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I feel like a big problem that communities, both physical and online, are currently struggling with is a variation on the “Nazi bar” problem.

One of my strongly-held opinions, and one that helps understand a lot about both politics and real life, is that most people are conservative.

A few months ago, I was watching a friend stream “Minishoot’ Adventures” (an action adventure game with shoot-’em-up gameplay mechanics), and she referred to one of the foes in it as a “major enemy”.

This is a translation of the song “It’s Raining Men” by “The Weather Girls” into Esperanto.

It was supposed to be a simple operation, one that she’s done thousands of times.

Lots of people these days are talking about how generative AI technology is leading workers to lose skills, bosses to trust chatbots more than their employees, folks at risk to make absurd decisions, etc.

Ellie, Fred and Gabby are a set of three characters I drew in the last week or so.

Ellie, Fred and Gabby are a set of three characters I drew in the last week or so.

It’s become increasingly clear that in a lot of countries, the right has pretty much abandoned any ambition of still believing in “fairness” or “equality under the law” – perfectly willing to openly enrich themselves and their friends using government pow…

So yeah, I messed up the scale for one of the images of Claire, used that one as a guide, and as a result, the last image of Danielle ended up smaller than I intended.

Turns out, I accidentally messed up the scale when drawing this version of Claire, and made her a bit smaller.

For the next character, I went with a more unusual aesthetic instead of going for “conventionally attractive” designs.

One day, I also felt like drawing Claire in a more casual outfit doing a heart shape with her hands.

Eventually I decided to rescale the 128x128 full-body characters to the same size as Claire and Konrad.

Eventually I decided to rescale the 128x128 full-body characters to the same size as Claire and Konrad.

This was a rather quick attempt to draw something in the style of UFO 50, a collection of 50 original games by Mossmouth, all made in a style reminiscent of 8-bit console games, sharing a single 32-color palette.

This one ended up looking a bit goofy in my opinion.

This is the first full-body image.

Was browsing through the community page of a game on Steam, happened to see someone’s profile pic of an elf-like character from some MMORPG with purplish gray hair, and it gave me a tiny bit of inspiration to draw something similar.

Okay, so last month (December of 2025), I saw a few screenshots of PC-98 games and went wondering: “in comparison, why do Western home computer games of the same era (the kind that you’d see on an Amiga or Atari ST) tend to be so ‘meh’-looking?”

A lot of the time, our preferences for what an OS user interface should look like come down, ultimately, to either nostalgia or past experiences.

I have recently developed a small library and command-line utility in Rust that opens and creates GXT files from older Grand Theft Auto games.

I’ve decided to write a little script using JS that reads a Japanese notation for a move in shogi and tries to convert it into English.

A table describing the ASCII character set.

After updating Alpine Linux on my VPS to version 3.14, I noticed that Midnight Commander (mc) crashed with a segmentation fault around 90% of the time, and at other times it ran, but refused to accept any input.

Out of all PC games that have been around for decades, id Software’s DOOM is probably one with the largest longevity.

Just like graphical terminals such as urxvt, the Linux framebuffer has an option to change the built-in palette.

So, turns out, when you run a program that uses CUDA, either directly or indirectly (my program runs on CUDA, but uses OpenCL instead), there are issues preventing libasan from working.

Recently found myself using irssi on a setup that’s slightly unusual, so I’m recording the information I found useful for posterity.

As a kid, I didn’t have any 16-bit consoles, and at best, my experience with them was restricted to playing them for a short while when hanging out with my family’s old friends and their kids.

These are some of the useful settings and functions I use when working with vim.

Trying to preserve an old page that I had a hard time finding online.

Note to self: if your distro’s repositories don’t have a Perl package, it’s best to install them from CPAN instead.

One of my big interests is things relating to riichi mahjong (リーチ麻雀): a variant of the Chinese tabletop game “mahjong” invented in Japan.

Assorted key combinations that are useful in MC.

I have a bunch of FreeType settings that I prefer on my systems, and these differ from the defaults on basically every Linux distro these days. 2026 update: This is a rather old post, made back when the monitors I used were pretty low-resolution, and savi…

Here be pixel-art dragons.

This page will host an assortment of tips and tricks collected while using Alpine Linux.

This is the page where I’ll be hosting all the pixel art fonts which I drew.

GDB seems to have been clearly made with source-level debugging in mind, the kind where the source code of the program is available.

Occasionally I play the old multiplayer action-RPG “Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst”.

name: /dev/urandom (sometimes dev or rnd for short) date of birth: june 1993 job: programmer tech: i’m mostly a computing and retro software/gaming dork. i am kind of a linux/open-source fan, although i try not to be a jerk about it as some do. i occasion…

This is a small cheat sheet to remind me of how parameter expansion works in unix shells.

An ASCII table listing yaku and scoring rules for riichi mahjong.

Some small hints for profiling utilities used on Linux systems.

shell scripts: grab lines from dictionary, convert them into up-to-16-byte strings, do a binary dump for x in `cat input_words.txt`; do echo $x | tr -d \\n | dd ibs=16 conv=sync 2>/dev/null | xxd; done convert a .vgz directory to a .vgm one, along with u…