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Mere hours before our most recent trip, my new Unifi Travel Router arrived.

It’s time to reclaim the em-dash.

What’s the most used thing in your house?

As much as EDC (Everyday Carry) is basically a pastiche of performative masculinity, it remains true that some things are genuinely useful to have on you.

I’m a long-time fountain pen nerd.

The Gang-gang Cockatoo is the fauna emblem of the Australian Capital Territory, which suggests that it’s particularly characteristic of this area, however it’s pretty rare to see them in my backyard.

There are a bunch of reasons you can get into, or stay into, keyboards as a hobby.

Nick’s post on moving to Navidrone inspired me to write briefly about how I solved a similar problem in a somewhat different way.

Despite my lack of posts, my Year Of Linux on the Desktop project isn’t dead, it’s just mutated a bit.

Welcome to the March list of stuff I’ve found around the Internet and enjoyed reading (maybe not enjoyed, as such, but you know what I mean).

Checking back, it’s almost exactly a year since I last posted my desk setup, and it has actually changed quite a lot in the last year.

In my previous job I spent a lot of time analysing political donations for Australian federal elections (don’t ask).

As part of my project of moving away from Apple services I’ve been setting up my own music server, using Jellyfin.

I’ve been living the Linux desktop lifestyle for a couple of months now.

Nobody buys a computer; they buy into an ecosystem.

In our previous episode I described how I undertook a new adventure in Linux to see whether it was workable for me these days as a desktop operating system.

In or around 2002 I got my first Mac, a white G3 iBook.

Build details: Lulu (V1 PCB) in space grey with clear encoders; Boba UT4 62g tactile switches; KAT Cyberspace keycaps.

I find in order to learn anything new I need to attempt to do something with it.

The Boardsource Unicorne is a fancier version of the Corne keyboard, a small 3x6 column staggered split keyboard.

With the recent descent into AI madness of the Wordpress folks there have been a few people on Mastodon looking for other hosting options, so I figured I’d do a quick “here is how I set up my blog” post.

I’m pretty happy with my current desk setup at home as far as ergonomics go.

Build details: Command 65 by Play Keyboard Ice Kachang Tactile Switches TX Stabilisers (PCB mount) Hammerworks CRP C64 Round 2 keycaps This is the first in my series of posts about my keyboard collection; not because it’s my favourite, or because it’s the…

Possibly the best new feature Apple has added to its iPhone for a long time is StandBy Mode, where if you put your phone horizontally on a charger (it works best with a MagSafe/Qi, but as long as the phone is charging and horizontal it will work), it shows

A traditional first (and often only) blog post is “here is how I set up my blog”.