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IF-ERGO Keyboard

I’ve owned a lot of mechanical keyboards. Over two years ago, I started using an Ergodox layout, starting with the SliceMK. It was difficult to get used to the ortholinear layout of the Ergodox, bu...

The Latest Kitchen and Bathroom Trends

When it comes to renovating a bathroom or kitchen, it’s important to balance functionality and contemporary style. The latest design trends are perfect for everyone, whether they’re giving their ho...

(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)

A look back at what it took for me to reach 0% Steam play time on Windows, even though I've been using Linux since I was a kid. Spoilers: Valve and the FOSS community are what made this possible.

10 Lines to Better Docker Compose Secrets

Keep secrets out of your images: use Docker Compose secrets mounted at /run/secrets and a tiny wrapper script that exports each secret file as an environment variable so unmodified apps keep workin...

We dodged a vaccine disaster (for now). And a quick virus weather report before the break.

The Dose (December 22)

The Indie Developer's Trial: Zipic's Productization Journey from 0 to 1

Building an indie product sounds easy, but you don't realize how deep the water is until you jump in. This is the true story of an indie developer turning a small workplace requirement into a flags...

Encryption vs. Compression

Is there a correct order when encrypting and compressing data?

Weeknotes 2025-12-21

These weeknotes are coming in a day late because I had a busy and exhausting weekend. My Week Medical Update: I had a weird symptom appearing in routine tests lately. Nothing major, and certainly n...

Weekly Robotics #341

Luxonis Launches OAK 4 Standalone Vision System [Sponsored] Luxonis released OAK 4, a standalone AI vision device that bundles high-res RGB and depth sensors with 52 TOPS of on-device compute and a...

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A short post looking at some of my favourite musical discoveries

2025_wrapped_music.addendum

A short post looking at some of my favourite musical discoveries

Things That Could Affect Your Car Insurance Premium

Ever wonder why you have to provide so much information when getting a car insurance quote? It all has to do with calculating the cost of your insurance. Here are several things that will affect yo...

What’s wrong with technology readiness levels (TRLs) and how to fix them

The technology readiness level (TRL) scale, developed by NASA in the 1970s, is still going strong but can be challenging to use.

2025W50

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life — This hit different. The distinction between thin desires (scrolling, checking notifications) and thick desires (learning something hard, building real skills) ex...

New Name, Same Great Tool: PySite is Now BlogCraft!

A New Career In A New Town, Part 4: Progress!

Logging Sucks

Why traditional logging fails in distributed systems and how wide events transform debugging from archaeology into analytics

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My favourite albums of 2025

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My favourite albums of 2025