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I recently finished playing Starfield.

I recently took delivery on a Workhorse Pits 1975 wagon offset smoker.

I recently finished reading “Strong Towns: A bottom-up revolution to rebuild American prosperity” by Charles L.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Garmin Forerunner 965 smart watch.

I bought a steam deck a week ago.

I’ve been trying to teach my kids how to ride bikes this last weekend.

A couple of months ago I played a game called Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

I started writing another text editor.

The newest Zelda game in the series was released just over a week ago.

I just finished reading a book called Just Keep Buying by Nick Maggiulli.

I’ve been typing on a Kinesis Advantage Dvorak-layout keyboard for probably 20 years now.

I recently started playing the game: Dyson Sphere Program.

My son is in kindergarten this year.

I recently completed the main questline of God of War Ragnarök.

OpenAI recently game out with a new artifical intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT.

I recently found a new hobby in setting up a flight simulator in the home.

I recently found a new hobby in BBQing.

In my last post, I described my first experience with GNU troff and how I tried using the mom macro set to typeset my resume as a way to learn it.

Groff is a typesetting system similar to TeX.

Often times I just use my blog to find sample code or a script for later use.

This post contains some of my thoughts on the blog post bleh.

I finished reading “Patterns of Software” by Richard P.

I recently started reading the book “Patterns of Software” by Richard Gabriel.

I wonder if it’s time for a new user interface paradigm.

I recently bought the game “Elden Ring,” an open-world action RPG based on the Dark Souls/Demon Souls formula.

A couple of weeks ago, I found my Raspberry Pi 4 8GB that I bought in July of 2020 sitting on a shelf, turned off for the last year.

I recently bought the book: “Autotools: A practitioner’s guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool,” by John Calcote.

When you use a text editor and want to jump around on the current page, do you reach for your mouse?

Yesterday, I installed Fedora Silverblue into a KVM-enabled qemu image from my GNU Guix desktop.

Recently I was looking for a lightweight user-level service manager.

Recently I was writing some code and I came across a scenario where I wanted to chain together a log reader/transformer/sink pipeline.

My desktop experience on my personal machine is fairly simple: Ubuntu with Guix (planning to move to pure Guix next week when I build a new desktop) The sway compositor with swaystatus Emacs (pgtk + native-comp) for email/RSS news, text editing, coding, d…

I haven’t had any new post ideas recently, so I thought I’d do a misc post with a bunch of things thrown together.

There are a lot of applications that can help you back up photos from your phone, but many do not give you the freedoms you expect from free software.

About half a year ago, someone sent me the article Mechanical Sympathy: Understanding the Hardware Makes You a Better Developer.

When I originally set up my email, I can’t say I did enough research with regards to how to pull email from IMAP and store it locally for fast local access.

I recently read Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule, a blog post by Paul Graham.

I recently bought a book called Effective C: An introduction to Professional C Programming by Robert Seacord.

I had an earlier post about The Twelve Factor App.

In a previous post, I discussed how to set up a custom channel.

This is a question a lot of people with their own domain name or Unix experience might ask at some point, and you’ll probably get a lot of different answers.

In my last post I talked about a home router with GNU Guix.

Here are some features I find to be important in a home router: Desired state configuration: one config file than can be imported/exported that describes the whole router state.

I’ve been following a newish youtube channel for the last couple of months which mostly started with Emacs from scratch videos, but now looks to be evolving towards a term they coined as system crafting.

Today I spent the better part of the day installing GNU Guix System onto one of my laptops.

Emacs supports programmable completion in a couple of modes through a feature called pcomplete.

I’ve been spending some of my time off customizing my Emacs config.

I thought I’d take a short break from the technology topics to talk about a new mini-hobby I started: DIY home improvement.

I’ve been thinking about shells a little recently.

Expanding on the post yesterday, I wanted to illustrate a way to quickly rename files that I found fascinating (editing file names in a text editor buffer).