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Personal blog exploring open-source software, Linux customization, and minimalist computing, alongside travel stories and reflective essays.
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A very serious critique of American spellings of English words.
I talk about rewriting Notex and integrating it more deeply into my website pipeline.
A technical journal focused on infrastructure, networking, and IT operations, featuring configuration guides and home network design.
Notes for this lock are not complete. But, by all means read away! Summary The lock I purchased was the Master Lock M...
Notes on this lock are not complete. But, by all means read away! Summary Now to start with the lock that broke me in...
Summary This is my write-up for the Quito: Control One Container from Another challenge provided by SadServers. Where...
Technical blog covering software development, game modding and reverse engineering, web technologies, and command-line utilities.
Why is it the way it is?
All Delta Force Land Warrior + Task Force Dagger OSTs extracted from the SBF assets
All Delta Force 2 OSTs extracted from the SBF assets
Banish Expectations Expand Wonder
I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it mad...
Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in J...
Download PDF In 1953, Samuel Beckett wrote a play where two men wait for someone who does not come. They insist he wi...
Tech, software and whatever comes to mind.
Most projects don't fail spectacularly; they just linger in the "middle." In a fast-moving AI era, deciding if your c...
Junior engineers can get instant answers and working code, but risk skipping the hard-earned understanding that comes...
Struggling with intermittent database locks in your Spring Boot and SQLite setup? Learn the specific HikariCP and JPA...
Recent content on Chris Short
Open source governance answers one question: who decides, and how? A plain-language guide to every major model — and ...
Convert TOML configuration files to YAML format directly in your browser. No data is sent to any server.
How to find your open source community beyond git commits using repo data, GitHub Insights, GrimoireLab, and social l...
A technical blog covering enterprise infrastructure, open-source tools, and cloud technologies, with posts on Ansible automation, Kubernetes, Linux, and DevOps practices.
Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve seen automation evolve from a nice-to-have to a non-negotiable part of how organi...
Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve al...
Be notified when Sandboxels and other R74n projects are updated, along with ramblings from the developer!
Train your own pseudo-baby to speak; Make your voice heard; Try our minigames.
Our first update since the transition to Neal.fun! And it's a big one.
We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such a...
For some time I wanted to design a CDB (Constant DataBase) alternative that fits better my use-case for Kawipiko (hig...
I've made some experiments with compressing individual URLs, and I describe my initial observations (while comparing ...
My personal experience in finding affordable EU-based cloud providers for a small personal project. And my pessimisti...
BattlePenguin Dot Com
Memory has become insanely expensive over just the past few months. Micron cut production of Crucial, their consumer ...
4x 30TB Seagate Hard Drives Over the course of my life, hard drives have continued to get denser as far as their data...
In today’s world of content generated by the Weighted Random Word Generators (also known as Large Language Models (LL...
Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies
For the last year and a bit, I’ve been running the second edition of The One Ring for my Wednesday evening group. It’...
One of the signs that a tabletop RPG system has really made it once people start selling reskins of it. D&D hacks hav...
Time for another article where I give quick breakdowns of supplements I’ve looked at lately. This time, it’s mostly B...
Personal blog of a Chicago-based writing instructor sharing weeknotes, reading reflections, book recommendations, and musings on internet culture.
in the atmosphere
ancient errors in itunes
what's on my to-read list
Practical Linux tutorials and command-line tips covering system administration, scripting, and performance benchmarking.
`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.
Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.
Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.
Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.
Jhonen Vasquez hit his highest level of cultural prominence with Invader Zim, a Nickelodeon cartoon which benefitted ...
The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another a...
So, here we are, having covered the last of the New Adventures and the final Missing Adventures. There’s one last bit...
The personal blog of Hunter G. Davis
Introduction Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where he uses a little dunking bird toy to defraud his empl...
Introduction Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where he uses a little dunking bird toy to defraud his empl...
I actually wrote quite a bit of code in 2025! While my professional life was centered around AI enablement for my tea...
Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD, GNU/Linux, system administration, programming, and other stuff - the pragmatic way
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Whether you're dealing with a web application or some other application, all user input should always be considered "...
systemd is great as an init system, but - as you know - it's not an init system anymore, it's a behemoth of a monster.
A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.
THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...
THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...
LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...
Thoughts, projects and some other stuff
It all started with a post on Lobste.rs, someone asking how others manage their SSH keys. It was a question that I ha...
Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day...
Here we are at the end of another year, so I will share again the two books I enjoyed the most. Before starting, here...
Benny Powers, Web Developer
In 2024 we server-rendered Lit web components in Drupal using a Node.js sidecar container. Now we can do it with a si...
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A blog about network infrastructure security and internet policy from the perspective of a network engineer.
Subsea internet cables carry 99 percent of transoceanic digital traffic.1 Financial transactions, diplomatic communic...
Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Rad...
Western mob wife appears to have been the overarching clothing aesthetic at the last Sundance Film Festival in the st...