Posted around 1 Sep 2026 from the they're looking for number 2 department · Link to this post

• My output on the Internet has slowed way down in recent years. For a lot of reasons, it's just not as fun for me as it used to be. I still make stuff though because I refuse to give in to the idea that it's all pointless and all I'm doing is providing free training data to AI scrapers.
• I had some unexpected time off recently and decided that I wanted to learn about pencils that were available near me. I started a page where I'm going to occasionally talk about pencils and pencil-adjacent things.
  • I have two articles up already, the Dixon Ticonderoga and the Staedtler Norica. A few more will be coming, but probably not too many because this topic seems pretty limited, which means there's a natural stopping point.

Posted around 22 Jul 2026 from the it's time we quit this hoping and expecting department · Link to this post

I try to not get too topical on this thing. I like to keep things evergreen, but physical video games are slowly dying and that's a big problem for me (I'm not super happy with how this turned out, but I've been poking at it for a couple weeks and needed to move on.)

Posted around 26 May 2026 from the will work for tips department · Link to this post

I decided a little while ago that I need to shore up some of my basic computer skills. One of the ways I'm doing that is by spending more time with the command line figuring out how to do things with the tools that came with my operating system.

Sometimes when I do that I come up with something that I think is useful or interesting and want to remember how I did it. Or I might think other people might find it useful or interesting. So I've started a page for these small things that might be useful, but may not rise to the level of article or blog post.

Posted around 28 Apr 2026 from the LALALOOKPLEASE♥♥ department · Link to this post

• I got a little more introspective than I intended to and almost didn't post this article, but I did a little soul-searching and realized that I had fallen into some traps of being a 'computer enthusiast' and not actually using a computer for, you know, computing. This was mostly in response to a 'Hacker' ''News'' thread where several users couldn't understand why anyone would use a computer like the MNT Reform when used ThinkPads exist.
• After the last update, I'm still playing around with sed and awk, despite The Internet™ telling me that I should learn more Python instead.

Posted around 31 Mar 2026 from the 8uuuuu uuuuuu uuuuuu uuuuuu department · Link to this post

• Last week I spent some time around some computers that were older than I am. It was a nice change of pace, and it inspired me to create a 'uses' page. Don't ask me how that happened, I don't know, either.
• I got tired of Org Mode not supporting XML sitemaps without significant fiddling, and I was tired of maintaining one by hand, so I wrote a little something to generate them for me. The next step would be to write something to generate RSS feeds so I don't have to do that by hand any more, but that's a lot more complicated.

Posted around 20 Mar 2026 from the 'gamer' is an anagram of 'marge' department · Link to this post

It's been a while, huh? Among other things, I've been converting hearing things dot org to org mode (when all you have is a hammer, etc) and trying to figure out what I want that site to look like. I'm zeroing in on it, and maybe one day I'll actually implement my ideas.

But on to today's updates!

• Bought some tech books and some video games and updated the inventory pages
• I bought a digital picture frame from a yard sale and decided to put some video game screenshots on it
• I also have been giving a lot of thought about what a 'gamer' even is and if I am one