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Dave Gauer

Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.

Latest Posts

Woo! It's Done! nasmjf Forth

ratfactor · 3y

Another FORTH interpreter roams the Earth! It's my NASM assembly port of JONESFORTH. Because I'm a human being, it was over a year in the making. "Unfortunately, no one can be...

** RSS Club ** | When Hot Takes are Too Hot

ratfactor · 3y

RSS Club* Wow, I wasn't expecting yesterday's rant to appear HN. My only regret is that I didn't state my actual frustration well and I was clearly misunderstood...

** RSS Club ** | School vs Wikipedia (RANT WARNING)

ratfactor · 3y

RSS Club* HATE-FILLED RANT: What the hell is going on at my local public school system?

Auto-login in Slackware

ratfactor · 3y

I now have two machines set up to auto-login and I love it. These instructions may apply to some non-Slackware Linuxes as well. Also, gnome-keyring-daemon needs some UI help...

Linux Data Recovery - the stupid way!

ratfactor · 3y

I was afraid I'd lost the beginings of a new project when my old EeePC (circa 2007) drive finally became corrupted. But I was able to do the simplest, stupidest recovery you can...

** RSS Club ** | nosurf3

ratfactor · 3y

RSS Club* Exclusive SECOND followup to the previous "nosurf" post. Getting closer and closer to the truth...

** RSS Club ** | AI vs Art

ratfactor · 3y

(OLD PERSON RANT WARNING) It turns out, I do regret posting this to my Virtual Box of Cards. But not for saying it. I stand by what I wrote here for now. Also, this new title...

Dave's OpenBSD Blog 1 - Installation, disklabels

ratfactor · 3y

My OpenBSD exploration begins! Well, began a while ago, but now I'm SeRIouS about it. This first post is about the installation experience...

** RSS Club ** | Hello Mastodon! (Goodbye Instagram)

ratfactor · 3y

RSS Club* Hey, if you read my feed, I guess you care what I'm up to. So Mastodon is what I'm up to! Check it out.

Needle Felting

ratfactor · 3y

I resisted the urge as long as I could. Because Dave Doesn't Need Another Hobby. But needle felting is cool! I'm updating this page as I make progress. (This post is mostly...

** RSS Club ** | nosurf2

ratfactor · 3y

RSS Club* Exclusive followup to the previous "nosurf" post. Great news, everybody!

Computers as Workspaces

ratfactor · 3y

This was just a "shower thought", but it turned into into an IndieWeb "reply". For that reason, I'm adding it to this feed. :-)

The Phased Approach

ratfactor · 3y

I already knew this, but sometimes it's really pleasant to turn yourself into a factory worker on your own project...

Wordleshare

ratfactor · 4y

After tiring of jumping through ridiculous hoops to privately share Wordle results with family, I created a really simple Perl CGI application to do the job... This is what...

Dave's Virtual Box of Cards

ratfactor · 4y

Okay, I've done it! I've started a Zettelkasten. Only, I'm not following anybody's rules. I'm just calling these "cards". I'm already loving this. (Oh, and just so you know, all...
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