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Long before entrepreneurship became a buzzword, Sophia Nickerson Starks built one of Jacksonville's most influential ...

Gateway Jax seeks DDRB conceptual approval for Pearl Square's latest adaptive reuse project. Let us known what you th...

For years, The Jaxson has championed a simple but powerful urban redevelopment principle we call Clustering, Compleme...

Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 e...

work-in-progress

Or, what forty years of reading did not teach me.

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

This spring my wife and I went ahead and bought a (used) EV, Skoda Enyaq iV80 2022. It’s not relevant for this blog b...

One day I asked a chatbot how easy it would be to make my Balboa hot tub smart. Apparently: quite easy. A quick searc...

One day our baby monitor stopped producing sound. Scary with no audio from the baby’s room! At least the lights still...

I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ...

Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get ...

Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the ho...

I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to...

We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that d...

One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning...

My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. Howe...

Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short wh...

Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop1) charges via USB...

I built music.vfiles.no as a place to publish music reviews, artist pages, and yearly top lists. It’s a Gatsby and Re...

Wikimedia Commons has over 100 million freely licensed media files. A lot of these are photographs of people, politic...

I’ve been bouncing between AI tooling lately: editor copilots, chat UIs, CLIs, agents, you name it. The thing I kept ...

How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.

Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.

Calculating checksum of files accross nested directories, and verifying them, without any custom scripts.

I’ve been having so much fun running full steam games on my switch lite! Just this weekend I got Psychnauts running w...

The most valuable thing you can do for the longevity of a device is install linux on it. I’m not just talking persona...

PS1 Web Player

A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characte...

I randomly had the idea that it would be interesting to “dig into” all possible Sudoku puzzles. So I created Digdoku....

PostgreSQL major version upgrades is something that NixOS currently doesn’t handle for you. This is my process, docum...

Review of Yars: Recharged for the Nintendo Switch with a focus on Mission 29 (Wingman)

A post talking about the concept of attributing scores while reviewing media

Strategic plan my ass, more like a 15 million euro donation.

Review of Yars: Recharged for the Nintendo Switch with a focus on Mission 29 (Wingman)

A post talking about the concept of attributing scores while reviewing media

Strategic plan my ass, more like a 15 million euro donation.

I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entir...

AI makes it almost too simple to release stuff, which can, as in my case, lead to not enough preparation.

Announcing a new, free and open source site for hosting in-real-life gatherings for niche tech communities.

Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I ...

After what happened to me this morning, I expect the North Carolina School of Science and Math to ask for my diploma ...

Today I am excited to announce that I have started a new job as the General Manager for MariaDB at Percona. I’ve been...

I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will laways be n ...

Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write a...

An archive of what used to be my /notes page. Node.js: Buffer in Cloudflare Workers Using things like Buffer.from() i...

Do fixed-size integers serialize faster than varints? We benchmark the CPU overhead of continuation-bit parsing using...

How protojsonx compares to standard protojson, JSON, and vtproto.

Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is already a graph - it's just serialized as markdown files. Here's how to mater...

Vercel's Eve framework makes durable agents easy - but agents still forget. Here's how I gave one persistent, graph-n...

A complete guide to deploying Neo4j Enterprise 5.x on any VPS (Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) with S...

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire...

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I scroll through the endless B...