Nell'ultimo fine settimana ho staccato dal social web (che nel mio caso significa Livello Segreto nel fediverso e Instagram nel bruttomondo)...

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t that hard, you just need to….”, but the...

After receiving my Steam Deck OLED and getting my games installed on it, my old 256 GB Steam Deck started to collect dust. I originally thought about having it permanently docked and connected to my TV as an emulation system, but I ended up falling back to the MiSTer or playing older games on original hardware.

Here, I’m bringing together all 19 book reviews I’ve written for fantasy books read in 2024, as originally published on my Bookwyrm account. With the exception of cookbooks, fantasy has always been my most prevalent reading genre (although I’ll admit there’s a bit of presenting myself in a certain way on the...

I think watching note taking videos broke my brain. Thinking back to high school and college, I used to write some quite serviceable essays. I didn’t need linking, a personal wiki, transclusions, block references, or even atomic notes. I had primary sources, a few pages of notes, and a handful of index cards. I...

Tim Carmody wrote a piece earlier in the week about why HTML is a programming language: Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language. “That’s not real code; it’s just markup” is a common refrain. Now, I’m no...