General interest blogs covering a mix of topics
Personal blog exploring open-source software, Linux customization, and minimalist computing, alongside travel stories and reflective essays.
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I talk about my time on Linux and the programs at the heart of my setup
Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies
I’ve just put out a review of various Star Trek: Lower Decks spin-off publications over on my books-movies-and-TV blo...
Shannon Appelcline has cultivated a bit of a career as an RPG historian, producing material which is less academic th...
For the last year and a bit, I’ve been running the second edition of The One Ring for my Wednesday evening group. It’...
the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.
As an onboard medic with a major French merchant shipping company, Doctor Bataille had the opportunity to see the wor...
Eighteen months is too long to wait… but it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer than that. After previously ann...
If I had a vial of blood for every 1980s vampire movie that prominently includes a musical artist who established the...
Writings by Alexander Harkness
The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...
Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...
London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...
isthisit? blog
Sutton. Sutton Railhut. Up the Rock and Pillar. Loganburn. Lammermoor. Waipiata. Hamiltons I. Hamiltons II. Hamiltons...
The Sutton landscape summons me to Rohan in The Lord of the Rings. Golden grasses and jagged schist cover the landsca...
The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel. The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the...
Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.
With Phase 1 of Riverfront Plaza completed, the City of Jacksonville is gearing up to move forward with the construct...
Construction sights and scenes from a recent April 2026 walk through downtown Jacksonville's rapidly rising Pearl Squ...
In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM), The Jaxson takes a closer look at a business that made a l...
Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.
The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present
On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...
Where the leaves are perennially virid
After reading that pumpernickel bagels are becoming endangered, I set out to buy, photograph, eat, and write about on...
Wherein I caution against using Reddit to complain about AI on Pinterest from the perspective of someone who does not...
A comprehensive survey of NBA teams that went from missing the playoffs one year to making the Finals the next, with ...
Writing What I Want
Sometimes I want to do an exercise and record it in MapMyFitness, but MapMyFitness doesn’t have that particular exerc...
Since it was just released, there’s been a lot of press and blog posts around the web about the new screenless Google...
Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that numbe...
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When it comes to weight management, you need to learn how to separate the genuinely helpful advice from the misinform...
Whether you want to integrate smart home technology or need emergency electrical repairs, it’s essential to find the ...
When it comes to managing the payroll, you need to get it right. This is why many small businesses are turning to pay...
Open ubuntu Settings-> Keyboard shortcuts Click on + at the bottom to add custom shortcut and use command ‘flameshot ...
A very lightweight and powerful tool to loadtest any http endpoints is k6. It allows you to run basic javascripts in ...
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“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...
The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...
Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...
croft: traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon
I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...
Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...
Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...
Read McSatiated Customer: "I want… two twenty-nugget meals! That’s… that's… forry! I want forry nuggets! And nine sau...
Read Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Fraud Customer: "This TV sucks. I need my money back." Me: "Do you have your recei...
Read Going Bananas About Ananas Customer: "Can I speak to a manager?" Me: "You are speaking to the highest-ranking ma...
Empowering creative people
Understanding deep work in practice is the difference between simply being busy and actually getting meaningful thing...
Mental stamina is the quiet superpower behind almost every meaningful achievement. It is the reason some people can s...
Looking for fresh side hustle ideas for professionals who already have a demanding 9 to 5 and want to earn extra inco...
The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
So, the funny thing is that I really did want to blog for the 25th anniversary of Firefly next year because it was my...
Someday all of the posts to Once We Were Browncoats will get imported here as part of the ongoing blog restoration pr...
In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...