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I’ve been slowly organizing/migrating my ancient configurations.

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:43:06 +0000

I’ve been slowly organizing/migrating my ancient configurations.
I glanced at my spam folder yesterday and it looks like craft wants to be the word of the year. I still have lots of vim power tools, vim drill bits, and vim drill sets in my toolbox.

I don’t get to use vim as much as I’d like to but maybe I’ll get a chance to clip out more esoteric stuff from vim, neovim, and other niche terminal programs.

Permalink #programs

It’s been a while since I’ve closely watched the news.

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:57:37 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve closely watched the news. You know, in politics it’s not so much who’s right and who’s wrong, but moreso another pair of questions. Why is there a fight, and why now? I’m an advocate of the most controversial political opinion. Politics should be boring.

Permalink #musings

I wonder.

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:09:48 +0000

I wonder. I don’t know for sure what everyone’s doing to their connections with VPN (virtual private network) software these days but being considered a bot every so often is a great productivity hack.

Permalink #web

There are apparently some who think I’m an old archivist.

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:04:16 +0000

There are apparently some who think I’m an old archivist. I may have once worked at an archiving place before though. I’m young but I’ve felt old since ~2019.

Someone tossed a delightfully devilish idea. If the world hasn’t ended yet and I somehow do this a third time (~2031), maybe I’ll try to resurrect and programmatically annotate data starting from 1962.

Why?

It makes the metagame entirely obvious for the future naive souls willing to play. The constitution’s first-past-the-post realpolitik meta is no joke.

Permalink #web

The silly season has already started?

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:47:31 +0000

The silly season has already started? For those interested, I’ll hide this election tracker here early for now. It’s a homework in progress. I’ve added incumbents (using 2021 polling data) and a timeline. Hopefully I didn’t make or copy too many mistakes…

After powering through years of local news, I’m no longer clueless and if there’s one thing that’s legendarily accurate, it’s letters to the editors in printed papers. Once 2026 polling data is finalized, I’ll make myself extra rare while pouring a nice cup of hot tea.

Permalink #web

It’s Friday the 13th and I’ve just been lorem ipsum’d in the face.

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:24:29 +0000

It’s Friday the 13th and I’ve just been lorem ipsum’d in the face. I’ve always preferred the textual rickroll while researching (quick & painless gotcha). Since 2023, I’ve mostly stopped reading articles.

The time saving trick now is to look at title dissimilarities and speed-read lightly. The new lorem ipsum is a thick labyrinth of maze like semantics that looks amazing, says nothing and something, and may violate the simpler laws of physics.

There are mistakes in places where they shouldn’t be and unfortunately I can’t play industrial scale spot the difference.

Permalink #web

I’ve been slowly trying to fix one of my aggregators.

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:54:12 +0000

I’ve been slowly trying to fix one of my aggregators. I ended up discovering (quite happily) that Saint Lucia eventually caught up, and that there’s a neat book written about that scheme.

Now I’m tempted to compare notes with the hyperreality (for science). Anytime I mistakenly read into stuff, the situations are even more absurd than I remember. Getting scammed enough times is a viable short cut to Kant’s enlightenment (or something).

Permalink #web

I actually peeked at that social media data.

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:21:16 +0000

I actually peeked at that social media data. And it’s surprisingly good. I’m still questioning if it’s worth tracking the election this time round (no guarantees). The 2026 election doesn’t feel like it’ll be as interesting as 2021 and the hard part is researching candidates.

It turns out that I actually saved my copy of 2021 polling data, but of course the incumbents redrew the boundaries to make it extra fun.

Bonus: I didn’t notice before, but there’s also data on generative AI use worldwide and locally.

Permalink #web

I came across some violently classical programming humor.

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:41:28 +0000

I came across some violently classical programming humor. Is HTML still even a pen knife in the hand?

OWASP’s cheat sheets are really good for quickly learning about web security gotchas. The load averages here appear nominal, so perhaps my servers haven’t been disembodied just yet.

Permalink #webdev

I saw this riddle in a local newspaper the other day:

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:25:20 +0000

I saw this riddle in a local newspaper the other day:

‘The visitors had missed their turn, doubled back, but “forgot” to stay on the right side of the road.’

Anyone speaking in writing has my ultimate props.

Permalink #musings