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Fancy code blocks in Astro

Customizing Markdown & MDX code blocks in Astro

Create better documentation with Mkdocs

Setting up and deploying documentation for your projects

Exposing deployment versions and commit hashes with Astro

Adding custom version routes to your blog to validate deployments

HTML inert property and React fallback

HTML inert is a relatively new property, but it is supported in all major browsers since April this year. When you set inert on an element, the browser will ignore all user events on it, including ...

OpenWRT and the 802.11s mesh network

Recently I wanted to improve the WiFi coverage in my house. My trusted Linksys EA6350 v3 wasn’t able to cover to full square footage, so I got a second router to fill in the wireless gap - the TP-L...

I built a gnome shell extension to show how much my day, month, year and life has passed.

NixOS has one fatal flaw

Jerod’s Note: The short embedded below of Tammer Saleh on Ship It! created a firestorm of comments from folks who were unsatisfied with the lack of explanation behind his conclusion. I caught up wi...

Strange Loops

Loops are another one of those areas where Magic's rules and policy intersect in an awkward way. I don't have all the answers here, but I provide the ones I do have.

Blogging with Jupyter Notebooks in Hugo

Featured Photo by Simon Berger I’ve realized something important about myself lately: I need to make it easy for me to publish my stuff. If I have to do a lot of steps to get my text online, I lose...

Honey bee cellular automaton

A cellular automaton that simulates a real world phenomena

Hello, World!

Editor’s Note Welcome to the inaugural issue of my newsletter! Launching this newsletter has been a long time coming. While my blog has been the primary platform for sharing my thoughts and polishe...

Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts

The difference between subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcriptions, including related accessibility guidelines.

Applied anthropology

On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...

Understanding Subjective Probabilities

Does it make sense to talk about the probability of a future event that's more complicated than a die roll or coin toss?Traditional entry-level math education leads people to many misconceptions in...

Small commands for a more usable Gnus

I’ve written a bit about Gnus on the blog before, but if you are just now starting to follow along, all you need to know is that Gnus is kinda like Outlook, but it’s highly user-configurable, it su...

Books

These books chatter on my shelf day and night

To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON

Featured Photo by energepic.com I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Bootstrap for a long time. While I love how fast it lets me get going, I absolutely hate the cookie cutter vibe of most of the...

My Selfhosting Setup

A short overview on how I self-host.

A Consideration of SQL ORMs

Conventional wisdom in modern software development generally endorses the use of an ORM. "Any project that doesn’t use an ORM will end up with a poorly implemented partial ORM." Most developers are...

Finding The Perfect Christmas Tree With USFS Motor Vehicle User Map Data, QGIS, & SedonaDB

Using aerial imagery and Spatial SQL to explore Forest Service road networks