Just a quick note...

Thu 21 August 2025

...to let you all know why I haven't been blogging for the past couple weeks.

After many years of fighting with illness, and multiple organ failures, my mother passed away peacefully last Tuesday night.

I'm doing ok, overall, but haven't had much motivation to write. Everything is still very surreal to me. I'm not sure when I will resume writing in earnest, or if I will comlplete the 100 Days to Offload this year. I'm also not sure if I will participate in Writing Month at all this year. (But I don't anticipate a terribly long hiatus, in either case).

I'm currently combing through over 200,000 photos stored haphazardly on an old backup disk (along with some duplicates, which I'm attempting to identify with md5sum) to collect photos of my mom for her upcoming Celebration of Life.

I've noticed one theme over and over again:
She's not looking at the camera maybe a quarter of the time. She was often looking to the side, at others.

The reason?

She was always more interested in making sure everyone else was happy and having a good time than looking pretty for her own photos.

Selah.

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I Miss Palette Rotation

Tue 26 November 2024

A hand-animated "Growing Heart Emoji" in the style of 16-bit-era palette animation (3 frames)

Background

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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My Every Day Carry, Part V: What's on My Phone?

Sun 24 November 2024

In Part IV, I discussed wristwatches. In this article, I'm jumping back into my pocket, so to speak, with a look at what's on my phone itself.

This was a rather exhausting article to write, because I have a lot of apps on my phone. I have even been ridiculed …

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What is FOSS?

Sun 24 November 2024
Note: This article was originally written last December, and was sidelined because I didn't feel it was finished. Reading through it this morning, I realized reason that I never "finished" it is because the next step would've been to write a 1280-word chapter, which is no small feat. But honestly …

Category: Tech Tagged: BSD Computing Content Warning Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) FreeBSD Linux Non-religious post Philosophy UNIX WritingMonth

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