scuti's text garden

Test page for thoughtform, the backend CGI I wrote to enable more comments to my blogs.

I start using a flip phone as a replacement for a smartphone to distance myself from modern culture.

(RSS only) My second interviewing experience of the year.

The LAN and WAN multiplayer games I play and whether they are FOSS or proprietary.

I take pictures of a 56 year old English steakhouse in Irvine, California closing down and also pester people in the parking lot about a house resolution.

I attended LayerOne 2026.

I got two robot hands, an idea of what to do with them, and some notes so I don't forget how I set things up.

The full title is 'Speak of the Devil: Runtime Disassembly and a Live Demo'.

I went to SCaLE23x.

(RSS only) I redesigned my index page.

(RSS only) That day I learned Firefox isn't a mainstream browser where I can expect web apps to work.

RSS-only blog post about not-so-secret complaints OTI, also announcing my phone is off on the weekend.

The full title is 'The Algorithms of Creating Money and Their Effects on Inflation and Wealth Distribution'.

I built an OpenFlexure Microscope and used it to look at plant cells, a dead spider, and other stuff.

I attended LayerOne 2025 for Memorial Day weekend.

Everyone hears about the mean or median earnings of a job.

I took Intro to Machine Learning (UD 120) on Udacity both for a glimpse into the subject of machine learning and to see how good Udacity is.

I went to the Southern California Linux Expo for March 8 and 9th.

I joined Wildfire Games as a contributor in December 2024.

You can comment on some of my blogs because I'm pulling posts from the Fediverse by using a Pandoc filter written in Lua.

scuti builds a drink machine in Minetest which has an unintended effect of creating infinite buckets.

I wrote a userspace driver for a very old pen tablet (Hanvon Graphicpal 0504) and used it to scribble in Krita.

scuti made a vending machine in Minetest with the Digilines mod and programmed it in Lua.

reflex2q3 is a video game map converter that converts maps from Reflex Arena to Radiant (Quake Engine) map editors.