Implicit Computer

Since literally before the Internet existed1, nerds have been using the miracle of computer communications to argue about Star Trek.

I present two stubby half-baked takes that aren't meaty enough to warrant their own posts.

The human body, alas, can only store enough energy in the form of glycogen for about 2 hours of aerobic activity.

The titles that come to mind when I think of the best (American) comic books I read in the past few years are: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen Alan Scott: The Green Lantern Absolute Martian Manhunter (and to varying degrees the other Absolute books) Flex Menta…

Some days the sheer breadth of possibility that comes with having my own website hits hard.

A walkthrough for the video game Cave Story in the form of a rap album.

Team Fortress 2 is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game by Valve, a company better known for Half-Life, Portal, and essentially all improvements to Linux gaming over the past decade1.

There's a phenomenon at the intersection of self-selection bias and XKCD 2501 I've noticed in my own thoughts about my hobbies.

This site first participated in the fine tradition of CSS Naked Day in 2024, and it should have done so again automatically in 2025 if the script I wrote worked (I didn't think to check at the time).

As a rule, I don't like to announce my projects until they're already substantially complete.

Ergodic literature is "a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages".

The term "digital garden" was originally coined to describe a personal website where each page is an evolving work in progress that might be updated or changed as the author sees fit.

Tailscale is an easy-to-use WireGuard VPN platform with a generous free tier that's popular among homelabbers.

Twice now I have needed to add more space to my main home server VM, and twice I have needed to re-learn how to expand a XFS filesystem.

COSTCO FAHRENHEIT (Video) General recommendation for Matt Lakeman's travel blog, and specific recommendation for his most recent piece: Notes On Afghanistan.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gävle Goat (Swedish: Gävlebocken, pronounced [ˈjɛ̌ːvlɛbɔkːɛn]) is a traditional Christmas display erected annually at Slottstorget (Castle Square) in central Gävle, Sweden.

A cognitohazard is information that is directly harmful when perceived.

(context) When you've been in this business as long as I have, you learn to recognize trouble fast, and I could tell she was trouble from the moment she poked her freakishly large head through the door.

Web-safe serif fonts Cold, clear early mornings on the road Tor Books paperbacks from a secondhand store Dry white wine TUIs Soren Kirkegaard Lentil soup Meeting up IRL Art Deco Trail running Telnet Bodyweight exercise The Butlerian Jihad

Recently at $dayjob I encountered a scientific instrument connected to a controlling PC over IP; that's not unusual in itself, but what was unusual was the tiny little MikroTek router that sat between the two, connected to them and nothing else.

Here's a template for server daemon programs I've found useful.

Like most of my generation, and the generation after me for that matter, playing Minecraft was a formative childhood experience, and while I haven't kept up with the many, many updates since 1.0 there's elements of the game that've taken up permanent resi…

As I've worked on the ol' homelab over the past few months, most of my computer use outside of my day job has morphed to fit a general client-server model.

This site now has an official blogroll!

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules An excellent technical writeup of implementing a new executable format as a kernel module that avoids the twin traps of writing about Linux internals: neither too esoteric nor too

You know what's kinda weird?

It's early July, which here in the Pacific Northwest means the roadside blackberries are starting to plump up and ripen.

Imagine for a moment you are Miles O'Brien, Chief of Operations on Deep Space Nine, formerly Transporter Chief on the USS Enterprise, and all around stand-up guy.

The language our machines use to speak to us has changed.

You know when some rando on the internet makes a post to the effect of "I'm so sorry I haven't been updating recently, it's because of reasons X Y and Z, please accept my deepest apologies and I'll post something soon", as though they're pleading with a m…

Here's the lesson I've learned since my last post: making a simple ActivityPub server that implements the minimum subset of the spec is not difficult.

After a few posts worth of preamble, it's finally time to get our hands dirty with ActivityPub!

Welcome to Protocolapalooza, my project to add support to this site for a bunch of wacky protocols other than the Web.

It's a new day, a new month, and a new era for the implicit dot computer weblog.

In the spring of either 2014 or 2015 I became a vegetarian - I didn't think to record the exact date - which means it's now been ten or possibly nine years.

A good chunk of the TV and movies I watch fall into the crime or detective genres, and are set and/or made in the early to mid 20th century (roughly the 30s-50s).

Friend-of-the-blog Wyatt has written on semantic drift for terms like demon and ghost.

ULTRAKILL does not advertise its unique strengths right from the start.

It seems like everyone these days is talking about AI.

Python is famously an easy language to learn, but it's a hard language to really learn because there's just so much of it; Python's standard library has over 300 modules as of version 3.11!

Greenery My mental image of Texas was informed by this airtight syllogism: cowboys live in Texas; cowboys live in the desert; therefore Texas is desert.

For the 2017 solar eclipse, my house in Washington was within range for observing the transit.

Another travel mini-post, but it's time-sensitive that I post something today in particular.

Just a quick post today to avoid falling too far behind while I'm traveling.

Earlier this year, I decided to replace my old and trusty Thinkpad E480, now getting pretty long in the tooth and having some trouble with all these newfangled web apps, with some newer hardware.

Here's a nifty pattern I use for making Rust error handling more ergonomic.

There's a small park near where I live that was, until recently, called Numbnutz Park, named after the great [citation needed] community leader and semi-professional phrenologist Horatio Numbnutz 1.

The Web is getting worse.

man pages are truly the best software documentation out there, with famously zero problems with formatting, content, or navigability.

Once upon a time, circa my middle school/high school days, I was pretty into comics, superhero comics especially.