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- 540 from 2 May 2022 to 15 Oct 2026
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- VERDICT: Happiness
- Death Stranding (2019)
- Wandering mind
- I hate battle of wits anime
- Internet works best in small dosages
- the full writings list →
- I'm ok with generated art
- No more RSS
- Apple TV Double Feature
- The first Dune Trilogy
- Attention Test - The Godfather Trilogy
- Lovecraft Would Be Proud - Golding's Lord of the Flies
- Two SciFi books - Dangerous Planet and Moutain in the Sea
- Simulating linear TV for The Kid
- Dilvish, the Damned (Roger Zelazny, 1981)
- Star Trek: Voyager 07x02 - Imperfection
- The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas, père, 1844)
- Updates Q1/2026
- Dark Force Rising (Timothy Zahn, 1992)
- The Black Tulip (Alexandre Dumas, père, 1850)
- Judgement (2018)
- Onigiri!
- MCP is a terribe solution to a solved problem
- Tender Is the Night (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1934)
- The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett, 1986)
- Heir to the Empire (Timothy Zahn, 1991)
- Blue Prince (2025)
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Bigme HiBreak S B&W
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
- Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke, 1973)
- Appleseed (Masamune Shirow, 1985)
- Big Ship, Lots Of Guns (John Wilker, 2018)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
- Free as in Freedom (Sam Wiliams, 2002)
- My new mobile phone
- What I mean when I say that I hate GenAI
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
- RTE - Return to Emacs
- This site is now on Gemini
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
- The Adventures of Wil Calder (John Wilker, 2018)
- Gamer Mode 2026
- Dead Man (1995)
- Night on Earth (1991)
- btw, I have aphantasia
- Best games of last 25 years according to AGHS
- Black Magic M-66 (1987)
- Dolores Claiborne (Stephen King, 1992)
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- Appleseed (1988)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 2)
- The Metaphor Detox Centre (Sheng Keyi, 2018)
- Defending AI
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1)
- Atlantis: The Lost Tales (1997)
- Star Trek: Voyager 07x01 - Unimatrix Zero (part 2)
- The House of a Hundred Whispers (Graham Masterton, 2020)
- The Darkside Detective (2017)
- The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin, 1974)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x25 - Unimatrix Zero (part 1)
- Vacuum boy
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (1996)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x25 - The Haunting of Deck Twelve
- The Word for World Is Forest (Ursula Le Guin, 1972)
- Channeling my inner grandpa
- Practical Vim (Drew Neil, 2015)
- Foolish Mortals (2025)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x23 - Fury
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x24 - Life Line
- NieR: Automata (2017)
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin, 1969)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x21 - Live Fast and Prosper
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x22 - Muse
- Internet is far from being dead
- City of Illusions (Ursula Le Guin, 1967)
- Masto-mailo-Inator 0.2.0 Released
- Masto-mailo-Inator 0.1.2 Released
- Masto-mailo-inator
- Masto-mailo-inator 0.1.1 Released
- NAS drive failure
- Planet of Exile (Ursula Le Guin, 1966)
- The pentanumerus post
- The big four-oh
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x20 - Good Shepherd
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x19 - Child's Play
- Rocannon's World (Ursula Le Guin, 1966)
- How did Microsoft start?
- New engine, who dis?
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera, 1984)
- Mystery Train (1989)
- Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The (Philip K. Dick, 1965)
- Alien: Earth (Season 1)
- Emoji
- Down by Law (1986)
- Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett, 1983)
- Prague, Czech Republic
- My son's second computer game
- Alien: Romulus (2024)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x17 - Spirit Folk
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x18 - Ashes to Ashes
- Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut, 1982)
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (2024)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x16 - Collective
- Spy X Family: Code White (2023)
- My son's first computer game
- My Software Philosophy
- L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy, 1990)
- Claude Code
- Stranger than Paradise (1984)
- The X-Files 01x05 - Jersey Devil
- The X-Files 01x06 - Shadows
- The X-Files 01x04 - Conduit
- The thrill is gone
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880)
- The X-Files 01x01 - Pilot
- The X-Files 01x02 - Deep Throat
- The X-Files 01x03 - Squeeze
- The Joke (Milan Kundera, 1967)
- Permanent Vacation (1980)
- War with the Newts (Karel Čapek, 1936)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x14 - Memorial
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x15 - Tsunkatse
- Bologna, Italy
- Bedford, UK
- Michigan, Indiana, USA
- Vouzela, Portugal
- Nuremberg, Germany
- A better age verification for the EU
- State College, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sopranos (1999-2007)
- Burmese Days (George Orwell, 1934)
- Reportaże afrykańskie (Bogdan Szczygieł, 1986)
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Yoru Sumino, 2015)
- Chaga (Ian McDonald, 1995)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
- A few more things lack of phone borough me
- Ethics Primer (Karol Wojtyła, 1982)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy, 1886)
- The Witcher 3 Expansion Pack: Blood and Wine (2015)
- Mary Shelly on Alchemy
- To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
- It was that damn phone
- The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel (1992)
- Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza (Robert M. Wegner, 2009)
- I was relegated to the couch
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie, 1925)
- The bestest torrent of all time
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 09. assembly proves itself to be a worthy challenger
- A quote from Stanisław Lem
- GenAI is not speech
- Hear! Hear! All ye who would lend ear, listen
- Crysis avoided
- Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997)
- News overload
- The Other Wind (Ursula Le Guin, 2001)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x13 - Virtuoso
- The Internet's Own Boy (2014)
- No more heroes
- There are not good big tech companies left
- My Emacs config
- Three years of blogging
- Tales from Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin, 2001)
- Moving my DNS to 1984
- I no longer listen to music on the go
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 08. sprites and segments
- Tehanu (Ursula Le Guin, 1990)
- Ponyo (2008)
- The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Links for Wednesday, 2025-05-07
- The Catbus
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Blog Questions Challenge: Ten Pointless Facts About Me
- Creamy Emacs
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 07. subroutines and branching
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 06. substracting number and other math
- The Farthest Shore (Ursula Le Guin, 1972)
- Souvenir from Japan
- Repositioning tech in my life
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 05. adding numbers
- A Lego pirate ship story
- Spring is here
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 04, how does the machine execute machine code?
- The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula Le Guin, 1970)
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 03. mnemonics, opcodes, pseudos, control commands, and tables
- The Technicolor Time Machine (Harry Harrison, 1967)
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 02. registers, memory, labels, constants, and numbers
- The Witcher 3 Expansion Pack: Hearts of Stone (2015)
- Commodore 64 Assembly: 01. Hello World and basic Emacs setup
- Links for Monday, 2025-04-14
- Myst (1993)
- Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (1993)
- My god! It's full of tags!
- Gwiazda, an Arthur C. Clarke's short story collection
- Fun Unix Fact: There are no cats in your terminal
- The Pariah (Graham Masterton, 1983)
- How little metal do you need?
- Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
- Lathe of Heaven, The (Ursula Le Guin, 1971)
- Goodbye, Eri (Tatsuki Fujimoto, 2022)
- My new air purifier
- Links for Thursday, 2025-04-03
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
- Look Back (Tatsuki Fujimoto, 2021)
- My new Emacs (and Ruby) based Static Site Generator
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x12 - Blink of an Eye
- Fixed RSS feed
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x11 - Fair Heaven
- Hello to my new-new-new-new blog
- Blog moved
- Ghibli: the latest victim of Altmanizations
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin, 1968)
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- I stopped writing alt-text to most images here
- Links for Wednesday, 2025-03-19
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x10 - Pathfinder
- New Atlantis (Ursula Le Guin, 1975)
- The Brutalist (2024)
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x09 - The Voyager Conspiracy
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x08 - One Small Step
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x07 - Dragon's Teeth
- Les aveux infidèles (Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 1962)
- Re: A weekend paying for everything with cash
- Codeberg
- Conan (Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, 1967)
- Crossroads of Ravens (Andrzej Sapkowski, 2024)
- 50-50-1
- The Courts of Chaos (Roger Zelazny, 1978)
- Changes for 2025
- The phone tragedy
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x06 - Riddles
- Rambling about humanity, Star Trek and GenAI
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x05 - Alice
- Blue Giant (2023)
- Linkblog is now fully operational
- David Lynch has passed away
- CrysBuilder, the static site builder
- I may never buy a new electronic device ever again
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x04 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
- Monday Begins on Saturday (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1965)
- 2024 in retrospect
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- Armitage III (1995)
- LLMs are everything that it wrong in the world of computing
- New license plate frame
- Hiatus due to Advent of Code
- Things I care about: documentation
- Things I care about: stable APIs
- GenAI dealers and self awareness
- Moscow 2042 (Vladimir Voinovich, 1986)
- Chotto 0.1.1 Released
- Chotto 0.1.0 Released
- RE: Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch
- Useless things you may want to know: on the origin of "vi"
- Updated pages
- Lost keys
- Sir! We reinvent the wheel here!
- This site now has an IRC channel
- Hackers (1995)
- The Rock Paper Shotgun 100 and PC gaming
- Migration complete
- My old computer books
- Chotto 0.0.1 Released
- Digipacks
- joshua stein's website
- Back to Evil Mode
- MacOS X 2001-2024
- AI radio was straight out of a nightmare
- Upcoming books by Michael Lucas
- RE: Michał Sapka's new home
- Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you
- Docker free since 2024
- AI radio is straight out of a nightmare
- RFC1885 and "speaks for themselves"
- FLAME ON: web
- Email, again
- New Mastodon server
- Broken system
- Yey USA!
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x02 - Survival Instinct
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x01 - Equinox (part 2)
- Thomas the Transformer
- Notes on Star Trek
- My server is now a virtual machine
- Gatekeeping in tech
- A million Googles
- Disenshittify or die!
- We have failed computer journalism
- Hand of Oberon (Roger Zelazny, 1976)
- Another two websites moved
- Brain Rots moved
- Unix History moved
- I most definetelly should (self-host)!
- Should I self-host my site?
- Sign of the Unicorn (Roger Zelazny, 1975)
- Retro games are PC games for me
- the full now page →
- Multi OS life is terrible
- Replies to my last post about Youtube
- A desktop AND a NAS?
- Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, 1990)
- The Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny, 1972)
- Ruben's Retro Corner
- Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
- Microdosing Google Youtube
- Sneakers (1992)
- Mars Express (2023)
- Never invest in DRM-ed content
- Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970)
- Crowd Strike and single point of failure
- Grim Fandango (1998, 2020)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Free Software and the wrong crowd
- Roadside Picnic (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972)
- Sports ruin everything
- Even bionic implants are being abandoned by companies
- Computing happy
- Hard to be a God (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1964)
- The Rise and Fall of The Witcher
- Ladybird is a thing now
- Updated setup
- Federation is the one new concept which excites me
- Are the LLMs worth it?
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- LLM honeypot
- Yey EU
- User Friendly, daily
- Dead Man's Lettes (aka Lettes from a Dead Man, 1986)
- Running Man (1987)
- Looking for a new web browser
- From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
- New Blog
- Heaven Makers (Frank Herbert, 1967)
- Lady of the Lake (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1999)
- Yakuza 0 (2015)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Attack on Titan (2013-2023)
- History of Unix: 3. Forks and Wars
- Having fun with website: new Brain Rots
- Tower of the Swallow (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1997)
- Libraries
- Run Your Own Mail Server
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x26 - Equinox (part 1)
- Audio gear: my new old CD player
- Omake: A User Friendly archive
- Star Trek: Voyager 04x24 - Relativity
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x25 - Warhead
- Cyberpunk in design is back!
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x23 - 11:59
- Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
- Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days (1989)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x22 - Someone to Watch Over Me
- Why I run a BSD on a PC
- Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
- Baptism of Fire (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1996)
- Severance (Season 1)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x21 - Juggnaut
- BSDs may not be a system for you
- New homepage and breaking RSS
- Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Dune: Part One (2021)
- Patlabor: The Movie
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x20 - Think Tank
- OpenBSD 7.5 released
- AI is already used for genocide
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x18 - Course: Oblivion
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x19 - Fight
- Absolute FreeBSD (Michael W. Lucas, 2018)
- Time of Contempt (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1995)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x15 - Dark Frontier
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x17 - The Disease
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x14 - Bliss
- History of Unix: 2. Birth of Unix
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x13 - Gravity
- Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x12 - Bride of Chaotica!
- Full content in RSS
- Desk reveal 2024
- History of Unix: 1. Multics
- Persona 5: Strikers (2020)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x11 - Latent Image
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
- Send links to your friends and make the Web a better place
- Being a webmaster is freaking cool
- Audio formats
- Lawnmwer Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
- The Lawnmower Man (1992)
- Hardware (1990)
- STD of Apple
- Let me buy your stuff
- Wireless free since 2023
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- Music Monday: Owl Song 1 by Ambrose Akinmusire
- Phone usage and thoughts on Linux phone
- Books and their sizes
- Moved to Gitea
- I no longer love The Web
- Software devolution in the hands of Apple
- Hacking APIs
- 2600 magazine
- Links for week #01
- The Email Project
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- I have left Reddit
- My whys for Emacs
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x09 - Thirty Days
- On generative content
- Links for week 50: everything is not terrible edition
- One sentence per line
- Cybersecurity for Small Networks
- FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS
- Links for week 49: everything is terrible edition
- Ownership in the digital age
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x08 - Nothing Human
- My blog now has a blog
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x07 - Infinite Regress
- BSD is now a section
- Removed Plausible analytics
- Now on OpenBSD 7.4
- Removed tags and near future
- Tired of blogging
- Music Monday: So What from Four More
- Charybdis
- Fixing ThinkPad X1 WiFi on FreeBSD
- Moved to OpenBSD
- Reddit and the centralized web
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x06 - Timeless
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x05 - Once Upon a Time
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x04 - In the Flesh
- Human web
- Ch-ch-changes
- Fixing IPv6 and securing the domain
- Using RSS to stop YouTube homepage-induced damage
- Now served from IPv6
- Today in AI: OpenAI is drinking its own poison
- Keeping browser tabs to a minimum
- Eugen Rochko's nationality and propaganda
- Size of IPv6
- Mastodon has already won
- Augumented plain text
- tar is for tape drive
- FreeBSD 13.2 was released and broke my resume
- OpenBSD 7.3 was released today
- You've got mail
- Looom audiodrama
- Where is the interactive education
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- Music Monday: Marcin Wasilewski Trio
- Big tech is winning the web
- Receiving email
- How did phreaking work
- Desktop FreeBSD won't improve unless people are using it
- Music Monday: Tomasz Stanko - Terminal 7
- Rocking portale music like it's 2005
- A site about nothing
- Unix documentary from AT&T archives
- I love remote work and I am toying with FreeBSD jails
- re: Continuous productivity is toxic
- My gripes with AI
- systemd is fast
- Music Monday: Ibrahim Maalouf from 2013
- That ending scene from Kids on the Slope
- First time ZFS saved me
- A short update on my Workman layout experiment
- Follow this blog on Twitter
- FreeBSD on modern Intel WiFi cards and resume
- Pi day
- Music Monday: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
- It's near impossible to use NoScript but the future is bright
- That later scene from Kids on the Slope
- I still run local applications
- A new layout
- Always have the entire network in mind
- That scene from Kids on the Slope
- Music Monday: Wayne Shorter - Witch Hunt
- GTA V and lack of closure
- The thing I want but don't need
- Sucking at touching
- The OSes I use most often
- The true history of vi
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x03 - Extreme Risk
- Music Monday: Tomasz Stanko - Music for K
- Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
- RTX remakes
- ML is still a parlor trick
- FreeBSD on ThinkPad X1 Extreme G2
- AI generated artwork looses copyright protection
- Pulse width modulation on OLED screens
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x02 - Drone
- Interactive fiction in 2023 and Get Lamp
- re: On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
- Music Monday: John Coltrane - Giant Steps
- Making Gmail useful by removing modern Gmail
- Zork's original trilogy
- An entire month of posts
- FreeBSD early thoughts
- Foreshadowing in Gurren Lagann
- Music Monday: That one time when Iron Maiden played at a Polish wedding
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x01 - Night
- All hail my new TrackPoint overlord
- Openable laptops
- Seinfeld (Season 8)
- Joylessness of modern web design
- How I reignited my passion for computers
- Music Monday: MJ Hibbet & the Validators - Hey Hey 16K
- New domain, BSD, and sayonara memes
- Statistics are now public
- The worst part of Emacs after 3 weeks
- Seinfeld's apartament doesn't make any sense
- Music Monday: Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost in the Fog
- This blog is AI free
- Star Wars or Star Trek
- Silent cartoons from the 90s
- Shakespearian theatre in Fallout 76
- Joining a DOS game club
- The pacing of modern cartoons is a rollercoaster
- Music Monday: Anathema - Lost Control
- MacOS is now spying even more
- Perfection from the 90s
- Music haul for January 2023
- Why installers were called wizards
- Ars Technica's article on Apple Lisa
- Industrial design used to be cool
- My first computer
- On simple software
- Persona 5
- A meme site
- I am now an FSF associate
- I now host my own code
- Why does this site exist
- Resolutions for 2023