 500 days of war in Ukraine
- Yorkshire Tea Malty Biscuit Brew
- BNC connectors cut in half
- Proving you don’t need an office
- An even tinier NAS
- An interesting time for (text?) social media again
- Music Monday, and Antranig tries LXC
- The Law of Mobility
- Merlin Mann and my Commodore 16 taught me a small step is a catalyst
- The story of a flawed office tap
- I’m rubenerd.bsky.social
- A strange Commodore 16 reset line
- Still NAT’ing with IPv6
- Ben Pobjie on the Spirit of Cricket
- Coffee chatter about urbanism
- The Foenix F256k retrocomputer
- The post-conference lull
- SMASH! 2023
- Meeting Pavolia Reine at SMASH!
- “What do you want me to do?”
- Reine’s off colab with Watson!
- A number from A Million Random Digits
- RFC: expansion options for the Commodore 128
- Driverless cars
- The Five Whys in IT, and finding Rachelbythebay
- A new Asuna fig by Emontoys
- CityNerd on city values
- When have you checked your ears?
- When does retrocomputing begin?
- The radio station with less talk
- Typing on my new Gateron North Pole 2.0 keyboard
- Energy retailer of last resort?
- Styling OPML and RSS with XSLT to XHTML
- Scoot was one of the worst airlines I’ve flown
- An amazing feature from my telco
- My Pentium 1’s phantom hard disk
- Music Monday and Dreams
- Julia Evans posts about blogging myths
- Sites redirecting you to localised nothing
- Ouroboros LLMs and their impending entropy problem
- The trap of booming self-storage
- Coffee smells and lockdowns
- Six months into my smartphone awareness exercise
- Happy 30th birthday to FreeBSD!
- Raising voices on video calls
- Connecting a CD-ROM to a Sound Blaster 32 IDE header in DOS
- Reddit, LLMs, APIs, TLAs
- A near-mint 1999 IBM Aptiva desktop
- The King’s birthday in Australia
- Innovation in civil engineering
- Winning a meet-and-greet with Pavolia Reine
- My Am386 now has a Tseng ET4000AX card!
- Fixing DDR4-1867 on a Supermicro server
- FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops
- Goodbye Astrud Gilberto ♡
- Ceres Fauna’s HoloGra Debut
- Disable GUI on modern Debian
- Avoiding coffee namespace collisions
- Spam about emotional intelligence
- Getting frustrated at inanimate IT objects
- Music Monday: Paul McCartney, Take it Away
- Hales on PCIe over USB (or lack thereof)
- Coffee culture in Australia and Europe
- A “read more” link in GoHugo
- Science and art: Bens Worx casts a dichroic cube
- Getting stuck in the middle of a stroad
- That’s a huge number of folders
- Using M2 Wi-Fi card slots for other things
- Dutch milk bread and spreads
- Using config files for SSH
- Using WordPress for a self-hosted blog
- CityNerd on the necessity of urbanist comedy
- Spreadsheets as a knowledge base and mental map
- Experimenting wearing glasses part time
- My second YouTube video in 14 years: Dr. Coffee
- Simulator game? Why not do the real thing!?
- Remembering how the Nintendo Wii was cracked
- What detractors get wrong about induced demand
- No more @Rubenerd_Blog Twitter posts
- A cool Adaptec AHA-1542CP ISA SCSI card
- A new old-stock floppy drive
- Evolving use patterns of the NYC subway
- The enforceability of boilerplate
- Rushing to the sunk cost station
- Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']
- Ohai, feels weird being back
- Nice plant at St Leonards station in Sydney
- Goodbye Jim Kloss ♡ 1956–2023
- Dave Winer: an armada of Twitters
- Michał on the joys of closing tabs
- Twitter Circles feature leaked data, as expected
- Buying parts online and iRL
- HSR versus highway media coverage
- AI companies spamming abuse email addresses
- I’m smart, I’ll remember!
- An enigma of a VGA cable
- Retrocomputing info is easy to find, until it isn’t
- PSA: gz isn’t a generic compressed file extension
- Three years on from Brexit
- Researching if Commodore’s PCs were profitable
- Mistyping a Vim plugin on my FreeBSD laptop
- Firefox can now match on diacritics
- Pronouncing “composite” video
- Keeping computer stuff open or closed
- My favourite people in the world
- Visiting Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture
- Timestamps are all over the place
- Anna Gromada on Poland and Eastern Europe
- Things you shouldn’t make out of glass
- Alter releases Love Live! figs
- Changing sites for new stakeholders (aka: not us)
- Exploring an incredible Kyoto Hard Off store
- Electric cars aren’t a silver bullet
- Urban sprawl guarenteed the success of online retail
- Back in Sydney again, hi!
- “Those” tourists in Japan
- Osaka stores remember decade-old Kyoani ♡
- Tower Records in Japan!
- A sneaky Singapore trip
- USB 1.1 Alien Tape Megasaur Spurtles
- A disk-on-module with my Am386
- Greg Lehey on interoperability
- Loading your website experience
- Brahms on inspiration
- An apartment tower of lithium
- A 30-pin RAM upgrade for my Am386
- NATO’s Stoltenberg on Ukraine joining the alliance
- Aftermarket Commodore power supplies
- Rikka has her phone… on my phone
- I like how Gemini handles links
- The brave new world of procedurally-generated stores
- An Intel i387SL coprocessor for my AMD Am386SX
- Loose versus lose
- Behind every rock, there’s another one
- Becoming a Moonafic of @Moonahoshinova
- Citibank Australia were pleased to close our account
- Another Smalluswallpaperusphobic image
- The ESS AudioDrive ES1868F for sound and IDE
- Equinix retiring copper
- Daniel Jalkut on AI and authenticity
- Apple’s integrity-free APFS turns six
- Teams are just as important as their code
- Mika Pikazo’s Fire Emblem Engage designs
- Peter Cook and Chris Morris in “Why Bother?”
- Pareidolia and pattern matching
- Even chatbots are better than web search
- My 386SX’s working Acer MIO-400 IO card
- Atelier Ryza 3 sountrack and theme available
- I fixed my 1991 386SX-16/20CN motherboard!
- Ryan Barrett on HTTP content negotiation
- A steamy dream about a PL/pgSQL blog engine
- I didn’t know Einstein was real
- My new ISA/PCI PC diagnostic card
- I want to redo or stop using categories
- My professor on unhelpful advice
- I think I saw myself as a time-travel tourist
- A blank text editor
- Atelier Ryza anime announced
- Foam glass aggregate is a thing!
- Hololive: Our Bright Parade!
- AI developers: be nice, and credit your artists
- Why are they called du Pont connectors?
- Libraries were full of tech inflexion points
- Feedback about the “friend zone” post
- Things that aren’t orchestration toolchains
- Pop Up Parade Calliope Mori
- Parts reviewers, clickbait, and absolute price
- This is my first post backed up to Codeberg
- macOS’s experiment in rounded-square icons
- iTnews reports on Sydney Train fun last week
- FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
- Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
- Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
- Peter Mulvey’s YouTube Channel
- Exciting new look, same great taste!
- Main lesson from uni: know thy spec!
- Converting imz floppy disk images
- Cleaning up metadata, and building with Dublin Core
- Sana on forgiveness and feeling better
- Rediscovering books and libraries
- “The optics are better at the front”
- A four-day work week
- Filter jugs should be rectangular
- A 1990 encyclopædia on phones and packet switching
- New design for old chocolate
- Feedback on paper sizes
- Legal versus ethical
- Organising DOS software and drivers in an ISO
- Alison Pennington on Australian housing afforadbility
- Thank you and goodbye, Wayne Shorter ♡
- I… like the US Letter paper size
- Breaking a Commodore 16 key, and retrocomputer storage
- Bypassing Windows 11 Internet account install
- AliExpress anime and electronics comments
- Newsletter spam… out of nowhere!
- Daniel Aleksandersen on split keyboard accessibility
- Journalists failing in their AI chatbot reporting
- Paul and Linda McCartney, Smile Away
- A rattling truck of the mind
- Restoring my 1983 “Aldi” Commodore VC-20
- Your issue isn’t real, because I don’t have it!
- GamersNexus on support training and scripts
- The economic and social effect of sealed devices
- rsync(1) on FreeBSD with a modern Walkman
- ChatGPT shovelware was inevitable
- Atelier Games on special on Steam
- The OSs Nico Cartron Uses
- The Covid fog has (mostly) lifted
- Caught Covid
- The BSD sockstat(1) command
- Time magazine discusses successful tech failures
- Ascribing blame in complicated systems
- A legacy PC drive update: little works!
- Feedback: preventing streaks when retrobrighting
- Nnenna Okore on art, and our place in the universe
- Terramaster NAS’s eye-opening CVE
- W-whoops, buying a Commodore VC-20
- Happy 25th birthday, XML!
- Words not starting with specific letters
- Derek Sivers on OpenBSD
- A phantom text buffer
- Sneaky advertisement asterisks
- Fixing “app source not there” in Homebrew
- Security firm finds exposed customer data in backups
- You might not need a copyright statement
- It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop
- Comparing VIC-20 and C64 cart sizes
- Booking a hotel in 2023
- The Independent Singapore’s “friend zone” article
- Software discrepancies delayed the Airbus A380
- Buying the original Microsoft Train Simulator!
- How do you mentally map things?
- Hiding MediaWiki meta generator version
- The overjustification effect
- Ten things to become successful?
- Adrian Black explains his TRS-80 diagnostic
- A convincing(ish) phone scammer
- Escaping heat, and the luxury of Ceebs Money
- Setting tech expectations
- Cellophane coffee shop chatter
- Michał Sapka’s Music Monday
- Towns that sound like toothpaste
- Ben Sidran’s Wikipedia article now has a photo
- My status update on playing games on Linux
- Rudy Reyes on being a hero
- Music player feedback and suggestions
- Greg’s experience with a smart phone
- The OSs I use most often
- Pieces of 8: Alternative uses for a new hair brush
- What IMS stands for
- Zoe Williams on cryptocurrency and markets
- The Galton Bridge
- Obsolete tech: the Battery Daddy
- Recanting my post on defensive blogging
- Pet Shop Boys, Liberation
- Moving off iTunes after two decades
- The elusive textInput form in RSS feeds
- The writer of ahiru.pl also uses desktop email
- Contrasting thoughts around Twitter API access
- Page who in the what now?
- Printers and wasted tech potential
- Desktop email, and from Alpine to Thunderbird
- Things I’d love to build this year
- King CallMeKevin is a military genius
- Upgrading to macOS Ventura was a mistake
- The “I lost my phone” scam
- Thoughts on an entirely new Commodore 64
- FreeBSD pipes and redirection, via @klarainc
- I fixed my beautiful little Commodore Plus/4!
- Comments on FeedLand roadmap
- Exploiting taxi queue systems for profit
- Ben Sidran, Moose the Mooche
- The mysterious textInput RSS field
- Dave asks about the WordPress block editor
- Reisalin Stout fig from Atelier Ryza 3
- In defence of Myriad Colours Phantom World
- The @cartron on blogging regularity
- Joe Biden’s online privacy op-ed
- AI, music, and valuing art
- A new sign in was detected
- What’s that FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mac/etc drive?
- The ThinkPhone
- Unlimited paid time off
- Aerospace engineers are the new rocket scientists
- The solution to centralisation
- Using PCI slots for SSD brackets
- A rainbow Beatles shirt
- What happened to data sims for tablets?
- Dismissing criticism with workarounds
- This driver must get around
- Time spent looking at my phone
- Your own little standard library
- Single greatest piece of spam I’ve ever received
- The beauty of CGI and simple design, by Hales
- I feel for the NetBSD community
- Talking with, not talking to
- Using scp(1) to transfer multiple files
- Computers don’t do what you “want”
- Social norms at coffee shops
- Changelog for omake.opml
- Editing DOS files in Vim
- Banning video apps
- My final Commodore 128 Retr0bright post
- Pandemic podcast listening habits
- 2022 blog h-highlights!
