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43 from 27 Jan 2022 to 8 Apr 2026
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2026 4

  1. Spirit of Adventure
  2. The Less-Visible Cost of Being Transgender
  3. New Climbing Shoes
  4. Intersecting Interests

2025 16

  1. Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
  2. Managing ADHD
  3. I Bought an iPad
  4. Book Review: Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
  5. Book Review: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
  6. Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  7. Ten Pointless Facts About Me
  8. Fixing Inaccessible Tailscale Services on my Phone
  9. On Diaster Recovery
  10. The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items
  11. I Have Concerns About My Music Consumption
  12. Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? And Why Is One Track Missing?
  13. How Much I Pay to Have a Website
  14. Breaking my Security Assignments
  15. Intel Will Send You Stickers at an Oddly High Cost to Them
  16. Books I Read in 2024

2024 9

  1. Overengineering a Way to Cheat at an Exam
  2. Writing a Caddy Plugin is Surprisingly Easy
  3. Shedding Extra Complexity and Shipping Side Projects
  4. Making QMK easier to use with Git submodules
  5. Mirroring Repositories to Gitlab
  6. Creating Hilarity on April Fools Using Discord, Python and Google Translate
  7. Playing With Certificate Transparency
  8. This Site Blocks AI
  9. Adventures at FOSDEM

2023 5

  1. RailMiles
  2. UK Games Expo 2023 Highlights
  3. Moving From a Dual-Boot to a Mono-Boot Linux Installation
  4. Running a Minecraft Server
  5. Making My Macropad QMK-Enabled

2022 9

  1. CircuitBodge
  2. I Tracked Everything I Read on the Internet for a Year
  3. Offloading Work to GitHub Actions
  4. Now With Ansible!
  5. Planning a Search Engine
  6. The Modern Web Sucks
  7. A fix for broken st emojis in Linux Mint
  8. Modifying Gnome Terminal settings without a menu
  9. Adding indicator LEDs to a Let's Split keyboard