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2026 15

  1. Installing Gentoo on a 2019 T2 Mac Pro with ZFS
  2. Technology
  3. Game Reviews: Dave the Diver, Ghost of Yōtei, Pragmata and Lara Croft Go
  4. Gaming
  5. Liberating a PlayStation 5
  6. Game Reviews: Firewatch, Hitman Go and Leisure Suit Larry 6
  7. The End of Physical Media and The PS4 Pirate Pro
  8. The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems
  9. Experimenting with Lazy Spec Driven Development
  10. The Fable of Mythos
  11. When was the last time RAM was this expensive?
  12. 80 TB of RAIDZ Storage
  13. Search the Past
  14. Politics
  15. 2026 Will be the Year of Wars

2025 26

  1. IF-ERGO Keyboard
  2. Banned in Real Life
  3. Cryptocurrency, Collapsing Governments and Captain James T. Kirk
  4. Transgender Shooters, Flags and Troop Deployments
  5. Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
  6. The Purism Librem 5 and the Six Year Refund
  7. How Large Scale Protest Organizers Can Build Big Tech Surveillance Networks of their Participants
  8. Fixing Yum Indexing on Sonatype Nexus and the Non-Open-Source Upgrade
  9. Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License
  10. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  11. The Broken Fediverse
  12. Neva
  13. Dangerous Escalations and the Division of America
  14. Elon and Trump Kayfabe while Trillions are Approved by an Illiterate Congress
  15. The Great Decline of Stack Overflow
  16. Hogwarts Legacy
  17. From Docker and Nix to Apps and Floppy Disks
  18. How to Play Videos in HDR on Linux for a Home Theater
  19. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
  20. Miscellaneous
  21. Prentice Cooper - April 2025 - Off-road
  22. Kobo, Kindle and PocketBook: A Tale of Three e-Readers
  23. Donating to Things that Matter
  24. Bibliobunny: A Tool for Extracting eBook Highlights From Kindle and Play Books
  25. Free Speech, Fires and Terrorism
  26. 2025 Is the Year of Psychological Operations

2024 25

  1. Adventures and Custom Repositories in Void Linux
  2. Sony Xperia 1 V
  3. On The Shooting of CEOs and Psychological Operations
  4. Who Archives the Archivist?
  5. Trump Derangement Syndrome Runs Both Ways
  6. The Disappearing Videos of YouTube
  7. WRX Wheels: Enkei PF05 18x8.5
  8. Adventures in Hyprland
  9. Sea of Stars
  10. I Rarely Do a Fresh Install of Linux: Copying Linux Between Machines
  11. Updating the Lighting on my 2006 Subaru WRX
  12. Replacing a Dell Inspiron with a Framework Laptop
  13. Aiming for America's Ear
  14. Stellar Blade
  15. Goodbye Viva Frei, Robert Barnes and Steven Crowder
  16. Archiving Locals Content
  17. Every Tablet I've Ever Owned
  18. dav-xmpp-sync v1.2.0 Release
  19. W-Ergo Split Keyboard
  20. Extracting my old Delicious Bookmarks
  21. Tennessee Emergency Alerts Redirect to a Facebook Page
  22. Building Compost Bins
  23. The Tragedy of Steven Crowder
  24. Game Reviews: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Eternights, Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, and Unicorn Overlord
  25. Game Reviews: Planet of Lana, Doki Doki Literature Club, Strikey Sisters and Persona 5 Royal

2023 14

  1. How Reddit Banned Ideas
  2. Philosophy
  3. Deconstructing Faith and Removing Retaining Walls
  4. Staining a Picnic Table
  5. Israel, Palestine and the Coming Genocide
  6. Game Reviews: Terra Nil, Final Fantasy XVI
  7. How to Ignore Notifications or Why I Don't Write As Much as I Use To
  8. Recent Keyboards: The Model M, Slice MK and Royal Kludge 84
  9. The Ballad of Steven Crowder
  10. The Mug Club Archivist
  11. Game Reviews: Fire Emblem Engage, Hi-Fi Rush, Ratchet and Clank: Rifts Apart, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
  12. Game Reviews: Ghost of Tsushima, Airborne Kingdom, NieR:Automata and A Plague Tale: Requiem
  13. Rack Mount Cluster of Raspberry Pis
  14. Kayne is the Ideal Democrat Candidate

2022 22

  1. Game Reviews: Sackboy A Big Adventure and God of War Ragnarök
  2. I try Sway/Wayland About Once a Year
  3. Game Reviews: Fire Emblem Three Houses, Journey, Far Changing Tides and Stray
  4. Wikipedia is a Source of Political Propaganda
  5. Goodbye to PayPal
  6. The Growing Fight Against Censorship on the Web
  7. Forgiving Student Debt is a Massive Wealth Transfer from the Poor to the Rich
  8. We Forgot about the Monkeys
  9. The New Political Prisoners of America
  10. How the Left Celebrate Death
  11. Cricket Wireless, AT&T and Planned Obsolescence
  12. There is no Safe Stance on Abortion
  13. The Coming Dot Com Bust and the Future of Remote Work
  14. Game Reviews: Carto and Far Cry 6
  15. Diversity Is a Litmus Test
  16. dav-xmpp-sync v1.0.0 Release
  17. Canada, Ukraine and the End of Democracy
  18. God Bless Canada, and the Truckers of the World
  19. The Georgia Guidestones
  20. We Were Never In This Together, But You Are Not Alone
  21. You Can't Vote with your Dollar
  22. The Most Important Supreme Court Decision of our Lifetimes

2021 34

  1. LinkedIn Silently Deleted Several of My Posts
  2. Game Reviews: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Cloudpunk
  3. Burning Witches
  4. Game Reviews: Frost Punk, LEGO Builder's Journey, Runner 3
  5. ZFS Woes, or how ZFS Saved Me From Data Corruption
  6. Upgrading OpenSMTPD 6.3 and Running E-mail in Docker
  7. Lineage with microG on a Sony XA2
  8. Far Cry New Dawn
  9. Setting up IPv6 on a Linux Router
  10. Legacy Media
  11. Installing Void Linux with a Serial Terminal
  12. Gaming System Upgrades
  13. Docker with IPv6 and Network Isolation
  14. Vaccines and the 737-MAX 8
  15. The Stillness of the Wind
  16. The End of Medical Privacy
  17. Lithium City
  18. Far Cry 4
  19. Untested
  20. SuperHot
  21. A Year without a Mask
  22. Moving my phone numbers from Google Hangouts/Voice to an SIP/XMPP Service
  23. Parler is a Dumb Platform
  24. You'll Find Me, I Promise
  25. Biden is the Weakest President to Ever Take Office
  26. Backup Your Social Media Accounts
  27. This Website is Shadow Banned From Hacker News
  28. Facebook is Openly Hostile to Smaller Platforms
  29. Cyberpunk 2077
  30. Google Maps Gets Worse with Every Release
  31. Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  32. Read From the Bottom
  33. Final Fantasy VII Remake
  34. The Fracturing of the Human Mind

2020 31

  1. Matrix: One Chat Protocol to Rule Them All
  2. Is Meaningful Section 230 Reform Possible?
  3. The Return of American Corruption
  4. Who Will Lead Us From War
  5. The Solution to Big Tech Isn't Legislation, It's Technology
  6. Alpine Linux with Full Disk Encryption
  7. Culture War Radio: The Battle Penguin
  8. Adding an NVME hard drive caused an iaStorAC.sys SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION
  9. Building a Small Form Factor Storage Server (NAS)
  10. Why I No Longer Hate America
  11. Mexico's Independence Day - Chicago, IL
  12. Why I No Longer Hate the Police
  13. Poetry
  14. Do Not Enter
  15. Opening Night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee
  16. Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
  17. Back the Blue - Homan Square, Chicago
  18. CHAZ, Seattle and the Mob
  19. Plants and Soil Sensors
  20. Secondary Effects
  21. A History of my Mechanical Keyboards
  22. War is Hell
  23. social distancing
  24. Fighting with the Data
  25. All Corona All the Time
  26. COVID-19 is Two Diseases
  27. RSS: The Original Federated Social Network Protocol
  28. Replacing Okta Verify with Open Source Software
  29. Every Cellphone I've Ever Owned
  30. Comedians are not Philosophers
  31. Microservices and Biological Systems

2019 17

  1. Mindful Meditation is not for Everyone
  2. Facebook and the Silent Bob Effect
  3. Nihilism Gets a Bad Rap
  4. A History of Personal and Professional Websites
  5. Voat: What Went Wrong?
  6. Preferred Gender Pronouns
  7. Everything about the one is wrong
  8. Pick from a list
  9. Twitter is Trying to Erase the Past
  10. Give me a page of your life
  11. It's not just another love song
  12. The Death of the Mom and Pop e-Store
  13. The gunshot rang out
  14. Mahogany drive
  15. I have trouble imagining
  16. True friends
  17. Rooting a Razer Phone Requires a USB 2.0 Link

2018 17

  1. Louqe Ghost S1 Build and Review
  2. Using Custom CSS with Mastodon
  3. Outrage and Distractions: The Case of Kavanaugh and Ford
  4. The Decline of OpenID
  5. I paid $180 for Headphones that only lasted Two Years
  6. This is Just a Simulation
  7. Does Love Really Conquer All, or is Love a Finite Resource?
  8. Exclusive Inclusivity
  9. My Love Hate Relationship with Docker and Container Orchestration Systems
  10. Bee2 In Production: IPv6, HAProxy and Docker
  11. OpenBSD, SpamPD and the Startup Bug
  12. Upgrading the SSD on an MSI GS60 Laptop
  13. Facebook, Politics and Orwell's 24/7 Hate
  14. Tech Culture Shock: From America to the South Pacific, and Seattle to Chicago
  15. Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes
  16. Linux on a MacBook Pro 14,3
  17. Everyone is doing that thing

2017 26

  1. Bee2: Automating HAProxy and LetsEncrypt with Docker
  2. Exploration
  3. Password Algorithms
  4. Bee2: Creating a Small Infrastructure for Docker Apps
  5. A Tale of Two Journeys
  6. The New Era of Corporate Censorship
  7. Drunk Dancing
  8. Bee2: Wrestling with the Vultr API
  9. Cloud at Cost Part II: The Unsustainable Business Model
  10. Say goodbye before you leave
  11. A Father Tells His Son
  12. Race to the Bottom
  13. Return to Minimalism
  14. Leaving Full Time Jobs
  15. Pop Songs in the Shower
  16. A Day Like Any Other
  17. How Patreon is Disrupting YouTube and other Ad Supported Services
  18. Taking a Sabbatical
  19. The American Banking System is Still in the 1990s
  20. America and the Mexican Drug Trade
  21. Returning to America and the (Un)Affordable Care Act
  22. We were waiting for summer
  23. At Rest
  24. All Trump, All The Time
  25. H.R. 170 Will Allow Large Companies to Consolidate Talent in the Tech Industry
  26. The Fallout of American Anger

2016 22

  1. Self Driving Cars Will Not Solve the Transportation Problem
  2. Developer Workstation PC Build
  3. Installing Mesosphere DC/OS on Small Digital Ocean Droplets
  4. Does Voting Make a Difference?
  5. Building a Thin-ITX Router
  6. Review: ClearFog Pro
  7. Banana Pi BPI-R1 Fails Into an Insecure State
  8. 4k/UHD KVM Switches: The StarTech SV231MDPU2 and the IOGear GCS62DP
  9. Using the Banana Pi BPI-R1 as a Router With Bananian
  10. Aspell and Hunspell: A Tale of Two Spell Checkers
  11. Windows 10 Update KB3176493: All My Drivers Disappeared
  12. The Philosophy of Open Source in Community and Enterprise Software
  13. ScalaTest: BeforeAndAfterAll Does Not Work
  14. If you ever feel like a weed
  15. The people I've met
  16. Android Fragmentation: Why the Firmware Model Doesn't Work for General Purpose Operating Systems
  17. There's an iOS device attached to my Google account and I don't own any Apple products
  18. Running a LG 31MU97 on Linux at 4096x2160 at 60Hz
  19. The Battle of Tor
  20. Minimalism
  21. Sanders and Hillary: The Continuation of the American Dynasty
  22. Propaganda and Cinema

2015 15

  1. Jekyll 3 and Foundation 6
  2. How Google and Microsoft made E-mail Unreliable
  3. The Paris Bombing: a Familiar Narrative?
  4. Loyalty
  5. Removing Footnotes from Excerpts in Jekyll
  6. Kogalymavia Flight 9268: Propaganda in the Making
  7. Exporting Wordpress Comments to Jekyll
  8. Paint the Sky with Clouds
  9. PulseAudio Volume Keyboard and Mouse Bindings
  10. Jekyll Unsanitize
  11. Context
  12. Embed Tomcat In Your Application
  13. Refugee Propaganda and the War in Syria
  14. MSI-WS60 running Linux
  15. Wellington is the kind of place

2014 11

  1. Fate and Destiny
  2. Love is all around you
  3. Her (Matariki Slam)
  4. Freezing a Hard Drive
  5. Stories
  6. Cincinnati is like eggs
  7. I use to love superman
  8. Young Musicians
  9. I Will Love You
  10. Time, Money, Love
  11. Serenity

2013 19

  1. Awkward
  2. I fell in like with you
  3. Review: Cloud at Cost
  4. Discoverying Friend List Changes on Facebook with Python
  5. Dear girl
  6. Syria
  7. I, Spy
  8. Removing the Tracking Image from Alfresco
  9. LtSense – Using Embedded Python for Sensor Networks, Wellington Python User Group
  10. dyject – Python Dependency Injection
  11. oggfolder2mp3
  12. Blues
  13. Big Sense: REST Web Services in Scala for Sensor Networks, Wellington Java User Group
  14. Rear View Mirror v1.0 Released
  15. Invalid partition table in VMWare ESX
  16. Copy Reddit Subscriptions from One Account to Another
  17. Connection
  18. Evangelism
  19. The Basics

2012 10

  1. Trapped in the Cubical
  2. Created Equal
  3. Reassigning DNS Entries in Windows/Active Directory using Powershell
  4. How Social Media Destroyed my Generation
  5. Selective Hearing and the Petrodollar
  6. Signature Verification Between Java and Python
  7. RearViewMirror 0.8.9.3 Released
  8. Legality
  9. Making the Thunderbird mail icon more useful on MacOS
  10. It was a bit of a letdown

2011 7

  1. Shopping
  2. RearViewMirror 0.8.8.6 Released
  3. Storing Shibboleth IDP Logs in a Database with IP Addresses
  4. Installing subversion on SuSE Enterprise Server 10
  5. Handling Grace Logins from Novell e-Directory in Shibboleth
  6. Modifying uApprove for Microsoft SQL
  7. The Non-theists Wager

2010 17

  1. Military
  2. Police
  3. Defined by Religion
  4. Change and Growth
  5. Doubt
  6. Pale Blue Dot
  7. Happiness
  8. On Love, In Sadness
  9. Afterlife
  10. Heaven
  11. Psychosis
  12. Time
  13. My Account’s Been Hacked (No It Hasn’t)
  14. Running Beans Locally that use Application Server Data Sources
  15. Building Java EAR files using Ant
  16. Java’s Checked Exceptions
  17. Disappointed with Zend’s PHP5 Certification

2009 10

  1. TweeFlood
  2. A Public Option With Prayer and Without Abortion
  3. Installing Awstats on a Media Temple grid-server (gs)
  4. Winter at Lula Lake
  5. Season Song – Kaiser Cartel
  6. Okay – Kaiser Cartel (ft. Winterpills)
  7. nVidia’s Hardware H.264 (1080p) codec for Linux
  8. 1080 Video in Linux with CoreAVC
  9. The Rescue of Eric Holder
  10. TVA Coal

2008 35

  1. Upgrading the MacBook
  2. Guide for New WordPressMu Administrators
  3. Joe Lance for Chattanooga
  4. Vigil for Troy Anthony Davis
  5. Congressman Wamp and the Bailout
  6. Rear View Mirror 0.8.8.1 Released
  7. GM and Ford will be the new RCA and Zenith
  8. Tennessee River Gorge Explorer
  9. Federal Reserve Bank Protest in Atlanta
  10. Rear View Mirror 0.8.6 Released
  11. Honor Thy Soldier
  12. Sequatchie Valley Institute and Mountain Top Removal
  13. Obamanation
  14. Vote for Nobody
  15. Who Ownes US Debt?
  16. The Cost of the Bailout
  17. Coming Home
  18. McCain’s Honor
  19. Hoping for the Apocalypse
  20. Martin Luther King and the War
  21. Perceived Economic Crisis
  22. Troy Davis: A Stay of Execution
  23. Wiped off the Map
  24. Casey Anthony in Context
  25. Protests at the Conventions
  26. Breaking the Multi-Colored Box
  27. The Fantasy of Al-Qaeda
  28. Agree or Rise
  29. Russia Attacks Georgia
  30. Converting oggs to mp3s
  31. Simple Fours Problem
  32. Scripts
  33. Billary Explains It All
  34. Web Portfolio
  35. Rear View Mirror 0.8.5 Released

2007 16

  1. Rear View Mirror 0.8.1 Released
  2. Rear View Mirror Initial Release
  3. Diagnostics and the Infinite Loop
  4. BlueHost is a Failure at Customer Service
  5. The Search for Real News
  6. Standing for Torture
  7. Laura E Walker
  8. Chattanooga Dance Inc Redesign
  9. Universal Health Care
  10. MplayerBuddy 0.51 Release
  11. MplayerBuddy 0.5 Beta Release
  12. Projects Back On-line
  13. Uninstalling U3 from Flash Drives
  14. Assignment Updates
  15. RAID 5 Rebuild
  16. Welcome Back Cotter

Undated 11

  1. copy_reddit
  2. RearViewMirror
  3. Bmcb
  4. Scripts
  5. Gentoo Package Updating
  6. lnSponge
  7. Email Script
  8. Web Portfolio
  9. MplayerBuddy
  10. assignments
  11. portfolio