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Back to writing Kitchen island table or I built a table without sufficient tools, knowledge, or workspace.

Back to writing [today_i_did_this] 28-400 A couple of years ago, I bought this bottle of shampoo.

Back to writing [film] [introspection] Ghost Dog and selective philosphy When I saw Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai for the first time, it went straight onto my list of "tip top favorites".

Back to writing [photography] [introspection] Further thoughts on hobby photography Table of contents Introduction EDC Black and white Subject matter / subjects matter / subject matters Originality What if everyone just has poor taste Street photography P…

Back to writing [today_i_did_this] [photography] Ricoh GR carrying bag In May, I bought a Ricoh GRIII.

Back to writing Pointing devices Table of contents Introduction Mice Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3000 HP M859PU Vogek VKM42 Gamepad + JoyToKey Graphics tablets Wacom Bamboo XP-Pen Deco 03 Trackballs Elecom Relacon Kensington Slimblade Pro Dual-wielding Introdu…

Back to writing CSS for printing to paper Table of contents Introduction Sample files @page @media print Width, height, margin, and padding Element positioning Multi-page documents with repeating elements Portrait / Landscape mode Data source Essentials c…

Back to writing [electronics] [today_i_did_this] Mediasonic Probox fan replacement I have a Mediasonic Probox for file storage.

Back to writing [electronics] Auto-off power banks The essential parts of a USB power bank are: A battery.

Back to writing [photography] [today_i_did_this] Blacked out lens markings My camera lenses have white lettering printed and etched into the front describing their properties.

Back to writing [today_i_did_this] Notes on paper Table of contents Introduction Habits Scanning Some pages Introduction (§) Over the past few weeks, I have been scanning my notes and homework from school using the nice professional scanners at my workpla…

Back to writing git.voussoir.net Github has been bothering me.

Back to writing [introspection] [life] [photography] Pseudonymity and the point of no return A conundrum.

Back to writing [journalism] Slamming and blasting Patent Community Slams USPTO's Rush to Retire Software Systems Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides California Slams San Francisco for 'Egregious' Barriers to Housing Cons…

Back to writing Youtube re-encoding videos Table of contents Introduction Worse than I remember... barely Better than I remember Meager plotting attempt Conclusion Introduction (§) Today, I re-downloaded a video that I already had a copy of.

Back to writing Ross's Game Dungeon quote catalog Table of contents "I'm sorry everyone" "I'm not sure I've seen something like this before" "I'm sorry everyone" (§) Verbatim Date Game Reason Forgiven?

Back to writing E Unibus Pluram (1993) In the early 90s, David Foster Wallace wrote an essay called E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S.

Back to writing Storm delays ALL FLIGHTS ON HOLD DUE TO LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS: CLOUDED THOUGHTS.

Back to writing Slightly obsessed with GPX Table of contents Trackbook trkpt Hardware upgrade NMEA ingest Trackbook (§) In December 2020, I downloaded an app called Trackbook by author y20k.

Back to writing the stuff of fiction time travel, teleportation free healthcare for every nation intercontinental zettabit link rat submerged in air you can drink zero latency, faster than light stardate eternity, fish taught to write launched in a second,

Back to writing [photography] Sharing photos with friends and strangers Table of contents Introduction Process Introduction (§) In the previous episode, I said that taking pictures of friends and family was the most worthwhile thing I can do with photogra…

Back to writing [photography] Some early thoughts on hobby photography Table of contents who what when where why how Conclusion who what when where why (§) Over the past three years I have been taking more and more pictures.

Back to writing Squirrel on the road The road is not a squirrel's natural environment.

Back to writing [meta] Finding and fixing dead links on this blog Table of contents Archiving linked pages Fixing dead links I said from the beginning that gwern.net was a source of motivation for me to start writing, and I specifically linked to his arti…

Back to writing Night Light (1995) Table of contents Introduction Extracting the assets A second copy Turn on your night light The missing menu files Conclusion Introduction (§) When I was a kid, one of the computer games I played was Night Light, by GTE…

Back to writing Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas Table of contents mix-blend-mode Canvas Night Light with CSS Night Light with canvas Note: this article will make more sense if you are using a mouse or other pointing device.

Back to writing [life] Advertising Table of contents Introduction Types of advertisements The damage of advertisements The basics of capitalism Breakdown of conventional incentives & distortion of metrics (& clickbait) Manipulation & asymmetric information

Back to writing [windows] Run as Administrator on login I have a few long-running / daemon programs that I would like to "run as administrator" automatically when I start my computer, without UAC prompts.

Back to writing [electronics] [today_i_did_this] Modding a rechargeable mouse to USB-C I have a wireless mouse that uses USB micro-B to recharge.

Back to writing [life] Everything is politics Table of contents Introduction Who you talk to Morals What you buy What you eat Tradition Travel and transit Technological progress Employment Investments Everything Introduction (§) Note: when I first sat down

Back to writing [3dprinting] [electronics] Ankibutton Table of contents Glamour shots Introduction The problem False starts True starts The fourth button Conclusion Download Appendix: Installing Seeeduino Xiao into the Arduino IDE Glamour shots (§) Introd…

Back to writing [electronics] [today_i_did_this] Recharging a cell phone battery outside of the phone Here is a Motorola C139 cell phone from about 2008.

Back to writing Sending emails to myself In April, I wrote operatornotify.py, a module which allows my programs to notify me of important information or errors.

Back to writing Sublime Text as EDITOR I use Sublime Text as my EDITOR environment variable and as my git editor.

Back to writing [life] Not Just Bikes In May of 2021 I discovered the youtube channel Not Just Bikes, and immediately watched the whole thing.

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Back to writing IPFS misconceptions Table of contents Introduction IPFS is not a place you upload to, it's a network you're a part of IPFS does not force others to host your files IPFS is not anonymous or "dark web" IPFS's copywriting is bad Introduction…

Back to writing [electronics] Assembling the Nearer keyboard Table of contents Glamour shots Introduction Quick links Designing the layout Switches & caps Microcontroller Designing the switchplate Designing the wiring matrix Building the firmware Arrival…

Back to writing [journalism] A professionally written article By voussoir | April 24 2021 some time in the afternoon | 538 words | 505 spaces | 70 punctuation | 8 legs | 10 minute read for slow readers | 5 minute read for fast readers | 1 minute read for…

Back to writing How to run an SSH, SFTP server from Termux Table of contents "Almost all" Initial setup Password auth Keyfile auth Homescreen shortcut With Syncthing in one hand and Termux in the other, you can do almost all of your pc-phone file transfer…

Back to writing Saturday, September 10000, 1993 In September 1993, AOL brought Usenet access to the general public.

Back to writing Android and the curious case of notification orthogonality Table of contents The situation What a mess!

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Back to writing Master of my domain Table of contents Introduction Prefer portable over installers With installers, always choose your directory Separate subdirectories for each version Use 'latest' junctions for program shortcuts Reserve PATH for nobility

Back to writing RSS from private multireddits The RSS URL for a multireddit is https://www.reddit.com/user/username/m/multiname/new.rss.

Back to writing Download your podcasts Table of contents Introduction Downloading Tagging Cutting ads Listen & enjoy Introduction (§) Over the past year or two, more and more podcasts have been moving to Spotify and pulling their material from their other…

Back to writing Youtube-dl format code cheatsheet Table of contents Video formats AVC only VP9 only AV1 only 4320p only 2160p only 1440p only 1080p only 720p only 480p only 360p only 240p only 144p only 60fps only 30fps only Audio formats Combined formats…

Back to writing [today_i_did_this] Mobile homepage.html I'm not satisfied with the new tab page on Android Chrome.