Advertisers love absolutes!
Midnight McCartney, John Pizzarelli
Wouter Groeneveld on retrotech
Figuring out water
Matching toolkits and desktop environments
Espresso mouse
pgdoc.link is wildly useful
Which self-hosted RSS reader do you use?
The Duke of Edinburgh Award
Tech work satisfaction and fulfillment
An incomplete list of coffee I haven’t tried
Michał Sapka’s new home
I miss my paper theme
The benefits of slow walking
Domain transfer locks for your domains
ruben.coffee is now live
Xmas 2024 season officially starting
The last brief window before modern “manfluencers”
A ping DUP!
Fourplay live in Tōkyō 2013
Unhelpful sites for moving
Where Prism stores the Minecraft folder
We own our own home!
Scott
Favourite Mastodon posts, week 42 2024
RSS readers that use titles from HTML?
The Logitech M240 Silent Bluetooth Mouse
Follow up on my “optics matter” post
RFC: issue with feed readers not showing titles
Asking for feedback before a resolution
AMD shelving high-end GPU plans
Returning to the dual-browser life
Goodbye to an old spreadsheet
GCC un-depracating Itanium
My short-lived 10-inch rack plans
The worst etiquette sin ever
WordPress, work, and why optics matter
Single dose, low retention coffee grinders
Building a small, dense homelab cluster
Soap holder language
It’s official: I’m a funky NetBSD guy
My AeroPress has a new lease of life
Web tech needs diversity
The scale difference between prod and homelabs
Fixing pagination in Hugo 0.135.0
Show 429: The pa-paya pa-pa-paya episode
HTTPS as an accessibility issue
An October 2024 browser monoculture update
The uConsole, as recommended by you!
Ganggajang, Sounds of Then
Konrad Zuse via Joshua Coleman
The gorgeous SDS 940 from 1966
An OQO or Hand386 successor for commuting?
Do you run more than one BSD?
The CUPS vulnerability is oddly nostalgic
My A-Z toolbox: bwm-ng
There’s something about Matt
New train service linking Paris and Berlin
Power imbalances at coffee shops
Why do you specifically like those retrocomputers?
I now refer to RSS et.al. as web feeds
We moved our home DB to PostgreSQL
Goodbye, Amelia Watson 🔎 💛
Language analysis in a post-LLM world
Things I wish I knew
An advanced case of “In Their Defence”
The promise of HTML and CSS
We b-bought a home
The good life ☕️
Boeing Starliner back on Earth
“You’re not smiling enough”
Westpac’s six digit passwords
Brewed coffee over espresso
George Fame: I Love the Life I Live
Eight pointless facts about me
We’ll just replace the system!
Betty Abah on great society
The “email is authentication” pattern
Germany’s sovereign tech fund invests in FreeBSD
Japan’s new entry system for foreign travellers
Hardware features I wish could come back
Still on an M1 MacBook Air
SATA as a legacy connector
Picking up a Power Mac G4 QuickSilver
Farewell to AnandTech
A History of Scotland, by Neil Oliver
Wake up, it's a beautful day: the logistics of life
“The road less travelled”
Why some might not want to publish web feeds
Stopping MacBook screens from sleeping
Researching home lab racks
Ben Sidran, On the Cool Side
Some fun little retro Mini Brands
Making coffee at home as an economic signal
My A-Z toolbox: aria2
Generative AI is a security vulnerability
Being second with physical media
The Dev Encyclopedia
“Your experience with $FOO” spam
Goodbye, Phil Donahue
Personal Wi-Fi hotspots at coffee shops
Virus scans don’t automatically render a file safe
House inspections
Jason Gorman on speed and productivity
TM initialisms
Stein’s Law
Coffee shop chatter, August 2024
Our first home server, and rekindling that joy
2× HiDPI > 1× > 1.5×
Some Olympic events I’d win
The Dell OEM Sound Blaster Live! CT4780
Sites over platforms over sites
Australian trees in the Artarmon Reserve
BSD people discussing alternatives, limitations
POP UP PARADE Racing Miku 2023
My Gravatar was reactivated… huh
AMD’s new 65 watt CPUs are a huge achievement
Managers want remote work to end
Detecting warp drive bubbles
(Finally!) cutting shelves for our robot Hi-Fi
The importance of trees
A simple 86box shell script menu
Geoff’s LEGO Tube map, with working trains
Cancel your Gravatar, now!
SD to IDE adaptors, and revisiting retrocomputer storage
Differences in health approaches, via Patreon
Dark Angel, as discussed by Adrift
Happy August everyone
Can’t use /home on macOS
86Box 4.2 supports the wonderful ESS AudioDrive!
Adrianna Pińska on systemic problems
Music Monday: This is What You Came For?
Premature scale optimisation
My favourite childhood edutainment games
To be seen working
Sorted Food questions for your dream meal
Gorgeous replica Australian Olympic outfits
Performance issues, and posts from Thursday
Decision making is social behaviour
Repairing a Samsung DVD-Master from 2001
The 1983 JVC A-K100 stereo amplifier
A logic gate experiment lab on Tindie
rsync with a different SSH port
Performance issues from Europe
Japan’s Shimatetsu Café Train
The day the CrowdStrike died
Adrian Black’s Plexus P/20 UNIX machine
Not using PostgreSQL stored procedures?
929 pages
I like Gemini and Gopher… but also HTML
A pointless A-Z of hypervisors and adjacent tech
The new SilverStone CS382 homelab case
Australia needs more rail freight
Disable Firefox 128’s latest adware “feature”
Researching cameras in 2024
How not to leak customer data
Some Proton Saga Hot Wheels
Useful cross-platform desktop emulators
But chatbots are better than $FOO!
Boeing and Spirit Aerosystems
When web search failed me for Postgres
Yerevan on my mind
Cautious optimism for the industry after AI pops
Singaporean hospital cleaning robot catches fire
Keeping Hi-Fi gear cool
Melbourne now getting an airport train… maybe?
Vietnam, and “blog more about anime!”
Tom Nicholas on the 2024 UK elections
Visual greenery is healthy
Fingers crossed, France
It’s rare, so I have to get it?
An update on painting my NR200P case beige
Favourite things in May 2024
A return to computing innocence
Foods that aren’t potato
Finding Pentium 3 parts by the side of the road!
Attributes for my ideal computer cases
What’s your alternative?
The Apple II shows how amazing the C64 was
All web “content” is freeware
Persistence and delayed gratification
Sunaookami Shiroko by Good Smile Company
Room elephants
Justin Jaffray on approximating domain knowledge
Launching my Retro Corner, thanks to Wesley Moore
Music Monday: Otonablue cover by Liz
The other side of nostalgia, and the IndieWeb?
Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame’s Hololive debut! 🇬🇧
The housekeeping namespace
We’ve had high fidelity music for a while now
The enduring appeal of Aldi
The CP/M Card and Gold Card for the Apple II
Show 428: The balcony memories episode
The Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension
Your life matters
Even the icons were wrong
“How old is that MS SQL Server?”
Takeaways from an AI event
Spam calls in Australia on the rise
Why you shouldn’t pipe genAI to STDOUT
The privelege of working from coffee shops
Bootstrapping CP/M-86 on an IBM 5160 PC/XT
I love Linux! ♡
Give people homes
Why coffee shops are magic (to me)
LED bulbs
Create a FreeBSD jail with just base.tgz
Bootstrapping PC DOS 3.30 on an IBM 5160 PC/XT
Creative Commons evaluates EU AI legislation
What are they doing to keep you?
Signals to make drivers behave
Intel phasing out hyper-threading
The IBM 5160 XT
Rasneko’s Sailor Mercury fanart
Another quick break
Stymied by a 1990s thermostat
The SPAOE Z80 Apple II card
The omake namespace
XFN versus OPML blogrolls
My 8, 32, and 64-bit desk!
“I can tell you’re human”
Practical differences between FreeBSD and Linux
Dave Farquhar on CD-ROMs in early PCs
Winter coffee shop chatter
Paul Gallico on hidden meaning
Rules of blogging, some of which can be ignored
My Tom n Toms coffee mug
A selection of Wi-Fi hotspot names
When Tramiel left Commodore for Atari
Getting Things Done: A personal retrospective
An Australian telco’s streaming service will...
Paywalls on stuff I pay for
NetBSD, AI-generated code, spam, and truth
An assertiveness tip: state the outcome
Took a couple of days
A letter to Jim Kloss, a year on
What does your fork website say you do?
My fun experience at a Scorptec store (no, really)!
2FA codes without password validation
Stack Overflow and LLM licencing
Goodbye, mailbox
Priming a CoolerMaster NR200P case for painting
The end of the AstraZeneca vaccine
My own silly intercom glitch in the Matrix
Using mkdir -p for multiple subdirectories
Music Monday: The real May the 4th
How Kissinger played both sides
Whatever happened to Akai?
Numbers that don’t have nine in them
Sakura-themed PC parts
Quick review: cookies.txt for Firefox
Why do you hate cars?
Peerless Assassin 120 versus 120 SE cooler
Cars are expensive, and limit where you can live
Australian Bonza Airlines ends
My own comment rules (and advice)
Explaing how or why something is
Coffee shop chatter, American edition
Seeing Hololive Down Under at Dreamhack
VMware outsourcing their support
A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
A residential gas company crying wolf
IPv6 addresses with port numbers
A beautiful early afternoon
Joseph Weizenbaum on AI psychotherapy
Latvian schools to stop teaching Russian
A tech marketing test
Change your Ghost blog URL with nginx
PmWiki is excellent
Ben Sidran’s Rainmaker available for preorder
Ignoring email for a bit
Singaporeans delaying or giving up on kids
Buying a matte screen protector
The idea of memory-safe programming in context
Comments that didn’t age well
This post went somewhere, then nowhere
Sorting offers a peek at design priorities
A Kingship Coffee in Mascot
Dokibird played Flight Simulator
What plastics really recycle: myths
Lessons from my Linux fun on Mastodon
Zebra crossings and right of way
Fixed a few bugs
OpenZFS website buttons
A thread about people who need to run Windows
No, AI won’t solve burnout!
I’m on Neopets again
SEO spam that says it isn’t
Wishing I Was Lucky, Wet Wet Wet
Now a 1:7 Claynel Ryza fig exists! Also acrylic stands
Some footpath developments
Importing worlds on a multiworld Minecraft server
Miku Expo 2024: The Good, Bad, and…
Nick Jordan reviews Australian instant coffees
Verify you’re a human before visiting
A National RC-6060 clock radio from 1985
Deshrouding my ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge?
Trying out the Kagi search engine
Rodriguez, I Wonder
Z80 cards for the Apple //e
Editing Dynmap YAML directly
Gymnastics New Zealand’s new attire rules
Waking up to Daylight Savings ending
📚 RMS Lusitania: A History in Picture Postcards
GamersNexus on SBF and cryptocurrency
Revisiting self-driving cars
Et tu, Samsung USB key?
One of these NICs is not like the others
Some Melbourne detail at night
Windows Server asking weird questions
Melbourne’s apartment cityscape
Reply Guy™ responses to being caught in the rain
Cataloguing some Melbourne trams
The xz backdoor
The science (or not) behind smartphones and anxiety
Happy Trans Day of Visibility
What’s with the macOS Bin?
Pardon, Plastic Bertrand
Thinking aloud about companies in the Fediverse
Some things you might not know about me
Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s IT overhaul
NetBSD 10 Release Candidate 6
He’s Nico Cartron
Emil on old computers for new writing
Demonstration of the restored WITCH computer
Dang Wangi station in Kuala Lumpur
Having a dedicated computer workbench again
The calming joy of pink noise
How YouTube treats MH370
Some wood for Firefox
Watching Capture the Moment, Holofes 5
The Women of Newnham and Bletchley Park
Finally got my ultimate retro KVM setup working!
The best blog posts are genuine
I pre-ordered the Tangara music player
The PA in Buzzy Explores the Airport
How do you connect retrocomputers to the web?
Movable Type and the Rise of WordPress
Boeing board against HQ move back to Seattle
Exporing OpenRailwayMap
Questions about modding my Blueberry iMac DV
John Berger and Tyson Yunkaporta on words
Music Monday: Icehouse, The Kingdom
An unintentional LED night light
The tiny NanoPi R2S
Copy/paste plain text should be the default
A coffee shop Wi-Fi tethering dead zone
Cockpit window masks, and anti-dazzle paint
Alternative GoTek drive mounting options
The Zed editor
Residential fire safety and inspections
Running NetBSD 10 Release Candidate 5!
Dokibird forth for vtubers in February
Ideas on why the 757 was retired
If you can, it must be inevitable and excusable
The Guardian is wrong about my Ukrainian friends
Fonts in Mariehamn
Most online marketplaces, in one screenshot
Assuming a component is the whole system
Google’s new login notice
Ron Escheté Ensemble does The Beatles
Quick review of the Pi1541 from Shareware Plus
Happy Lemon is back in Sydney 🍋
Cloudflare’s IPv6 map is missing something
The Drop CSTM80 barebones board
Buying a literal scrap of Commodore PC history
My Moka coffee cup, and some Sydney architecture
When a professional got a passphrase wrong
29th of February
“Sus” isn’t new!
Making my blog easier to use
Photos of the RMS Lusitania online
Coffee shop under new management
Trutnowy, Poland
“How can I link to your website blog?”
Shishiro Botan fig by Max Factory
Empathy for those outside North America and Europe
Resolution scaling discussion on Phoronix
Crowd dynamics at coffee shops
Discovering TT scale trainsets
SD cards became the ubiquitous superfloppy
Stadiums for art, not just sport
Euromaidan, and Alexei Navalny
Complexity, complexity everywhere
Phil Gerbyshak’s happiness boosters
Media accuracy on topics with which you’re familiar
Pieces of 8: BMCs
You don’t need to be a professional to provide feedback
Is it safe to like Times and Times New Roman yet?
Dan Hon’s resources for managing replies
Music Monday: Liners of the Golden Era
Doc Searls shares his nostalgic breakfast
8-Bit Software Fun: Starting with a Commodore
Put the code in the book
What can you put on a personal website?
Introducing my new 8-bit Software Fun series
Super Pascal, and does a dual Pi1541 drive exist?
More wood behind fewer tasks
Audio easter eggs in driver CDs
Conflicting messaging around Valentine’s Day
Toast, and fixing burnout with self-care
Crunchyroll reneging on Funimation Digital Copies
Alear from Fire Emblem Engage getting a fig
Vandragon_de’s 3D printable ocean liners
Pseudoephedrine in Australia
Best practices for HTML anchor titles
Diederick discusses tape storage and cartridges
PwC: The report is coming, bro!
My dmesg(1) reports a booting mind again!
Quick break, 2024
The EU’s iPhone plans
Longer-form posts
Is it worth collecting cassettes in 2024?
Mitigating LibreOffice 7 performance issues on MacOS
Modern C64 boards compared to original prices
My line about SEO being a red herring
Possessions are a gas, not a liquid
A 2024 Yellow Pages monitor stand
Build yourself a little FreeBSD jail services box
Getting back into Emacs
Fixing the retrocomputing tag
This blog is over 9000
My current favourite terminal colour schemes
Advertising and road safety
The VW “Phaeton Effect”
Coping with distractions, or something else?
One-liners are back on my Omake page
Ron Gilbert on enjoyment/engagement
MariaDB versus PostgreSQL, and dual-stacking
Jan Beta is my YouTube channel of the year
Multiple charsets in nginx
Modern Commodore 64 motherboards
Avoid using pie charts
My FourMore photo project
James’ new book on technical writing
The Narrator asked me to study this plant
E-waste still not taken seriously in Australia
Neil on the hope in Star Trek
Learning how to do weightloss
Moving my cloud VM to Brisbane
Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics
RSS clients on Windows
Cancelling subscriptions
Getting an ATI 9600 XT AGP card
The Internet Archive can browse ISOs
Apple should release a bike or scooter, not a car
Blocking someone sending comments
Can I control a system failure?
Michael Twitty on history, food, and family
Researching buying my first AGP GPU
Happy New Year, 2024!
Stephen Michael Kellat on news, and my last AI post
Ordering my first nylon 3D printed part
Russia’s latest volley at Ukraine, and Poland
Reflashing an SiI 3114 RAID into a SATA controller
A short, sharp storm
Jon Udell on critical mass, and social network size
An annual retrospective by numbers
Migrate your legacy Blogger accounts NOW!
Merry Xmas 2023, and a (positive!) status update
Organising email by source into six folders
Remembering our mum with family and cake
Generative AI: Create, Don’t Scrape
Third time’s the charm with XTIDE
The freemium model to support web “content”
Site updates: Omake, and no more post abstracts
Shiori Novella discusses vlogging gear
Australian inflation in 2024
Shopping, featuring Georgina
Losing 5.25-inch bays
Transit is about priorities, not just funding
Almost getting an Acorn Electron
New years resolution for 2024
An IT paper trail saving your butt? Well, maybe
Acoustic bikes and scooters
Thinking about the Framework laptop
Exploring a separated cycle path in St Leonards
Unsub Me Already: Todoist gets a fail
Patrick (H) Willems discusses “content”
Using an old computer for new writing
Coffee-themed Xmas tree
Train DRM
Bangkok MRT monorail open to passengers
Imagining a million versus billion
Delayed gratification and fear
People who need cash being left behind
Differentiating links to videos in text posts
Heatwave and Unicode in Sydney
Leo Babauta’s minimalist site guidelines
I wanted an HBA for FreeBSD, not a RAID JBOD
Pigeonholing your unrivalled tech buyers
Dreams where you can’t get anywhere fast
The Eifel region of Germany
Generative AIs don’t steal; their operators do
Set white backgrounds on transparent PNGs with ImageMagick
Bardinet VSOP brandy
Singular or plural follow-up
Human-induced climate change
Singular or plural verbs for singular nouns
Noticing the ground beneath my feet
Molly White on AI and effective altruism
In Sydney? Want a free Compaq retrocomputer?
Goodbye to Inasoul, and Banh and Boba
Retrocomputer FPGAs, featuring Wouter of Brain Baking
You can read audiobooks
Scott Hanselman and I got tired
Henry Kissinger
Tech I couldn’t live without: washing machines
HYTE case collaborations with Hololive
Price versus affordability and quality
Shinri and Reine found me some PS/2 cables!
Nico Cartron on French language misuse
That cool indie project? It’s no more!
HTML5 doesn’t like self-closing void elements
Having a move named after you: The Godwin!
First impressions of MacOS 14 Sonoma are good
It does everything, if it does something
Engaging more with the Fediverse and IndieWeb
Linear parks along Sydney train lines
Always buy old KVMs with cables
Can’t delete file on FreeBSD, even as root
FreeBSD 14-RELEASE’d!
December Time is when projects start
Is it safe to read tech news again?
Figuring out input selection on a Dell 4K panel
You look nice today!
Dan Olson and Adam Conover discuss the open web
Inkscape turns 20
Forbidden ais kacang
“That’s not how that works!”
Ninth anniversary of Expelled From Paradise
Clara’s Blue Bear Cat has a new book
Software doing what you want, not what you say
The costs of data archiving
Ruben’s Laws of Tabbed Interfaces
Alexis Wright on imagining the future
A bit of 486 CPU nostalgia and history
Preparing for tropical snow chains
Reaching 8,888 posts, and a bit of a retrospective
The Economist fails to defend car dependency
Goodbye to Flash Coffee
My popular opinions, part two
Indefinite detention ruled unlawful in Australia
Transit to office campusus
My default applications, via proycon
Replacing lights with a zebra crossing
AMD Microblaze V, and CPU diversity
Jay on AMD AM5 system stability
When you write for yourself…
The trend of no friends
Review of Titanic II
Giving up on a forever crossing
Answering James Savage on blogging
It’s November
Australian floor numbering
My top fifty albums, part one
I miss 4:3 and 16:10
Seeing Paul McCartney live in Sydney! ♡
The Ending Conversations Triangle
Revisiting Textpattern
iLeakage
Adjudicating UK and US food nomenclature
High-airflow case for my FreeBSD workstation
Floor indicator kerning, and other things
No, you wanted spaces in your URL!
The Rubenerd Style Guide 1.0
Dave Winer on “thinking out loud”
Metonymy of objects and places
The Micro 8088, and my dream pedestel machine
Aren’t milkshakes mixed?
The Economist on luck at work
Lack of email replies
The purpose of tech
Not one, but two beigetastic Presario towers!
The Tangara open portable music player
Missing server-side blogging again
Post titles, and I just had a great cup of tea
It’s a relief seeing NFTs in the rear-view mirror
Merlin Mann on jargon
ISO-8859-1 and English aren’t the default
Larger parking spaces proposed in Australia
Rearranging spaces for more… space!
What counts as authentic retrocomputing
Clara’s and my Minecraft third anniversary
In defence of power points with switches
The mysterious Aywun 307 case
Stop calling people “content creators”
Ten games to know me
Slap anime on it
The Grift Shift, with apologies to The Commodores
A fear of the future is a fear to learn
Sculpting package managers
Finding those few bloggers all those years later
Deadlocked intersections, systems, and brains
eBay’s cutest anime card shipment
Drawing the line for food authenticity
CityNerd on working from coffee shops
Daisy-chaining Apple IIe disk drives
Trying Japanese UCC Green coffee
Things you shouldn’t sit on
Nico Cartron’s BSD journey, and a coffee
Concluding my link experiment
Structuring ideas when blogging
Long-term effects of concussions
Show 427: The ramping praties episode
Remembering the Apple //e Platinum, and finally finding one!
Internet Archive downloads failing
Disk flux images are fascinating
Difficult decisions and willpower
Building a new Apple II?
Russian oligarch’s Australian sanction complaint
My computer as a house
Daylight savings in Sydney (AEDT)
The Dutch gave us “gherkins” and “pickles”
How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone
Max Miller makes butter
Every forum reply on a commercial vendor site
Mobile SEGA “Forever” games delisted
A non-exhaustive list of HPs
Trying the GNOME desktop for a few weeks
Why is web search getting worse?
Congrats to Grady for Practical Construction!
If in doubt, be polite
Marc Durst, Jet Set Swing
Irreducible complexity
Goodbye to some Sydney coffee shops
Not stopping the escalator
Commodore, the Apple II, and how things could have been different
Premature web form validation
Starflight III Minstrels
Lawsuit against OpenAI, and generative AI theft
Taking care of house plants
Variety in PCs, after years of the Mac
No more X11 on Fedora 40
“Hate it? Sell it to me”
The art of Blue Archive
Data privacy in Musk’s data centre move
A hot spring weekend ☀️
My “Aldi” Commodore 64 case
R U OK day 2023
New services aren’t only Twitter replacements
Fake 486 cache chips
Which BSD did you start on?
“Bang for the buck” when picking a graphics card
The Sun SPARCStation 5’s 13W3 connector
Macroblogging
What colour is the Commodore 64?
A generative AI provider almost gets it
Saying hello to Qantas again
Hardware Unboxed’s podcast, and benchmark misconceptions
Exclamation marks
Another Am386 30-pin SIMM replacement
Banning electric scooters
Combatting RSS overload
The Pacific Motorway, and building for trucks
@Omegatron on the POPCAKE
Expanding science beyond English
Overheard coffee shop chatter, late August 2023
A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower
Voicing quotation marks
Pluralism makes us stronger
Those free supermarket deals aren’t
The “Bring Me a Rock” phenomenon
Missing my 876-page milestone
Bob Geldof, The Soft Soil
Configuring Adaptec SCSI CD-ROMs on DOS
The pushback against productivity hacks
Using what you have is better than not!
YAXI Ear Pads for the Porta Pro
An comp-sci anime fig citation?
Archiving from The Internet Archive
Finding myself in a video rendering studio
Accepting New Zealand as an Australian state
Steam cleaning chewing gum
Reconciled down to the cent again
Ugly American truck follow up
Electronic bookends
Getting back into GUI development
Don’t wash your Commodore 64C too hot
Drive encryption is no panacea
Spelling misatkes (cough)
E-readers, and feedback from Daniel O’Connell
Ugly American trucks
Some August housekeeping
Security and feature updates should be discrete
Alexander Woolcott
LMG, and navigating responsibility with larger audiences
My daily carry in 2023
Paul Simon parodying Bob Dylan
The ASUS Media Bus
Memories of Lotus Organizer
Creativity under legacy constraints
Three legs
Distracted drivers at a meta level
Adrian Black takes apart a 1980s scope
The longest word you can type on the first row
Shareholder-in-charge
Mashu’s Pure Hearted Shield
Eighth of the eighth, 2023
A sixth installment of coffee shop chatter
Music Monday: End of the Line
Ohms being expressed with R instead of Ω
Goodbye, Bram Moolenaar ♡
The weirdest HP Pavilion I’ve ever picked up
We noticed a new login to your …!
Coach Gowron on growth
Supporting (very!) legacy systems
Cory Doctorow on privacy
ATX bracket for the Cooler Master NR200P
Ride sharing and autonomous vehicles cause traffic
My Commodore 16 keyboard is fixed!
Reconciling down to the cent
URL changes and password managers
I got Merlin in FGO!
Whats the worst advice you’ve received?
Your tech event doesn’t have to be exciting
Cracking down on SUVs
Camera specs don’t tell the whole story
Sources in my saving video post
Your generative AI wouldn’t steal a fleet of cars
Twitter renaming to X
We can do more than one concurrent thing
Some new planter plants
Using the “right” social networks
What if the Brits French’d their royal family?
FPS and resolutions we’re used to
Wear patterns in coffee shops
Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB
If you come to a fork in the road
GaryH Tech discusses Linux desktops
Meaning of the word “fid”
If you care about it, archive it: take two
Pavolia Reine discusses her 3D debut
Web form has a free text field? Say thanks!
Daniel Jalkut projecting good
Fight or flight mode in your computer chair
Troubleshooting my Am386SX’s RAM issues
Pavolia Reine’s 3D debut!
Childhood car (in)dependence
Fun Facts #101–110
My home IPv6 network plans
500 days of war in Ukraine
Yorkshire Tea Malty Biscuit Brew
BNC connectors cut in half
Proving you don’t need an office
An even tinier NAS
An interesting time for (text?) social media again
Music Monday, and Antranig tries LXC
The Law of Mobility
Merlin Mann and my Commodore 16 taught me a small step is a catalyst
Show 426: The clever curtain episode
The story of a flawed office tap
I’m rubenerd.bsky.social
A strange Commodore 16 reset line
Still NAT’ing with IPv6
Ben Pobjie on the Spirit of Cricket
Coffee chatter about urbanism
The Foenix F256k retrocomputer
The post-conference lull
SMASH! 2023
Meeting Pavolia Reine at SMASH!
“What do you want me to do?”
Reine’s off colab with Watson!
A number from A Million Random Digits
RFC: expansion options for the Commodore 128
Driverless cars
The Five Whys in IT, and finding Rachelbythebay
A new Asuna fig by Emontoys
CityNerd on city values
When have you checked your ears?
When does retrocomputing begin?
The radio station with less talk
Typing on my new Gateron North Pole 2.0 keyboard
Energy retailer of last resort?
Styling OPML and RSS with XSLT to XHTML
Scoot was one of the worst airlines I’ve flown
An amazing feature from my telco
My Pentium 1’s phantom hard disk
Music Monday and Dreams
Julia Evans posts about blogging myths
Sites redirecting you to localised nothing
Ouroboros LLMs and their impending entropy problem
The trap of booming self-storage
Coffee smells and lockdowns
Six months into my smartphone awareness exercise
Happy 30th birthday to FreeBSD!
Raising voices on video calls
Connecting a CD-ROM to a Sound Blaster 32 IDE header in DOS
Reddit, LLMs, APIs, TLAs
A near-mint 1999 IBM Aptiva desktop
The King’s birthday in Australia
Innovation in civil engineering
Winning a meet-and-greet with Pavolia Reine
My Am386 now has a Tseng ET4000AX card!
Fixing DDR4-1867 on a Supermicro server
FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops
Goodbye Astrud Gilberto ♡
Ceres Fauna’s HoloGra Debut
Disable GUI on modern Debian
Avoiding coffee namespace collisions
Spam about emotional intelligence
Getting frustrated at inanimate IT objects
Music Monday: Paul McCartney, Take it Away
Hales on PCIe over USB (or lack thereof)
Coffee culture in Australia and Europe
A “read more” link in GoHugo
Science and art: Bens Worx casts a dichroic cube
Getting stuck in the middle of a stroad
That’s a huge number of folders
Using M2 Wi-Fi card slots for other things
Dutch milk bread and spreads
Using config files for SSH
Using WordPress for a self-hosted blog
CityNerd on the necessity of urbanist comedy
Spreadsheets as a knowledge base and mental map
Experimenting wearing glasses part time
My second YouTube video in 14 years: Dr. Coffee
Simulator game? Why not do the real thing!?
Remembering how the Nintendo Wii was cracked
What detractors get wrong about induced demand
No more @Rubenerd_Blog Twitter posts
A cool Adaptec AHA-1542CP ISA SCSI card
A new old-stock floppy drive
Evolving use patterns of the NYC subway
The enforceability of boilerplate
Rushing to the sunk cost station
Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']
Ohai, feels weird being back
Show 425: The goodbye Jim episode
Nice plant at St Leonards station in Sydney
Goodbye Jim Kloss ♡ 1956–2023
Dave Winer: an armada of Twitters
Michał on the joys of closing tabs
Twitter Circles feature leaked data, as expected
Buying parts online and iRL
HSR versus highway media coverage
AI companies spamming abuse email addresses
I’m smart, I’ll remember!
An enigma of a VGA cable
Retrocomputing info is easy to find, until it isn’t
PSA: gz isn’t a generic compressed file extension
Three years on from Brexit
Researching if Commodore’s PCs were profitable
Mistyping a Vim plugin on my FreeBSD laptop
Firefox can now match on diacritics
Pronouncing “composite” video
Keeping computer stuff open or closed
My favourite people in the world
Visiting Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture
Timestamps are all over the place
Anna Gromada on Poland and Eastern Europe
Things you shouldn’t make out of glass
Alter releases Love Live! figs
Changing sites for new stakeholders (aka: not us)
Electric cars aren’t a silver bullet
Back in Sydney again, hi!
USB 1.1 Alien Tape Megasaur Spurtles
A disk-on-module with my Am386
Greg Lehey on interoperability
Loading your website experience
Brahms on inspiration
An apartment tower of lithium
A 30-pin RAM upgrade for my Am386
NATO’s Stoltenberg on Ukraine joining the alliance
Aftermarket Commodore power supplies
Rikka has her phone… on my phone
I like how Gemini handles links
The brave new world of procedurally-generated stores
An Intel i387SL coprocessor for my AMD Am386SX
Loose versus lose
Behind every rock, there’s another one
Becoming a Moonafic of @Moonahoshinova
Citibank Australia were pleased to close our account
Another Smalluswallpaperusphobic image
The ESS AudioDrive ES1868F for sound and IDE
Equinix retiring copper
Daniel Jalkut on AI and authenticity
Apple’s integrity-free APFS turns six
Teams are just as important as their code
Mika Pikazo’s Fire Emblem Engage designs
Peter Cook and Chris Morris in “Why Bother?”
Pareidolia and pattern matching
Even chatbots are better than web search
My 386SX’s working Acer MIO-400 IO card
Atelier Ryza 3 sountrack and theme available
I fixed my 1991 386SX-16/20CN motherboard!
Ryan Barrett on HTTP content negotiation
A steamy dream about a PL/pgSQL blog engine
I didn’t know Einstein was real
My new ISA/PCI PC diagnostic card
I want to redo or stop using categories
My professor on unhelpful advice
I think I saw myself as a time-travel tourist
A blank text editor
Atelier Ryza anime announced
Foam glass aggregate is a thing!
Hololive: Our Bright Parade!
AI developers: be nice, and credit your artists
Why are they called du Pont connectors?
Libraries were full of tech inflexion points
Feedback about the “friend zone” post
Defaulting pedestrian traffic lights to green
Things that aren’t orchestration toolchains
Pop Up Parade Calliope Mori
Parts reviewers, clickbait, and absolute price
This is my first post backed up to Codeberg
macOS’s experiment in rounded-square icons
iTnews reports on Sydney Train fun last week
FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
Peter Mulvey’s YouTube Channel
Exciting new look, same great taste!
Main lesson from uni: know thy spec!
Converting imz floppy disk images
Cleaning up metadata, and building with Dublin Core
Sana on forgiveness and feeling better
Rediscovering books and libraries
“The optics are better at the front”
A four-day work week
Filter jugs should be rectangular
A 1990 encyclopædia on phones and packet switching
New design for old chocolate
Feedback on paper sizes
Legal versus ethical
Organising DOS software and drivers in an ISO
Alison Pennington on Australian housing afforadbility
Thank you and goodbye, Wayne Shorter ♡
I… like the US Letter paper size
Breaking a Commodore 16 key, and retrocomputer storage
Bypassing Windows 11 Internet account install
AliExpress anime and electronics comments
Newsletter spam… out of nowhere!
Daniel Aleksandersen on split keyboard accessibility
Journalists failing in their AI chatbot reporting
Paul and Linda McCartney, Smile Away
A rattling truck of the mind
Restoring my 1983 “Aldi” Commodore VC-20
Your issue isn’t real, because I don’t have it!
GamersNexus on support training and scripts
The economic and social effect of sealed devices
rsync(1) on FreeBSD with a modern Walkman
ChatGPT shovelware was inevitable
Atelier Games on special on Steam
The OSs Nico Cartron Uses
The Covid fog has (mostly) lifted
Caught Covid
The BSD sockstat(1) command
Time magazine discusses successful tech failures
Ascribing blame in complicated systems
A legacy PC drive update: little works!
Feedback: preventing streaks when retrobrighting
Nnenna Okore on art, and our place in the universe
Terramaster NAS’s eye-opening CVE
W-whoops, buying a Commodore VC-20
Happy 25th birthday, XML!
Words not starting with specific letters
Derek Sivers on OpenBSD
A phantom text buffer
Sneaky advertisement asterisks
Fixing “app source not there” in Homebrew
Security firm finds exposed customer data in backups
You might not need a copyright statement
It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop
Comparing VIC-20 and C64 cart sizes
Booking a hotel in 2023
The Independent Singapore’s “friend zone” article
Software discrepancies delayed the Airbus A380
Buying the original Microsoft Train Simulator!
How do you mentally map things?
Hiding MediaWiki meta generator version
The overjustification effect
Ten things to become successful?
Adrian Black explains his TRS-80 diagnostic
A convincing(ish) phone scammer
Escaping heat, and the luxury of Ceebs Money
Setting tech expectations
Cellophane coffee shop chatter
Michał Sapka’s Music Monday
Towns that sound like toothpaste
Ben Sidran’s Wikipedia article now has a photo
My status update on playing games on Linux
Rudy Reyes on being a hero
Music player feedback and suggestions
Greg’s experience with a smart phone
The OSs I use most often
Pieces of 8: Alternative uses for a new hair brush
What IMS stands for
Zoe Williams on cryptocurrency and markets
The Galton Bridge
Obsolete tech: the Battery Daddy
Recanting my post on defensive blogging
Pet Shop Boys, Liberation
Moving off iTunes after two decades
The elusive textInput form in RSS feeds
The writer of ahiru.pl also uses desktop email
Contrasting thoughts around Twitter API access
Page who in the what now?
Printers and wasted tech potential
Desktop email, and from Alpine to Thunderbird
Things I’d love to build this year
King CallMeKevin is a military genius
Upgrading to macOS Ventura was a mistake
The “I lost my phone” scam
Thoughts on an entirely new Commodore 64
FreeBSD pipes and redirection, via @klarainc
I fixed my beautiful little Commodore Plus/4!
Comments on FeedLand roadmap
Exploiting taxi queue systems for profit
Ben Sidran, Moose the Mooche
The mysterious textInput RSS field
Dave asks about the WordPress block editor
Reisalin Stout fig from Atelier Ryza 3
In defence of Myriad Colours Phantom World
The @cartron on blogging regularity
Joe Biden’s online privacy op-ed
Making mistakes with NICs
AI, music, and valuing art
A new sign in was detected
What’s that FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mac/etc drive?
The ThinkPhone
Unlimited paid time off
The great Commodore/Atari engineer swap
Aerospace engineers are the new rocket scientists
The solution to centralisation
Using PCI slots for SSD brackets
A rainbow Beatles shirt
What happened to data sims for tablets?
Dismissing criticism with workarounds
This driver must get around
Time spent looking at my phone
Your own little standard library
Single greatest piece of spam I’ve ever received
The beauty of CGI and simple design, by Hales
I feel for the NetBSD community
Talking with, not talking to
Using scp(1) to transfer multiple files
Computers don’t do what you “want”
Social norms at coffee shops
Changelog for omake.opml
Editing DOS files in Vim
Banning video apps
My final Commodore 128 Retr0bright post
Pandemic podcast listening habits
2022 blog h-highlights!
Fascinating new pencil soldering irons
Another smart camera leaking information
That elusive Commodore 128 80-column mode
Rejected cards and waking an IT team up
CallMeKevin, and the quarter life crisis?
Some blog ideas I’m considering for 2023
Hanging out with nice people
The encouraging pushback against game NFTs
Using Blender as a video editor
Password managers must encrypt metadata too
Happy Yuletide to you and yours :)
Flickering caused by a hot MOS 8565R2
Brand loyalty isn’t always irrational
High idle power on AMD’s RDNA3 cards
A late review of the M1 MacBook Air
Marcel Bischoff discusses commercial radio
Cleaning and retr0brighting a Commodore 64C
Sideloading on iTelephones
2023 Racing Miku, via @_BADCATBAD
New music is old
Exploring Sydney’s Xmas decorations
The Doughnut Hole emulation problem
The Fractal Ridge Mini-ITX Case
Feeling validation for Apple Pay anxiety
Half-baked thoughts on software subscriptions
Cleaning out my notes folder, 2022
I… bought a Commodore 64C
You searched for a user’s guide, sir?
We are so lucky to be here
Why I live out of FeedLand for RSS now
Zettelkasten
Grailed Jeanne Alter in FGO quotes Daft Punk
The patch in my Commdoore 1541 was official!
Another lacklustre RSS pitch
Goodbye Chris Seaton ♡
Boeing finishes its last 747
Elective Surgery is the “micropayments” of health
FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE available
Speeding up FreeBSD jail start times
Music as an analogue for thought processing
Demand for ads on the receiving end
The SMS turns thirty
Black Friday as an opportunity to unsubscribe
Dave Winer on “micropayments”
It’s Xmas Season 2022
Website security word salad
Feedback about Gemini and Gopher
Jeff Geerling: Just say no
Maya Angelou on cynicism
Travelling to Japan during post-Covid times
BitTorrent language
The “joy” of retro IT web searches
Ben Sidran, Ballad of a Thin Man
News for week 45, 2022
On leave again
Querying TXT records with drill(1)
Waking up to coffee shop chatter
An app to not be run over
What’s going on
The 86Box PC emulator
Book buying is aspirational
Shoko Miyata’s 2022 qualifier floor routine
End of October 2022 links
Taking a break e312643b
Five things I’m thankful for, October 2022
The wonderful tee(1) command
Targeting civilians with outdated maps
What you’d want in a dream home
Alan Kohler explores remote work
STH’s Supermicro X13SAE-F board review
Canon Canoscan LiDE220 review
Mispronunciations I remember
Fixing a Comet server after misconfiguring S3
Cam from Blacktail Studio on practice
Windows 2000 in QEMU on an M1 Mac
Thinking about AMD’s 7000 series CPUs
A hot dog is not a sandwich
Content, engagement, and extraction
Using Network Location in macOS
Do you log out of sites?
The sham referendums in Ukraine
Blander logos are good, via @NeilIreland
Do I need line numbers? Yes
Raspberry Pis in racks or PCI slots
David Gerard’s cryptocurrency talk
Archive it if you care about it
Ahiru and Jim Kloss are Good Civ
This news site link may surprise you
how.complexsystems.fail
Music Monday: My favourite theme songs
It’s three months until Christmas
A great relationship with his garbage contractor
How minds process bad news
Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
Running Windows 11 for games
Sitting outside with a coffee
If you want to understand reality, don’t be pedantic
Countdown with Keith Olbermann is back
aria2 can download torrent files, then their files
P.G. Morgan’s insights into D.B. Cooper
The pushback against decluttering
Peter Millard compares and contrasts sanders
Bombardier ends Learjet production
Software engagement versus utility
WHO claims Covid “end in sight”
My favourite USB key ever: The Toshiba PA5003A
747 engine part lands on Belgian house
Queen Elizabeth II
Backing the VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board
The iPhone 14
Kent Ridge Park in Singapore
Let’s circle back on this nuanced lede
Discovering 850 watt SFX power supplies exist
Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
AMD Ryzen 7000
The Mentour Pilot on responsibility
Today’s spam: customers have tills?
Answering “yeah, but is the solution secure?”
It’s the first of September already
Goodbye, Gorby
My first shower thought in a while
Running Unix commands in real life
Switching to black coffee/tea as we get older
Railway interest in IoT devices growing
Handwritten HTML sites
Latvia’s Soviet-era monument removed 🇱🇻
Heroku cancelling free and inactive accounts
DW: Forty years of CDs
Hyundai’s AES key was lifted from an example
Wouter Groeneveld on how much one earns
Gloria Tells: Out of Control
It sure felt like a long weekend!
Cane toads, the “seenzone” and message state
Unproductive beverage adventures
Digital.com are spammers
More thought for landlords than tenants
The NCR-80 vintage mechanical keyboard kit
Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners
The quest for high-resolution album art
NetBSD 9.3 and whimsy
WFH being used to dismiss staff
Former Australian Prime Minister Morrison’s secret portfolios
Jorge Fábregas and I discuss blog cadence
A lot happening in this lift
How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter
Cleaning two decades of family music
Too hard? Take more steps
Guess who paid off their student debt!
Features every microwave should have
Calling git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech
A list of games I’ve enjoyed
A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
Machismo fascination with conflict
Moving forward, with @kiriappeee, @geofftech
svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base
A local planter now has a lovely plant
An obstinate port-forwarding router
New-ish theme for 2022
Baristas are councillors
Thinking aloud about web engagement
People who end comments with an ellipsis…
Links for week 31, 2022
Feedback from @Tubsta, @Crosse3, Paul Traylor
Superficial Linux distribution reviews
When CDNs and DDoS vendors go offline
The limits of personal social capital
Yahoo Mail looks… good!
HOLOSTARS-EN TEMPUS
Swensens durian mochi
Suburban wheelie bins and repeated effort
Goodbye, @tsukumosana 🪐
Migraine advice and treatments
Numbers that don’t have eight in them
Thanking Yee Cheng Chin for MacVim
Trent Zimmerman writes why the Coalition lost
Feedback on English bands
Time involved in healthy eating, by @FoldableHuman
Russia withdraws from the ISS
GPU prices a bit closer to normalcy
Which 3 English bands would you save?
Q&A about my NW-A55 Walkman
Resource use of FreeBSD desktop environments
Ukraine/Russia peace talks “didn’t make sense”
Tech you like that’s gone
CNBC on why Starbucks failed in Australia
Number pads
Ten years with @kirisviel
Jeff Geerling’s all-flash NAS
(Initial) Vitamin D
Social media and tourists
rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too
Show 422: The caffeinated travel episode
Autochrome Lumière Mauretania
Cory Wong and Victor Wooten, Direct Flyte
A dream without a phone
A decade since Ano Natsu de Matteru
NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server
B-words that are a letter off another
Philanthropy only attacks the symptoms
Making interactive sqlite3 more useful
Education cuts are a national security threat
The reason Linux something something
Denial by Potentiality
Sri Lanka in 2022
The Uber files
How we run Minecraft
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Installing stable Perl with Perlbrew
Why I tend to avoid reading social news comments
The Brussels Effect
Uses for tangled earbud cables
A decade without blog comments
Headaches are (almost) invisible
Hamaji Neo reviews Gateron Yellow switches
Australian housing and mental health
July doesn’t feel like the seventh month
My first dev job, and using double pound
Music Monday: Muji BGM
The Internet’s short memory for retrocomputing
Australian AG Dreyfus on data privacy law
My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review
Booting Fedora into XWayland when Xorg breaks
The Willie Wagtail
Interest rates in 2022
The 4–3–2–1–0 Backup Rule
Clarke and Dawe, Australia’s energy market
Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD
Finally ascending BB in Fate/Grand Order
The tech nostalgia bathtub curve
The difference between good and bad people
Adventures with mould and dehumidifiers
Edward Luce on the impact (or not) of law
Ukraine and Moldova granted EU candidate status
Happy Birthday, Clara!
Singapore, Ukraine, and some Mahathir irredentism
Stephen Marche discusses AI
Web design 101: field order matters
Happy 80th, Paul McCartney!
Claire Saffitz makes creamed spinach pie
Cathode Ray Dude on retro hardware collecting
Cryptocurrency waste, in all senses of the word
Winter coffee shops compared to home
People vote for leaders in parliaments
Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches
Comparing vaccine hesitancy to tobacco
Quest for a thocky split keyboard like my Topre
Cryptocurrency crash reducing CO₂ emissions
The No. abbreviation for number
My own drive reliability stats
The Queen’s Birthday, and the Whitlam dismissal
The Rémilly–Saarbrücken railway
Our sites are now on FreeBSD 13.1-R
“Get anything you want. No, not that!”
Portable digital audio players still exist
If you can automate it in your life, try
Zelenskyy: Keep sharing about Ukraine
Things I don’t like aren’t the worst thing (usually)
Using sudoedit to sudo… edit
The CERBERUS 2080
Techmoan on people who listen to cassettes
Music Monday: McCartney III
Social media trains us to think in black/white
It’s a small container, or a bucket
Using meaningful email subject lines for alerts
The @vermaden, @BasementTrix on FreeBSD not being a native PC OS
Broadcom buying VMware
The wondrous LG A9 CordZero vacuum cleaner
Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
US DOJ won’t charge for security research
We Serve. Coffee
Hobbies becoming work, and getting space
The other Pop Up Parade Quintuplets
Why bought sites get taken offline
Kyle Lanchman on iOS navigation, and music
Penny Wong’s first speech as foreign minister
The two identities of the Australian ATO
The @Om summarises music software
Prematurely labelling RSS feeds as inactive
Confusing toll-free numbers for 2FA codes
Brad Alexander on hostname schemes, sci-fi
The first iPhone, and portable music in 2022
Britannica came up before Wikipedia
Angélique Kidjo, Azan Nan Kpe
Karen Mathison Schmidt’s Country Garden
Australian prime minister Morrison is out
Impulse-purchased junk near checkouts
Cryptocurrency doesn’t solve fraud
Feedback on Vim plugin installs
Elude and allude, from Tommy
Goodies from @GamersNexus arrived!
Time splits between various OSs, via Mark C.
Mentally resetting during the day
Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE available
Vim plugin feedback
Pete and Dud’s Frog and Peach
Figuring out things before the Internet
A quick look at console file managers
A modern web payment login process
The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe: Please play it!
Expertise is expensive, conspiracies aren’t
Voting in the Australian elections by post
My journey back to Fedora Workstation
How Ukraine’s banks continued to operate
The hot (running) AMD Radeon 6950 XT
Firefox turns 100
Rhyming grilled cheese sandwiches
TNL’s Nine Pillars of Digital Justice
Twitter, Netflix, and infinite growth
The European Rail Traffic Management System
Doing things before you need to
EasyJet seats
Music Monday: Stellar Stellar by Suisei
Fun with AIOs: The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
Trying vim-plug
My Hahndorf Inn Hotel mug
Music Monday: JJ Lin, Practice Love
Waycross derailment in the US
GamersNexus launches a Ukraine charity shirt
Dealing with depression (fun!)
A Sydney (Harbour!) wave and a smile
Vintage social network sentences
Remote railfanning, and a live GP38-3 in Florida
A market failure with sunk costs
Feedback on fake requests and back doors
OpenSSH 9.0 released
A list of my first computers
“Did you bully the weird kids?”
The selfcare.tech bot is a new favourite
Buy LG fridges, not Westinghouse
Computers and the passing of time
Fake law enforcement with encryption backdoors
Accounting for empathy in automated systems
Actions that separate the world
Some more coffee shop chatter
FDR on the early bird
Why are you always frowning?
PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure
Day 404 of 2022
Alexander Schneider has a blog!
The African emerald cuckoo
isapc with 16-bit colour in QEMU
Pet Shop Boys, Shopping
Singapore–Malaysia Causeway reopens
Electron software follow-up
Track skipping from ripped CDs
RFC: What to offer after CentOS 7?
Evaluating tech, via @encthenet
Beautiful photos from the US @Interior
Arigato, K.G.Kobayashi
Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti
The vaccines cause autism lie
The most satisfying connectors
Social media filters need image recognition
My favourite Train Simulator routes on special
The BNSF has a store
Birthday Ryzen Minecraft shaders!
Pop Up Parade’s Rei Ayanami
Down to my last Aeropress filter
There are still mechanical turks everywhere
Rebuilding the Antonov Antonov An-225 Mryia
paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD
My Apothecary Coffee mug
Flyers, and blogs from the golden age
Street-running trains
John Jakes, March Into Darkness
Long forms select for those who can write
Version of Perl I use, via @pinkopanterata
David Hazeltine, Look What I Found
“But you can just disable it!”
The NATO expansionism narrative
8,000 post feedback, and regular writing
I17n in character sets and home media
The @ourokronii power washes into our hearts
Pouring one out for David Boggs
8,000 blog posts!?
Challenges with mini-ITX builds in 2022
Another mention on @BSDNow!
The RTX 3070, and chasing the shiny
Kevlin Henney’s procedural programming talk
FedEx MD-11 flap issue at Sydney Airport
Groucho Marx’s literary review
View of Earth from the ISS in 2015
Choosing audio codecs, via Wouter Groeneveld
Teaching history
The surprising backlash against RSS
Bob Malach, Michel Petrucciani: For All Time’s Sake
My essential Firefox fixes (and add-ons) in 2022
Committing dotfiles and other essentials
Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma
Comparitech are spammers
Beeping fire alarms taught me about irritations
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
Feedback on 4K KVMs
A @SimonWhistler reaction face
The new iPhone SE is still good
Say You Love Me, Fleetwood Mac
Sydney rain adventures
Bought a GPU or mattress? Here are ads for more!
Are DisplayPort or HDMI KVMs any good?
The double-barred finch
“De-Nazifying” Ukraine
Cancelling my Presario Sleeper PC project
No bad products, only bad prices?
Personal technology insight and cynicism
Bandcamp bought
Walter E. Williams, “All It Takes is Guts”
Trying (and liking!) KDE Neon
Debating whether to have blog post types
Helping Ukranians via Etsy
Happy birthday @dekopatchi 🎂
Facts over feelings
The iPhone 8 (and SE) are still better iPhones
Pinterest backup: Fallingwater
Pinterest backup: Liners
Pinterest backup: Retrojets
Pinterest backup: Showa Tech
My podcast used as a metadata example!?
“Sexy cosplay” spam
Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu
What Ukraine and Putin have accomplished 🇺🇦
Chatswood’s round trees
Sad to see @1Password’s blockchain shenanigans
Aral Balkan on bean counters
Review: @PCCaseGear in Australia is awesome
Ukraine UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya
Client-side name and location validation
Free university course videos
JayzTwoCents on guilt about hobbies
Chilling effects on defensive social media posts
2022–02–22
Daniel Pennac on learning for fun
Identity, Ukraine, and thinking aloud
Go Jazz Nakano Miku BlueSCSI, in a box!
The great Chatswood blackout of 2022
LibreOffice 7.3.x Skia stability issues on macOS
Geographic domain spam
Hammer problems in coffee shops
Graphics card feedback
Defensive social media posts
Tweaking my blog theme fonts for *nix users
CallMeKevin’s ancient bear proverb
Phantom phone vibrations
Slow Debian 11 installs with IDE to SATA adaptors
Buying a new graphics card
Highest praise one can give software
A numbered list of encountered tech
Comparing lzop and plzip compression
Villa del Parque station in Buenos Aires
You should check out Marian Bouček’s blog
Starting a blog, and unoriginal ideas
The “fundamental problem” with NFTs
UI design is as much about expectations
Fire preparedness, and the SCDF emergency handbook
Using someone’s childhood to conclude anything
A 12 TB SATA Ultrastar hard drive saves the day
Flight or invisibility, with Clara!
Why IPv6 isn’t more widespread
Australian energy company data collection
Black★Rock Shooter: Inexhaustible and Dawn Fall
Eight things I don’t regret buying
Git not being a version control system
KDE Plasma 5.24 released
Clara’s and my first Woodland Mansion
Raspberry Pi OS is now 64-bit
The Dassault Mercure could have succeeded today
Revitalising neighbourhoods
Change git repo to use SSH not HTTPS
Expelled from Paradise seven year anniversary
Alan Baxter on writing
My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022
BioGraphics discusses Augustus
Premature optimisation when choosing stuff
Don’t invest in cryptocurrencies
Pop Up Parade Fate/Grand Carnival figs
Edgar Allan Poe on ciphers
Using innocuous prompts as hooks
2022-02-02
Firefox dark mode issues
The iPad Mini 6’s weird aspect ratio
I’m triple-vaxxed for Covid!
Losslessly optimising images
Real Engineering on natural gas and renewables
Music Monday: Jack Johnson, No Good with Faces
Having a uniform
Windows 3.1: CD audio MCI driver not installed
The PinePhone keyboard case
What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS
Retrocomputing can be more than games
Doc Searls versus printers
Jeff Geerling on burnout
Leigh Dodds on in-language
Some useful tips
Always check for the wrong item too
US train feedback, and distributed power
26th of January
Battery-powered trains
Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD
Finding a cute 386 or 486 desktop
Paying with cash, old school
Are video games addictive? I don’t know
Wouter Groeneveld digresses
Our January 2022 apartment cleanout
Why are people falling for NFTs?
Microfibre cloths
My “new” IBM WorkPad 20X Palm PDA!
Account spam from @PayPal?
Show 421: The flying progress episode
HippopoPenguin’s Rin as Ishtar
A home NAS of the future
Farewell to my Kindle Paperwhite
Jeb Brooks on the California Zephyr
This post only has the word “bagel”
What year is The Future now?
You must have only done it for the money
Programming language names
The current state of Linux gaming
Michael Franks, Songbirds
Already seeing pandemic-related knock-on effects
Steps towards more recycling in Singapore
Lewis Mumford on urban cars
Vivaldi’s Jon von Tetzchner on crypto-“currency”
Self-doubt
Beige-o-Vision introducing the PiDP-11
Lists are great!
Feedback pending post number #9001
Learning of BlueSCSI
Migraines Australia’s new fact sheets
My favourite Australian decaf beans
Number of posts last year
Press and politicians abusing medical terms
Boulevard of Enthusiasts, Naberezhnye Chelny
Uniforms of the future
Comestible aromas, via @Georgiecel
Dev, system design, and screwdrivers
Trying out the Windows Package Manager
Tire evidence by Peter McDonald
iPhone desktop sync has Walken’d away
URL trends from 2013
Homes and furniture
SgLinks the next URL shortener to go
The Ricoh GR IIIx
Fine art accounts on The Bird Site
Goodbye to Plastikitty
Lew Wasserman
Redundancy in IT isn’t
The Maja 2 split keyboard
Shopping MallDova
Happy New Year 2022
Show 420: The belated holidays episode
Playing female characters in games
End of year thoughts on consolidating stuff
Reading people’s blog archives
Wait, where did I see that thing?!
Krita version 5
Articulated buses are the devil’s conveyance
Oroville Dam Spillway reconstruction
Beginning Pokémon Brilliant Diamond
Formatting SD cards in the Nintendo Switch
If nobody wants to use smartphones, what then?
Christopher Eccleston on machoism
The Nintendo Switch Lite is my new 2DS
The Sinatra Christmas Album
Accounts calling out the duped
Weather outside you wouldn’t endure inside
Hololive English’s second holiday stream
Cosmopolitanism in a cup
A 2021 retrospective
Billy Joel and Cyndi Lauper’s Code of Silence
Hales Horticulture Ltd.
City Beautiful on the need for corner stores
Lance Ulanoff on social media addiction
Genetics behind black coffee drinkers
Kate is a fantastic text editor!
Wave Dreamtech Ayanami Rei fig
James’ Coffee Blog Advent of Bloggers
They foyer of One Canada Square
Trying @geofftech's challenge in Sydney!
The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine
NIAN’s Nero from Fate
To do this one thing, scroll down that far!
Log4Shell
RSS feeds with pictures of the day
Crypto-“currency” snakeoil
I knew a guy, he called it shut put
The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
Proposed Coventry linear park
Faux chatbot notification tabjacking
More than techno: a history of electronic music
My little sister got married
Benefit for all, via @PicardTips
The word “best”
Keanu Reeves on NFTs
Benelux has a logo
The cloud is just someone else’s pager
When did it become: “delivered to your inbox”?
The Heinzelmännchen unsaving your changes
Robert F. Kennedy quoting George Bernard Shaw
Trying The Old Reader
Sitting in that comfy chair
Annus horribilis
To the coolest uncle ever, Dave Ross ♡
The iPad mini 6
The @Om Malik on writing
Gauguin, The Market Guardens of Vaugirard
Answering @buzzyrobin about burnout
Chancellor of Earth: Advertising
Spam calls
PBS Frontline documentary on the 737-MAX
We should rename Australian things
Not just the algorithm, it’s Zuck’s company too
My favourite StackOverflow answers
Rest in peace, Bert Newton
The Economist’s insight into Big Tech during Covid
It’s not (always?) the algorithm
My Kyoko Kirigiri grail fig
Australia doesn’t do cappuccinos
Independent video sponsorships
My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?
Taking small victories
Joke images on social media as a signal
Organising posts by date
New metal cladding on buildings
Limitations of Go date format logic
My popular opinions
The B1M discusses Hudson Yards
George Benson, Dance
Brandon Quakkelaar on the beauty of RSS
Car-centric culture in recycling
Listpost for week 42, 2021
Spycrowsoft on reusing stuff
Bear identification
Dell 27-inch 4K panels as Retina displays
Stephen Diehl on NFTs
GitHub’s preview cards aren’t that useful
Wordpress.com’s password advice
Being sick of stuff
My science teacher on lateral thinking
Dark mode theme now live
The M1X MacBook Pros
Hales on Javascript-loaded assets
The simplex ambidextrous?
Privacy and trust as a luxury good
Tech firms adjudicating on what’s appropriate
One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
Top Shelf: The Olive Branch White Hommus
OpenBSD 7.0
James Taylor, Carolina in My Mind
Disparate thoughts about VPNs
Using NoScript in 2021
First coffee shop in four months
macOS relocating my /private/etc/shells
Week numbers in LibreOffic Calc
The @ourokronii on laughter
James Gallagher’s IndieWeb Search
Dreaming of soap and door nomenclature
The 747-300
Clara’s and my Minecraft server anniversary
Internetting good, via @heyjovo and @jkloss4
Saved search issues on Thunderbird for Mac
Sascha Segan on manga and ebook readers
Introverts and accommodation
The Chancellor of Earth: Leaf blowers
Peter Mulvey’s Green and Grey
Martin Fowler on the impact of software
Brevity is often important
Archiving 24 years of personal email
Thoughts, week #40 2021
Revisiting Kobos for reading manga
Japan’s new PM Fumio Kishida
Rem is the anime waifu queen, according to stores
Burnout and healin’
Taking a break
Greyscale screens for anxiety
Frank Gehry on going places
My first shipped DOA drive
Robbie Williams: Bodies
Always-on chat apps, and not just saying “hey”
Bob Seger going to Katmandu [sic]!
A suburban Buenos Aires train
Amit Kapila on PostgreSQL 14 Logical Replication
The scripting spiral
When the computers failed pizza people
Music feedback from Michael Harley
Show 419: The musically soaked episode
Vaccinated aren’t as likely to spread Covid
The @Zoomosis on ZFS, tape, and external drives
Mix “tapes” in 2021
Repairability of laptops
Nora Tindall on the modern web
Feedback from my week 38 links post
Simon Whistler’s cat
Driving to West Berlin during the DDR days
Links for week 36, 2021
Show 418: The tiled pattern episide
A 1 TB DIMM, with a clock speed of 2!
The @ceresfauna built a Minecraft kitchen
Considering the context of IT systems
Apps are a poor replacement for hardware
Tim King gives us permission to not give a fuck
The best we can do with passphrases now
The future of the Jekyll static-site generator
Our Covid travel bubble
Favourite game meme feedback
Favourite game meme
Anti-vaxxers
Music Monday: Violet, Ninomae Ina’nis
One year of Hololive-EN! #mythiversary
Your own platform is king
Feedback on Braun shaver cables
Last night’s sunset
Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys
Omake refresh, and the state of blogrolls
Rebrand Philadelphia’s transit system to The Metro
Humans don’t have ECC memory
Kronii, Bae, and Mumei discuss flower
The paralysis of decisions
Discovering Vim Awesome
Feedback on my “not sure if UNIX won” post
The state of second-hand GPUs in 2021
What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share
When contacting IT support
Legal Eagle reviews Batman
Yeah but, like, you weren’t there man!
Something incoherent for the week’s end
Redundant passphrase requirements are
The @tsukumosana and @hakosbaelz's culinary adventures
Being an open source contributor to have thoughts
It’s the first day of spring
Unix Text Processing
Conflating security with privacy
What’s your Starbucks name?
A video call with a failed mute button
Hakos Baelz’s debut stream #ratpack
Researching GPU options for my sleeper PC
Nasal breathing, and other observations
Monotony grows wings on time
Show 417: The stormy apartment episode
Ouro Kronii’s debut stream #krotime
The monkey grabbed his neck and said “Now listen, jack!”
Docks charging more than just kettles
People returning to offices
The buzzard tried to throw the money off of his back
Tsukumo Sana’s debut stream #sanallite
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
Nanashi Mumei’s debut stream #watchMEI
A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air
Nuts to that last weekend!
Ceres Fauna’s debut stream #faunline
Nix desktop ricing
Another new anime streaming service
Adelaide Metroticket words of inspiration
It started as a post about game machine language
Pavolia Reine’s new outfit reveal
That’s a few typos
The @SimonWhistler renames Business Blaze
Tech and online meetings
Show 416: The microwaved nostalgia episode
The 1Password Electron debate is good news for the industry
Afghanistan in 2021
The Cloud Media Remote for the PS4
Simon and Garfunkel, Feelin’ Groovy
Boss Coffee’s comfy promotion
Decluttering Fandom.com with uBlock Origin
Covid lockdown decluttering
IRyS’s first collaboration with HoloEN
Thinking about a reversible sleeper PC
A rough week for Apple users
Things you’d like, if not for the fans
The LG Gram: does it have PC Screen Syndrome?
The @elkeee schooling me on obliviousness
A silver lining with Australian vaccinations
What I miss during These Times™
Missing things in our home
Who in the world is Pitney Bowes?
Hololive’s bossa nova jazz mix
NCSC’s passphrase advice
Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail
Mobile phones, and always being available
Soundtrax: No music download for you
My sleeper PC... curse!
The Men’s 50 Kilometre Race Walk
Our carpet rainbow
Micah R Ledbetter’s ErgoDox feedback
Aiyo in the Oxford English Dictionary
Why do you timezone, Ruben?
Expanding our FreeBSD home file server
Australia’s Internet fun this morning
Clarelynn Rose, Copperfield
Another short collection of life lessons
Feedback for week 30, 2021
Sunisa Lee’s All-Around Gymnastics win
KTMB USB keys, and what do we call them?
Read at school, avoid in adulthood
CISA’s exploited vulnerabilities report for 2021
Train journey bucket list, via @JKloss4
This site is mobile friendly
Mental health at the Olympics
Australia’s new Covid reality
A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière
Fourier transforming X-ray diffraction patterns before computers
Ashe on motivational interviewing
Harukana Receive, and Olympic sports
Michael Franks, Heart Like an Open Book
The need for personal iRL concurrency
Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails
Motherboard standoffs for weird case sizes
Morning routines; tech and otherwise
Robbie Williams, Good Doctor
Comparing PC all-in-ones to the iMac
Energy, or lack thereof, out of nowhere
Defensive blogging
Finally buying a Compaq spaceship
Feedback about the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard
What if we’re supposed to feel it?
The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 2019
The @JKloss4 on rails
Australian swimmer quits, and I’m not surprised
Katsushika Hokusai travel portrait fig
Whatever happened to Office 4.0?
Making your booleans consistent, y/y?
Acer’s antimicrobial laptop
Teaching financial literacy
SQL LIMIT versus FETCH FIRST ROWS
Hitting random on geographic articles
Getting our first Covid jab
Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD
What sort of learner are you?
Audacity fork Tenacity
Melissa Davey on migraines
… the size of Rhode Island!
Even Nintendo is shipping OLEDs now
Feedback on repurposed eBay packaging
Henry David Thoreau
Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo Remix Miku
Dodgy listings using repurposed packaging
The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
Erroneous systemd Ghost errors in FreeBSD
Verbal ticks that never change
Show 415: The Amehhhhh Sharipov episode
Official Gurren Lagann art book announced
Jokes as alternative input for Cunningham’s Law
A report on exercise and sleep
RSS feedback from Simon Ruderich
You can search line numbers in Firefox!?
Al Jarreau: Fallin’
Being simple
Revisiting webcam covers
Feedback on duplicate RSS dates
British Rail’s Pacer trains
Full circle: TV ads on streaming platforms
Searching for a CD storage system
Today I learned what ISCO-08 was
Simon Whistler on road trips
Revisiting my emacs and Vim/nvi post
Rubenerd’s Law of Food
Finding which coffee types decrease CLD risk
Exploring HTML cite attributes
Cory Wong limited-edition vinyl!
Duplicate RSS 2.0 date elements
A Commodore 128 shipping update
Best career advice you received at uni
Some of my posts appearing on NetBSD Planet
Some of these kitchen gadgets we do need
James’s (aka capjamesg’s) coffee blog
Retrospective on John Oliver’s Bitcoin episode
Laptop, tablet, smartphone, or phone?
Umar Getazazov helps me fix things
Happy International Webloggers Day 2021
Inline links to videos with play buttons
Firefox 89’s Proton UI
Mori Calliope’s new loading screen is dope!
The @davewiner does a bank experiment
pkgin’s manpage
Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD
What Americans don’t understand about Australia
Feedback about FreeBSD, Linux VM gatekeeping
Reddit’s /r/blogging, and my own advice
Rhett and Link on boolean algebra
Block jquery.nicescroll.js to make sites responsive
Motivation myths
Geri Halliwell on material science
The most dangerous things in tech
Stepping into an alternative dimensional floor
Tom Gauld’s science headline generator
Explaining geometry with pizza
Tech people starting their sentences with “So, ...”
Audioboom found and archived
NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location
State and mess in our computers
Great bird site quotes this week
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
Comparing and contrasting
What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc
Singapore and Japan dialogue on Covid
Esther Golton, All The Room I Need
Credit card cachet in an era of phone payments
Replacing XML::XPath with XML::LibXML in Perl
The ignominy of relegation
LCD Android phones to sync with FreeBSD
When Ubuntu is off topic for Ask Ubuntu
Be kind to retail staff
JJ Kale
Super blood moon, 2021
Twitter account for this site is back
Alicia Wanless on tackling disinformation
The @andrewhuang on streaming “success”
Add to my to do list: bait and switch
More cores are good
Hololive English: Take Me Home, Country Roads
Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
Clearing nginx’s cache
Speed-reading app advertisements
There probably won’t be a post-COVID reset
Interpreting the OPML type attribute
Comestibles containing holes
Trying Perl signatures
Testing from Big Sur
Troubleshooing Palm Desktop on Windows 2000
David Gerard’s IT job description
The M1 Mac: “seems fine”
John Oliver on hair
David Gray, White Ladder LP
Applying Georgina’s framework to anxiety
A simple bar of soap
I’m not sure that UNIX won
What’s a manufear?
When your customers want your service down
Your most annoying things about TV
Coffee shop chats
Other factors behind unhelpful comparison sites
The spotted wood owl
Megaprojects video on submarine cables
Show 414: The thingy stuff episode
GHOST / 星街すいせい by Suisei
Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs
When image positioning attacks
Two types of comparison sites
ACIC’s expanded surveillance submission
Answering @klarainc: Where I started with ZFS
Mathematician’s answer, via Screenbeard
My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions
If you have two loaves of bread, buy a CD-ROM
My new (replacement!) Palm IIIx
Reading audiobooks
A term for accurate, yet pointless responses
Linus Tech Tips: Nothing EVER works!
Pyramid schemes
I’m now a part of @pavoliareine's Royaltea!
Disabling memberships in Ghost 4 blogs
Minecraft, and mental health
Palm LifeDrive in a Windows 2000 QEMU VM
The ten important things about blah
Named arguments in Swift
Increasing irrelevancy of award ceremonies
Practical Engineering on cavitation
Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose
I have a Linktree
Managing encryption in the enterprise
I’m now in @ninomaeinanis’s tentacult
My Palm LiveDrive!
A personal atlas
Thoughts on Dockernetes orchestration
Moccona Hazelnut instant coffee
Rhyming socks
We’ll party like post alone!
Whimsy and the new coloured iMacs
It’s not the name they call you
Palm PDA nostalgia on its way!
03:00 thoughts
A 580 pixel blog width
Being so confident
Buy Esther Golton’s music as a bundle!
e-life @ Suntec
Effectiveness of the Free Software Foundation
Opting out of Google’s FLoC
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE sources via Git
A mysterious LibreOffice Calc £
DOS-friendly bootable ISOs with mkisofs
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE available!
Perceptions of remote work
A 740-page Tennant Schrobmachine
The XTree Fan Page
MediaWiki toasts the sunflower logo
Feedback about a slow CF card
Antranig on blogging regularly
How do you use your computer?
An updated clearance sign
Newer CF card slower in my Pentium tower
Holidays versus journeys
Repairing, not replacing old parts
The tech in fintech
The @watsonameliaEN and @pavoliareine
The rise of online readability scrapers
The Texas power failure
What was the first thing you were flamed for?
The FIRE approach for clearer thinking
We don’t always need to extract maximum value
Survey on the perceptions of migraines
Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
Hong Kong MTR station colours
Rediscovering one of our family computers
A mini, portable display for Commodore gear?
Now obsolete MacBooks still have better screens
i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2
How I blog regularly
A monoculture question from 2005
Arena swimming blog discusses breathing, anxiety
Letting people find themselves
Feedback from Thomas Jensen
No more JavaScript frameworks
Motives aren’t sufficient on social media
Wedge the Ever Given anywhere
An evergreen post about news reactions
Holo Bass and Amelia Watson, Pop on Rocks
Best attribute for 8-bit enthusiasts: patience
Our bathroom hippo
Email signatures that wake you up
My experience with an Australian bank broker
Redirect your @FSF donations elsewhere
grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD
Don’t write “how it looks like”
Testing SD cards with QEMU and MS-DOS 6
Dover and Dover again
“Vinyl saved us, but CDs are the best”
Random Wikipedia Article: Niigata, Japan
Saying goodbye to my Commodore 64
Painting by Emily Carr
Chromium monoculture marches on
Thinking about movies
The VIA VT82C586B PCI, PC97 controller
No, RSA is not broken
tulloch4801’s video on the 3801 relaunch
A Commodore 128 and TED monitor stand
You can (not) bracket
Women’s mental exhaustion in IT
Rubenerd.com linked to on Lobste.rs
My Commodore 1571 drive arrived!
Quote from @Aral on debugging
Minecraft won’t launch on macOS
Commutes before and after the pandemic
Seeing the 3801 steam locomotive
Bathroom design affordances
Jokes at the expense of retail staff
Fortress Australia and New Zealand
Why did initials on MOS chips disappear?
Hackers are malicious
Reliability of cassette tapes and disks
Minibarring people who use your system
Music Monday: acoustic piano
Anxiety tips: stop playing personal FUD
Moving on from Apple
Hales on unexpected LiveJournals
Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one
My jail post was read on BSDNow!
Missing MacBook Pro features returning
Rubenerd.com has a LiveJournal?
Gura and Cali on TED Talks
Headphones as a social signal
Crime shows, and the money motive
NHK: The Sanriku coast train
Retr0brighting my Commodore 128 keyboard
Slanty road barrier things
Troubleshooting a Commodore 1541 disk drive
I won’t watch it if it’s inaccessible
Truth in advertising hits Twitter
WWR: Singer Songwriter Heaven
Necessity versus rarity in online auctions
The Internet interprets censorship as damage?
Email unsubscribe fail: Trustwave
Follow me on Mastodon
Gadget-like computers, or computer-like gadgets?
Stores for Commodore 128 components
Can’t set Firefox new tabs to use local files
Commodore 128’s 80 column mode in VICE
Comprehensive Breville BKE395 kettle review
Fixing my unbootable Commodore 128
Pop Up Parade’s Quintessential Quintuplets
The SS Golden Eagle
Almost wrote about my Commodore 128
Replacing Facebook news with RSS feeds
Cord cutters, and the age of streaming
MTG words of wisdom
Crown can’t operate in NSW
Ain’t no scheduled posts
Introverts and Covid
Douglas Brebner on integration and complexity
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6
Chick Corea ♡
fstab in FreeBSD jails
Hobby judgement as an adult
Music Monday: Haachama’s Big Red Heart
That grumpyness spiral
A point to consider before retr0brigting
That complexity inflection point
There’s more to the story
Alice Di Micele on ageing
Marie Kondo would say this kicks arse!
Reinventing visual metaphors for no benefit
Jim Kloss on art
Being victim of another data breach
Trickle-down economics
Room in New York
You want Chanel? You buy me Gucci!
Ideas waiting for their time
Going to Shadu
To go work on personal projects
Apology for spam #9001
Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2020
Yale University Press Blog
The circular Delaware border
Not just the price limiting EV adoption
Talk to me… goose?
Today’s errors
New year resolutions, goals, and what’s important
Our belated leave
Show 413: The Wheaty 2021 episode
That one specific spammer who can’t pad
That distinctive ALCO engine rattle
Microblog, week 3 of 2021
You can just pay more taxes/wages/etc!
Many of my software icons are green
A 1980s PBS documentary about early diesels
Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages
Difference between 19200 and 19200R ECC RAM
Random article: The Circus Building
“You wrote about X, can you link to me?”
Abandoned blogs as time capsules
A royal pain in the toe
John Roderick and Bean Dad
We might have a Hololive FreeBSD problem
Rejoining, or losing Scotland
The SS Martin Mullen
The joy of music collections
Dynabook screens
Jim Kloss on headaches
Whole Wheat Radio whipped the llama’s arse
Veritasium does the Ames Window Illusion
2.5 and 5GbE adaptors
Things I was thankful for in 2020
The world’s chunkiest card reader
The joys, and not, of studio apartments
Merry Xmas, 2020
Tribblix m24 available
Feedback on my blog-as-a-business post
“Turn your audience into a business”
Neptunia fig re-releases, and Yuru Camp
Ann Reardon on viral fake, food videos
How we respond to crises
The media's culpability in the NBN
Friedrich Nietzsche on purpose
Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE
Felicia Day’s rant about RSS
Talking about chips
Toodles and Michael Tsai on OLED iPhones
Ques Q’s VR 1/7 Mashu figure
Cory Wong: Ketosis (feat. The Hornheads)
Starting with FreeBSD jails
CentOS, as we know it, ends
The golden-headed cisticola
Trying WordPress again after a few years
Block copy disk over SSH with gzip
Experience of flying back to the US
Antranig moving from macOS to FreeBSD
Data and algorithms aren’t neutral
If you don’t like it, Mori Calliope has the answer
Responses to my new homelab server
Claire Saffitz makes focaccia
Building a new homelab server
Turns out, not a brush with Covid
After the rain on the interstate
Unlearning unsaved unbuffers
“Don’t start a podcast”
Acronym Finder isn’t one
Recdiffs on why people are the way they are
It’s not that people don’t want kids…
Spelling mistakes for week 48, 2020
Security flaws in smart doorbells
Arm-wrestling Gura and Ame
737 Max issues were people
An online place of record
Boring description of my favourite anime
Video conference fatigue
Here are some related, incompatible items
Takeuchi Mariya, Plastic Love
School memories, and can I just take it down?
Gawr Gura on poultry identification
Marco Arment on the Apple Watch sport band
Tom Scott’s video on copyright
With whom I normally disagree
My first Hololive EN supachat
Lessons learned from the 2016 Australian census?
My first anime crushes, via @_BADCATBAD
Clickbait
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Interfering with opening in new tabs
Using RSS: Awesome RSS plugin for Firefox
@Spycrowsoft on OLED sensitivity
Clara’s and my first buried treasure
Context switching
Scatterbrain Apple M1 chip thoughts
Unlimited web services aren’t
Feedback on my Vim post
An abandoned coffee shop full of letters
Relationships with podcasters and bloggers
Mktemp started on OpenBSD
Thinking out loud about Vim
Pet Shop Boys, DJ Culture
A celebratory New York cheesecake
Trying an alternative to RSS topic folders
Being a customer, not a producer
That map we’ve all been watching
Word of the day: Diffident
Enterprise IT, where tech goes to live
Microservices and containerisation
Rebecca Hales on more manga fitness
GMM on computer science
Hales warns us of greymarket electronics
Music Monday: J.D. Lasica
Everything normal again? Sort of, maybe, kinda
Where to find the BBC’s RSS feeds
Equinix data centre advice
Debian 9 Stretch breaking in Xen guests, clouds
NetBSD 9.1, FreeBSD 12.2-R, OpenBSD 6.8
Tech in the two-speed Covid economy
Another reminder not to use seasons in tech press
American friends: please vote
Om Malik’s GR III San Francisco photos
OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD
Antranig Vartanian on RSS, HiDPI, Apple Silicon
Becky Hansmeyer, Dan Benjamin on the iPhone 12
The United States of Apathy?
Abandoned virtual worlds
Al Jarreau on Hololive
Wait, that heatsync isn’t really copper?
Firefox 82.0 resolves macOS stuttering scrolling
Our Minecraft Chunnel
Raf Czlonka on BSD licencing
Do good
Being worthy of social security
Microbreaks
People asking about FreeBSD licencing
It’s 20:10 2020-10-20 (AEDT)
Band names in console output
How my latest Twitter break is going
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
OLED-sensitive people left out from the iPhone 12
That Outlook for Mac sloth
The ultimate 2020 conspiracy theory
Now Captchas are just messing with me
Missing music
Merging migrated Git repos
Mac Dock persisting in Full Screen mode
Rhett on opening coconuts
Homeless people in media
Some mid-spring Sydney fog
Re-containerising VP9 from webm to MP4
Tech journalism’s either/or fallacy
The Scorpions: Wind of Change
Cleaning another Mac Bitcoin miner
John Naughton on the Internet-of-Things
Hacktoberfest needs to stop
Thirty years since German reunification
My new-ish 16-inch MacBook Pro
Derek Muller’s video on Penrose Tilings
Apologies for not posting your comments yet
Feeling guilt upon buying something
AC3 is not AAC
The Australian government’s NBN backflip
OpenSSH 8.4 released
Rodriguez and Sailor Moon
Hacker News: Why aren’t we all more serious?
My September 2020 iOS application picks
SortedFood oranges
A talk show host apology
Linux Journal is back!
Consolidating running software
It also has numbers in it
Hacker News on my audio kill switch post
Life lessons from Hololive’s Amelia
When scp’s misleading warnings attack
A turkey, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Ethernet papercuts
The Kobo Forma as a manga reader?
The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education
Twenty posts per page
Holstein Switzerland
If we could demand the same security answers
Music Monday: Yasutaka Tarumi on the duduk
Feedback on my Mr Orange post
When services always had RSS
The US West Coast fires
Homework load in Singapore
Forgetting to set UTF normalisation on a ZFS pool
We need physical audio kill switches
Some more spelling corrections
That guy in the GoToMeeting splash screen
A KONE lift diagnostic test tool and decoder
Bloomberg TV, back in 2020
NBN already outdated
Oblivious advice
Empty code blocks
Easier to read, maintain, and extend
Dr Beckmann’s Floor Carpet Stain Remover
The Cranberries: Dreams
System76 laptop displays
Mr Orange, and Joe Biden’s hires from tech
ATO overcharging tax for salary sacrificed super
FOSS laptops and subpar displays
The roles of OSs have changed
Goodbye, Bon Appétit test kitchen?
We can’t all work from home
Photo of Bishop Hill in New York state
A social network’s inaccuracy
Journalism: make them care
Firefox’s situation reminds me of OpenSSL
Show 412: The wandering mug episode
Banpresto’s 1994 Sailor Mercury poster
Goodbye to the Three Beans in North Sydney
It it the tool, or the people using it?
Technical support airing personal details in public
You lock your data with us, we cannot fail
Bruce Schneier on blockchain tech
Uncommon Advansys Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI-II cards
Coalgirls signing off, and toxic people didn’t help
Today’s word: Allocable
The Galaxy Towers
To static site, or not, again
When the industry dismisses qualitative metrics
New computers don’t feel faster
Type-Moon Racing Umu fig announced
Working from home still tenuous sometimes
You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS
10% the flu rate in New South Wales
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Blogging
Phones before the iPhone
Music Monday: Kris Delmhorst
Those email-unsubscribe reasons
Still buying digital and analogue music in 2020
Casey Liss on memories in restaurants
Remote work as a platform
Update on split username-password forms
Kamala Harris’s comments on US standing
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Both sides
Tech hardware fails, as written in 2012
COVID, science, and emotion
Ljubljana from Nebotičnik Tower
MiniDisc, sign in, be respectful
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Backups
NHK World-Japan on the Apple TV
Music Monday: Book-end, Happy-end, again
Our current software and web slump
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Glasses
Airgapped devices and networks
Feedback on audio magazines
On the function of Heisenberg compensators
Trademarks disputes in tech
Wait, 7,000 posts?
Friday Fanmail: Machon SERP, and a novella quote
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020: Dolphins
Testing a new machine
Ferdinand II on the King of France
Fate/Grand Order ServantFes 2020 dialogue
FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD
Allan Jude discusses ZFS on Level1Linux
The 3.5 mm headphone jack
Music Monday: Al Jarreau, Tell Me
Social network CFO says iOS 14 to hurt tracking
Movies I’ve seen more than five times
Vending machines in anime visuals
John Roderick did have some points about millennials
SimilarTech’s site analysis only half wrong
Science is beautiful
iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Permission denied
Being yourself on your blog
Raf Czlonka on my ice cream post
An analysis of native IoT advertising
RMS Aquitania’s Grand Staircase
Bryan Hughes on intentions
What Carl Sagan would say about mask protests
Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD
Daniel Andrews on empathy for COVID testing
Why aren’t you more serious?
Josh on how to peel garlic
nvi2 in FreeBSD ports
The Kos Porta Pro X headphones
Uncle Roger’s rice reaction
Young and knowing, or old with money
Semantic discussion of macOS plists
What are the biggest lies you’ve been told?
Vanilla or chocolate first
Irrational computing feedback from Jim Kloss
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value
Bitcoin scam sites
Pasquale Sciarappa’s One Pan Pasta
My new/old Technics SL-J300R turntable
Irrational things I still do with computers
Charging Australians to come home, with apologies to Clarke and Dawe
죠지, 오랜만에 (George, After a long time)
These measures aren’t political statements
Andranig Vartanian on Solaris, with more nostalgia
A late morning Sydney walk
Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI
Making RSS prominent again
Remembering Sun and MySQL in 2008
Fate/Grand Order 3rd Anniversary craft essences
Colin Percival on the zeroth-system effect
Renaming git default branch to trunk
Cancel culture
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
John Siracusa on WFH holidays
Historic Kyōto in 2010
De-politicising COVID responses
RÜFÜS DU SOL, live from Joshua Tree
Booting from an ISO on OrionVM
Identifying vegetables
Peter Dutton in contempt of court
Follow-up to AT power supplies
Michael Dexter on software project communication
Algorithms directing art
The Athena AT40 400W AT power supply
My ratings for foods Bon Appétit rated
New stock market records… wait, what?
The second half of 2020
BSD Now discusses my encrypted ZFS on NetBSD post
Music Monday: Butterfly by Bump of Chicken
Exporting starred Github repos
Blog retrospective: 720K floppies
Universally-applicable pip design decisions
Add MJ12bot to your web server spam lists
Selling your fire extinguisher
Two-factor auth codes need to be chunked better
“Your unpopular opinion about Re:Zero”
Goodbye Home-Fix, and Singapore’s DIY scene
More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
Music Monday: The Vanilla Bean Situation
Still getting mail from a leaked database
Bringing my own git in-house
Making better tea
Feedback on Markdown’s square brackets
Markdown links have brackets backwards
ARM Macs (but RISC-V would be cooler)
Show 411: The FreeBSD cat(1) episode
Text::Template as a Perl Jinja alternative
COVID resources from our building’s strata
Installing pkgsrc fonts on macOS
The speed of technology
Borders around Burundi and Rwanda
Sleep patterns and home isolation
This SCO module contains...
.dotfile management
pngcrush’s loco crush option
Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
The web we lost: a retrospective
My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
The 2020 iPhone SE
MDF disk images to ISOs
csh feedback from @debdrup
Pro-p’s K-On! fanart
Exercise during isolation
What’s missing from NAS reviews
One-liners: Downloading a https cert as text
Race riots
Music Monday: Japanese aviation fuel train
SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the ISS
Wealth inequality and falling interest rates
Show 410: The apothecary coffee episode
Shinjuku station in Fate/Grand Order
Custom tab completions in oksh
NetBSD used to default to csh
Costa Rica recognises marriage equality
It’s Alive! Brussel sprout kimchi
Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD
Ships classed as trains for a 1960s database
Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full
When reCAPTCHA attacks
ACCC’s March quarter 2020 report
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu performing Candy Candy live
Colour ls on NetBSD
Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
Seinfeld has been to our apartment
Live video feeds of Tokyo trains
I’m relieved that...
Your local cafe is an expensive habit!
COVID is the ultimate externality
Post-US world on display
Remuxing old FLVs to MP4, without re-encoding!
That’s You, to the power of Us
RSS is more than plumbing
eBay Saved Search emails ignore geography
NetWare IPX/SFX slides
IoT, and Hypponen’s law
Conflating implementation with intent
Ministers not wanting the COVID tracking app
686 pages
Official Hige Dandism - 115万キロのフィルム
Other SMR considerations
Err…
Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault
Show 409: The uncanny silhouette episode
A prophetically-appropriate AKB48 song
Hidden shingled-drive follow-up
Locking down SSH to specific IPs
If there are silver linings to any of this
Guardian flag quiz, and some of my favourites
Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD
Kevin Rudd on Australia and NZ's relative COVID success
Savage Garden: Thousand Words
Colourfully-stunning Morino Rinze fig
The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle
Photo of Gangtok in the eastern Himalayas
Algeria is massive
Goodbye Windows 2008 R2 and 7
Comparing footprint of cities I care about
Digital connectivity is oil?
Follow-up to my fintech security post
Try and pick the fake COVID story
Show 408: The deserted tape episode
Even respected sites are failing to address fintech security
First late night walk in ages
Change is a measure of competence
$100 million on your first letter
Music Monday: Why Spring Ain’t Here
Working remote
Correcting the record
FreeBSD consolidation, and spam apologies
Chaldea Broadcast System for March 2020
Music Monday: Santana, Foo Foo
Delightful 27th March things
The Onkyo C-707
A happy birthday jiggly pancake
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
Givin’ It Up for Love, Al Jarreau and George Benson
Anecdotal Ethernet interference
Techmoan’s puppets on The Italian Job
Erashkigal art from Megami, March 2020 issue
Gigolo failed to mount Windows share
Show 407: The overengineered everything episode
How to version control LibreOffice spreadsheets
Reducing Perl memory usage
Dangerous new anime figs for 2020
A meta-thinking realisation
Figuring out Hi-Fi component dimensions
Initialising a new self-hosted remote Git
An update from Stack Exchange on licencing
Anime Festival Sydney 2020
Show 406: The chipped hero episode
LibreOffice 6.4.2.1 fixes macOS text regression
Show 405: The Walkenbach Envelope episode
New neighbours
Removing characters with tr
Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news
CSS didn’t decouple content from presentation
FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop
Adwaita themes in FreeBSD
2020–02–29
An old domain whitelist text file
Show 404: The 29th griddle episode
NOTNULL in Postgres
Kenwood DEM-9991D circuit diagram
A final farewell and thanks to YNAB4
Flag of the Canary Islands
HO-scale R-761
Physical symptoms of job stress
The Weeknd: Blinding Lights
Arena Unix II swim cap
NNTP
Writing without backpacks or spaces
Using spreadsheets as databases
When junk blogs stifle troubleshooting
Owner-occupiers driving house demand
Smartphone book readers on the train
What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD
STRICT_ALL_TABLES now default in MariaDB
3801 is back in Thirlmere
Processing text
Australian FTTN and metadata surveillance
Both sides to saving money on cafés
Why we prefer subtitles
Fog in Sydney yesterday
Coronavirus info from data centres
Music Monday: Samba Pa Ti
TeX graphicx changing page margins
Another post on open source civility
Stepping on anything other than unsubscribe
Surface of the Sun
Empathy for Scotland rejoining the EU
Help NetBSD test 9.0 Release Candidate 2
Music Monday: Follow That Man
2020–02–02
Rediscovering LaserDiscs
LibreOffice is great; just not on the Mac
Some delightful late January spam
Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn
Fifteen years of posts
Digital rights and political impunity
fetch: authentication error on FreeBSD
Windows Insider takes cake for worst unsubscribe
Curly quote fix coming for Hugo 0.6x
Music Monday: IBM PS/2 It!
Gotchas when adding a drive to an existing ZFS pool to make a mirror
Changing my mind on light text, dark backgrounds
Apple Wallet boarding pass ergonomics
The envelope method, and 64-bit YNAB4 works
The first FreeBSD conference in Australia
Cancelled flights between Sydney and Melbourne
Overnightscape Central: Detectives
Overheard C and Python
Show 403: The hot cake episode
Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
Living in electric dreams
I may even republish their spam
Music Monday: Janet Devlin, Mad World
A technical admission
Show 402: The hidden PPPoE episode
666 pages
Technical accuracy, and the whole product concept
Bushfire news is too much
Richard Feldman on functional programming
Installing Hunspell on FreeBSD and macOS
My favourite anime in the 2010s
Enabling /dev/diskid and /dev/gpt on FreeBSD
Overnightscape Central: Abstract Novel Again Again
A personal retrospective on the 2010s
Show 401: The on fire episode
Our own small brush with a bushfire
Anders Enger Jenson: DiscoVision
Show 400: The Quadricentennial episode
Rearranging The Verge’s tech flops list
Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
Comparing BSD potatoes in liquid nitrogen
Here’s your PIN, here's the eBay PIN…
Fate/Stay Night UBW Xmas
Revisiting ten ways to reduce stress
Greta Thunberg
New KDE/FreeBSD team website
Bushfires, with comments from my dad
Impeached Mr Orange
Solution to blocking home recording
ATAR results, via @BADCATBAD_
Curly quotes broken in Goldmark, Hugo
Overnightscape Central: More Topics
That holiday scene from the Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi
Music Monday: I Bought You a Plastic Star
Firefox reporting blocked trackers
Wikipedia’s mathematics articles need work
Do you agree to accept our cookies?
Yahoo Groups deletion follow up
Consuming media
Overnightscape Central: Misfit Toys
What a FreeBSD guy uses NetBSD for
Chatswood sky, April and today
Music Monday: Rhythm is our Business
Talking at FreeBSD events
Twitter threads should be blog posts
The career skill of accountability
Where life expectancy is above 80
Funding bhyve VirtFS/9p completion project
Music Monday: Fanfare for the Common Man
The Hyperion luggable from 1983
The Tesla Cybertruck
The Indian Roller
My friend on the way to school
Lorimer Street
Searching for FreeBSD ports
Spelling Good Mythical Morning
Angus Taylor’s metadata adventure
Music Monday: Null
A Potemkin mind
Trying the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
Unsub me already: Sprint, fail
What I’m excited about
And now, Sydney thunderstorms!?
Another smoky Sydney morning
Site updates, late November 2019
Overnightscape Central: Top Ten
A smoky Sydney morning
Chaining addresses in FreeBSD ipfw
Music Monday: Walk in the Rain
Pronouncing Project like Progress
The letter versus spirit of the law
Cody’s sunflower lab
Using brew cask search
Replacing the phone
16-inch MacBook Pro
Out of stock, now with free shipping
Australia’s ruling class on bushfires
Ubiquiti’s phoning home issues
Mythical Chef Josh
Fitbit and Yahoo Groups
Manga swimsuit follow-up post
Thanks everyone for your positive thoughts!
When companies underpay staff
FreeBSD 12.1 available
Union Pacfic’s steam turbine locos
Thanking Medicare and RNS staff
Overnightscape Central: Funny Animals
Pet Shop Boys, Only the Wind
Android biometrics in October 2019
Condescending responses to tech questions
1977 kept coming up
Remember the Mac PowerPC to Intel shift?
Fate/Grand Order Babylonia key visuals
iOS 13.1 is still pokey
Van Morrison, Cleaning Windows
Fun with online ECC memory shopping
Small homes out of trucks
Worrying out loud about EOL
Australian broadband adventures, Q3 2019
Lessons from hours screaming in a metal tube
Current ThinkPads with HiDPI
Consolidating all the things, also watches
When you book hotels online
David Hodges was an audio visual
What I'm reading, 2019 week 42
Relieved to see Perl 6 being renamed
Fixing Hugo JSON-LD
Cisco’s internal network issues
iPhone typing accuracy declines
That Fate/Grand Order fragment from 2004
Custom awk delimiters
Hales fixes my RSS
Infosec Jack Sparrow
Show 396: The Brisbane Perth episode
Overnightscape Central: Fun Times
Discouragement in IT
SortedFood Mystery Box with liquorice
Stack Exchange changing licences
Deciding on a bank based on their mobile apps
Fixing Hugo pagination in 0.58
Cape Town Civic Centre
Please don’t use fixed-position navigation bars
Housing as an asset class
The Sony StorStation Ditto tape drive
C2C Genius as “jitters”
iTelephone 2019 wish list
The xkcd password leak
Everyday Canteen
Australia’s uninterrupted economic growth…
Rambling on biology and tech
iOS always forgets what audio I was playing
Windows games on FreeBSD via Homura
Woolloomooloo coffee in the morning
Fate/Grand Order Nero Fest and Summer 2019
Carrie Lam and Boris Johnson
Helpful internet people
Back at a Dôme
Cleaning compromised servers
Bidding salamat tinggal to the Q on Harris
Japanese tourism
GCC being removed from FreeBSD 13 base
Colin Bass: Return to Earth
Anime I hate, love, find overrated, etc
Some more jot numbers
Doug DeMuro on multiple dead-ends
More sun, less grass
Shock jocks and free speech
Music Monday: Opportunities
Fun with a phpMyAdmin honeypot
Goodbye again to the Linux Journal
The SS Grampian
ThinkPad feedback from @sjdorst
Steve Hofstetter on Robin Williams
Anime motorbikes and scooters
The ThinkPad X40, an all-time favourite
Huntington State Park
Common myths about private browsing
Music Monday at Milsons Point
Lesson 11 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
Decluttering: Mofo Soap
Your Sunday morning economics snippets
Reading list for early August 2019
Can’t change Slack private channels to public
Siri response grading
2019 Good Smile Racing Miku
Concerns for Nikon
Goodbye, Caffetini
Choosing a NAS
Maid skateboarders by すずしろ
Even with the best of intentions...
Music Monday: Hare Hare Yukai~
The new Funan Centre
Where do you find the time to blog?
When someone close nearly got phone scammed
Running NoScript in 2019
Feedback from @infinitary
Simple VyOS port forwarding
Music Monday: Window Washer’s Dream
10x Engineers: The brilliant jerks
Comparing SimCity 3000 railways and subways
The issue isn’t privacy, it’s privacy?
Dual-boot NT and NetBSD on the Libretto 70CT
False dichotomy of human rights or privacy
Evangelion battle alpacacs
TWG Tea
Boris Johnson, and malicious joy
A brief history of KornShell time
Music Monday: Youssou N’Dour, 7 Seconds
Love for Kyoto Animation
John Roderick on Portland
When’s the best time to use a plane lavatory?
Using Subversion with GitHub
My 2019 essential tool list
Australian solar to Singapore via undersea cable
Rhett and Link on equine identification
That time he whinged about a headache
Design anti-patterns: Misleading buttons
Automatic Korn Shell aliases
Unlimited plans are almost always flops
San Francisco Muni: Two Car, Shovel
Australian IT firms not consulted about #aabill
Covering laptop cameras, revistied
Some random things I learned today
ThinkPads and MacBooks
New Sailor Mercury Figuarts Mini
Mr Smooth
Ayako Kawasumi at Anime Expo
URLs, URIs, URNs
Dan Benjamin on computers as tools
ZFS isn’t just for NAS boxes
Ken Akamatsu on the Raspberry Pi 4 model B
Ansible name parameters in cron
President Widodo raises plastic at G20
Why do most PC laptops have awful screens?
Sashin’s House at the Top of the World
Show 395: The corned mindfulness episode
Streetcars in the US
Spellging mistaes for this week
Disambiguating licence plates
Ansible authorized_key and user variables
HPE buying Cray
When people say Straight Pride
Versions of ksh93 in macOS, FreeBSD
Speaking of plastic
Don’t forget the -y with FreeBSD Ansible
When CDNs say you have malware
Yurucamp Nendoroids
Benjamin Wittes on the Mueller Report
Thanking Dropbox for the final stick
Reading atlases, and Stepanakert in Artsakh
Plastic straw ban follow up
Manchester Baby, and Elizebath CityCenter [sic]
KVM trolley suggestions for data centre operators
El Goonish Shive
Just live without your phone for a week? Yeah, no
Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley
Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
The Mid-range utility Mac
Not if they win the lotto!
Roman numeral IIII on clocks
Capitalise first letter in Perl
Anti-trust suits, then and now
Rhett and Link on baking gastronomy
Apple’s new campus not attached?
A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
Plumbing drafts: Now
Tweeting about FreeBSD, NetBSD
Hugo generator deprecation warnings
Percussive maintenance
Re:Zero’s Rem on a collared shirt
Cropping a single row of pixels with ImageMagick
Pitfalls of Windows 2012 R2 USB boot keys
Cadillac Fleetwood Mac
Next macOS to use zsh by default
Relief for the 2019 Mac Pro
Mid Valley Johor Bahru
He’s back, with housekeeping
Tigerlily
Hard drive capacities: a 2008 retrospective
2019 MacBook Pros
When did you learn version control?
Luminary and the future of indie podcasting
Australia lost, again
Bob Hawke
Michael W. Lucas: Control your platform
Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
SE.RA.PH: Defeat 10 servants from the East
Microsoft Linux or IBM Linux
OrionVM launches Melbourne PoP
Richard Di Natale on Australia’s #aabill
Photographing cosplayers, with attribution
Snippets from my personal wiki
Type fast and break prose
Rename IPSec peers in VyOS
When people answer questions with “why?”
bzip2 and KornShell fun
Miku Expo 2019 Taiwan and Hong Kong
Kao laundry powder scoop analysis
SCSI to CompactFlash for vintage PCs
Changing to the middle seat
Elizabeth Warren breaking up big IT
BSD questions from @romanzolotarev
Hetalia and Free! boys
Add new Postgres schema to search path
Commodore SFD-1001, and the Teac FD-505
Intermittent fasting, and metabolism
User 'polkitd' disappeared during update
The Cayenne Convection Oven
Perl 5.28.2 in ports and perlbrew
Wadarco’s art in Chaldea Ace Volume 2
Fully-recyclable Adidas shoes
DuckDuckGo features keep surprising me
Disabling SELinux on CentOS, RHEL
Hunting for a Dropbox replacement
Who’s Chef Boyardee?
FreeBSD devd files need a .conf extension
Don’t confuse gohugo by adding symlinks
The Aquantia AQC107 10GbE controller
Curly bracket substitution in sed, nvi, Vim
Brexit silver lining
Serverless
Show 394: The hierarchical coffee episode
Music Monday: French coffee
Event Horizon Telescope sees a black hole
Attitudes to mental health
Tipping culture
Another (site) bites the dust
Subversion in OrionVM FreeBSD templates
We almost got Arena manga swimsuits
PF in FreeBSD and NetBSD
A second chance for FGO Bride Umu
Estonian government-in-exile
AAPT on moving off copper
Sceptical of synergies
How web businesses surprised me
DW Documentary on North Korea
Australian IT in the budget reply speech
Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
Our first aviation go-around
The @georgiecel on what to read
The Christchurch massacre
Show 391: The Lemon Grove episode
pngcrush with reduce
Tethering is still voodoo
The 737 MAX
Medhi’s Mother of All Fullest Bridge Rectifiers!
Spam disclaimers
The Sorted Gents
Excitement over Windows 7’s demise
Peak California... on Medium
Another new newsletter abusing email lists
Making a macOS Mojave USB key
Fate/Grand Order Valentine Rerun
No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
Storage versus RAM configurability
My colleague’s MT3 profile board
Dropbox isn’t case-sensitive
NetBSD devpubd as a FreeBSD devd equivalent
Roderick on the Line: Turtles
Music Monday: Uptown Funk
Good planning
Little things with Outlook, Apple Mail
Technical reasons may often be insufficient
1993 Computer Chronicles on Spectre
Opening a Kensington Orbit Trackball
Facebook’s lobbying against global privacy laws
Learning about shell indirect expansion
Flat design on websites
Bosnia and Herzegovina has a coast
ElectroBOOM! on eddy currents
Josh Nunn on week numbers
FreeBSD sh getting set -o pipefail
Back to school specials!!1!one!
Lateral thinking: sponges
George Pell found guilty
Austin and Doug on the Yugo
Testing HTTPS/TLS sites
Ergolux corner standing desk
macOS not downgrading Wi-Fi security
Moving out of the way of commuters
FeedReader: Generally safe
Simpson Strong Tie Set Xp Msds
And now Sydney is frigidly cold?
Anxiety plus ignorance, it is!
Apple’s rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro
Pop Up Parade anime figs
Homebrew no longer accepts options
When client-side validation attacks
Our moving NBN adventure
FreeBSD shared object libssl.so.8 not found
Baby Shark on Wikipedia
The unfortunately-named bought Eero
144dpi images in ImageMagick
Delivering blog post text in RSS
Show 390: The Overnightscape Pegasus episode
Remembering Le Cornu in Adelaide
Decentraleyes
Airbus ending the A380
Pinterest’s CEO and his service
The golden-headed cisticola
Box doesn’t do Markdown
Digital Dark Age, even within sites
Overnightscape Central: Book Series
Scott Morrison loses a vote
I came across Latest Posts with $5,900,000
Tony Benn on refugees
Openrsync: A BSD-licenced rsync
Do parliaments need a separate executive?
Posting regularity
Lazy Sunday, anime figs, missing email
Stack Overflow survey 2019
Firefox disabling auto-playing video
Fixed podcast descriptions in iTunes
qemu HAXM on NetBSD
Goodbye, AT&T data centres
Churning to Superloop
Happy Birthday @JamieJakov and Rin!
Source RSS namespace has moved
A list of lightweight laptops from 2018
fd, the find alternative
Churn in anti-virus vendors
Ranking of laptop keyboards
Dublin Core in HTML5
State of Apple in 2018
Going loud in the morning
Midsomer Murders: Vixen’s Run
Pointless Rubenerd stats: The
Moving with figs
After the jump
Day after Australia Day picnic
Not ranking well for certain keyword phrases
Being told a Tumblr post had been reviewed
It’s been a month since the 25th of December
Moving to Chatswood
Companies leaving over Brexit
American Express jellyfish
It has numbers in them
Peter Cook and Microsoft Bob on The Bard
Forum signatures
Mark Bittman: No-knead bread
Finding the current week number
Kanaya Resort in Hakone
A decade ago: appearing on blogged.com
Self-redundancy
What blogging is
My final answer on mock meat
The folly of haircut instructions
A Yoko Littner fig... in 2019‽
A certain new chat application logo
Create a mirror of an FTP site with wget
IBM agrees to buy Red Hat
Katelyn Ohashi’s 10 point routine
The Australian people
Setting FLAC compression in FFmpeg
How likely are you to recommend this survey?
Having another Brexit vote
Scientology’s Australian recruit struggle
Show 389: The 2018 spectacular episode
Firefox application bundle sizes
Sakura on ufotable’s Twitter
Show 388: The archived hat episode
A lyric like that
Predictable issues with video doorbells
The European Space Agency store
Buying the Chrysler Building
On entrepreneurship
He’s just not that great a negotiator
Just test the damned pills
Financial hardship in invoicing
Summoning Musashi in Fate/Grand Order
Bell Canada wanting permission to track customers
Cheaper, and more affordable
Vulfpeck on whale feet
Information war
Overnightscape Central: Fire
Some café quotes from this morning
Vortex Race 3 keyboard
SortedFood sandwiches
Sydney trains late, crowded
Max’s apartment from Double Decker
Selectively disabling gohugo RSS feeds
TigerVNC on macOS Mojave
Life advice
The Ghost blog editor
Road Work on snark
Can’t killall on Debian 9 Stretch
The Opal Tower conflict of interest
Stack Exchange first response: why?
Ball & stick but bill wurtz is missing
Windows versus BSD and GPL
Why OLED phone screens suck for some of us
CoreTypes.bundle still has some classic hardware
Our 2019 New Years
Spot the difference: Share bikes
My 2018 news resolution backfired
Cookie Dozer
Some December Sydney skies, part one
This comment on a bc post
The Lucent 901928-01 Keyboard
Show 387: The upsidedown Xmas episode
The Marriot Marquis atrium
Spending real-world money in virtual worlds
Publuc keys
Bookmark cleanout, December 2018
The RMS Lucania and Campania
Christmas day ramble, and Annexe import
A festive Fate lock screen
Could not chdir to fulljail
Retail abuse
Driving from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur
The 80586 Pentium
SORTEDFood visualising time
Australian property downturn reporting
Chains I miss in Australia and Singapore
John Gruber on Gizmodo, exclamations
Random Georgian Scandanavian wanderings
rmdir versus rm
OpenSSH undefined symbol on FreeBSD
Parliament a disadvatage for governments?
3D printing the future
A dodgy English sentence on USB keys
Revenue and responsibility
Sugar-free whisky sour
Yes, the #AABill is about encryption
Show 386: The somewhat serious episode
Interconnection is Key to Digital Transformation
A dev quote attributed to Maurice Wilkes
A dodgy USB key
Social media demands we not have nice things
Midsomer Murders on finding things
StatusCake chatbot
Fate/Grand Order whales
Apia
IBM selling Lotus
Australia’s new anti-encryption bill
Goodbye FastWay Supermarket
The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
Updating Apple Support Communities
Option wishlist for shell software
RHEL also deprecating btrfs
Red Hat deprecating KDE, with reminiscing
A stuck tooltip
Rubenerd Vacancy Pile Index
The world’s worst minivan
Feminine men
Overnightscape Central: TV Personalities
Show 385: The Jeffersonian Keynsham episode
macOS modifier keys
Create new FAT floppy disk image on macOS
If you want encryption, you support…
Apple T2 webcam security
Xorg: More than one possible primary device found
A decade of Yuletide Steins;Gate
Greyed out VMware Fusion NIC settings
Marc Edwards on 2x Retina
Loud coffee shops
FGO Ishtar!
Australian Prime Minister Taylor Swift
IBM CEO on Silicon Valley privacy
Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp for women
High-vis economics
Second Xmas event when FGO became self-aware
Scoop is another Windows package manager
Those white collars
Corrine Bailey Rae, Put Your Records On
Overnightscape Central: Scramble
Economic impact of back doors
Not news, but ed25519 keys are tiny
Why rip up functional footpaths?
Ports
mkfs.xfs on Debian
Fate/Grand Order Xmas again
RMS initials and acronyms
Red Hat Forum Sydney 2018
macOS guest in VMware Fusion
A YouTube Overwatch video
Wikia now Fandom
Show 384: The down low-fi episode
Overnightscape Central: Coffeetalk
Workshop spam on demonstratable empathy
Encourage-mint
The new most convoluted unsubscribe process
Brexit and paranoid fantasies
How likely are you to recommend…?
Gateway to the world
Migraine coping techniques
Support Atheist Nexus
Show 383: The portable episode
Music Monday: Bump of Chicken, Ray
World War I
homebrew-cask-versions
Want better platitudes? Ask bigger marketing
Work automation
Can you do it cheaper?
Linux to FreeBSD: lspci to pciconf
New Caledonia votes against independence
A specific Gintama Souko Okita fig
Overnightscape Central: Candy and Fun
LattePanda
Music Monday: Book-end, Happy-end
Gendered schools
So glad we replaced IRC and XMPP
Haruhi in the 2007 Megami magazine
The new MacBook Air isn’t 2:1 Retina
WordNet and Problematical
A new type of blog referral spam
A tale of two Finders
Rounded internal SCSI cables
flvio.cc tracer experiment 25
Happy Hyouka Day!
The new MacBook Airs are devoid of touch bars!
Addressable SMB
It wasn’t Pyne’s fault, maybe!
Apple New York event wish list
Review of BusyCal for Mac
Overnightscape Central: Halloweeny
Victorian opposition leader on religious classes
WORLD ORDER: Let's Start WW3
Speaking of buyouts, M1?
Another chance to buy a DAN A4-SFX case
IBM plans to buy Red Hat
The Aston Martin Lagonda
iTunes: You Can (Not) Advance
Azur Lane Neptunia followup
Y2K was a planned fizzer
Show 382: The mock food episode
A Sysinternals retrospective
My own Twitter policy
Goodbye, Chatswood stores
ifconfig
Confirmation shaming feedback from @sjdorst, @FiatSlug1
More plastic, via @Georgiecel
Confirm shaming
You have detached Mosh sessions on this server
Amplified: Mr. Raindrop
Deleting all FreeBSD jails
Why do some smoke detectors use radioactive material?
Overnightscape Central: Disc Jockeys
Ruben’s second watchlist
That rising temperature bet
xkcd: Hazard Symbol
Train Simulator 2019 on Linux
MUJI table test
Not having an opinion
Show 380: The three-eighty episode
My personal RSA whoops
Malé and SimCity
Trying Grammarly
Cloudflare’s domain registrar
Obsolete best IT practices
Captain Straydum Fuusen Gum
Change your git repo source URL
Top tourist destinations by money spent
Fate/Grand Order Nero Fest 2018
Anime shoes
MAS: trade friction and uncertainty
Friday Fanmail: Accosting SEO
Dropbox.design is excited
Telstra feedback survey
Zero percent battery
Overnightscape Central: Expensive
More Homebrew serendipity
Feather preening
Lee Myung-bak sentenced for bribery
The new American Express logo
The tree swallow
pgAdmin 4 version 3.4
The G in PNG and JPG
Microsoft Error Reporting error
Ruben’s watchlist
Best Nitocris fanart
When Macworld isn’t
Suppress echo newlines
An empty udon bar at night
Seeing Chermside at Chatswood
Dark patterns in networking email
ToHeart2’s Miyauchi Lemmy gets a fig
Hello Sexy Pants
Mosh on Amazon Lightsail
An Australian public energy retailer
Even more sign generator planes
Save the web; wait, not you!
Schady’s back, tell a friend
Overnightscape Central: The Radio
Facebook browser console ASCII art
Australian household spending from savings
See you soon
Someone designed these
Father's day, life, work
Half-rhyme patrol
How do you make time to blog!?
The longest post ever, on the STV-4540 PDU
Paulding, United States
Disabling Hyper-Threading for Spectre
The iOS Settings search field
More sign generator planes
A few days back on a small phone
Squirtria’s third culinary critique
Australian Prime Minister Morrison
Performance management Friday Fanmail
Airline Sign Generator
Today on Punwatch: Oil
PostgreSQL NOT IN with NULL
Places I read but still mispronounce
Argument mnemonics
Communicating isn’t just stating facts
My new Kindle
Scalars greater than 2
Aretha Franklin and Matt “Guitar” Murphy ♡
Anime we’re watching, Q3 2018
Full page newsletter signup trends
Friday Fanmail: Pressurising in your city
Squirtria’s second culinary critique
A straw-man argument on plastic
Oh Android, don’t ever change
ModernWebBloat.js
FreeBSD ZFS catching mismatched disks
Saber Altria’s culinary critique
Truncated to sixty pages
Carved Friday Fanmail
MacVim 8.1.235 (150)
567 pages
King George V and Queen Mary on the RMS Maurentania
2018-08-08 08:08:08
Fate/Grand Order Summer 2018
Jean-Luc Picard is back!
The Dutch are invading my Mac
Michael Franks, The Music in My Head
Banning SF corporate cafeterias
Wildcard and DNS Let’s Encrypt certificates
Favourite Character Bingo, via @Dekopatchi
When I got stuck in my own bathroom
Lots of typos, even for me
Cancelling your Australian My Health Record
The Android EU decision
Show 375: The Commodore 128 episode
My first crush
A GitHub purchase post, with lists
A true 757 replacement
rsvg-convert svg to png
A Lockheed TriStar without its centre engine
A bit more of O’Reilly vanishes
This techno-utopia
Sting and Shaggy, Waiting For the Break of Day
The black-tailed godwit
Finding sausages
Saber Kimono Dress figure
Friday Fanmail: Marvis
Sting and Shaggy, Morning is Coming
Bathroom observations
Cabin of a TWA Lockheed TriStar
Alan Bean 🚀
Fate/Stay Night UBW art in Animedia
Why ZTE was banned in the US, Australia
The Walkie-Talkie Sky Garden
Micro‐beads
Kline bottle limerick
New York’s C Trains
My FreeBSD desktop from ten years ago
Concat VMDKs with VMware Fusion
From the not‐this‐again department
A cut-open 737-200
Using rsyncd instead of rsync over SSH
DOS and sex-ed feedback by @ozzmosis, @Georgiecel
Sting and Shaggy, 44/876
Respect for sex education
Paul Houle’s Enhanced DOSKEY and pumpkin
Please explain summaries, Wikipedia editors
Right-click on Ubuntu 18.04
Friday Fanmail: Charlotte
That wireless shield icon
CRN mobile network outage poll
A Tesla and Maserati
Building beautiful websites
Enkheimer Ried
Nero TYPE-MOON RACING fig
Nice FreeBSD bash prompt
$q q Vim bug, and moving to vim-console
FreeBSD doesn't need moused for Xorg
Friday Fanmail: $1009
It's a foggy Sydney this morning
IPv6 address easter eggs
Lists and outlines
Feedback on static comments
New frontmatter generator
The Eurasian Blue Tit, by Francis Franklin
Moving from 1Password for KeePassXC
RFC: Comment systems
Vertel Etherwave
Forcing Xen ACPI shutdown
The beige 5.25 inch Zip Insider
Mad as Hell!
Replacing social networks with RSS
Electoboom on fruit-based proverbs
Using Amex as a single-trip Sydney Opal
Upupuper!
Epson’s classic combo floppy drives
Sydney Then and Now, 1959–2016
A home-office hideaway computer desk
Goodbye, Digg Reader
Turning 32!
First direct flights from Australia to the UK
My Akihabara GPD Pocket
When you cd to double slashes in bash, tcsh
Friday fanmail: I noticed your website
Upgrading pip packages
The Facebook market failure
Flat, mobile designs reduce usability
More regressive web design stickyness
Keysmash #3
Rockmelon and life
How does one push 0.4 of a commit?
It’s the first of March
People leaving Sydney domestically
Missing iDOLM@STER TOKYUH@NDS
Lightbox popups and push notifications
Looking at slabs of glass
Photo of my desk in 2005
Home digital assistants
Music and phones in public
mkshrc
Chopping onions with Gordon, Jin, Namjoon
Show 373: The extinguisher episode
A railroad made of human bones
London Underground schwag
The bubo scandiacus
Homebrew serendipity
Codeine in Australia
A redacted post about an Australian politician
Expedia spam
The one time I installed Chrome
We are not spammers
The Pushkinsky Bridge
LibreOffice 6 instability
iUmu, the iMac
Ridding myself of vices
Yeah but, y’know, caffeine butter
HomePod
Still on Upian’s Hot Links!
Perl 5 and Perl 6
800×600 in a Retina world
Fate/Grand Valentines
Concatenating with append in ImageMagick
nano in macOS High Sierra
Leopard surprises me, a decade ago
Customer demands on small IT businesses
The Hawker Siddeley Trident was fast
Azur Lane Neptunia
Hall and Oats epiphanies
This spam is virus free!
Sorting a *nix folder by last modification date
BeOS in the Wayback Machine
Evolution, a decade ago
Amagi Brilliant Park #04
Followup NBN post
A moment of calm in the Goldsbrough Valley
Keysmash #2
The original NBN was bad, because Turnbull?
Two-factor auth and password managers
No Speedo patterns for gents
Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version
Bitcoin with vests
The trap of using Unix find in ordered lists
Fuji Xerox
The Intercity-Scala
Bitcoin spam with amber
Show 372: The park episode
Keysmash #1: Gresham
Bitcoin spam and cheese
Sydney’s bubble tea, ranked
Stack Overflow survey omission
jOOQ SQL for Java
GitHub supported manifest files
Sunrise, by everyone
Yearly archives in GoHugo
Not attributing motives or histories to people
HP battery recall
The daily bird, via @sjdorst
Fate/Grand Order yukata figs
12TB drives are now a thing
Baked Australia
Time for configuration management
Meltdown and Spectre
Norah Jones, Sunrise
Xen on yesterday’s Intel issue
The red-backed fairy-wren
A list of jazz musicians
Intel’s protected kernel memory leak fun
Blogging in 2018
Concatenating images in ImageMagick
Listerine mouth wash taste guide
Welcome to 2018!
Tactical summer beverages
Brigid Delaney on Australia’s 2017
Disabling VyOS console devices
StorageCraft’s holiday glitter
The Mackinac Bridge
Replace FTP client with NcFTP on High Sierra
Show 371: The FGO episode
Overnightscape Central: Jimbo Two and Blue
AOL Instant Messenger
That's a big desktop VM
The unrecyclable, unsellable stuff
Sportsmanship
Buried under eBay chargers
CRN poll on fate of the NBN
Marriage equality now law in Australia 🎄 🌈
FreeBSD swapinfo
Only upgrade Apple on .2 releases now
Selling on eBay, December 2017
Retina image downscaling with CSS
VMware Windows 2000 KB835732 additions error
Dangerous of reporting on “wiki” and “crypto”
Verifying my Micro.blog
FreeBSD.org using Let’s Encrypt
Headers
Songs with the word ceiling in their title
Friday Fanmail: Mark Waller
34th Street–Hudson Yards
A diamond encrusted bass guitar
FaceID
Using HTTPS Debian repos with Ansible
The Tupolev Tu-114
Decluttering to a little portable library
Activities and Visitors!
Australia just said yes to marriage equality 🌈
Belle Gibson, fake cures, and media
MacOS High Sierra UI bugs
Installing Python pip in Homebrew
The @Gruber on cars in Singapore
Advanced protection from Google instead?
Paring back to an essential vimrc
J. Ellis on thoeries
Enter username, hit button, enter password
Apps first
The origin of DirectX green
OLEDs suck, for me
Hackensack text clipping
King Willem-Alexander at KLM
Show 370: The Canberra episode
A Horse with No Name
Irredentism
Mrs Robinson
Happy anniversary and tricks from lzop!
How to really add FreeBSD users to groups
iTunes 12.7
But Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done it!
What’s new in the Debian installer
Amagi Brilliant Park #03
Marriage equality
Video: Bit dusty next door
No more plain text Zendesk
Amagi Brilliant Park #02
Trump
Pointless list #1: People I like and dislike
Apple’s September 2017 kit
Rubenerd Law of Headlines
Xen and KVM in 2017
You can (not) advance to Safe Senders
Unsub me already: Webjet, fail
OSUNIX
Rubenerd 2017 theme live
Ansible: Unable to find in expected paths
Electroboom on the Right Hand Rule
What about AIX and HP/UX?
A journal entry from 2010, and date formats
Goodbye to Solaris, probably?
Bootstrapping Perl with Perlbrew and CPAN
Amagi Brilliant Park #01
Show 369: The wurst episode
firewalld gotchas
Overnightscape Central: Whatever
Five hundred pages
Manflu 2017
HTML layout template example
Motor racing shopping trolley
Using perl -pe over sed
Another vote for Safari favicons
Going from Vegetarian to Pescetarian
That Google gender-diversity memo
Did you have a chance to review my last email?
Flaws with Sydney’s Opal card
Fresh spam
Show 364: The Hong Kong episode
Scott Ludlam
Show 363: The everything except episode
Citibank Australia and Safari
Rick’s 10GbE home network
Recycling VHS tapes
Second–hand computers do exist
Building a Wall
Unsub me already: GitHub, fail
Lonely people in Singapore
JSON Feed, and JSON in RSS
Fibre to the Node
Gotten
Show 362: The table screw episode
Unsub me already: PagerDuty newsletters, fail
Hamburger icons
High speed rail in Australia, again
Prevent GELI password boot prompts
A decade of iTelephones
Unsub me already: ZDNet Tech Today AU, pass!
Cardinal George Pell charged
Doc Searls: Lessons people learn too late
Unsub me already: FedEx Australia, fail
Who’s to blame for slow AU broadband?
Boeing 757 Heavy
Unsub me already: Australian School of Applied Management, fail
Unsub me already: Startup.co, fail
Unsub me already: APNIC Secretariat, fail
Deprecating homebrew-dupes
Moving in 2017, and all that fun stuff
VASP
Unsub me already: Manufactoring Operations Institute, fail
Ogden Nash #1
Definition lists in markdown
HTML tidy syntax
Unsub me already: HP Australia, fail
Unsub me already: M20/20 StartUp companies, pass!
Unsub me already: TechTarget, fail
Mr Brandis, You Can (Not) Decrypt
Castle
UK election 2017
Sydney house prices in 2017
Social norms and coffee shops
Jerry Novak's June coffee
Interest over values
July 2017 Rubenerd spam
Goodbye, del.icio.us
But I’d treat her better!
Here’s an email for a received message
Ubuntu switching to Wayland
Giving up refined sugar
This press release is excited!
VirtualBox guest additions in Fedora 25
Charities worth your time and money
The blight of expired Let’s Encrypt certs
Old driver decision tree
Building QEMU on CentOS 7
Unboxing a 1997 Iomega Jaz Drive
Oliver’s law of assumed responsibility
The Show is back on iTunes
Where oil rigs go to die
Marcon, not Le Pen
Show 361: The Clark episode
Flex
Mr John Clarke, one of the great satirists
Overnightscape Central: Shambles Constant (Hometownville Bonus)
Dat sentence
Show 360: The revolutionary episode
Overnightscape Central: We’ve Got Ideas
Fix DOS MBR
Sending back UTM links
Big Boy
diskutil unmountDisk
One is not like the others
You've woken up to a 1980s breakfast
No more local Singapore-Malaysia calls, kinda
Fate/Grand Order VR feat. Mash Kyrielight
Restoring my first computer
del.icio.us in IFTTT
The HP Pavilion Wave
The @Stilgherrian on fake news
The new Mac Pro shall be
LibreOffice HTML table paste
Goodbye CodePlex
Typewriter style keyboard
Goodbye Daisuke Satō
I’m 31
ECC in AMD Ryzen
Keep it simple, Ansible
Sila’s gamble
Python interpreter for Ansible
Guarenteed market share
Safari in 2017
The Zip Insider
Ansible with FreeBSD
Versions of EMM386
Chlorinated water bottles
Dad on the mend
Icehouse, Electric Blue (1987)
Rhipe Prime Portal
Terry comments on New Jersey episodes
Boris Kustodiev’s Shrovetide
Show 359: The C= episode
Atlassian, I am disappoint
Record answers for Apple secret questions
Hot enough for you 2017?
The most 21st century paragraph ever
3D-printed Penrose Triangle
Valentine termination spam
Running Anisble locally
On the size of the Commodore 128
Ten years of Haruhi
Millions benefit from housing speculation
Borland in iTerm
afconvert and avconv performance
Show 358: The cable episode
The NOCHANGE BBS car
Unsub me already: Slack, fail
Unsub me already: Box, fail
Civil use of Australia's mandatory metadata
Show 357: The borders episode
The state of the Mac
Hugo 0.18.1
Hyouka's Chitanda, the unsung composer
Saber TYPE-MOON RACING fig
BBS automotive spam
MacVim's search replace
Farewell office coffee mug
Overnightscape Central: 1984
Norfolk Island, I can't handle your birds
The Boeing 727 prototype
UK's EU ambassador quits
Don’t enforce password character limits
Two-tone beige keyboards in 2017
But even in their dressing
A list of Windows disk benchmark tools
Registrars for .moe
Testing SSL connections
HealthMeTV video station billboards
2016 and masculinity
Australian ISPs to block torrent sites
Firefox and Vivaldi are smaller
Goodbye junk
Prescription drugs are far worse
More sold and closed OpenStack clouds
The best interview of all time
Overnightscape NY/NJ feedback
Getting into blogging
No more public Dropbox folders
Unsub me already: CD Baby, fail
Fate Grand Order 2016 Summer Event
Colleague feedback
Unsub me already: OnlineCompliancePanel, fail
Unsub me already: Exxact, fail
Unsub me already: The WHIR / Pentontech, fail
Unsub me already: Wrike, pass!
Offshore Singapore bank accounts
Megaport newsletters
Fujitsu exiting laptop business
Reasons to use HTTPS
freebsd-update timezone changes
The unfortunately-named Eero
Why politicians like property investment
Case-insensitive file systems aren't clear cut
Domain: All you need are rich parents
Fate/Grand Order TV special
The NSG uClean LD-1420 HMT
Overnightscape Central: Pockets, Cans and UFOs
Weaning off streaming music
Australia's immigration dimwits
Boeing 777 and narrow-bodies compared
Wikipedia user groups
youtube-dl through a proxy
The @wellmaywesay podcast
Unbounce Convertables
Fate/Grand Phone Case
Infrequently asked questions
Graduate Outcomes Survey
The moe Sukhoi T-50
Trump
The greatest songs of all time
Sell or promote spam
Show 355: The New Jersey episode
Recommended for you!
Women in IT on Slashdot
Mac downloads in 2016
DirtyCOW
Collecting American licence plates
Open the Door (-문을 여시오)
Those are even more commits
Show 353: The Olympus trip episode
287 megabytes of Emacs
Kelana Jaya Putra LRT line
Eight years ago, the Convair 880
A week of posts at once
Check for bashisms
Here's looking at you, Facebook
One Australian electorate against marriage equality
Parked on footpaths: Merc SUV
Dismissing macOS modal dialogs
Multiple GoToMeeting versions
Leaked doc show long Medicare delays
Blank iTunes apps column
Selling my Yoko Littner bunny fig
The Rubenerd @1999io server
Latest @humblebooks bundle: Science fiction by real scientists
It’s IT Pro Day ‘16!
Overnightscape Central: Reading Room
Show 352: The companion cube episode
iTunes 12.5.1.21
Moving from del.ici.ous to Pinboard
The first Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
Eleven cafe trends
iTerm2 3.0.9
Overnightscape Central: Changes
Collecting a decade of work
USB aquarium alarm clock pen holder light
No offline OneNote
Show 351: The minty creole episode
The wonderful FreeBSD cal
Four rules for web form design
Lesson 10 in grilled cheese sandwich observation
The iPhone 7
Japan on Brexit
Amex Australia customer survey
Goodbye, Internet Explorer 6
Overnightscape Central: Strange Places
Webmaster Hales on four power supplies
Show 350: The sandy camera episode
rgb2ycbcr and rgrep
Four power supplies
FreeBSD and ZFS with Plex
Quaquaversal Satellite: Palace
Enforce 4k sectors in FreeBSD
Small, good camera for 2016
Force overwrite with cp
Newsletter abuse
Vesper claim chowder
Goodbye, Instapaper
If it isn’t right for you right now
What happened to Otto?
S. R. Nathan
Overnightscape Central: Food Food Food
Show 349: The nanotube skyscraper episode
Back on 20th August 2006
Show 348: The transient existence episode
HPE buys SGI
Goodbye Gawker, and hopefully Gizmodo
Moving to Amex
Extracting more money from renters
The derived namespace
Re:Zero's Rem
IT snow days
Font rendering in 2016
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
Mr Turnbull on the NBN and #CensusFail
The ASUS EeeBook X205TA
Overnightscape Central: Lethargy
Confluence as a family wiki
An incomplete list of my common misspellings
Sydney restaurants that take Amex
Singapore nostalgia at Equinix
Over 9,000 and Sysadmin Day
More flexible gohugo summaries
Ruben the university graduate
Overnightscape Central: Escape
Parked on footpaths: Isuzu Tipper
Deactivating Windows
Install Windows help files
Windows robocopy alternative to rsync
Hugo generating content in memory
Covering laptop cameras
Show 347: The Harrison Ford episode
Show 346: The cereal episode
Alternative Let’s Encrypt Clients
Recharge
Kindly, Don’t Do That
URL encoding codes
Eschewing (gesundheit) the word just
It’s 7-11
Spare a thought for Outlook users
Show 345: The turncoat episode
Show 344: The fixtery episode
Vim’s smart undo without saving changes
Overnightscape Central: Mystery
Overnightscape Central: Albums #2
Boxed–up posts
WWDC 2016
How likely to recommend emails
brew cask move yourself
Overnightscape Central: Albums
Show 343: The light episode
Overwatch
Being an ISFJ
macOS
Overnightscape Central: Nostalgia
Vivaldi
Vivaldi gets some 1Password love
Show 342: The DisplayPort episode
The NBN is dead, but look at the kitten!
Overnightscape Central: Ramp Fiction
Basic sh to scan an IP range
Overnightscape Central: Franchises and Series
Showing dd progress
Check your election enrolment
Brexit being something else
Facebook privacy
Overnightscape Central: Military
Show 341: The shoes episode
Aizu Project’s Ayanami Rei
And you’re gonna hear me roar
OK Go: Upside Down & Inside Out
Dumb interview questions
Overnightscape Central: In Between
Choosing a minimalistic Mini-ITX case
Show 340: The stuff episode
Overnightscape Central: Creativity
RFID spam
Xamarin the loss–leader
Apple Lossless versus FLAC
Overnightscape Central: News
Show 339: The bojangles episode
Using spell checkers to break bad habits
rar files in Debian Jessie
Show 338: The Sydney episode
Overnightscape Central: Games
Light iTerm colour schemes
Hidden TV Tuner metadata from last decade
Overnightscape Central: Gossip
Life event unlocked: SteamFest 2016
Show 337: The skimming episode
scp can tab-complete for three slashes
Safari Technology Preview
ssh, sftp, scp, tftp port fun
Transport NSW Australian Tennis
Thunderbird 1024
Icelandic PM no confidence vote over Panama Papers
Government still committed to uni fee hike
Overnightscape Central: Jean Shepherd
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Introversion
We don’t need Australian state taxes
Myriad Colours Phantom World
Show 336: The twenties episode
Thirty
Amazon's vexillology needs some work
MacVim wants to go full screen
Show 335: The woke-up episode
Show 334: The lanyard episode
Show 333: The triptriptriple episode
Melbourne IT on graceful degradation
Show 332: The gap episode
Overnightscape Central: Baseball/Cricket
Show 331: The rainbow episode
Calibre installs a few things
Parked on footpaths: Nissan hatchback
Show 330: The Oh Marion episode
When pluralisation attacks
When NinjaFirewall attacks
When password character limits attack
No more Australian HECS repayment incentives
Show 329: The sound game episode
Parked on footpaths: Great Wall ute
Folding paper seven times
Browsing tar files with Vim
Overnightscape Central: Other Podcasts
Parked on footpaths: Toyota Plastix van
Blocked networking between EC2 instances
Show 328: The Gardeners Road episode
Curiosity Stream
MIT algorithm for page speed
The Sun Type 6
GitHub asks for username with SSH configured
Overnightscape Central: Writers and Writing
Show 327: The syncing corn muffin episode
Australia's failed NBN
Show 326: The 29th of February episode
Overnightscape Central: Show of Shows 2016
Venture capital firm spam
Overnightscape Central: Three TV Shows
New Fate/Stay Night Master Arturia
Windows 10 versus Wireshark
Overnightscape Central: Pennies From Heaven and Cars
Why I'm an Onsug and 5by5 guy
Show 325: The long lost 2013 episode
Show 324: The withinside episode
Death by CloudFront
Show 323: The front fell off episode
First of February
The Great GitHub Outage of 2016
Show 322: The reading into Straya episode
Overnightscape Central: Alternate Reality
Show 321: The Ziggy Snape episode
Show 320: The world simulator episode
CRN: Optus rescues Dick Smith team
Ian Potts
Elements.pm
The Venus is in the Horsehead Nebula
Show 319: The Lift episode
Upgrading and locking FreeBSD 10+ ports in pkgng
Ground Control to Major Tom
Overnightscape Central: Radio
The best thesaurus sentence of 2016
Perl 5.20 in FreeBSD
CSS was a missed opportunity, part 2
Show 318: The unverted imbrella episode
Overnightscape Central: Library
Outlook Web Access
Show 317: The Whitefish episode
This month's unsubscribe fun: Pinterest
Hey Everybody It’s Jimbo: Interview with Ruben
Young Ace, June 2015
Show 316: The Opera House episode
Rest in peace, Ian Murdoch
Show 315: The 2015 soundtrack episode
Gurren Lagann Yoko bunny figure
Overnightscape Central: Half a Decade
Show 314: The Christmas pie episode
Show 313: The Coffee Support Team episode
Overnightscape Central: Characters
Show 312: The Adelaide returns episode
Back at the Boatdeck Café
Hey Everybody It’s Jimbo: ONSUG Synchronicity
Overnightscape Central: The Absurd
Show 311: The Jimbo episode
Turnbull’s moot startup point
Show 310: The bag episode
Overnightscape Central: Weird Holiday Memories
Show 309: The Shambles episode
Monochrome EMM386 memory with Windows 3.1x
brew install sshpass
Facebook like-buying #Spam
Show 308: The sugar soup episode
The 2015 Toffee Nut Latte
Australian privacy, NBN net neutrality, and other news
Overnightscape Central: Spiderman
Show 307: The Doc Sleaze episode
Show 306: The hand dryer episode
Markdown in Vim
Is Earth's clear sky unusual?
Overnightscape Central: Corner Store
We are all Lebanese and French
WordPress 2015 Survey
Show 305: The Special Delivery episode
Overnightscape Central: Hall of Fame
Show 304: The wellness episode
Can't use rbenv–installed Ruby?
Overnightscape Central: Science Fiction
Show 303: The paradox of choice episode
When Truncation Attacks: IT News
Cancelling PayPal subscriptions
Overnightscape Central: Time and Aging
Something to do with KVMs
Being mostly wrong about diesel cars
Show 302: The metro coffee episode
You’re not part of the problem if you criticise FTTN
Overnightscape Central: Why We Record
Show 301: The G3 media episode
Why bother with fake meat?
Hunter Valley Gardens
+612 8076 2005 is spam
I could pass a US citizenship test
Overnightscape Central: Villains
Show 300: The decade episode
Dishing it out, but can't take it?
Show 299: The stitchin' episode
Overnightscape Central: Imagination
Show 298: The midnight kookaburra episode
Microsoft responds to Windows 10 backlash
Overnightscape Central: Breakfast Especially Cereal
World Airways
eyeD3 not setting year correctly
Show 297: The late night train episode
Tracking loved ones, with victim blaming
Fans brave wet as iPhone 6s goes on sale
Show 296: The data centre episode
Convert ova images to raw
Unsubscribing from ZDNet newsletters
My newsletter–unsubscribe score card
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
When homebrew-cask won’t let you uninstall
Overnightscape Central: The Unknown
Show 295: The tangentially Who episode
Kill la Mizugi
Just don’t use Facebook then
Changing QEMU floppy disks
ejabberd with RapidSSL wildcard certs
Wikipedia has all three homes
When will VoIP kill the telephone?
Show 294: The Emperor's Puff episode
Overnightscape Central: Another Music Show
FreshPorts on GitHub
444 Rubenerd pages
Subtracting dates to 209
Australian iPhone 6s plans stuck in the 2000s
Show 293: The microfiche episode
The xkcd survey
Show 292: The George Foreman Grill episode
Two years of the Abbott Government
Overnightscape Central: Reality
Trolls ruin all the things
Show 291: The veg episode
Call on Australian Government to offer safety to Syrian Refugees
Ed Bott on Windows 10
She’s The One
Finding the current week
The Rudebox Matrix
Google’s new logo
OpenBSD getting a native hypervisor
NCSA HTTPd archived
Segfaulting Firefox on FreeBSD
Denali joins Uluru
Show 290: The calm episode
Akisora Hiyori’s giant girls
Mid-2012 MacBook Air SSD upgrades
That's a lot of commits
Importing from Bitbucket to Github
Drop the grit
Pointless Rubenerd post stats
Wq is not a Vim editor command
Right turn from left lane, caught by police
jot and shuf
Launching RDP from SecureCRT
Overnightscape Central: Sunday
Show 289: The CTE 209 VIII episode
Asukaziye’s Saber Lily
Using CoreOS ISO to install
CoreOS needs a gig of memory
The SecureCRT terminal emulator
Quietly clobbering with GNU sed
Overnightscape Central: 50s Movies
Show 288: The time nostalgia episode
MySQL/MariaDB search and replace
Show 287: The fire alarm episode
Show 286: The hardware store episode
The HTML5 be evolving, breaking
Overnightscape Central: Show of Shows Again
Using Safari for a week
Show 285: The construction site photo episode
Dave Chinner on XFS scalability
Overnightscape Central: Rock n Roll
Goodbye, Bronwyn Bishop
Show 284: The coffee-spy solitaire episode
Ignore certificate warnings in wget
Stop -webkit-font-smooting: antialiased
San Francisco trialling urine–repelling paint
Stopping SOGo Connector notifications
Integral to the success of integers
Overnightscape Central: Disney
Show 283: The 80s shopping centre episode
Mount ZFS in FreeBSD single user mode
Raw tech specs
Flickr Pro doubles the size of its eel
Blazing fast grep alternative in Bourne shell
Concession Opal cards
Creative code spammers
Overnightscape Central: Age and Aging
Shows now under Creative Commons Attribution
Show 282: The transient space episode
The day the package managers died
Show 281: The lucid island episode
July 2015 iPods
nginx 1.9.3
Renaming files with invalid characters
Overnightscape Central: James Bond
Show 280: The exploring virtual worlds to electronica episode
Is site blocking effective in stopping piracy?
Overnightscape Central: Terrible Television
Say what, Perl?
That's a lot of Windows domains
Show 279: The four cities of Sydney episode
A computer on every desk and in every home
A BitBucket easter egg
Show 278: The Onsug scary house Jerry Novak episode
PowerShell for the Bourne guy
Not Atom, Atom
Ruben sets up utilities
OS X El Capitan
Show 277: The Northern Irish Clara episode
raindog308 on CentOS 7 and systemd
Poles and wires for the NBN
Show 276: The moonshine shampoo episode
OpenSSL now at 1.0.2b
Top posting sigs in Thunderbird, SeaMonkey
Using VPNs for the subs
Who Ha's Khaki, and @FrankNora
When nginx add_header don't appear
Show 275: The inscrutable six year mark episode
debian_version in Ubuntu
Q Branch is still technically in business
Wrike Summer
My bedroom home office in 2010
Google Photos
Another reminder of luck
BREAKING: Terrifying police scope–creep spam!
CentOS 7 symlinking ALL the bins
When git fatal pathspec's you
Terminal emoji
Reading off smartphones is rote learning
Eye on Springfield
Empty plist input with Homebrew Cask
Australia's surveillance tax is on
Git shortcut for moving tracked resources
John Oliver in Sydney
git-lite on FreeBSD
Mothers Day 2015
The @georgiecel on DuckDuckGo
Translucent screens
DuckDuckGo
sed versus Perl substitution performance
Red Cross Appeal for Nepal
Australian housing affordability
When you factor in externalities
I heard you like cranes
Shaun needs dental surgery
Something rather than something
Stopping around the web links
Australian living standards
When I accidently The Australian
Sharing DOS with Windows 95 and 3.1
US bases in Australia
John Roderick for Seattle City Council
Updating packages with reprepro
Saccharin spam
“Y Combinator created a new model for startups”
Windows Applications
Stop trying to make Apple Watch without 'the' happen
Friendfeed shutting down
Fun SEO spammers
This isn't my jam
Vegemite pizza
Build and use xva-img to extract raw images
Xfce 4.12
Dark side of the moon
That’s a lot of Unix installs
Railblazer
Difference between Quanta and Qantas
Rocky OpenStack
The IKEA firm RÖLLEKA pillow
AKB48 Sugar Rush
Dat Cosby Sweater
Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony
File `graphicsx.sty’ not found
Ten friggen years of Rubenerd
CPU architectures on nixCraft
Sourcing bash and Bourne shell scripts
256 greys with transparency
Converting down PNGs to 256 greys
My first ever geographically relevant spam
A tree without decoration
The bane of GNU Info
Expired and deleted domains
Ultra super secure invalid passphrases
Devuan forking Debian over systemd
No-nonsense MemTest86 bootable USB keys
Accidental Tech Podcast on Git
Improving visual appearance with spam
An ECDSA randomart vulture
Cloud storage arrays
An RSA randomart camel
He knows basically everything spam
An RSA randomart boot
Microsoft open sources .NET?
The FireHOL flame haze
No more Nokia Sync
Not much time left for Github Pages DNS change
An unexpected FreeBSD 10.1 RC4
Circular (travelling) headphones
Hey, your tag links are blue again
Time to shake the toner
Yes, you can use qcow2 images with Xen
#wgetNoSatisfaction
Decorations
Keyloggers
Those DNS network ports
BetterSnapTool window tiling for OS X
Ubuntu mirrors
Bowie and Jagger Dancing in the Street
Jekyll GitHub gists
The 27 inch Retina iMac
Podcast quotes for 2014
CSS3’s new box-sizing property
Brand New Music, with Ben Sidran
Sophos Security Gateway on Xen
Recording screens with ffmpeg
The Typo2 iPhone keyboard
UTS Building 11 lifts
Infinite scrolling
Missing FreeBSD map file
Xen embargo
Hey, bash doesn’t exist
Bash code injection vulnerability
MySQL comments
Sugary job offers
SATA on QEMU
Using xz with newsyslog
Converting vmdk version 3 images
FreeBSD 10 performance
The Bic Orange Finepoint most certainly is
Disable moused on a FreeBSD Xen guest
Choosing a keyboard for gaming and typing
Changing the owner of a symlink
Monday Postgres derp
The Back Nine, with Ben Sidran
Initialising regrettable decisions with systemd
Wheel group for FreeBSD visudo
Interpreting ipmitool ser list memory errors
A hundred little drafts
Latest TPG ISP adventures
The cost of fast TV and web browsing
Debian Wheezy backports
Featured images
Default servers in nginx
When script kiddies don’t get absolute URLs
John C. Dvorak on not fixing the obvious
UTS Building 11 feedback
The lost opportunity of UTS Building 11
You’re subscribed to our new mailing list!
Two years with a MacBook Air
SCSI
Here Comes The Playlist
Data retain THIS, Mr Attorney General
Saturday nights with a PSU
Basic nginx headers
Media reporting on Dropbox security, privacy
Getting started with Xen
Use curl to download image sequences
But women can’t be...
When force umount doesn’t even work
A small list of terrible web clichés
FreeBSD 10 PVHVM serial console
Terminal capability "cm" required
PCI passthrough without VT-d support
Goodbye, Aperture
Force SSH password authentication
pkgng repository size
Running ServerBear
A minimal network enabled Slackware install
Hypne cyprès
Galculator
Rubenerd for the next ten years
vnd.3M.Post-it-Notes?
NTP sanity check
Thinking of @CaseyLiss when learning C#
Remember SOAP?
Sneakernet cloud uploads
Jekyll dates
S/MIME in Mac Outlook
Windows 8 Mail and S/MIME
VyOS, a Vyatta fork
Installing PHP APC on Debian
intl PECL extension not available
Replacing MySQL with PostgreSQL in php-fpm
Listing installed Debian packages
OmniFocus 2 and seeking an alternative
Bill Shorten’s Australian budget reply
Ladar Levison, and tapping is easy right?
The snake oil of application document recovery
Why Lavabit shut down
This is bad for the Internet
Tasty PerlMonks ASCII art
Getting rid of Cisco spam
Google Chrome removing OCSP
Where NetNewsWire 4.0 stores app data
Diesel cars
Altered brew tap structure breaking brew-cask
Just ordered an @atpfm shirt
A Firefox 29 bugshot
Libertarianism
This is my 77,777th tweet
Is that an IPA in your trash?
Expensive regressions for Sydney Trains
The Topre RealForce looks absolutely perfect
WASD keyboard design fun
The house at the top of the world
Disruption from Sydney, and keyboards
One hiccup using Tumblr as a blog platform
Accessing raw unmountable Mac volumes
The Roland TR-808
The OpenSSL heart bleeds
CoolerMaster QuickFire, via @screenbeard
I’m a Cent Cent CentOS guy
Tumblr as a blogging platform
My preferred Safari extensions
Defensive programming and system design
Disconnect for ALL the browsers
An Ultimo pilgrimage to MSY
Ruben and Malcolm’s technology mix
Ruben talks shoes
HBO Go Game of Thrones etc
Beautiful Bravia commercial from 2005
Jekyll 1.5.1 likes my timezones again
Digg is back, and spamming us
The @caseyliss and pedantic critiques
The new @1writerapp with dark theme
Jekyll date fixes and not respecting GUIDs
1Writer is like a Fantastical iOS editor
1970s computer science tomes from UTS
Secure input blocking TextExpander
#KyaryPamyuPamyu in Sydney!
The CODE keyboard
Electronic inclusionism
HTML5 renders XHTML mimetypes invalid?
A PL/SQL induced surreal trip
Homebrew Eclipse Java EE Tomcat 6
My birthday will be a real wingdinger
My second workstation: Unicomp keyboards
IMAP email followup
Finally moving to Fastmail, or another provider?
Suspiciously timed massive Archival Discs
Teana Lanster and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
LTO Ultrium tape drives
Cards with Onodera
rsync 3.1.0 and OS X extended attributes
Ghost of The Ascott, Singapore
The @JamieJakov on my daily posts
My one Windows 9 feature request
Amazon wish list addresses
SoylentNews is people
Tiamo’s 32–bit efi and Mavericks 10.9.2
Water stars
Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor
Practical, private Dropbox use cases
Batch append text in TextMate
HTML5 @georgiecel @zoomosis timestamps
Singapore camera phone pictures from 2007
HTML5 deprecates dates
Followup to Mozilla Firefox advertiles
Simple Mavericks WordPress test environment
The @dai1313 on Optiplex nostalgia
Silent swap meets and IT nostalgia
Mozilla Firefox advertiles
Got a little carried away raking
There’s something about Aperture
EscrowSecurityAlert and LaterAgent
When MariaDB has a brilliant About page
Mavericks on my first gen Mac Pro
When MariaDB gets all tsundere
Satya Nadella and Stephen Elop
Photos, or the experience
Rails to the future, almost
Why I publish a PGP public key
My own (albeit small) internet extortion adventure
Flu-like words, late at night, to my Terminal
The mystery of internal drive enclosure connectors
#PostADay2014
Mmm, chewy phone cables
Downloading from multiple sources with aria2
The sound of PPPoE silence
Hidden messages in HTML email
Kindles, iPods, teal shirts
Follow Ruben troubleshooting an mpv install
The Razer antithesis to the new Mac Pro?
Speaking of broken JPEGs
Validating HTML 3.2 pages, like it’s 1997
The wonderous new fcpbundle
Using (or not) Markdown
Client–side blogging
Wikipedia on DuckDuckGo and Google
When you use the same mouse as him
Jekyll timezones
Accidental JPEG Wiphalas
AText as a basic TextExpander alternative
A public service message on Helvetica Neue Ultra Light
Something @Gruber dot Markdown
Essential Australian Museum minerals
Amazon Cloud Drive
Five posts
Mac Pro compromises might not be for me
Scaling images for responsive designs
Webkit font smoothing
The Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
The LEGO Acropolis
ClaimID
2013 Wordle
I’d rather be happy than “right”
All this new tech is making us antisocial
I used to be that guy; the new Mac Pro
When Michael Bublé took over the world
OS X Mavericks 10.9.1
Happy 9th Birthday, Rubenerd Weblog!
When our frigid whitegood was neither
Linux RdRand
SaaS cloud encrypting customer data
How nvALT changed my life
FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
Some ZFS SSD feedback from @zoomosis
J.J. Cale
Fedora gem can’t find header files
ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM
FreeBSD 9.2 with vesa in Parallels Desktop 9
Linux doesn’t have to lose for BSD to win
Yearly draft cleanout
A graphical Mac application package manager
Confessions of a Blogger who dislikes these posts
Classic Toshiba driver archive
bsdtar and xz on one line
Plushie sushi and yuletide trees from @hanezawakirika
It’s beginning to look a lot like holidays
Aviation stuff you learn from Wikipedia
A Microsoft Office TIFF vulnerability
Cooking with Nyan
Windows 2000 only supports up to Feb 2010 DirectX 9.0c
Access Virtualisation in the Kusnetzky Model
I’m a grilled sandwich, from @mayonakaotaku
KeyRemap4MacBook
Outlook Web Access and NoScript
Mavericks would be great, if it liked my keyboard
The Gimp on SourceForge shenanigans
The ever–evolving TLS ciphersuite
The almightly Perl reference
Ditto
rsync remote command not found
CSS float away
US Congress nearly cost me an exam
So we heard you like being in ads
Unsubscribe email filter
Goodbye GitHub Pages
When the site had a meltdown
When rsync compression maketh sense
More Wahroonga photos
Wahroonga Photowalk with Clara
Quora is the new Expertsexchange (cc @jlist)
The IKEA Upptäcka backpack
UTS Student Experience Survey 2013
Sound in Windows NT 4.0 VMware Fusion guests
A tour of the Equinix SY3 data centre in Sydney
One step ISO creation from folders in OS X
The Sydney Morning Hearld
Stop OpenOffice Writer truncating your dates
Remembering the goals of IT security
Because, that’s why
A date with my invalid RDF feed
The new Eclipse icon
Bitsplitting Podcast review
Welcome to Notational Velocity!
A shorter Java println
Learning JazzHub with John Schilt
Testing
Playing with iSCSI, ESXi with @ShengYeo
Insufficient CentOS memory
What Motorola is to Google
Rubenerd Idle: Knife-Wielding Yuki
Lessons from Jekyll and Github pages
Testing the site in IE 10
An ESXi IaaS evening with @shengyeo
Photocopiers making randomly alterations
An evening with printers
My own WordPress to Jekyll adventure
Technopreneur
Obama’s 2009 whistleblower promise
Hello, World!
Why I’m sticking with RSS
W3C RDFa validation works, thanks @sideshowbarker
Microsoft enhances Windows 8.1 with ads
Homebrew now has Haswell CPU tests
IDG Connect retro logo is retro
W3C HTML5 validator no longer accepting RDFa?
So long Mr Conroy, thanks for all the fish
SalesForce Oracle supposition soup
The real barrier to SaaS adoption
HKSAR Government statement on Edward Snowden
Sony CDP-101
Cisco Discovery Protocol, eventually
C++ function for a Perl guy
Twitter won’t load on #TPG in the evenings
Our mascot is ready for winter!
Cray Mac Pro
Mascot
Perl print on closed filehandle
Why we should care about a retired Twitter API
A long overdue au revoir to aterm!
My Mac Pro space station
The @brentsimmons on Mercurial versus Git
Replacing RSS author with Dublin Core’s dc:creator
Philosocisco
Goodbye Camino
If you see this tweeted, you’re luckier than me!
When wiki truncation attacks
Baking of bread rolls in the Czech Republic
Jekyll dates, timestamps require timezones
Commission on the Theft of Functional Electronics
The only networking guy around here
Go home, site value estimators
On the open nature of Cisco’s EIGRP
One does not simply network meme
Dealing with UTF8 in Perl
I don’t always make lame networking memes
Install jekyll-import with –pre for now
This isn’t about the Cisco 2800 router series
#Anime Evangelion Art Exhibition Tour in Sydney
Happy Birthday @domossu!
Eric Schmidt says we’re just afraid of change
My latest retro multimedia CD-ROM haul
Is full-disk encryption worth it? Pokémon
What’s wrong with technical answer sites
Lady @Adasifs and Her birthday
Sharp slipping pSee shipments
Dell, going private
I think my new iPad mini is Canadian
Sorry Scoble, @Om was right on privacy
Instapaper links for March 2013
Cisco Packet Tracer doesn’t work on Windows NT
Google Keep?
GNS3: The Graphical Network Simulator
The @Giz_au apoligises for calling me stupid, kinda
Goodbye Google Reader
Arigato @risuchiin
So when Samsung shuns NFC, it’s okay
Instapaper links for February 2013
Post ID #11011
Pinterest
After @Giz_au says I look stupid, they delete my comment
Why CSS sucks
O’Reilly publishing: Muscle Nutshell
Keeping downloaded Xcode components
Stephen Fry on Pope Benedict XVI
When @giz_au said I looked stupid
The 1990s Dell Dimension, via @dai1313
The Ancient Compaq Presario 5510 spaceship
Unsubscribing from StackExchange pandas
Using TextExpander with Perl? Hell yes!
Yay, my Twitter was breached!
Amazon, please check where your customers are
RVM: It’s the little things
Instapaper links for January 2013
It was BQ-12-MU
Podcasts Ruben Listens to, January 2013
Goodbye, Old Glossy
Feedback from @wonk_01, @TypeDom, @babylove0306
The Fifth Estate Assange Wikileaks movie
Yahoo! Mail finally gets SSL!
The wrath of certain Android users
Slashdot Poll: The status of Java on my machine
A cheaper Chevrolet Volt
#Sky for 2013.01.14
Non-destructive Perl regex substitutions
It’s Not Apple So It’s Okay™
Now I know how it feels to talk to me
Redcarpet table extensions
I need the lightest possible machine…
The Frequency running in the afternoon?
An 11-inch MacBook Air unboxing review thing
Infinite Solutions: Recharging batteries
How many comments does it take to ruin a joke?
2012 Wordle
Use FTP to download Firefox betas
She adores her 64!
❄ Yuletide 2012
Gangnam YouTube Style
CentOS onigiri, by @hanezawakirika
kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Well hello, @yaakov_h!
A Mayan end of the world rant!
Minor site tweaks of doom
Podcasts Ruben listens to, December 2012
Happy 25th birthday, Perl!
Last chance to vote on @Siracusa’s shirt design
Soon we can download an archive of our tweets
ISDN faster than ADSL!
I didn’t pay @CaramelJune for this one
My first Perl CGI script website nostalgia thing!
Dave Brubeck, 1920 – 2012
NoScript Christmas hat!
Instapaper links for November 2012
FreeBSD pkg bootstrap is being restored
pkgng is now in the FreeBSD Handbook
A veritable pain in the neck
Malaysian FreeBSD nostalgia and community
Changing timezones in CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Yuki
Summer Night: Live with the Chick Corea Akoustic Band
When I lost some respect for Julia Gillard
Now @Technorati can’t tell what a blog is?
Technorati re-verification
A @grass_desu answer;gate
#Anime Mugi vector, via @JamieJakov
Disable some of Google’s tracking
FreeBSD GPT works just fine on the ThinkPad X40
Preemptive Amazon nostalgia
Chrome supports DNT, finally
pkgin and pkgng for pkgwin
#Anime Hyouka Halloween
Instapaper links for October 2012
14 years later, he tried SciTE
Chrome OS: I see what you did there ZDNet
我爱你 Clara ♡
New Skype to debut only on Windows 8
Alpha Centauri Bb
XAMPP: Couldn’t start MySQL
NetBSD 6.0
Seeing @PSY_Oppa’s Gangnam Style in Sydney!
Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD
Running XAMPP on Fedora x86_64
Line numbers in GNU Emacs
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, 1969
CentOS favicons in Nautilus?
Linus Torvalds and I had the same computer
Your new Anime@UTS webmaster!
SHA-3
I love you John, but stop reporting on Apple!
UTS site defaced with plaintext passwords
Happy Birthday Mummy
HandBrakeCLI start-at and stop-at in
Dog ate my homework, crashed my calculator
SCnO-more?
#Anime Porco Rosso evening piano
This industry sure moves fast
Thank you @hanezawakirika
Google still silent on non-JavaScript +1
How to use Dropbox public folder
This year’s #CityRail tunnel adventure
Point Gnome 3 Contacts to SeaMonkey Address Book
Happy Birthday Singapore #ndp2012
Gangnam 길거리 Style
Acer being truthful about Windows tablets
Gangnam 보트 Style
The NASA #Curiosity rover arrived!
Additional plugins are required to display…
Are sites storing your passwords securely?
Gundam Gangnam Style
Robbie Williams, The Actor
Bashar al-Assad, Julian Assange
#Anime #SmashCon 2012!
Borrowers don’t want me dressing like a nerd!
Want to see a cool gear animation?
#Anime Music Monday by Moonlight
#Sky for 2012.07.10
Preallocating qemu-img images
#Sky for 2012.07.09
#Sky for 2012.07.08
But it’s just a theory!
People still fall for this Twitter DM spam?
#Sky for 2012.07.07
#Anime Mugi coin bank, via @ginarrrgh
#Anime Gesundheit Chitanda~
Empty spaces
#Sky for 2012.07.06
#Sky for 2012.07.05
EU votes down #ACTA 478 to 39!
Higgs boson
#Sky for 2012.07.04
#Sky for 2012.07.03
A Firefox phone? Yes please!
#Anime Mugi the Birthday Vulcan!
#Sky for 2012.07.02
Installing @PollyClient on Fedora 16 and 17
More Gmailers than Hotmailers?
#Sky for 2012.07.01
Happy birthday @hanezawakirika!
An unexpected express train!
Stallman Schneier Stuxnet Security
Winter Solstice 2012
R18 game classification in Australia
Comments on Microsoft’s Surface Tablet
A Parisian adventure with @Sebasu_tan
Wikipedia’s latent research heaven!
A rambling Mac Pro status report!
Would you give an ARM for an Intel phone?
My letter to Westpac about a PayPass debit card
Ruben studies UML, again!
Seeing James Morrison with friends!
An alternative reason for security theatre?
Why I shouldn’t write nonsense at 01:00
Lunar eclipse over Sydney
Retro DEC PDP11 graphics
Goodbye blog comments!
Hey you, read @jamiejakovBlog
One of them thinking out loud posts
Followup to my Bitcoin post
Seagate and LaCie, hard drives consolidate again!
The ABC and Bitcoin
Happy Mother’s Day
Review and pronounciation of Wuala!
Possibly the greatest image of all time
A new term by @StuartCRyan
I was wrong about Google Street View
Steins;Seagate
Optus, Vodafone network sharing, via @madcatjo2point0
Microsoft Barnes and Noble, wait what?
100% renewables at UTS by 2015, by @Sashin9000
Did Google Drive rip off Vplayer? Not really!
Goodbye to Simple Clocks?
No ATMs skimming from DBS profits!
Australian street jerks
Today on #PunWatch: Stone
#Anime When resolutions attack
HP Enterprise Mobility Platform thingy
Mark Latham on the left
That’s a pretty complex avionics rack!
Make Qt applications match Gnome 3
Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012 survey
Google Drive
Updating your UTS transport concession sticker
No drive encryption in flavours of Windows 8?
Friends don’t let friends use crappy keyboards!
Trains Ruben Taketh: Unmarked
A380 plushies with @johncarneyau and @DrRachie
Facebook saved Twitter $1 billion?
My childhood obsession with the RMS Titanic
Labelling an ext2, ext3 or ext4 file system
The partition is misaligned by 3072 bytes?
It’s as if PM Lee planned this for the QLD election!
Does not having it impede its primary function?
Video of John Pizzarelli taking us to Avalon!
Windows Phone UI efficiency
Happy 23rd Elke!
Trains Ruben Taketh #adayinthelifeApril2
The April Fools Day Buzzkill
What does Ruben look like?
Goodbye Google+, I hardly used thee
First unedited photo with my Tokina 100mm f/2.8 Macro!
First US Marines arrive in Darwin
Brief de jure birthday post!
My de facto birthday 2012!
This John Pizzarelli post has the wrong album cover
#Anime Moeblob chopsticks by @hanezawakirika
Happy birthday! Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 80
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
Java enhanced for loops for UTS peeps
Whistleblowers Malaysia Software
#Anime Alternate Black Rock Shooter plot
Muppets, mini book review, Goldman Sachs
Canada scares poor little Dick Cheney
Brittas Empire Sherlock Day!
CNN Mashable
Nostalgic farewell to the Singapore Airlines 747
Japan and Douglas Adams
Australian Personal Computer, March 2012
Sydney in three words, maybe
A plane old fish!
FourSquare OpenStreetMap winning
The Herald Sun pulls a Violet Blue… berry Pie
Leap Day 2012, now with more nostalgia!
#AtheistRollCall
Second only to Synecdoche
Google didn’t decide to drop mobile Flash
Legal bedfellows
Summer flower photos in Earlwood
Microsoft India stores plaintext passwords
Today on #PunWatch: German typos
Czech Republic suspends #ACTA
Australian full body scanners
Google has merged their TOS… so?
Your car was stolen in London too?
Lord of the Rings Lego Minifigs
The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Scared of Google? You won’t be of Microsoft!
Yo trader, what Facebook at?
Megauploads to delete user data?
Sydney Botanic Garden #photos, part 2
Mmm, Australian bank gravy
Sydney Botanic Garden #photos, part 1
#TwitterBlackout
Today on #PunWatch: Currency
IKEA day with @Sebasu_tan and @hanezawakirika
That Focus on the User Google thing
Car crash in Earlwood, a mortality check!
I had a BlackBerry back in the day, with old photos!
Sydney Chinese New Year market photos #CNYSYD
Taking journalists to task, with @Jeorgina
Softonic Downloader
Pointless post #4300 celebrations!
Nothing on Megaupload you haven’t read already
Waiter, David Aaronovitch’s SOPA piece is cold
Let the bed bugs bite
No Kodak moment pun here
#Anime Picture It – Cityscapes
Merkel, Sarkozy say growth key in euro crisis
Wikipedia’s soft #sopablackout
Blacked out [this post] for SOPA et al
Our dog Tiger trying to nom pizza
DBS responds to ATM skimmer fun
What’s wrong with the world in two tweets
Today on #PunWatch: Cider
What’s Avocado’s Constant?
Probably not Google AntiTrust+
Today on #PunWatch: Golfers
Today on #PunWatch: ATM skimmers
Late afternoon pontifications
You can just skim this DBS ATM story
A query on post frequency from @Sebasu_tan
Google profits more from legitimate ads
My German immigrant grandparents wore deodorant
Intel Ultrabooks at CES, via @kevinctofel
Vote for The Canada Party 2012
Lisa Ono Music Monday, in a Red Blouse!
#Anime Tachibana Miya is for sustainable energy
DBS ATM skimmers
Better late than never: HP not changing their logo
Tweaking the SeaMonkey UI
I say Sherlock, happy birthday
[Outage] 2012.01.05
Social media New Year’s resolution things
A blast from the Twitter 2007 past!
Post A Day 2011 reflections
My 2011 posts in a Wordle
Telstra customers exposed, again?
NYE Family Fireworks in Sydney 2011
Made it through Post A Day 2011!
Replacing Google Reader with SeaMonkey?
Canadian Foreign Affairs gets odd requests from abroad
#Anime FateJazz: Fund it!
Prevent volumes auto-mounting on Mac OS X
The @GoDaddy to @Hover move begineth
Won’t somebody think of the gift card issuers
We had Yuletide cheer again!
#Anime #fistbump with @dHeinemann
SeaMonkey 2.6.1 contains many more fastness!
Goodbye GoDaddy, finally
Hi mumster, checking in again
Almost no point posting this iinode entry
Christopher Hitchens on North Korea
Giving SeaMonkey a try!
Possibly my favourite aircraft colour scheme ever!
Changing your Singapore Mocca email
Václav Havel and Kim Jong Il
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
US troops in Iraq 2003-2011
BREAKING: I finally cleaned my desk!
Changing my VMware email saga
If only they used Google Scholar…
A belated Alec Baldwin OMG!
No more Dell netbooks
Do we all like HP’s potential new logo, again?
A very Janeway Christmas
Australia Network, response to @RenaiLeMay
Parallels Desktop Inception
My LEGO figs!
We finally have another Christmas tree :)
NineMSN has both kinds: Country AND Western!
Lunar Eclipse from Sydney
Trying out Parallels Desktop 7
Telstra joins the Plaintext Password Parade
#Anime K-On! does punk
Don’t worry, they’re green bullets!
Julian Assange 2011
Building Microsoft online evangelists
QEMU 1.0 failing to build on Mac OS X?
Not surprising to me in the slightest
Sophos CityRail memory key adventures
Words of Ticketed Wisdom from CityRail #01
WordPress memory lane, and time to move on?
TheyLikeCamelCaseAtGmail
Building and running QEMU 1.0 on Mac OS X
Brunei is second best! Again!
@Gowalla bought by Facebook
Biometric flying Malaysian aeroplanes
International AIDS Awareness Day 2011
#OfficialUnofficialMeetUp
My followup Kindle review followup
Hey, that plane is smiling!
#Anime The Borrowers Arrietty with Anime@UTS
A Cup of Joe
Witnessing NASA #Curiosity #MSL launch, from bed!
November 26th #CityFail
Convert folder of epubs to mobi with ebook-convert
#Anime Toradora getting Blu-Ray and an OVA!
Pre-shared games, with @Sebasu_tan
#QantasLuxury
Voting for a non-JavaScript Google +1 method
Free Singapore Civil Defence Force posters!
Gruber and Topolsky on Android 4
Cause this is my United States of Whatever
My shiny new Kindle 4!
#Anime Antec Bakemonogatari PC decorations!
Penny Wong on marriage equality
Super biased reviews of the HP Envy
Google_nomap?
BSDInstall is just wonderful
Mario Monti
Einstein was a genius
Google Sidewiki
How to start blogging, for @JerryNovak
Some more 2 bit photos for Binary Day!
10.11.11 – Happy Binary Day #1!
11:11 on 11/11/11
Airbus A340 flying into the sunset, as it were
Updating them Firefox 8.0 browsers
The end of Kyubey Flash on mobile devices?
My two hours stuck in a #CityRail tunnel, with photos!
Downloading before Google Buzzes off!
MyEmailAddressSomePeopleStillHave@aol.com
#Anime Toradora without Ami
Insert sleeper caffeine pun here
Google Reader +1 fail
Rubenerd Fun Facts #100
#Anime My first Anime@UTS Music Monday
Health benefits of writing, blogging and whatnot
01.11.11 – Happy Binary Day #0!
All study, no play makes Ruben CSMA/CA
That whole Qantas 2011 thing
The @hanezawakirika on Ruby-tan!
System Nuakend?
HP are making PCs again!?
10,000 questions from @jeorgina
#Anime OMG… it’s a pyramid!
Clari-throm-ycin
Not sure if I have one of them Kindles
Japan needs a backup capital city!
Cute Korean boy bands [초신성]
Emergency snow heels are for emergencies
Made one of them Japanese eel things
@Sebasu_tan and @hanezawakirika on design
#Anime Completely useless Guilty Crown post
Seem like legit reasons to stop talking
Some J-Walk Rubenerd graph goodness
Am I the only one not giddy and waving a flag over this?
YouTube launches in The Singapore
Media cartels, Australian law, pointless images
Goodbye to the J-Walk Blog after 9 years
Our first throttling in Earlwood
Soft sweet pretzels look sweet
NSW post-leadership benefits… wait, what?
Victorian Gaming Minister O’Brien has a dumb haircut
#Anime Guilty Crown
Dennis Ritchie
The most awesome photo you’ll see today
Headaches are
Finally, a useful CAPTCHA
Is Facebook any different? I think so
Merging KDE icons into the Task Manager
The blog of @Sebasu_tan
CNET have their old logo back!
#Anime Crowdsourced Moe Day 2011 post!
Jobs was my 1337 Flickr post
#Anime Anime@UTS deliberations
#Anime Can I have one too please?
How does David Garrett do it?
Steve Jobs vigil at the flagship Sydney Apple Store
iPhone4Steve
Bangkok night
Here’s to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels.
Steve Jobs
I got fourteen new iPod nano watches today!
The Simpsons under threat?
Online universities won’t be cheaper
Hacker News trolls #2
#Anime Guess what’s wrong with this picture!
Ruben’s Australian immigration rant of 2011
Goodbye Armada M300
Fortran 4chan
Downgrading from Lion
del.icio.us touché
Advances in corn mazes
Awesome Starbucks threads
#Anime Aria the Scarlet Pizza
Amazon Kindle Fire
Firefox 7.0
Text editor bloodlines
Ah ballet…
TextMate: What’s next?
[Video] Ken’s Sushi Bar Dining dolls!
My shiny new MikroTik 750GL!
The IKEA Effect, and Manland
Warning! OEMNADAP.INF already exists.
Goodbye @Gowalla
[Outage] Net Logistics, 2011.09.23
TPG in SG, FYI
#Anime Where is Miura Akane-chan?
Windows VM licencing?
Recycled shipping container house
Rubenerd site history for the 4000th post!
CityRail doesn’t employ vampire labour
[Outage] 2011.09.18
#Anime Tiger and Kill Bill Bunny
Esoteric DOS tip of the week
KNetWalk is KNetAwesome
Australian media enquiry misses the point
#Anime Gurren Lagann #20
Railfans fixate on stuff like this
It’s the Opal card!
Westfield tracking users, not on trains
#Anime Gurren Lagann #19
LibreOffice in KDE Fedora 15
#Anime Gurren Lagann #18
Krusty Burger
On this day in 2006: Blu-Ray and song songs
#Anime Gurren Lagann #17
#Anime Gurren Lagann #16
My brand new KDE shirt of awesome!
Fake trust seals, with bad puns
Webify me, Mozilla!
Google TinEye?
Something Fierce by Marian Call available!
#Anime Gurren Lagann #15
Links for 2011-09-03
42 more days of J-Walk
Does nobody teach respect for The Timeline?
#Anime Gurren Lagann #14
UTS robot dance troupe
#Anime Gurren Lagann #13
Another lost iTelephone
Were we all Punk’d by HP?
#Anime Gurren Lagann #12
7 of 8, Tertiary Adjunct to Unimatrix Discovery News
Using WebKit with Konqueror
#Anime Gurren Lagann #11
What have you purchased online?
Links for 2011-08-30
#Anime Gurren Lagann #10
Apache donated to OpenOffice.org, and LibreOffice
#Anime Gurren Lagann #09
Links for 2011-08-28
Singapore’s new president
#Anime Gurren Lagann #08
I’m back on KDE again
Goodbye CmdrTako
#Anime Gurren Lagann #07
We don’t need fibre optic and power cables!
Links for 2011-08-26
Android #1 mobile platform for malware, but…
#Anime Gurren Lagann #06
Goodbye Steve
#Anime Gurren Lagann #05
Great advertising for a technology university!
Hacker News are such trolls
#Anime Gurren Lagann #04
Hello darkness my old friend…
#Anime Gurren Lagann #03
Foresight versus hindsight at Dell
Singapore’s presidential race in one tweet
#Anime Gurren Lagann #02
Environmentalism wasn’t one of their concerns
#Anime Gurren Lagann first impressions
An ode to HP desktops and PDAs
#Anime Blogging future on Rubenerd.com
Now it violates the GPL? Where does this stop?
Paying more for stuff and whatnot in Australia
Cocoa iTunes finally!
PONPONPON on iTunesTunesTunes
Did You See Me Coming? ~ Pet Shop Boys
Late night iMac UTS observations
Don’t worry, Android is unchanged
Motoroogle?!
Tech I couldn’t live without: house fans
He should fix PayPal first
Ruben + Nerd = Rubenerd?
Anime@UTS
2007: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone
Tech I couldn’t live without: The INSERT key
#Anime Kyuubee desktop backgrounds
Links for 2011-08-11
Changi protection, now with more fibre
Tech I couldn’t live without: door handles
Operating Systems Solutions #fail
20 years of the World Wide Web
Ripping ratings agencies a new one
Farewell Old Twitter
CNN: Alaskan credit rating still AAA
Links for 2011-08-07
IKEA VÄTE lamps need slender bulbs!
The big C
Links for 2011-08-04
Internet Explorer IQ
My first and last entry on Android patents
YouTube videos to scare refugees?
I was wrong about Apple and Android!
Links for 2011-08-01
The Sydney Rocks Aroma Festival 2011
Nothing but fantastic Irish economic news!
Links for 2011-07-31
Done the Australian eCensus
Why Google killed the toolbar for Firefox
Pon Pon Pon on my Way Way Way!
Links for 2011-07-28
Farewell ode to @LanceUlanoff, from PC Mag
Vertically centred text in CSS
TextMate 2.0: The Screenplay
Links for 2011-07-27
Gerontology consultants
#Anime Merry Nightmare plushies?
Cory Doctorow on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
My rebuttal of Eric Abetz on #QandA
My dream house
PONPONPON ~ Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
509 Bandwidth Limited Exceeded
Links for 2011-07-24
My Australian Bureau of Statistics infographic
We’re all Norweigian today
Warn of Murdoch in Firefox and Chrome
Replaced with apps from the iTunes library?
#Anime Mahou Shoujo Azusa Magica
This Week in Rubenerd Mobile Computing
Assembling Boeing’s A380
Links for 2011-07-20
@Scobleizer on Twitter and Google+
Links for 2011-07-18
The Gottschild-System CBS 3800
I vouch for SBS Radio!
Links for 2011-07-17
My Harry Potter house
Links for 2011-07-16
I don’t watch the Emmy awards, but…
Links for 2011-07-15
My own TechCrunch template
Smooth Jazz Nyan Cat
Links for 2011-07-14
A legitimate software question from my sister
WordPress’s 8888 ID post of fortune!
When legit isn’t better
Ten disturbing things about the Interpol filter
Photos across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Links for 2011-07-09
NASA in 2011
Mission STS-135
Google +1 buttons here as well?
Goodbye, and good riddance NotW
#Anime Croque-Monsieur Coquettishness?
Links for 2011-07-07
What does Google know of your interests?
At least they asked
Links for 2011-07-06
Not paying attention to Moody’s?
Finally, a government website that makes sense
Google+, Google Plus, that thing
My dream about Nicolas Sarkozy
#Anime Happy birthday Mugi-chan!
A goodbye Bondi Junction Borders trip
Do you need another social network?
VMware Fusion 3.1.3 and Windows NT 4.0
Happy Canada D’eh!
@djackmanson, @omegatron and trolls
Links for 2011-06-30
#CityRail post followup with [redacted] and Sally
Singapore army iPads?
UTS and Happy Day 2011!
Thank you Hakeae and all of you!
Mac Pro not seeing a SCSI-USB Jaz drive
Neil Collins, Esquire
Steam doesn’t like case sensitive HFS+
Libertarianism-ism?
Dr Najib Razak’s meaning?
An AdLib ISA card!
#CityFail for 2011.06.23
Failing broadcom-wl on 32 bit Fedora 15?
Photo expedition: early evening leaf things
Sony Qriocity
A cheap solution for my Nikon D60 battery?
Supanova Sydney 2011, with almost no photos!
Steve Ballmer photos, again
Fedora 15 Xfce spin hanging on second boot?
+61 3 9945 7300 is Insurance Line telemarketers
QEMU Sound Blaster in Windows 3.1x
Winter at Museum Station
Michael Franks’ Time Together album is out!
A common sense Queen’s Birthday
QEMU Ad Lib MIDI in Windows 3.1x
Concerned about protecting your PC files?
Governments buying stock doesn’t count!
Steve Rubel adopts a Tumbeast, has no more pets
Technorati symptoms of something bigger?
Mac OS X Universal Binaries finally disappearing?
Apple only awards Mac App Store developers
#Anime And I’m really enjoying this… iced cream
The Schade family garage of doom
Why do Aussie banks need a wakeup call!?
Best. Scene change. Ever.
HP bevels, and xcalc, for some reason
No way SIA/VA!
Arpawocky’s encrypted Mac volume followup
Raffles Place in 1969 and 2011
Orange MobileNotifier vests
Don’t be a cloud tool, use them as tools!
Will VMware Fusion 3.1.3 fix my woes?
#Anime Spot the difference!
Still subscribed to my old RSS feed?
Image Capture.app import error
Links for 2011-05-31
#Anime Yumekui Merry #11
Post #3666! Run away!
The awesomeness that is @JerryNovak
Blogging when you should be tweeting?
Chuck Norris doesn’t plagiarise
libcxxrt C++ runtime now available under BSD licence
Openinternet commonsensification
#Anime New official Haruhi art!
Links for 2011-05-25
Towel Day 2011
Links for 2011-05-24
Retro Sydney CityRail maps!
Slashdot: Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL?
HTML5 versus XHTML
Never tiring does sound nice, but…
The Sophos Security Gateway?
Victorinox Altmont 2.0 laptop baggyness
Sydney IKEA train cake LED pudding candles
Cutting Annette Shacklett’s hair
Steve Ballmer, mua har har
Fun with VMware Fusion 3.1.2 instability
Rapture is nigh! Give to @i2yh and @Rubenerd!
Scrabble HAPPY
Pseudo-Scrabble pseudo-drive letter icons
Went to Typo today!
[Possibly NSFW] Commons image of the day
A user interface progress rant
eBay Australia sending me postal bags?
Links for 2011-05-16
The RMS Campania
#Anime Is it green yet!?
#Anime Yumekui Merry #10
No more supervised Microsoft
These Sydney photos may look identical at first
Links for 2011-05-11
Microskype, or Skyperosoft?
#Anime Bakemonogtari Magica!
Links for 2011-05-10
Homebrew git checkout error
Comments on my Gnome 3 comments
Links for 2011-05-09
#Anime K-On movie poster!
Ruben’s review of Gnome 3!
NetworkManager not appearing in Arch
The Death Star vs The Borg
Links for 2011-05-05
How this nerd beats insomnia, sometimes
Virgin Australia
Twitter Borg?
Being realistic about Windows
Law enforcement usurping botnet control
#Anime Azusandwich
1,024 Folding@Home work units!
#Anime Yumekui Merry #09
Links for 2011-05-02
Osama bin Laden, 2011
How to make Google good again
I can haz republic?
Links for 2011-04-28
AVOS del.icio.us-ness
Apple Android locationgate whatnot
#Anime Yumekui Merry #08
@i2yh @rubenerd photocopier reminiscing
Links for 2011-04-27
Get rid of the HootSuite social bar for good!
Post ID 8555 pointlessness
On ANZAC Day, New Zealanders get this?
Skools and Aussie Vodafone outages
Singapore in the 1970s and 2010s!
Links for 2011-04-24
Maroon 5 local drive (hey I made a rhyme!)
Support Marian Call like Something Fierce!
Cloudgate sounds like a toothpaste
Are ebooks outselling books? Well, no!
Photos around Circular Quay at night
Even their hair is kinda the same!
Building MCrypt on Mac OS X
The Great Money Caper
Links for 2011-04-20
Yahoo still doesn’t get it
Dropping some sanity… into a box
MacVim.app comes with console Vim!
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 11
After 6 years, Rubenerd Purple is back!
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 10
Oh noes, data caps!
Mercurial Vim-ness on Mac OS X
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 09
Hiding categories in WordPress 3.1.1
DOSBox doesn’t support SHARE.EXE
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 08
Playing with Homebrew on Mac OS X
Strusta Lake leaking onto my desktop
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 07
Ruben’s IMDB Top 250
Links for 2011-04-15
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 06
My Fedora ThinkPad has a sense of humour!
Can’t change a page’s default template!?
DownloadSquad got Flipped
France to require cleartext passphrase storage
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 05
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 04
Sydney train signal equipment #FAIL
An Optus microcell? Me want!
Bean.app versus LibreOffice in Mac printing
Lithium batteries costing us a bundle!
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 03
I drink coffee because of my genes?
A Rubenerd.com status update!
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 02
Can’t import keys for cPanel users?
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica DMCAness
Links for 2011-04-08
Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 01
FileVault on case sensitive HFS+
Clang!
De-Chromeify Firefox 4.0
Links for 2011-04-06
Custom SSH ports with sshuttle
Open letter to Apple regarding Finder dimensions
And the award for worrying awards…
No April Fools posts from me
Google closed Honeycomb, so what?
Links for 2011-03-31
Could Adobe #fail any more?
First layer of leaves after the election…
Is someone at Westpac reading my blog?
Borland C++ 3.1 from 1991
The NSW elections were tectonic… really?!
The Tennant 3400 for post 3400
A quarter century of Ruben Schadeyness
Started as a post about Optus YouTube access
It’s hard being an Aussie Palm fanboy
Limewire to be sued for $75 trillion?
Mozilla Firefox 4.0!
Twitter, icy attitude to developers, inevitability
Making sense of LibreOffice
IE6 Countdown should be IE Countdown!
Young adult Americans drinking more coffee?
Seeing Weird Al Yankovic
CityRail coin sneakyness
Westpac Bank internet security
Très bien! Mandrake lives on in Mageia
#QandA in three words tonight
SpinRite on a Mac using QEMU
Earlwood sunset
My white iPhone 4 and Zune predictions
Super creepy train ride of doom
Oh no! Most of us aren’t cool and hip!
CNET, CNA get their priorities straight
Links for 2011-03-11
Japan, 11th of March 2011
Google’s non-existent whitelists… exist
Transitions in CSS3?
DeviantArt email thingys
Links for 2011-03-10
#Anime The K-On! She lives!
Microsoft Big W for Mac 2011
Rubenerd News Network! 2011.03.06
An Optus phone data post, with cans!
Links for 2011-03-07
#Anime Yumekui Merry #07
#Anime She even has doughnuts!
Bruce Clement asks why you blog
#Anime Ijima-sensei in three screenshots
Like buttons, Facebookers the new AOLers
iPad 2
Links for 2011-03-03
Youths not concerned about online privacy
This made me cry a little inside
#Anime Yumekui Merry #06
Hiding categories in WordPress 3.1
Japan Airlines should have used JAS’s livery!
#Anime Some MORE product placement?
VirtualBox RAM still a dealbreaker for PC DOS
Some random Singapore news
#Anime Yumekui Merry #05
3333 posts!
Standing at the end of the world
Our Taronga Western Plains Zoo trip!
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
Borders in Singapore, take two
#Anime Yumekui Merry #04
New Zealand, Africa, Middle East
#Anime The K-On! Movie
Making sense of them Borders shutdowns
#Anime Yumekui Merry #03
How I choose music
#Anime Yumekui Merry #02
Singapore schwag!
Links for 2011-02-18
Site is back online
Torch him! He dissed IPv6!
#Anime Yumekui Merry first impressions
What’s with all the Zune spam?!
Bupa International
Links for 2011-02-15
Internet Explorer 9 relativity
Randomly awesome Star Trek paraphernalia
A Keith Olbermann bobblehead present!
FreeBSD guy rooting for Fedora
Java dying? Did Apple do it? An app store?
He seems legit
#Anime Sengoku Nadeko Red Sands
Egypt is about the size of Glenn Beck’s head
RIP Ken Olsen 1926-2011
Floods in Peninsular Malaysia now too?!
Gizmodo Getting Graceful deGradation?
WordPress ID 8000 celebrations!
Margaret’s Hinton Train Disaster article
Shiver! What Sydney heatwave?
Bing copying Google, apologies to Jack Johnson
42 is code for not panicking about heatwaves
#Anime Piracy boosts sales?
MacTheKnife is back in bidness!
Rambutans, Singapore, makan makan
Julian Assange’s agenda
Hot enough for you, Sydney?
My uninformed rant on IPv6: being sold
February 2011’s pointless sidebar picture!
Enlightenment E17 at 1.0!
I knew there was a reason Esther was awesome
#Anime Which is a better Firefox mascot?
The Anodized Behemoth
Ayn Rand in a nutshell
BREAKING NEWS: Record labels are stupid
My first bike!
Nostalgia, SuperDisk drives under OS X
CSRF, snooping, RequestPolicy for Firefox
Cool uses for RequestPolicy!
The world needs another airport security rant
Witty Crackerbox Palace
OH NO, the Golden Globes are… rigged?!
#Anime Toradora Sudohbucks!
I wish I could have liked IBMs video
Pass the… rushempeng?
Chromium’s weird font thingys
When superfluous instructions attack
Twitter could fix URL shorteners
Steve Jobs in 2011
RubyURL joins urlTea, parrots
When stalled BitTorrent attacks
Image Capture.app not saving scanned images?
Another sophisticated cooling solution
Maintaining my spelling
The bane of unmaintained Windows PCs
A Windows 7 cleaning saga
Last comment on the Chrome WebM debacle
Barbara Streisand
Malcolm Turnbull’s 640KiB moment
@OliYoung on WebM
Chrome dropping H.264 but not Flash?
23:11 11/01/2011
Queensland floods
The oncoming second IT bubbly thing
Having fun with hotlinkers
Subpoenas make The Cloud more of The Scary
You’re probably right, Matz
Banking on lots of fancy labels
Ruben is a sucker, and a new Starbucks logo
Fixing an old, broken WordPress page
Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Pet Shop Boys song
RIP Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011
Hey look, a false banking advertisement!
Using VirtualBox floppy disk images
Google Public DNS messing with Apple TVs?
Wired’s How-To wiki can prevent hangovers
Nonsense barometers, Spanish copyright
Goodbyes 2010
Using QEMU for DOS on *nix
You think 1/1/11 is impressive?
#SpiritDay 2010