Blogs tagged "variety"

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...

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover...

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the on...

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically ...

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventu...

Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes h...

Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4: The Age of Religious Conflict. It is the...

Posts The following posts were written last month. Books 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham Can I ...

A professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.

A simple method for checking in; a reading & a game for Disability Pride Month; plus some recent updates across the s...

Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have infl...

YouTube is trying to become everything you watch on the TV. Luckily, there are still ways to opt. At least for now.

How much does your choice of email provider matter? In some sense as an individual not much. However, together our ch...

It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to ge...

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Some lists of Bourdain's that I liked.

Thinking ahead.

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 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...

28 July 2026 marked my 34th birthday. Being the birthday person did not mean I did not need to do chores when it was ...

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Casset...

Maternal Uncle's Funeral Permalink to section 'Maternal Uncle's Funeral' # On 21 May 2026, we received the news that ...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

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.

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Archiving the old blog CSS. Just in case.

I like things that make me think.

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already ...

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Around this time I often see some people posting about the Blaugust blogging challenge to post every day during Augus...

It's August! Somehow the year is already 2/3rds over. The World Gaza: Huh, Hamas has reportedly agreed to disarmement...

Writing this post mostly so I can refer to it again later if needed. A while back I taught my dad how to save YT vide...

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.

Data scientists and clinicians provide their perspectives on how humans and AI can safely work together in intensive ...

Software engineering practices differ between domains and companies. Who’d have thought?

I talk about our recent migration of ticketing systems, AI slop, and toxic positivity

I talk about my evolving opinion on AI, A failed attempt to run local models, and a broken Macbook.

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