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56 from 25 Jan 2014 to 15 Feb 2025
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now and then
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personal blog

2025 1

  1. Intro to HTML Calm down, it's only hypertext. 25 Jan 2014

2024 3

  1. Collages Or, magazine mashups. 26 Feb 2014
  2. Pope Urban VII This is my static site generator. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 10 Mar 2014
  3. Tumblr Themes I'll tumblr for you. 12 Mar 2014

2023 2

  1. Seedy Stories Get the seed. Do the deed. 12 Mar 2014
  2. Gigantic One of Portland's smallest galleries. 13 Mar 2014

2022 5

  1. The King James in Fire & Flames And also in HTML and CSS. 13 Mar 2014
  2. acycle.org Art. Literature. Learning experience. 13 Mar 2014
  3. 42 Love Haiku Poetry in a box. 6 Apr 2014
  4. STAR Simple Text Archiving and Retrieving. 28 Jun 2014
  5. MasterPlans Not just a business plan. 1 Jul 2014

2020 2

  1. Higgs For simple sites. 31 Jul 2014
  2. The Big Busk Not the big bust. 31 Jul 2014

2019 6

  1. Dungeons & Debauchery Like peas in a pod. 15 Oct 2014
  2. On Indices An orderly look at ordering information. 13 Feb 2015
  3. Random Backgrounds Because plain backgrounds are plain. 9 May 2015
  4. Syntax and First-Class Functions A short survey. 17 Aug 2015
  5. Last Action Hero Why write six lines of fish when you could write 66 lines of Lisp? 13 Sep 2015
  6. An open letter about classical music to people who know far more about classical music than I might ever know From someone way out of his league. 26 Oct 2015

2018 7

  1. The Basics of a Basic Income How a society might work when its members don't need to. 16 Feb 2016
  2. One Way to Think About git The Grand Unified diff and patch Program. 8 Apr 2016
  3. Javascript Libraries And how libraries can become a framework. 27 Feb 2016
  4. Does The World Really Need Another Programming Language? Or anything at all, really? 21 May 2016
  5. A Few Recent Sites Side projects, etc. 2 Oct 2016
  6. Screen Snow Because we're snowed in. 11 Jan 2017
  7. Some shower thoughts on "the media" And what it means to be "American". 28 Jan 2017

2017 6

  1. One Way to Think About Determinism I'm a softie, myself. 27 Apr 2017
  2. The Cat Scan A ruby (script) makes a great gift. 12 Jul 2017
  3. A Couple Art Projects Revised and expanded edition! 26 Jul 2017
  4. On Rents and Weird Weird can be grown, or at least encouraged. 28 Jul 2017
  5. American Values Today Of course we've failed to achieve our ideals. Of course we'll continue trying to. 27 Jan 2018
  6. The Zeroth Person A less personable person makes truer fiction. 31 Mar 2018

2016 5

  1. Something Like The Plumber Long live pipes. 18 Jun 2018
  2. Something Like Whale Shark Skin Or plant cells. 15 Jul 2018
  3. So long, Macbook. Hello again, Linux. Did you do something with your hair? It looks nice. 15 Dec 2018
  4. Specs CMS A special CMS for special people. 15 Dec 2018
  5. Star Plumber Or: How to explode one iOS app into four parts for Linux. 27 Dec 2018

2015 5

  1. Using Web Technologies To Print A Book From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS. 8 Jan 2019
  2. A Complete Program Or: how to expand one compound command into a 200-line script. 2 Feb 2019
  3. Red-Black Backups Highly convenient home data redundancy. 29 Apr 2019
  4. Easymount Some GUI convenience for the CLI. 28 May 2019
  5. Tagging Files Because directories, filenames, and xattrs can only do so much. 17 Nov 2019

2014 14

  1. Make Yourself Easy To Hire A how-to in five easy steps 7 Dec 2019
  2. For The Love Of Bluetoothctl A command of dubious utility you should never type to run. 21 Dec 2020
  3. Moving Music God bless Bandcamp. 21 Jun 2020
  4. It's About Time Hello again, world. 13 Mar 2022
  5. Fuzzy Jumping Words are way better than dots. 10 Apr 2022
  6. Long After Being an interactive poetry movie-book in 16 languages in a physics engine. 30 Apr 2022
  7. A Few Thoughts On A.I. 17 Mar 2023
  8. Using Emacs as a MySQL Client Is the best. 21 Oct 2022
  9. Does The World Really Need Another Todo List Tool? It definitely won't after this one. 28 Jul 2022
  10. Portland Haiku Dispensary Increasing Portland's sidewalk joy, poem by poem. 17 Apr 2024
  11. Grammar And Calendars It's a trap. 9 Oct 2023
  12. Gerbil, You Better Werk What's the werk? To ease the pain of living. 18 May 2024
  13. Side Effects What it do? 29 Oct 2024
  14. Debugging a Bench In which I apply software practices to a hardware project. 15 Feb 2025