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207 from 28 Jun 2016 to 26 Oct 2026
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2026 10

  1. 1984: The Canadian Edition
  2. The Forge Wars
  3. OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year
  4. So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish
  5. Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  6. Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60
  7. Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM
  8. Snail Mail Sign-Ups
  9. DIY Home Network with OpenBSD, OpenWrt, and Pi-hole
  10. Liberating the ASUS CX1100CN Chromebook with OpenBSD

2025 14

  1. Hyperlinks Should Have Context
  2. Thoughts on Technological Purity
  3. Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8
  4. What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me
  5. My OpenBSD Home Network Setup
  6. Setup Mullvad VPN on OpenBSD via WireGuard
  7. Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
  8. Starlink, OpenWrt, and Eeros... Oh My!
  9. Creating a Basic Status Page on NearlyFreeSpeech
  10. Setup an OpenBSD VM on macOS Using UTM
  11. Mac Apps That Bring Me Joy
  12. Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site
  13. Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME
  14. Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to SourceHut

2024 17

  1. Deliver the Bare Minimum
  2. Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
  3. Vertical Tabs in Safari
  4. Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git
  5. Burning and Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
  6. "This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
  7. Perspective
  8. Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
  9. Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
  10. Fixing Jekyll's dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD
  11. Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5
  12. Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech
  13. OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
  14. Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
  15. Website Backups with Apple iCloud
  16. New Domain and Code Forge
  17. My Text Edtior is Not Open Source

2023 22

  1. Switching Things Over to ikiwiki
  2. Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
  3. The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
  4. Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
  5. Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
  6. Blogging for 7 Years
  7. Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
  8. Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
  9. My Robotic Mower Woes
  10. Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
  11. Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
  12. Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
  13. Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux
  14. Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
  15. HTML Dark Mode
  16. Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
  17. Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
  18. Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
  19. Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos
  20. Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
  21. Dynamic Viewports with CSS
  22. My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee

2022 35

  1. I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
  2. Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
  3. Building openring with Jekyll Build
  4. Do You Have an Extra $10?
  5. Embracing Slow Tech
  6. Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
  7. Never Do Spec Work for Free
  8. Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
  9. Avoiding Featurism
  10. Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
  11. RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box
  12. Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
  13. Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
  14. Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
  15. A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
  16. Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
  17. Looping Through Jekyll Collections
  18. Making a Website Under 1kB
  19. Hosting with Codeberg Pages
  20. The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
  21. Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
  22. Happily Paying For macOS Apps
  23. Clickable Links Inside XML
  24. Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
  25. RSS Hacks With XSLT
  26. Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
  27. This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
  28. Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
  29. My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers
  30. Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
  31. Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
  32. February 2022 Update
  33. My Cheapskate Commenting System
  34. Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
  35. Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

2021 27

  1. Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
  2. Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
  3. Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
  4. Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
  5. Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
  6. A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
  7. Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
  8. Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
  9. Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
  10. Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
  11. Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
  12. Sharing The Things We Use
  13. PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
  14. CSS Slope Graphs
  15. SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
  16. My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
  17. Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
  18. 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
  19. Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
  20. The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
  21. Click to Load Website Images
  22. Introducing PageRoast
  23. ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
  24. Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
  25. Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
  26. Introducing Notez
  27. Animated Radio Tab Toggles

2020 24

  1. Disabling Comments in WordPress
  2. Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
  3. Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
  4. Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
  5. Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
  6. Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
  7. Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
  8. Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
  9. Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
  10. My Raspberry Pi Desktop
  11. Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
  12. Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
  13. Improving Github's New Design
  14. Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
  15. Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
  16. Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
  17. Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
  18. Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
  19. WP Enqueue for Beginners
  20. Faking 3D Elements with CSS
  21. Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
  22. Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
  23. How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
  24. Web Development on a $200 Chromebook

2019 38

  1. Billing for One CSS Change
  2. Very Basic Form Styling
  3. Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
  4. Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
  5. Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
  6. Plain Text Emails, Please
  7. Dynamic Checkboxes
  8. Styling Empty Table Cells
  9. Using HTML Validator Badges Again
  10. They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
  11. Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
  12. Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
  13. Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
  14. Write HTML Like It's 1999
  15. Using User-Select
  16. News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
  17. Text Align: Justify
  18. Improving Receipt UX
  19. Cut Your Forms in Half
  20. First Letter Pseudo Element
  21. Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
  22. CSS Character Unit
  23. Browser History Sucks
  24. Yes, I Still Use jQuery
  25. CSS Value: `currentColor`
  26. CSS: Indenting Text
  27. Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
  28. Skip to Content Button
  29. Prescription Form UI Improvements
  30. Animated Card Tiles
  31. Easy Toggle Switches
  32. Super Mario Blocks in CSS
  33. Proper UI Hierarchy
  34. Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
  35. Easy Custom Radio Inputs
  36. Basic Gulp Build for Sass
  37. Better Box Shadows
  38. Over-Nesting

2018 13

  1. Using Parent Selectors in CSS
  2. Width or Flex-Basis?
  3. Adaptable Flexbox Grid
  4. What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
  5. Using Multiple CSS Background Images
  6. Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
  7. Simple Accessibility
  8. Setting Up a Free SSL
  9. CSS Video Backgrounds
  10. CSS Variables
  11. Stay Hungry
  12. Open Source Typeface Pairings
  13. ET-Jekyll Theme

2017 5

  1. Chasing Performance
  2. The Death of Personality
  3. Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
  4. Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
  5. Designers Need Thicker Skin

2016 2

  1. The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
  2. Aqua UI CSS Buttons