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Oracle has a very generous free tier that comes with dozens of fully loaded footguns.

I keep investigating software and then losing track of it so I figure I might as well write it down somewhere.

I spent a decade writing small fibonacci numbers in issue trackers (from 6-person startups to Google) in service of sprint planning.

A bunch of people have been writing replacements for CLI tools.

Getting off Google Photos and onto Immich got surprisingly involved.

When you think about memory usage, usually you're trying to reduce it.

The current state of penetrating the Great Firewall is basically what you'd expect: a bunch of half-abandoned projects with partially written documentation.

While contemplating what image format I should use for an image gallery (answer: webp avif), I stumbled upon loading="lazy".

You've got a python process that runs another process and waits for it to finish.

A common question I field is something along the lines of "what is wrong with this redirect/HTTPS certificate/header?"

In python, you can create your own class and stick instances of it in a set or use them as keys of a dict without overriding any dunder methods.

Battle.net 2 issues ago, I talked about how important IE6 was to the formative years of my programming experience.

Symantec, Comodo, Honest Achmed Last week, we talked about how YouTube helped kill IE6.

How YouTube Helped Kill IE6 When I am old and have grandkids, I'm going to regale them with stories of IE6 compatibility.

Welcome to the inaugural issue/volume/post of Computer Stuff!

How do I make my computer do lots of things fast (especially if the computer runs Linux and the things are being done in Python)?

Definition When a story ends on a happy note for the sake of ending on a happy note in contrast to everything the plot had built up, cheapening everything that happened before.

The SC2 campaign was neutered and I am bitter about it.

(This post has an update from August 4, 2016 at the bottom.)

I upgraded openssh-server to 6.9p1-1 and was no longer able to connect with PieTTY (and PuTTY).

There are two things every web framework needs: a deceptively short "hello, world!"

In #learnprogramming on Freenode, someone came in with this question:

But notify-osd/notification-daemon!

Motivation GitHub doesn't let you host private repositories for free.

Linode has 2 forms of e-mail:

This is just going to be a rundown of my e-mail set up.

Background Font rendering is hard.