decryption's blog

Old man yells at car manufacturers

When 1Password doesn't scratch your itch, what's a nerd to do?

As Rage Against The Machine wisely said, know your enemy.

This is what happens when you set up eBay alerts for refurbished servers within 100km of your postcode.

Handy info about setting up & maintaining a self-hosted Discourse forum from someone that's done it for years.

It's hot, I'm bored, I found these on the Powerhouse Museum's website and I think they're cool as hell

I spent the last few months figuring out if I can achieve FIRE - Financial Independence, Retire Early - here's some notes and thoughts on the topic of personal finance and investing.

People say that keeping your money in a savings account means you aren't keeping up with inflation, so you're losing money.

You'd think fourteen computers would be enough for one person, but you'd be wrong.

ACMI cooked up a new video game exhibition, so of course I went and had a look.

Exploring The Internet by Carl Malamud, Weaving The Web by Tim Berners-Lee, Internet Phone Book (Issue One) by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K.

The Internet Archive is missing a few dozen issues of Australian Personal Computer magazine.

The Sangean DPR-35 can receive electromagnetic waves that when modulated and passed through a series of integrated circuits to a speaker, result in sound.

LaserWriter II, Uncanny Valley, Stasiland, Conspiracy Nation.

I did not expect to shed tears while scanning old model railway magazines.

Took some pics of Rone & Callum Preston's art studio as part of Open House Melbourne 2025.