Oh yeah so a lot has been going on, this past week especially has been bonkers, and I’m super happy about things right now. | Continue reading
Hey y'all! My birthday is coming up this Sunday. I have the following things going on: | Continue reading
Yay, Furality is here! I don’t know how many people are coming here vs. to my music site since Furality doesn’t give me any dealer’s den click metrics or whatever, but welcome all the same. | Continue reading
My take on the bullet hell genre, written entirely in HTML 5 and using minimal assets. Made for the GAMES MADE QUICK??? FOUR jam. | Continue reading
An application to help musicians encode and distribute their music to various websites. Get it on itch.io, or get the source code. comments | Continue reading
Whoops I guess it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything here, how did that happen? | Continue reading
Just sharing two software/workflow changes I’ve made recently, and why they’re improvements over what I had before. | Continue reading
There are a lot of times when the specification says one thing but common implementations do another. Here are some especially common examples to watch out for. | Continue reading
I grant myself the serenity | Continue reading
So, being unemployed, I have to pay my own health insurance. This is currently around $500/month. | Continue reading
Just some quick medical updates. | Continue reading
Okay so Mozilla has gone deep into the AI hole again, so I’ve switched back to Waterfox, a fork of Waterfox that focuses on the core browsing experience and eschews all of the stuff that nobody actually wants. | Continue reading
Fiona’s been dealing with some respiratory stuff for a while, with what seemed like a cold starting around a month ago. Over the past few weeks she’s been having continuous problems with mucus in one nostril, and this past weekend she was also having nasal bleeding, although that … | Continue reading
Today is π day, which is a silly day to celebrate based on a completely arbitrary calendar system that happens to share some concordance with the inferior circle constant in our standard number system. But π day is a bit special to me. Or rather, this π day is special to me, bec … | Continue reading
It’s about time I finally write a timeline of how frustrating HRT has been over the years, because I’m tired of re-explaining it and just want something to point folks to whenever it comes up. | Continue reading
In every corner of my life right now I cannot seem to escape the increasing fervor of the ongoing debate regarding AI and machine learning in general, where on one side you have people who are completely anti-AI and others who are completely pro-AI, and any point made in oppositi … | Continue reading
.well-known considered harmful | Continue reading
These days I have quite a lot of ambition but not enough energy to execute on it. I’m trying, though. | Continue reading
It’s okay to not feel okay, especially when your hormones have been out of whack for months and healthcare is slow to try to help you with it. | Continue reading
It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS caches expired, but they seem to have all given up after the Cloudflare “managed challenge” interstiti … | Continue reading
About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all that and while Cloudflare gave me some sli … | Continue reading
Ughhhh, this has been a heck of a week. | Continue reading
I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall. | Continue reading
Wellp, today I got yet another denial from social security, which tells me this ain’t gonna change any time soon. | Continue reading
Wellp, I didn’t get a whole lot done on the TODO list but at least I Tried™. (I did call about the sleep study but they never returned my call and it slipped my mind to try calling again. Oh well, next week.) | Continue reading
Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and … | Continue reading
Here are the things I need to take care of within the next week: | Continue reading
A cool new service that lets you look for your favorite musician on services that are better than Spotify | Continue reading
Lately there’s been a brewing culture war in the software community regarding the usage of LLM-based coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and I’m seeing a lot of hardline discourse on both sides, but especially from the anti-AI side of things. | Continue reading
Login on this site has been a bit flaky for a while since in my never-ending fight against AI bots I had switched to a multiprocess configuration to give the site a bit more robustness, but which had the side effect of most logins only having a 50% chance of working due to fiddly … | Continue reading
And now it’s time for my traditional annual wrap-up post, and my hopes for next year. | Continue reading
Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post. Thinking about the end of the year and what’s coming up for me. | Continue reading
Thou shalt not believe in that which has not been demonstrated empirically Thou shalt not worship anyone, regardless of their social influence Thou shalt strive to improve the situation for everyone, including yourself Thou shalt allow yourself rest and hydration Thou shalt leave … | Continue reading
The ebike has been working great! | Continue reading
The ebike arrived yesterday and I was able to assemble it super quickly. The Lectric XPress 750 ships almost fully-assembled, and all you have to do is unbox it, attach the front wheel, and connect whatever addons it came with. I wasn’t able to install the upgraded comfort seat b … | Continue reading
I got my lab results back regarding my hormone levels. | Continue reading
Carvana hauled away the Niro today and I am now about $13K richer. | Continue reading
Carvana’s scheduled to pick up the Niro today. Hopefully that goes well. | Continue reading
I have two pending offers on my car: $13,300 from Carvana for a straight sale, and $14,372 from a local dealership for a tradein. Here’s some of my thought processes about which one to take. | Continue reading
In 2022 I traded in my Mazda3 for a Nissan LEAF, which cost me about $1000 all-in. The LEAF was a pretty great car that I liked a lot, but it had a couple of critical features, namely that the lack of active battery thermal management meant that its range got super low in the win … | Continue reading
Amazingly enough, Valve have finally at least made an announcement breaking the “curse of three,” and their third VR headset is actually materializing soon™. | Continue reading
When I was a kid, my mom always insisted on “cleaning” out my ear canals with cotton swabs, usually right after I bathed, and this ended up establishing a bad habit of using cotton swabs on my ears every morning after I shower. I am well aware of the many problems this can cause … | Continue reading
Remember that idea I came up with a couple months ago and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it? | Continue reading
I’d been with CenturyLink Fiber since I moved into this house in early 2021, and was mostly happy with it. I never had any major outages aside from occasional drops due to their crappy provided router, which I replaced with a Linux SBC running OpenWRT. The only real complaints I … | Continue reading
got another rejection for disability | Continue reading