Blog on The Music in Noise

Generalmente en esta bitácora no suelo escribir en castellano, ni tampoco acerca de asuntos de actualidad.

Within Holy Mother Church there is a great treasury of devotions and prayers that we can use to grow in our closeness to Jesus Christ.

This post is the backstory to the more technical post I’ve also published on how to install Debian on the ASUS C201 using the mainline kernel.

Requirements ASUS C201 Chromebook (might be a good idea to libreboot it if you haven’t already, as it’s fairly simple) SD card for installation Auxiliary computer for preparing SD card A Wi-Fi dongle or other USB network connector to connect to the intern…

Something I, and I think many other people as well, have been noticing is the increased use of Christian imagery and references in our public political discussions, debates, and speeches in the United States; something which although not completely foreign

For your average technological layman most digital technologies seem to pretty much be magic.

Recently I’ve overhauled the entirety of the framework I was using for my website.

Probably around a year ago I was having a conversation with a friend of mine over a beer (as you do) and at some point we got to talking about humor and what is and is not acceptable, particularly as it pertains to why blasphemous humor is wrong.

In Plato's Republic he argues that the soul is composed of three parts: the logical, the spirited, and the appetitive.

Over the course of the decade (maybe more) that this website has been around I've gone through a few different frameworks and infrastructure for it.

Generally when reading the Holy Scriptures I like to read from a Bible that contains a lot of footnotes.

A few days ago I was listening to NPR's Up First podcast when they began to talk about the new policies at ICE ever since Trump came into office.[1] Now although it is perfectly legitimate for a country to deport foreigners who commit crimes within its bo…

Among the liberals of our age, most especially in the American context, one can often hear the phrase thrown at conservatives “Separation of Church and State!”

For a long time now I've been trying to develop a program that would help to choose meals for the week, and I've finally made it.

This is a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I think that anyone running an ArchLinux machine will probably appreciate this.

Religion & politics, aside from being the two topics you are never supposed to discuss in polite company, are also considered by modern standards to be two realms that should never mix.

Recently I watched the 2016 film "La La Land" with my wife, and it conjured some interesting conversation afterwards.

So at work I have to deal with a codebase that works with C and C++.

Since I was a boy I've been a fan of the outdoors, and particularly of camping.

Recently a good friend of mine who is taking an interest in Catholicism has asked me if I could write an article on how to pray.

In the Christian prayer life there is a richness of ways to pray, and generally we choose those devotions which help us to delve into the mysteries of our Faith and to deepen our relationship with God.

About a year and a half ago I wrote an article on the topic of love, and what distinguishes it from taste (i.e. loving from liking). [1] This article is similar, but instead of contrasting love with taste, we're going to be contrasting it with desire.

I've recently started working on a new series on my Odysee channel which aims to explain some very basic C/C++ code optimizations at an assembly level.[1] I explore different keywords and good programming habits in C++ and explain why they can lead to more

I've been using Rust for a while now, particularly on my pet project, Indivisible,[1] and one very key feature of Rust is that it's designed to be used primarily with the functional programming paradigm[2] (as opposed to the imperative paradigm[3]).

A tendency that has been greatly bothering me recently regarding modern systems - on the web, desktop applications, OSs or otherwise - is the increasing number of them that require new users to register an account for their usage.

I was recently having a conversation at a youth group, and one of the questions was on what sin we had a difficult time understanding as a sin.

As of late I've been seeing a lot of renewed interest for internet privacy, particularly regarding certain social media platforms.

Perhaps one of my favorite Catholic Apologists is Trent Horn.

Some time ago, I was talking with a friend, and he brought up how a mutual friend of ours had suggested that it is possible that Moses, the Biblical character from the Old Testament, did not historically exist.

Recently, after having setup my MACCHIATObin as a desktop computer, I've decided to move most of my computing to that, and therefore my x86 laptop is going to be mostly unused.

So I've decided to write this little guide because of how much I've suffered to get this to work, and how absolutely broken the MACCHIATObin documentation is.

Recently I've started working on a C++ project that uses the CMake build system.[1] The first thing I was in charge of doing was fixing the build, as one of the dependencies is the SeetaFace2 project.[2] Originally you had to have the SeetaFace2 project in

I have recently spent a week in Taizé,[1] an ecumenical Christian community in France.

With this title, I cannot help but think of and mention Rage Against the Machine's hit song, "Know Your Enemy

So a few weeks ago while trying to create a Git project I noticed that Git had asked me if I would like to set a new name in my configuration for the default Git branch, and it suggested the use of main (rather than the traditional master).

I hadn't wanted to comment on this for a while, especially to see how it actually ended up playing out, but finally I believe it's time to bring up the elephant in the room.

Currently I am on vacation back in the United States, visiting family.

Some folks have mentioned to me before that they are amazed at my love for the Mass.

Originally I had planned to make the title of this post "Why Income Inequality is not Important", but I realized that this could be misleading as to what I'm actually trying to express.

In my previous post on the Traditional Latin Mass[1] much of my intention was apologetic, and fueled by an indignation at seeing how this form of celebrating the Divine Liturgy was (and still is) treated almost like a second-class celebration.

Abstractions are created by human beings and have no existence apart from the human mind.

A while back when I had done a post on political parties and an alternative model for a Republican Democracy, I had briefly mentioned the importance of the nature of the State, in other words, the raison d'être of the State: why does it exist?

Despite being a computer engineer (student), I am actually quite skeptical of technology and new technological innovations, especially the more complex and interdependent they become.

Anyone that knows me personally - or maybe I've mentioned this in a previous post - knows that I'm generally a technology skeptic.

I'd like to make it clear first that I by no means have extensive experience with the Rust programming language, nor will I be diving into the more technical aspects of Rust as a language.

Este texto lo he sacado de mi Misal Completo Latino-Español.

Firstly, a very blessed Easter Sunday to all!

This is the first book review I'm doing, so don't expect very much, and it's on the book The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth by Dr.

Much of today's political discourse, regardless of faction, is focused on presenting one's own faction as being pure and impeccable, while presenting any other as either innocently cooperating with evil, or directly malicious.

Recently I have attained a Roman Missal so as to better follow the Traditional Latin Mass.