Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
You have reached my personal website. This is where I put my thoughts and feelings: about life, art, &c. (I also have a professional site, if that's what you're looking for.) This is my personal sandbox: a garden, a toolshed, a home-cooked meal. Enjoy your stay!
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It’s been a long time since I wrote poetry, honestly too long. When I was writing poetry fairly regularly, I wrote a mixture of free verse and formed verse. Verse forms are fun because they’re an exercise in constrained writing, which...
Configuration bankruptcy is someting of a meme in the Emacs community, to the point where there is a dedicated wiki page describing the phenomenon. As a fully-programmable text editor, Emacs configuration tends toward spaghetti over...
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree I really enjoyed Travis Baldree’s first cozy fantasy novel about Viv the orc and her non-adventurous adventures serving this new-fangled beverage called coffee. Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel to...
Let me begin by saying that web bookmarks are great. You can just save links that you find interesting or that you think you might need later, and there they are waiting for you when you need them. I hope that whoever came up with that...
Like many millenials, I played a good amount of The Sims as a kid. However, I didn’t really play it for the telling-people-what-to-do part … I was in it for the setup. I still remember my favorite house: it was all propped up on the...
Everyone (for some values of everyone) knows GNU nano, the editor that you use when you don’t know how to use emacs or vim (I’m sorry nano lovers). Nano is a fork of pico, the editor integrated with the alpine mail client. Both nano and...
I didn’t really read between December and March. I did a little Moby Dick, but mostly I worked on this website and chatting on IRC. I decided I should finally get back into reading again, so I could write this, if I’m being frank. He...
Spring has always been my favorite season. New life, green grass, blue sky, flowers, rain—what’s not to love? Of course, it’s not all roses and sunshine: my allergies go nuts this time of year, and when we lived under a mockingbird for a...
Madeline [full text], by Ludwig Bemelmans, is rightly a classic of children’s literature. Its iconic imagery and characters have been adapted into numerous other media, and I’d be willing to bet that most readers could finish the second...
This month’s Emacs Carnival, my first participating, is titled “Mistakes and Misconceptions.” This story happened over the past few years, behind the scenes, and was just resolved this month when I posted about an annoyance I had with...
Love it or hate it, everyone is talking about AI all the time. It’s so boring. It’s worse than talking about global warming or US politics or anything else, because AI, as a topic, has all the problems of those things—i.e., there are...
Over the years since I’ve had this domain, I’ve written a lot of stuff. I’ve also rewritten my website multiple times, and every time I’ve had to port my old content over to the new site. I think this is going to be the last time I do...
I just saw an article that called itself “yet another goddamn article about generative AI”—it’s good, by the way, you should read it—so I want to keep this somewhat brief. I’ve been wanting to write something about em dashes and AI for a...
It’s official. About 20 minutes ago, I deleted my Hetzner VPS that I’ve had since October 2020 (and that my wife rightly pointed out I bought in the depths of Covid … whatever happened during Covid, right? crazy times) and moved this...
I have remade my website (yet again) and now generate it with (yet another) SSG of my own design. For some while, my I-don’t-have-anything-to-do-but-I-want-to-program project was SSGs, so I’ve written quite a few. They’re fairly simple...