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Last weekend, I was showing off this website to a friend who hadn’t seen it before.

8BitDo makes some very nice third-party controllers for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PC/Xbox, and a variety of vintage systems.

For a long time, I was very skeptical of wireless earbuds.

“They” say that em dashes are a sign of AI writing.

Framework Laptop 13, seen from the rear left-hand corner.

This may come as something of a surprise, but: back in high school, I was kind of a nerd.

It’s something of a trope that when a programmer starts a blog, an inordinate number of their blog posts will be about the act of blogging, especially with regard to their chosen tech stack.

Yes, you read that right: in the year 2024 C.E. — sixteen years after the advent of GitHub, whose reign spans not just my entire professional career but even my (formal) computer science education — I’ve decided to take a step backwards in time and host my

If you had told me two years ago that Twitter would be effectively dead within… well, two years, I would have found that rather hard to believe.

I’m a curious person by nature.

A few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Drew DeVault about the declining relevance of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) — despite the flourishing of free software itself — and what Drew believes the FSF should be doing to regain its former glory.

Okay, yes, that’s a pretty obvious thing to say, but bear with me for a moment.1 I’ve been procrastinating on the second part of my series exploring the Inform CLI tools by working on a Linux-first (but potentially cross-platform) desktop app for browsing…

Inform is a programming language whose syntax closely resembles natural English; its original purpose was to make interactive fiction (IF) authorship accessible to authors of the traditional sort, though in theory it is now possible to use Inform to write…

Interactive fiction (or IF) is one of the oldest forms of computer games, dating back to the 1970s; and yet, there is a certain magic to the experience that I feel other, more modern formats would be hard-pressed to replicate.

Four months ago,1 I set out on a possibly-ill-considered expedition to complicate my life by simplifying my website.

In my previous post, I described the not-inconsiderable lengths I went to in order to bring a small piece of Linux functionality to which I was accustomed — the man program — to my Windows computing experience, albeit as a shallow facsimile of the real th…

This is a post which, I suspect, will be of very little interest to anyone besides myself.

Visual Studio Code is my favorite software application.

Lately, I’ve been re-watching Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, including seasons 1 – 5 for the second time and season 6 (and now, 7) for the first time.

For some time now, I’ve wanted to start a blog.