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LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

ALEXANDER KARP AND NICHOLAS ZAMISKA'S The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West...

I WILL NOT ATTEMPT to eulogize the martyr. Others have done this already—and done so with such skill that anything I ...

Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to...

The reasons for having unit tests in your projects are well-known and accepted; I'm not going to rehash them here. Wh...

Most embedded C developers start writing their code on their microcontroller manufacturer's provided IDE - STM32CubeI...

Movies I watched in 2025.

Reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the next.

Dirtying the documents I share online.

During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-bas...

"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that...

Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of li...

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 cle...

About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When ...

Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little diffe...

My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...

My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...

Every year, on the first of January, prices change and new laws come into effect. Mostly, life gets a little more exp...

SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

The esteemed band 'My Bloody Valentine' announced more shows in the UK. Yet when I went to purchase presale tickets, ...

Dark, winter-y, eXistenZial questions

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of casse...

I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet alone via it's headphone jack to the amplifier. ...

As a man of Science, I’m supposed to hide my enthusiasm about this somewhat controversial subject, and instead direct...

It all started last winter when I innocently posted a review for a heated vest I had bought on Amazon. I was happy wi...

Quite accidentally, it looks like we timed our last talk about the stock market pretty darned well. Back in February ...

Expose a local database to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel and Hyperdrive

Simple ClickHouse intro by analyzing GPX activity data

Fun with HTTP proxies and user space tunnels with Wireguard

Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.

There are plenty of CLI tools to calculate the checksum of files. But, which one is the fastest?

How to use fwupd to update device's firmware on Linux.

Carding the CEO is the ultimate unit test.

Spent hours trying to identify my neighbor's piano song through apps.

Any product you can think of, Crafty can build.

An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form f...

A summary our trip to Austin, TX to be a community exhibitor at 2025 Texas Linux fest! Especially the success of the ...

I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! ...

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...

I’ve been taking a few timelapse videos recently and as an ammeter I’ve just been using the default phone camera apps...

Timeline and discovery: the early days The simple timeline of my journey sounds deceptively easy at first: I found ou...

Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or any...

Listen, there isn’t much in this world that’s as luxurious as being able to pee whenever you want to. Imagine floatin...

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

Building interactive graph visualizations with Sigma React - from basic setup to advanced customizations

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

Entschuldigung für mein kaputtes Deutsch. :) Die Hauptfrage ist, was die Anforderungen für eine korrekte Synchronisat...

§ general [2] Tanenbaum: A process is just an instance of an executing program, including the current values of the p...

Per Brinch Hansen, The nucleus of a multiprogramming system.1 ;pretty much the paper the started microkernels … but i...

Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this a...

In January 2024 I started making small video games for pure fun. After some practice, playtesting with friends and ne...

In the past few months, I started thinking about how I use social networks and the impact they have on my life. Today...

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva