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It could be so much more powerful, if everyone were willing to put less effort into it.

How to introduce consumers to gambling before they even get to launch Counter-Strike on the thing.

Paying homage to a tradition, this time, with a more radical change.

Where I open my mouth, but not to verify I’m an adult.

Where I find that I’ve been a long-time nonpaying customer of Bluesky’s favorite, allegedly-affordable, cloud provider, while you get to be fed relevant portions of my life story.

Nothing can ever please everybody, and the highest-budget entertainment product so far won’t be an exception.

Increasingly stale thoughts on software product quality, prompted by the redemption arc of the most awaited and most disappointing game release of 2020.

Director’s commentary on high-effort shitposting that paid off.

A retrospective review of one of the only Ubisoft-developed games I truly enjoyed, despite its numerous flaws.

Separating the art, the artist, the opinion, and your contributions.

Documenting the reasons why I tend to prefer Postgres - even when it’s my friends getting bitten.

I, too, have the right to roleplay as a music reviewer.

time travel terrifyingly trialed: twenty days take twenty months, twenty ticks teared twenty years

Artificial Intelligence is biased, and we’re biased into thinking it is less limited than it is.

Many are aware that some YouTubers are unhappy with how YouTube operates.

…and it’s also the next Steam. [2026 editor’s note: it clearly wasn’t, but it isn’t any less of a monster today]

Analysis of the current state, and speculation about the future, of a few forums I’m familiar with.

An attempt at starting a series that, as per usual for this publication, will likely go nowhere. [2026 editor’s note: it basically didn’t]

It doesn’t count as self-promotion if it’s on your personal website, right?

We’re adding another dimension to shitposting.

Please, let me close this chapter.

Thoughts and prayers for a personal project I lost interest in, yet somehow is still online and mostly functional.

Where I rediscovered the wonders of relational databases.

Did you know distributed systems are harder to design and run than centralized ones?

Where I continue to pretend Microsoft ever cared about user experience and consistent design. [2026 editor’s note: the real fix was already in the footnotes, just switch to Linux and use KDE]

Transport Layer Expletive

Safe reads.

The most long-winded and least structured CV you’ve ever seen.

Diminishing the value of my earlier opinion piece by going for a “both-sides” approach.

Paying customers better get used to crowdsourced beta testing.

A Zneak-peek into upcoming Casio Prizm software.

A underutilized architecture target makes for a great marketing stunt.

With great power comes great… potential for bricking.

That phone is so last year!

Do you know what we need to tame an unreliable distributed system?

It turns out that there is a minimum cost to acceptable reliability and durability.

Thoughts about an extreme case of the Pareto principle.

OK, I give up on freeloading.

The latest updateZ to my Casio Prizm software.

Apparently these are made of fragile glazz.

Did I get a social media/PR guy fired?

Stating what’s obvious to every technologically literate person.

Did you know that the best product doesn’t always win its market?

Discovering disappointing defaults well after committing to using a distro is a rite of passage for Linux users, isn’t it?

A retrospective of Nokia’s many OS development endeavours.

If only there was a unified and extensible interface that could help with this…

If I tried to crowdfund the renewal of my domain names or server hosting, I wonder how well that would work…

High praise for extensible open source software… and my own extensions, I suppose.

Featuring the most complex upgrade procedure ever seen on graphical calculator software.

Casio sure is glad these weren’t the Znowden Leaks.