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I love snow

Today it snowed again, and it stayed on the ground. This does not happen often in the Netherlands any more. I love snow. I always have, and I always will. It brings back memories, such as days free...

Review of HackerBox 0122 - Ouroboros

This month's box includes a OVcam based camera board and ECG measurement board! Also, I got a lot of nice new tools from the holidays that help me out with the build.

The Struggle to Remove Hate Signs

One woman shares her struggle trying to get swastikas removed from her community. - Sasha drives down County Road 121 in Union County everyday to go to work. It’s a scenic drive, but she listens to...

2025 Year in Review

This is a personal year in review. You can check the yearnotes tag for previous years-in-review. The previous year-in-review is here. The World in 2025 Donald Trump's first year in his second term ...

New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor...

Password Hasher PWA

Password Hasher PWA Nearly two decades ago I wrote about a mechanism to have different passwords for every web site, without a central password manager storing your passwords. All you needed is an ...

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reflection on the week

Jan 02, 2026: Will the world offer itself to me, Kafka?

The morning started with some more ruminatory daydreaming. Stuffing myself full of other people’s talents until it felt less like inspiration and more like bingeing, scrolling, absorbing, hoarding ...

How to Build a Time Machine: A GPS-Disciplined Stratum 1 NTP Server

During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-based NTP servers which usually Stratum 2 or 3. With Stratum 1, I can get significa...

About the Past Year - 2025

The first 2/3 of 2025 were rather uneventful, business - and life - as usual. The final 1/3 was absolute madness, because we bought a new apartment and severely underestimated what it means to move...

Goals of 2026

This year I have 3 goals: Lose weight, 30kg would be ideal Start dating again Start a business with friends Some side challenges: Write blog posts on 100 different days (100DaysToOffload) Read at l...

My 2025 Gaming Roundup

It is a new year! I am kicking it off with my personal 2025 gaming roundup! Previously: my 2024 gaming roundup. Overall Games "finished" (story/campaign completed OR achievement complete OR played ...

Happy Public Domain Day 2026!

Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

Months Considered Harmful

Can months be fixed?

Sloppy New Year, RPG Fans!

So, it’s the last day of what has been a fairly slow 2025 on this blog – I’m expecting things to pick up in the New Year – but I just had to jump on to discuss something I discovered today and mild...

2025 Recap: so many projects

I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to clear my head. There are many, many, many things to go through and we don’t have a ...

Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 01, 2026: Nobody Is Here. Happy New Year.

“Nobody Is Here.” Is the chant I chant I have been chanting. It keeps looping, not loud enough to be prayer, not honest enough to be a lie. Things have been happening and I have been wondering wher...

Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters

A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, dark headlines, dis...

Looking Back on 2025