The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow. The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayles … »
Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. … »
The belly hangs over the belt, but it fits … »
- I’m trying #100DaysToOffload
- Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price
- Filtering RSS feeds by tag
- An unsolved question in sleep science
- A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit
- Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support
- Sleep is a continuum
- Wallabag wins, despite its flaws
- Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing
- Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
- Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API
- How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device
- What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?
- A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files
- Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript
- Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works
- First impressions of Readeck
- Human beings are waterproof
- The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols
- I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one
- Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult
- My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live
- It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin
- I fixed my crashing AWS t2.micro instance by adding swap
- You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble
- My free Silver price API now has an RSS feed with the day’s bid price
- A basic way to hotreload an AppImage
- Script: bulk star Wallabag entries by URL
- Script: bulk star Readeck entries by URL (with URL cleaning)
- In Praise of Earnestness
- An extremely silly bug
- OCR Typewritten Documents with a Local Vision Model (Qwen3-VL:8B + Ollama)
- How to pause and resume a resource-intensive process on Linux with SIGSTOP: specifically, Ollama LLM inference
- Something good happened to my memory, and I have a theory about what caused it
- Star rating support has been merged into the Readeck KOReader plugin
- How to increase Ollama context length
- Insomnia isn’t a waste of time
- Maybe don’t optimize conversion rate?
- Handy.computer is the Linux dictation app I've always wanted.
- A strange workaround for when the capacitive touch screen of your e-reader isn’t responding to dry fingers: use your nose
- An unexpected benefit of docking my laptop beside my desk
- Sonder is a word I like
- Taking responsibility for my energy levels
- TIL how to accidentally overwrite a decade worth of data in LibreOffice calc
- PSA: local AI handwriting recognition is usable now
- De-optimize your search terms to skip the SEO slop
- The Evening Writing Effect
- Social Cache Busting
- The Fewer Ingredients The Better
- Paste clipboard contents in places where you can’t paste
- It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux
- We don’t know until the end, and it’s never the end
- Underrated reasons to dislike AI
- How I find the email addresses of public figures 🔒
- An indie blog’s directory of indie blog directories
- Ideas Evolve in Dialogue
- Old site, new site bookmarklets
- Sheep Music & Wedding Bands
- Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired
- My criteria for a good Linux developer laptop
- The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination
- Curation and its side effects
- Bothering to understand
- Delusional Optimism & the Art of Sneaking Up on Your Goals
- The art of getting back on one’s horse
- The bid-ask spread on used physical goods
- All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared
- How to drain pasta without a colander, without burning yourself
- 20 years of Linux and I finally started using job control
- Backpack Activation Energy
- Bookmarklet: Copy Ghost Post ID to Clipboard
- The search for a good offline dictionary for Linux
- Treat People as Flowers
- Let’s call ‘em “aigents”
- How to fit Qwen 3.6 35B A3B into 16GB of VRAM, & run it with Llama.cpp on an RTX 3080
The portmanteau is overdue … »
Sometimes people say goodnight by saying, see you in the morning, if that’s expected. This bugs me.[1] While I certainly hope to see them in the morning, and consider it highly … »
… proved longer than expected … »
Save several milliseconds with two lines of JavaScript … »
Portrait of a gumption trap … »
A cooking tip for unusually bright cave people … »
Along with the money bet on them? … »
For most of my life I fundamentally misunderstood buy & sell prices … »
You can succeed, but you can't fail — because you aren't officially trying … »
First it makes you slow, then it makes you fast (maybe) … »
Some fundamentals about how it works, and what to do when it doesn't … »
Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time … »