Sad to see @1Password’s blockchain shenanigans

I can’t recommend their software any more if this is a signal of the company’s direction.

Buying a new graphics card

Only realising what digital designers and gamers have been crying about for years.

Comparing lzop and plzip compression

And why it’s important to get your priorities right when choosing one.

Change git repo to use SSH not HTTPS

git remote set-url origin

What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS

Responding to a few Twitter comments.

Paying with cash, old school

And the societal impact of digits on a computer screen.

Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD

Written in memory of Jörg Schilling ♡

Why are people falling for NFTs?

Trying to figure out why people would act against their own interest.

URL trends from 2013

It’s fun seeing how much you can glean just from an address.

Redundancy in IT isn’t

If redundant data is a requirement, it’s not redundant.

Kate is a fantastic text editor!

Rediscovering the KDE editor.

Crypto-“currency” snakeoil

A Bank of England blog post did a thorough job explaining the architectural and speculative dangers.

The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole

Finding a use for one of my spare PIs I bought on impulse a few years ago.

My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?

Realising I didn’t need X for my on-call machine turned into a fun experiement.

Week numbers in LibreOffic Calc

=WEEKNUM(cell; 21)

Archiving 24 years of personal email

Why am I still carrying all this around?!

Repairability of laptops

Soldered storage is my red line, though it’s becoming all too common.

The future of the Jekyll static-site generator

The project is still receiving updates, but one of the former core developers claims it’s on permanent hiatus.

Thinking about a reversible sleeper PC

The fans probably don’t make this possible or easy, but hopefully I can do it with little cosmetic impact.

Defensive blogging

Here are some things I’ve learned to stave off the worst people.