I was perusing Annie's Love letters 1-5 (from 82MHz' blog post) today, and I was struck with the subject of happiness:
Most of all, do not bear the burden of your own happiness.
It made me think of an odd thing that happened when I was playing cards with near …
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Read MoreAfter the enjoyable success of Writing Month last November, I feel like I want to start a new challenge for 2025: "100 Days To Offload."
I'm going to aim for 10 blog posts per month (which is an average of one blog post every 3.04 days), finishing on October …
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Read More1920x1080. That's it. Goodnight, folks!
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Wait, WAIT.
My actual resolution is to use RSS feeds as my primary source of diversion on the go, vs. Pavlovically checking the Fediverse every five minutes, or even worse, getting stuck in an hours-long YT Shorts brainrot watching spree.
If you're looking …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Entertainment FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Productivity
Read MoreI was reading Deadly Headshot's toot on Christmas day, and it got me thinking about Object Permanence and social media.
The funny thing is, I can remember conversations I had on IRC in the late 1990s, but there are many people I greatly enjoyed conversing with on the Fediverse …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Social Media
Read MoreAcross three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable.
I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Polemic Prose
Read MoreI was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, TuxJam the other day, and they were discussing ways to watch YouTube without the annoyances that Google has added to the experience, namely ads and the inability to download videos for later viewing (also, YouTube stopped letting you listen to videos …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Entertainment Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post PeerTube Productivity UNIX Unix Tips Video
Read MoreWell, today is the last day of Writing Month, and this is my 20th blog post of 20, which is what I signed up for.
My last post was a lot more involved and time-consuming than I expected, so I wanted to end on a high note, with a fairly …
Category: Life Tagged: Beauty Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
Read MoreAs I wrote in yesterday's article, I have a soft spot in my heart for laptops. They exist in this incredibly sweet spot where convenience and agency/freedom converge in the very best way, possible. I bought my first laptop in 1995 with my very hard-earned money, but let's start …
Category: Tech Tagged: ADHD Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Life Linux Non-religious post Productivity Retrocomputing UNIX WritingMonth
Read MoreAs I was "delightscrolling" (the opposite of doomscrolling) around on the Fediverse yesterday, I came across this toot that perfectly describes how a lot of us are feeling these days:
I loved computers.
I loved what technology promised.
This wasn't that long ago!
Now it just makes me sad and …
Category: Ethics, Philosophy, Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics Non-religious post Non-technical post Retrocomputing WritingMonth
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In the halcyon days of 16-bit microcomputers, there was a computer graphics technique used by many demos and some games known as Palette Rotation, Palette Shifting, Palette Animation, or Color Cycling.
Computers weren't fast enough to change the entire contents of screen memory in graphics mode (even relatively low …
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