Posts tagged "variety"

Creative Ways To Market Your Austin Business

Marketing is essential for promoting your business, launching new products and services, and enticing new customers. It’s a competitive world, and you need to create effective marketing strategies ...

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Trumps Sturmabteilung

Lange habe ich nur vorsichtig Parallelen zwischen den Nazis und dem Trump-Regime gezogen. Nicht mehr.

Weekly Notes 04/2026

I have a sore throat and a cold. I think I got it from Uma, and she got it from school. I have also been talking a lot in meetings this week, and that’s not helping. Also, it’s very cold.

Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.

The fun internet is dead

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct i...

CGMs Part 1 - Great FOSS tools for an OK Quality Consumer CGM

A Stelo CGM I had was expiring so I decided to try out xDrip+. One of those two things works really well. In this part I talk about CGMs in general.

Books: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #16)

“Oh, no!” said Asphalt. “How long were you asleep?” “Same as I am awake,” said Cliff. Finished reading Soul Music, Discworld book #16. I like the idea of Susan as a character; she's a good addition...

Modern Solution: Good riddance!

Modern Solution, bekannt für Inkompetenz in der IT-Sicherheit und das Verklagen eines Entwicklers, der ihnen diese Sicherheitslücke mitgeteilt hat, ist wohl insolvent.

Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine

A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.

Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up

0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...

Personal System Design: 10 Steps to Master Your Life by Design, Not Default

Here to find out about personal system design? Every successful person — from entrepreneurs to athletes — has one thing in common: systems, and that is why we are going to speak more about personal...

Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.

Back to Basics on an old Bike

I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solut...

Return to Linux

Last week I set up Linux Mint + Windows dual boot on my computer! I am writing this post from the comfort of my desktop running Linux Mint (dual boot with Windows)! Previously Tracing through previ...

With paper, glue & scissors: how little zines can make a big difference

Two ways to make an 8-page mini-zine using stuff you already have—and three reasons why you might do this.

PixelFade Studio VN Review Project

Canadian OELVN developer PixelFade Studio announced its "retirement" from visual novel development on January 19, 2026. I announce my plan to cover the three PFS novels I have not yet covered and i...