Raphael Kabo's blog

I recently rebuilt this website, including its blog, in Lua.

My wife and I recently acquired a very fancy wall mounted lamp from a company called Pooky.

Wednesday's front page.

In Vim, ]c and [c jump to the next and previous git diff (c is for change).

Discord recently announced that they're planning to start requiring all their users to upload photos of their faces or government ID for age verification.

Of course I covered it in stickers immediately.

I wanted a nice place to display albums of photos I take (I'm not a great photogapher, but it's nice to be able to share them with friends).

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, in which an extremely sane man very calmly proceeds to explain to you, the reader, how he murdered the old man with whom he was lodging and hid his body under the floorboards.

Two weeks ago, I built a search engine which only searches over a list of RSS feeds you expressedly give it.

Last month I picked up the Pimoroni Plasma Stick, which is essentially an RP2040-powered Raspberry Pi Pico bolted onto a terminal block and a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector, to make it easier to connect WS2812/NeoPixel-style individually addressable RGB(W) LED…

Just here for the goods?

Today I decided to finally try out Astro, a Javascript framework for building websites, by trialling it on my homepage.

When I lived in Australia, the local council would send us a little calendar a few times a year with all the bin collection dates listed on it.

I'm setting up another PC with the delightful Void Linux (my third so far!)

I wanted to write a little guide, mostly for my own future use, to describe how I set up Wireguard on my home sever.

I logged on to my computer on Monday this week and ran startx as usual, but Xserver crashed, complaining that it couldn't write to /tmp.

I got my Raspberry Pi Pico today (it's now part of our mandatory lockdown ration, right?)

Nothing fancy, but I got bored of typing out both directories when I was mounting or unmounting my gocryptfs filesystem.

Over the last year, I've been really enjoying learning React, and I've recently used all the fun new skills I've learned to code two online card games, both about imagining and exploring utopian spaces and communities, but in very different ways.

Recently, I decided to learn everyone's new favourite programming language, Rust.

Recently, I booted up Mini vMac, an emulator for classic Macintosh computers from the 1980s, and set up System 7 with Microsoft Word 5.1a, running on a Macintosh Plus.

I recently experienced a headache when I was trying to make a very, very small zine.

In a previous post, I elaborated a complex solution to a problem I was encountering while writing my PhD (which, by the way, I'm still writing - isn't procrastination swell?).

I've recently moved my webserver to Caddy, a fantastic modern webserver which is very user-friendly, with a helpful support community, and most importantly, effortless HTTPS on every site through the good folks at Let's Encrypt.

Images, and image captions, are always a problem in Markdown.

I've just moved this site to Jekyll, which is the first time I've played around with it properly, and I'm very happy with how easy and logical it has been to use.

Real nerds roll dice from the command line, so I made a command line die roller.

12/01/2019 I've bundled a significant part of this setup into a simple menu bar application, available here. 01/03/2018 Updated for compatibility with Pandoc version 2.1.1.