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SilverStone Technology CS382: Six Months Later

I share what I like and what I dislike about the SilverStone Technology CS382 case after using it for 6 months.

Switching to Ghostty

Ghostty 👻 In December 2024 the new terminal emulator ghostty created by mitchellh (founder of Hashicorp) was released. I originally had the (incorrect) assumption that it was similar to other “new”...

The Debate Bro and his fallacy

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, having done quite well for a first-timer, but quickly realizing how vapid and mas...

Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac

On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separately from a custom schedule for dark mode. For some reason, this isn’t possible ...

Accessing Home Network Resources with a Cloudflare Tunnel

I have plans to eventually set up a VPN to access my home network, but in the meantime, I opted to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to access certain local resources. I also just wanted to play around wi...

Linkfest #30: Greyscale Gelato, the "Ott Derivimeter", and Vangelis' Ambient Music For Surgeries

Hello again! Time once again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I cruise the endless overpasses of the Global Information Superhighway, searching for the finest p...

Blog Questions Challenge

I've seen this challenge on Herman's blog. I liked it, so I decided to do my own version, even though I'm not using the bear blog. For the same reason, I slightly adapted the original questions. Wh...

UNLINK vs DEL - A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis 🪢

atproto and ownership of identity

The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identity and user data layer, and the application layer. Compare that to the fediverse ...

Using ExifTool to Set Dates Based on Filename

ExifTool has been a surprisingly useful piece of software in my recent quest to archive all of my family photographs. This includes scanned film from before the time of personal computers and also ...

Retired Man Tries to Spend More Money, Mostly Fails

A couple of years ago, Mr. Money Mustache lost some credibility among the faithful when he wrote this blog post about actually trying to spend a bit more money, while buying a Tesla as the first st...

Adding a Copy Button to Code Blocks

Copying code from code blocks, without having to manually select it all first, is very handy convenience feature. But despite having published a ton of code snippets on this website, adding copy fu...

Bye WordPress, Hello Hugo

I’ve been writing blogs since March of 1999. Yes, I’m old. When I started, my friend Ben suggested Moveable Type, and it worked well until around 2003 when they decided to switch their license from...

Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems

Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or ...

It takes a village

I typically describe my career as being the result of a lot of luck. There are so many key moments in my professional journey that just happened to go right for me while also being largely out of m...

Working differently in 2025

I have made a few resolutions going into the new year. Two of them have to do with All About Berlin. The first resolution is to work less. I am not a workaholic by any stretch of the imagination, b...

Odd Mart Oddities: JP Coovert’s Nintendo-style TTRPG Zines!

Its a rare Saturday. The snowy midwinter of Minneapolis, Minnesota peeks its head into the door despite the growing global sauna. Time and space are an open runway for one geeky writer of one disco...

ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.0

After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAI...

I #100DaysToOffload’d

Heyo, I did it! Nice. Did what exactly, you ask? Dear reader, I wrote & published 100 posts to my personal blog over a 1-year period. That’s what #100DaysToOffload is all about. It was almost a yea...

The Missing Mentoring Pillar

The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages M...