Art Chaidarun

Last week I emceed my friends’ wedding as a one-day marriage officiant.

When you see a statistic such as “75% of reviewers liked this movie”, you can’t help but wonder whether there were only four reviewers.

I’m not picky and I promise that I’m always equally down for any of the options below.

An exercise in hyperoptimizing my daily life.

I just spent 34 days walking the Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage route that starts in France and runs 800 km across Spain to the tomb of St.

While noodling around on guitar as the year wraps up, I thought of the song Auld Lang Syne and—to my pleasant surprise—banged out a fully formed fingerstyle arrangement in one go.

Here’s exactly what I did to set up my own firstname@lastname.com email address in Gmail, allowing me to seamlessly use that new address with my existing Gmail account: This process takes an hour or two and costs around $10/year.

Here’s a gratuitously detailed rundown of some of my software choices.

I’ve been continuously recording my daily activities by hand since I was 17, amounting to 85,000+ activities over the span of a decade.

I want calls to ring audibly, and I want notifications to vibrate silently.

My Kasa HS103 smart plugs arrived today, and I felt an uncontrollable urge to control them via API.

After brief forays into LilyPond and TuxGuitar (and a failed attempt at running Guitar Pro in Wine), I’ve settled on MuseScore for my guitar tabbing needs.

Yesterday I had the deranged pleasure of writing 1000+ lines of cross-platform Bash, which got me thinking that I could probably save myself some unnecessary googling and/or decision-making in future projects by documenting my stylistic choices and the re…

I needed to connect a Linux client to an L2TP/IPsec VPN using shared secret (a.k.a. pre-shared key) authentication, but every online guide I could find was inaccurate and/or incomplete.

Dropbox is convenient, but there are several reasons why you might want to drop it: You feel uneasy about handing sensitive personal info to strangers You find the Dropbox client too resource hungry or invasive You don’t want to pay for storage beyond the…

The guitalele is a miniature guitar built like a ukulele, and it should be your next—or even first—musical instrument.

This page is a living document intended to save time for my future self in case the same issues ever crop up again.

Bilingual dictionaries are some of the most valuable tools for learning natural languages like French.

Although Webpack is a popular tool that’s generally pretty decent at gluing together the mess of “modern” web development, fixing its browser caching mechanism has become a rite of passage fraught with uncertainty and frustration.