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paritybit.ca

Welcome to my blog. This is where I put my more polished essays, thoughts, and writings out into the world.

Linux / UnixEssays / personalSoftware / engineering practice

Posts
51 from 20 Jun 2019 to 25 Oct 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 1

  1. Do I Even Like Computers?

2025 1

  1. Oh Right, I Have A Blog

2024 2

  1. An Update About This Very Webbed Site
  2. Moving Across the Ocean

2023 3

  1. Computers as Workspaces
  2. OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380
  3. Styling External Links

2021 5

  1. Free Software is an Abject Failure
  2. A Git Workflow With Claws Mail
  3. Laptops Suck (Why I Might Get a New MacBook Air)
  4. Mastodon Is Dead, Long Live Misskey 🍮
  5. Migrating from nginx to OpenBSD’s httpd and relayd

2020 37

  1. Flip Phone Challenge Complete
  2. One Week Flip Phone Challenge
  3. Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR
  4. The Hacker Quarterly Magazine
  5. Ethical Investing
  6. Choosing An Investment Brokerage
  7. My Journey With Computers
  8. The Vortex ViBE Mechanical Keyboard
  9. My Git Server Was DDoSed
  10. Why I Hate The Term “Modern"
  11. Installing Debian 10 Buster with Encrypted LVM and btrfs Subvolumes
  12. Using the “rm” Command with Trash
  13. Colours for Gitea Issues
  14. My TODO Solution
  15. Are TODO Applications a Waste of Time?
  16. Adding Search to This Blog
  17. Switching to cgit
  18. A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email
  19. How I Keep My Home Directory Clean
  20. Why dwm’s Window Swallowing Patch Can’t Swallow tmux
  21. Use Syncthing to Sync Things
  22. My LWN Theme
  23. My New T420s
  24. Managing Dotfiles Using a Git Bare Repository
  25. Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
  26. Toggling Between Indentation Styles in Vim
  27. A Quick Rant About Web Font Sizes
  28. Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service
  29. Paying for Software
  30. Self-Hosting Email
  31. Diving Deeper Into the Small Internet
  32. Setting Up A Gopher Site
  33. The Joys of Old Tech
  34. The Diefenbunker Museum
  35. Why I Blog and #100DaysToOffload
  36. Decommissioning My Rackmount Server
  37. Switching from urxvt to st

2019 2

  1. The Difficulty of Educating People About Online Privacy
  2. Why I Switched Back to Firefox from Qutebrowser