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By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

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2026 434

  1. I miss my Swedish keyboard
  2. Binance’s latest adventures
  3. Living in the future with a big screen
  4. You could just do it yourself
  5. Plasma Bigscreen (or something else) for a lounge TV computer
  6. Apartment updates
  7. Missing lyrics: Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso
  8. Is it time to get into domestic LTO?
  9. Navidrome: “Failed to get executable path” error
  10. October 2026 banner: Fagan Park
  11. Double check used CDs before buying them
  12. Why big tech stopped building useful stuff
  13. Notational Velocity and nvALT got updates
  14. Needing a solution for my old desktops
  15. Family travel for December booked
  16. Ethernet interfaces in the wild, maybe
  17. When WD advertised music collections
  18. Clara has an art goods store!
  19. Case screws, PHP2Shell, and eMudhra⁴
  20. Updated Rubenerd Show podcast client list
  21. ICANN has an (unofficial) wiki
  22. How we’re dealing with a data space crunch
  23. Lyrics in America, Simon and Garfunkel
  24. A 180-degree USB connector for my new KVM
  25. Exploring Fagan Park
  26. eBay US turning back shipments to Australia
  27. Some October 2026 quality of life changes
  28. A hidden Hello Kitty at this coffee shop
  29. My A–Z Toolbox: Go
  30. Clutch bags
  31. A mini home rack
  32. Invoking the Pikachu defence
  33. How do you pronounce PAM?
  34. A misty evening Sydney webcam view
  35. Media
  36. The older thing was objectively better
  37. Rubenerd Show 435: The hippopotamus episode
  38. Show
  39. Less than a week, and The Takes™ started
  40. Bob Geldof: Room 19
  41. CSS for underlines
  42. Windows Movie Maker “DissolveNoise”
  43. Behind every caution tape is a story
  44. Trialling OmniFocus again, and getting organised
  45. A live Sydney webcam
  46. Unpacking two new Wyse 3040 thin clients
  47. –ificate
  48. My impossible bucket list, 2026 edition
  49. The edge of Sydney
  50. Video conversion fun, and the RetroTINK-6X CE?
  51. Music over podcasts
  52. done with the Raspberry Pi
  53. #thoughts
  54. My Commodore VC-20 now has a PET-style keyboard
  55. That time I was scammed on eBay
  56. Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode
  57. The end of card surcharges in Australia
  58. Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
  59. Seeing the Fellow Espresso Series 1
  60. Eight activities not improved by riding a pogo stick
  61. Congratulations to Linh and Victor!
  62. The InWin IW-MS04 mini 4-bay case looks interesting
  63. Diff’ing NetBSD and FreeBSD ZFS zpool features
  64. Iced Nicaraguan cold brew
  65. Things that have never worked (well) for me on iOS
  66. The AV Access iDock M10 KVM is almost perfect
  67. Linux OOM on the desktop
  68. Troubleshooting a weird keyboard on a Pentium III
  69. Back to the Antec Three Hundred for our FreeBSD server
  70. “AI developing too fast”
  71. Places that start with S
  72. “Ruben, you misspelled VIC 20”
  73. Sydney Trains got my keys back!
  74. With apologies to Clarke and Dawe: Scooters
  75. Excel can’t open workbooks with the same name
  76. Page 1,050, and the number
  77. Lavazza decaf 3/10 “intensity” coffee
  78. When we didn’t know everyone’s politics
  79. Rubenerd Show 433: The digital dust episode
  80. A roadside Dell 1907FP monitor
  81. A bezel into my childhood
  82. David Gubler’s Peruvian freight train photo
  83. Read and watched, week 37 2026
  84. ZFS silently discarding invalid acltype
  85. A decluttering retrospective
  86. Tante rediscovering the spark
  87. MediaWiki-specific crawler spam
  88. Nice spring day
  89. A hard drive as a table
  90. What would excite you for a new tech device?
  91. Web form invalid validation
  92. Navidrome metadata tips
  93. #software
  94. Ban infinite scrolling
  95. Rubenerd Show 432: The pontification episode
  96. Should you buy a ThinkPad?
  97. A closing department store in Carlingford
  98. The PicoMEM 2 is out
  99. Names in common with lost friends
  100. Randal Schwartz on Perl and timestamps
  101. Twenty years of using the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and remembering Fireworks
  102. Back up to ten thousand steps
  103. This spoon is a bit sus
  104. A boxed set of DR DOS 6!
  105. The freedom to organise music how we want
  106. The Internet Archive has a FIGlet in its HTML
  107. Bubbles
  108. FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE and NetBSD 9.5
  109. Replacing gift cards with hóngbāo
  110. Trying out an ATAPI Zip drive again
  111. Retiring my gag agents file
  112. A new flag for Massachusetts
  113. Documentaries used to be so chill
  114. get a working Apple IIɢꜱ motherboard
  115. Brexit, ten years on
  116. Arnold Rimmer’s character description
  117. Apple IIɢꜱ adventures continue
  118. Goodbye, Lloyd Robertson
  119. Using and powering shelf retrocomputers
  120. My first class action
  121. Reintroducing 4 TB drives into our FreeBSD server
  122. Trying a new espresso
  123. Sam Wilson’s thought of the day
  124. Musty computer? Use UV
  125. Programming an SST39SF040 with the T48 and minipro
  126. The magic just
  127. Upgrading my ThinkPad X230? In this economy?
  128. keeping retro motherboard builds on shelves
  129. Leslie Cheung: A Balloon’s Journey
  130. NetBSD 11!
  131. The Black and White Espresso Bar in Chatswood
  132. A super helpful question: will there be another?
  133. Sitting at a Starbucks
  134. Prior to the 17th of August
  135. Biopics
  136. Doing the Australian 2026 Census
  137. On the BSDs being “corporate friendly”
  138. Why WCAG 2.x guidelines feel inadequate
  139. Kenshi Yonezu: Shunrai
  140. Why I (now) prefer light mode
  141. I’m a heat-pump dryer convert: they’re amazing
  142. Stovetop covers are a thing
  143. Spamming notifications is counterproductive
  144. Numbers that don’t have six in them
  145. How my homelab storage evolved over time
  146. IBM Plex Mono got an update
  147. Messing with modern ZFS compression options
  148. Kristina Rybalchenko plays Baba O’Riley
  149. Rest in peace, Om Malik
  150. Feedback about replacing a switch
  151. The myth of Snow Leopard
  152. Swapping out a switch for an old Belkin
  153. On form factors
  154. MicroSD cards
  155. Oceanliner Designs: The Wilhelm Gustloff
  156. Life advice from our favourite coffee roaster
  157. Thermaltake’s retro inspired cases
  158. I’m a “computation technology professional”
  159. AusAlert fired off yesterday
  160. What happened to the Apple Store in Hornsby?
  161. scammer selling an Apple IIɢꜱ
  162. Runaway train in the Hunter Valley
  163. All my FreeBSD boxes are now on 15.1
  164. Installing shiny new fire dampers
  165. Treading water with software updates
  166. Daily and weekly(ish) carries 2026
  167. Congrats on PR and citizenship
  168. Music Monday: Paul Simon, Cars are Cars
  169. took my money for the machine
  170. Being recommended the Tasmanian Three Capes Track
  171. likes of AliExpress
  172. Gathering all my thoughts about “AI”
  173. seeing the 3801 steam by
  174. small notebooks
  175. Our first Moka Pot brew
  176. Tindie and alternatives
  177. I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you
  178. Getting World borders right in Minecraft
  179. The Commodore Callback 8020 phone
  180. Wait, we just saw the R-766 steam past!?
  181. My Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT, a fortnight later
  182. Travel
  183. Japanese Kombini tier list for 2026-07-11
  184. Whitegoods that aren’t, but should be
  185. Spammers abusing Google Analytics reports
  186. Aramex as your Australian carrier? Beware
  187. Trousers on fire from lithium
  188. keyboards in particular
  189. My A–Z Toolbox: FFmpeg, among others
  190. Migraines are a pain in the head!
  191. First ever direct flights from Sydney to London!
  192. Bird of the day: the Rufa Red Knot
  193. I tried kombucha
  194. Uniform boolean definitions in DB schemas are good!
  195. Zen and the AeroPress coffee “hiss”
  196. Adding Sendai, Japan to the list
  197. FAQs on my AMD RX 9060 XT
  198. Clarence House in London
  199. Multi-factor logins that account for dashes!
  200. I bought last month
  201. It’s cold this morning
  202. GFLW error 65545 with Prism on Linux
  203. Australian trust in the US and “AI”
  204. People didn’t read my 8-track post
  205. A brief review of Aldi’s official LEGO tubs
  206. Anti-virus scams are enabled by the vendors themselves
  207. The (or my?) golden age for PC building
  208. Bots from Alibaba Cloud taking my sites down
  209. 8-tracks
  210. Data centre smart hands pricing
  211. PSA for web designers: flags have ratios!
  212. #Vietnam2026 Saigon Wandering and goodbye
  213. #Vietnam2026: Museums and Ho Chi Minh City views
  214. #Vietnam2026 Monasteries and peace
  215. #Vietnam2026 Áo dài and Vũng Tàu
  216. #Vietnam2026 Lotus flowers and surreal gardens
  217. #Vietnam2026 Ho Chi Minh City wanderings
  218. #Vietnam2026 Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City
  219. When the train becomes a limo
  220. The fewest enabled features security model
  221. Finding a bug in Textpattern’s URL resolution logic
  222. Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)
  223. Married 🪐
  224. Clinton H. Groves’ aviation photos
  225. Finding and using a 5:4 display in 2026
  226. Overheard at the coffee shop, week 22 2026
  227. Blinking cursors and tea in the evening
  228. Kivikakk’s way of being
  229. Australian train news, May 2026
  230. Textpattern issues with MariaDB 11.8
  231. getting an Arc B580
  232. The BOOK II is an Apple II laptop
  233. Listing block devices on FreeBSD
  234. I just realised something
  235. Those darn MacBook notches!
  236. Trying Ten Thousand Korean coffee in Eastwood
  237. Call to undefined function filter_var() on FreeBSD
  238. Using a MariaDB jail with Dynmap for Minecraft
  239. Karl the Fog visited us in northern Sydney
  240. People discussing NetBSD and Project Glasswing
  241. The biggest rainbow I’d ever seen
  242. Web servers, and researching alternatives
  243. A web home crumbling like chalk
  244. “… are ready to take your money”
  245. Fractions in HTML
  246. about our Minecraft server
  247. Talking to me a decade on, now with 8-bit experience!
  248. Linux monoculture is just as bad for security
  249. eBay Australia’s changed fees
  250. Site width tweaks for readability, maybe?
  251. BSD, bottles of water, and positive habits
  252. A hypothetical NetBSD Cyberdeck
  253. Quotes, week 19 2026
  254. Busy, May 2026 edition
  255. I need to do more tea reviews
  256. The power went out at midday
  257. Installing the 250466 in my “Aldi” Commodore 64
  258. It’s the first of May
  259. Auntea Jenny
  260. Testing the Commodore 64 250466 board
  261. Looking at human.json
  262. Commodore releases the 64C Ultimate!
  263. Getting an xD card reader in 2026
  264. new tea shops on Sydney’s north shore
  265. Playing audio files on a hi-fi
  266. how and why
  267. What does a professional calligrapher do?
  268. last show
  269. Melanomas: get yourself checked!
  270. Phantom vibrations
  271. Inadvertent draft publishing
  272. Happy 33rd birthday NetBSD!
  273. about handwriting
  274. Cautious optimism
  275. Australia’s teen “social media” ban
  276. Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects
  277. My favourite TV theme songs
  278. Our FLAC Navidrome has begun!
  279. An office bathroom sink review
  280. Backburning sun
  281. Life advice from @ADHDeanASL
  282. Default payment methods, part B
  283. ZFS helped to remove code
  284. URL change fixes
  285. Correcting the ABC on the RMS Titanic
  286. Goodbye, Orban 🇭🇺
  287. Finding a beige BenQ FP531 monitor
  288. new Kinokuniya
  289. www.rubenerd.au
  290. Community jigsaw puzzles
  291. Audiophile feedback
  292. My A–Z toolbox: ExifTool
  293. Robert Birming: it is what it isn’t
  294. Assembling a new study desk from shelves
  295. The NMS Ceefax teletext reproduction!
  296. Adding tech to recycling is a nice idea in theory
  297. “Post-framework” web design
  298. Maximum connections have been reached
  299. Approaches for personal backups
  300. Hey, I’m back! I want to go to Jersey
  301. Trans Day of Visibility 2026 🏳️‍⚧️
  302. Questions to ask about PII
  303. not in the US
  304. Self-hosting a Mastodon instance?
  305. I am not an audiophile
  306. Ever Given five year anniversary
  307. My 2026 birþday
  308. bridge cameras
  309. 32^2 pages
  310. context of a data breach
  311. Updated and fixed hugo
  312. BLISS.JPG turns thirty
  313. relevant to you
  314. Our revised media centre TV stand thing
  315. The Raspberry Pi 400 or Orange Pi 800 for the lounge
  316. getting into FLAC
  317. Extracting URLs from Apple’s webloc format
  318. Adventures with Outlook grammar
  319. Initial thoughts about the thinkpad e14 wow
  320. The SPAOE Softcard, revisited
  321. Koritno, Majšperk
  322. Stack Overflow is no longer a stack?
  323. Why this blog wastes horizontal space
  324. This ended up being about the history of Airfix
  325. It’s the vibe of systemd
  326. received
  327. wrote about this ritual
  328. Tweaking Mediawiki’s Monobook skin for wide screens
  329. More geoblocks affecting Australia
  330. My first network kit, part one
  331. Coffee review: Moccona French Style
  332. The A to Z of BSD
  333. The Venetian may be the best biccy
  334. Folders for RSS feeds in Thunderbird
  335. How would you “enforce” LLM restrictions?
  336. Charity shop finds: 1990s CD-ROMs
  337. Dates have been a bit off
  338. reel-to-reel machine
  339. Happy International Womens Day
  340. Updating my little orb
  341. Using Thunderbird for RSS
  342. We’ve lost Vim, and gen-“AI” as a drug (updated)
  343. Super Peter
  344. Sellers blocking AusPost Parcel Lockers
  345. Nginx’s revised http2 directive
  346. “Do you know how to fix phones?”
  347. Mouselings 100 webmaster questions part B
  348. “Future-proofing” PC builds
  349. Bullies have the thinnest skins
  350. Mapping my screen resolutions over the years
  351. The Gram editor
  352. A pair of satisfying things
  353. new retro motherboard rack
  354. Tiling a small image with ImageMagick
  355. “Teas and Seas apply”
  356. earlier onslaught of questions
  357. Which wiki software to use?
  358. The COMIX-35, a reimagined COMX-35
  359. Testing the Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 motherboard
  360. NZXT parts out of the dishwasher
  361. Removing a royal from the line of succession
  362. Banner for February 2026
  363. found an NZXT tower
  364. Competing for another country
  365. The Masked Trogon
  366. Buying a new thinkpad for the first time
  367. An expanded list of things I don’t need
  368. Setting up new phones in 2026
  369. discarded computer components
  370. The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc
  371. accepting my childhood 486 motherboard
  372. John Pizzarelli: The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  373. “Cassette user? Time to get retirement ready”
  374. The Lenovo 400 Wireless Mouse
  375. More childhood Melbourne i486 progress
  376. Resetting the LE75CW aircon controller
  377. Please don’t use “AI” “Summary” tools here
  378. not needing a 3D printer
  379. Tasmania’s Bridgewater Bridge
  380. for another board
  381. Sandwich questionnaire, second helping
  382. sandwiches yesterday
  383. Updating the Minipro T48’s firmware
  384. Recent comments from (some) Americans
  385. what I’d amassed thus far
  386. Everything eventually sorta becomes mail
  387. Links, week 06 2026
  388. Smart card readers in ThinkPads?
  389. Fastmail’s donation to Perl!
  390. Feedback to the Haneda Problem
  391. 2026 fixes, and an IPv6 update again
  392. i486 SX-25
  393. Australia needs a Mark Carney speech
  394. Making up for old games of dubious origin
  395. recently wrote about
  396. got a few options now
  397. I want this bag for storing computer cables
  398. two weeks
  399. The wide world of TCG card folders
  400. Gen(erate losses)-“AI” bailouts
  401. Family retrocomputer trash and treasure
  402. Coming up with a list of spacer tasks
  403. I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner?
  404. Choosing a Plus! 95 theme
  405. If I don’t, you still can
  406. Dreadlock Holiday ♫
  407. My “cursed” trusted brand list
  408. Being positive about tech right now
  409. A retail dark pattern worked on me
  410. English speakers don’t say: So do I?
  411. The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
  412. Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?
  413. LLM Licence
  414. Sadly, I can’t recommend KeePassXC anymore
  415. Postgres wouldn’t take my pg_hba.conf changes
  416. The BookArc and Bolt laptop stands
  417. freebsd-update hanging on “rebuild these ports”
  418. Learning is supposed to be uncomfortable
  419. Xfce is great
  420. ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, APT
  421. The Macintosh LC FDHD!
  422. Being comfortable with “trying”
  423. It was HOT in Sydney yesterday
  424. Messing with uuid() in SQLite3
  425. Blockchains and Australian coffee cards
  426. The Silver-Breasted Broadbill
  427. Shame surrounding spreadsheets
  428. Goodbye Xmas 2025
  429. What I watched, Week 1 2026
  430. “You shouldn’t make New Year’s Resolutions!”
  431. context of a Techmoan video
  432. Tea over coffee first thing has worked oddly well
  433. The primary purpose of lift lobbies
  434. spreadsheets

2025 232

  1. Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud
  2. Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!
  3. (Thinking about) getting new printers
  4. pkgsrc 2025Q4 released
  5. An “AI” check-in
  6. The Haneda Problem
  7. Coffee technique works for cheap stuff too
  8. We had a White Xmas (cough)!
  9. Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD
  10. Requiring iOS 26 to fix security issues
  11. Remembering with cheese keeki, 2025
  12. ZuluSCSI, and an Ultra SCSI Power Mac G3!?
  13. Quick reviews № 01
  14. Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15!
  15. Goodbye to the Hexham Oak and Hungry Jacks
  16. Typing is physical and wonderful
  17. Finding (digital) houndstooth
  18. terrible poem about it
  19. netbsd-users: IBM Model M issues
  20. BSD Now 642: Look Harder
  21. Banner for December 2025
  22. Anime
  23. My first bootleg manga (that I returned)
  24. A moment of calm, from Yosemite
  25. Undo your last git commit before you’ve pushed
  26. Hatsune Miku hanging out on an old CD-ROM
  27. Canary Islands, and the Rule of Tincture
  28. new theme
  29. Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited
  30. Things I’ve decided to live without
  31. Vietnam blog post update
  32. A Swedish furniture store in Sydney at Xmas
  33. Social media history to enter the US
  34. Flight Simulator 98: Inside Moves
  35. App defaults, 2025
  36. Don’t flounder in the Lake of Options
  37. Pronouncing “southern”
  38. Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders
  39. Another social media break
  40. My blog opens too many files
  41. Tag soup
  42. What I’m reading, week 49 2025
  43. Pouring one out for Crucial
  44. Vietnam, and where does one go from here?
  45. Using List::Util instead of List::MoreUtils
  46. Llama Book
  47. #Vietnam2025 Typing from a Phê La cafe
  48. so much fun in Vietnam last year
  49. joy rediscovering Perl
  50. I’m your new BSD Now podcast co-host!
  51. Mozilla’s latest quagmire
  52. It’s not included if it’s not listed
  53. Be kind to retail staff
  54. answered in a detailed reply
  55. “Backalog”
  56. This was an incredible espresso
  57. Building a new NetBSD machine
  58. Fun facts, aviation edition
  59. A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser
  60. #hardware
  61. boring being a feature
  62. Brother Museum in Nagoya earlier this year
  63. Silverstone’s gorgeous beige boxes
  64. Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable
  65. When a clear film wasn’t
  66. Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill
  67. With thanks to Steven Rosenberg
  68. I did a thing, and exit excuses
  69. Helping friends can boost your mood
  70. Did they say that?
  71. Injunctions aren’t helping data leaks
  72. mentioned earlier
  73. this Adaptec AHA-3950U2B
  74. Offset bank accounts for mortgages
  75. The BSD, OpenZFS, and illumos communities
  76. Apple Stores make me anxious
  77. Feedback on what to call this site
  78. Merging Minecraft worlds with Worldedit
  79. I watched my first YouTube shorts, and I’m confuzzled
  80. An affinity for specific versions
  81. Paul Simon, Train in the Distance
  82. Mastodon: if it could happen, doesn’t mean it did
  83. Is this a journal, or a blog, or what?
  84. reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3
  85. Þe time I reduced my caffeine intake
  86. the letter thorn
  87. 96% keyboard layouts
  88. Pre-sales engineering
  89. My Retro Corner has overtaken my blog? Kinda!?
  90. AWS outage last night
  91. Jack Johnson, Belle
  92. I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs
  93. I found a Rubik’s Cube
  94. Stuff I read, week 42 2025
  95. Our twelfth mortgage payment
  96. putting www back
  97. The LED BlinkHAT for the Motorola 6888x
  98. last five years
  99. Do I recommend Hugo for blogging?
  100. My Macs can’t mount SD cards almost half the time
  101. The Blue Mountains and Wentworth Falls
  102. George Benson Beyond the Sea
  103. The utility of digressions
  104. different standards
  105. Outlook for Mac fun
  106. I was wrong about Steven Pinker
  107. thoughtful comments
  108. My filofax was cancelled
  109. Written By Humans
  110. A highly-processed shipment
  111. wrote about
  112. Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?
  113. Modern games implementing N64-style graphics
  114. Feedback regarding AA batteries
  115. Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji
  116. Visiting the historic Coal Loader in North Sydney
  117. discussing batteries
  118. Dingbats > emoji?
  119. Renewables overtake coal for first time in Australia
  120. The weather outside is gorgeous
  121. When to replace hard drives
  122. Sorry for the dupe
  123. The dubious Nagorno-Karabakh anniversary
  124. tried and failed at implementing
  125. Treat those who give you things well!
  126. #SciArtSeptember: Accrete
  127. Goodbye to Typepad
  128. #SciArtSeptember: Scattering
  129. John Walker summarises gen-“AI”, and some feedback
  130. SGI Indigo2 machine
  131. #SciArtSeptember: Tessellation
  132. #SciArtSeptember: Symbiosis
  133. 86Box 5 has a VM manager
  134. #SciArtSeptember: (Electronic) Convergence
  135. #SciArtSeptember: Calm
  136. Spam unsubscribe amusement
  137. I lodged my 2024-25 taxes, and Wi-Fi
  138. #SciArtSeptember: Synapse
  139. #SciArtSeptember: Vesicle
  140. Remembering our mum’s birthday 2025
  141. #SciArtSeptember: Random
  142. #SciArtSeptember: Tiles
  143. tens of thousands of posts
  144. #SciArtSeptember: Orbit
  145. BusLogic SCSI drives under DOS
  146. #SciArtSeptember: Bloom, Sydney sakura season
  147. Retrocomputer cheats
  148. Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD
  149. #SciArtSeptember: Lichen
  150. #SciArtSeptember: Vector
  151. The great northern Sydney power outage 2025
  152. #SciArtSeptember: Chaos
  153. one such suggestion
  154. Age gate and VPNs in Australia
  155. #SciArtSeptember and Music Monday: Bone
  156. #SciArtSeptember: Fractal
  157. #SciArtSeptember: Motif
  158. Australian three bedroom apartments
  159. #SciArtSeptember: Transcription
  160. office hand dryer
  161. #SciArtSeptember: Budding
  162. E. L. Konigsburg on learning
  163. #SciArtSeptember: Algae
  164. #SciArtSeptember: Element
  165. FastCode on open source software shakedowns
  166. #SciArtSeptember: Permutation
  167. Comfort viewing
  168. #SciArtSeptember: Virus
  169. Coffee shop chatter, week 37 2025
  170. #SciArtSeptember: Growth
  171. Robodebt, and Australia’s largest ever class action
  172. #SciArtSeptember: Skeleton
  173. I didn’t catch that last part
  174. #SciArtSeptember: Diffusion
  175. Not paying with cash
  176. #SciArtSeptember: Inertia
  177. Hollow fibre optic cables
  178. #SciArtSeptember: Coral
  179. Infosec Allison Mose, sung by Georgie Fame
  180. #SciArtSeptember: Fluid
  181. PSA: Not all KALLAX boxes fit the same
  182. Meeting Bluey at Hammerbarn
  183. Sysadmin work and design shouldn’t be so difficult
  184. Andreas suggests a better Techtember
  185. Asking questions with context
  186. Links for week 35, 2025
  187. #internet
  188. Replacing a sliding door roller
  189. AusPost suspends most shipments to the US
  190. Allan Jude on fault tolerance
  191. Jack Johnson: Shot Reverse Shot
  192. Starting with known good components
  193. QDI 486
  194. The Gateron Smoothie linear switches
  195. My A-Z toolbox: dcfldd
  196. Post frequency recently
  197. Street Library book review № 1
  198. Run illumos? The Café is open!
  199. A parcel locker adventure, and being an edge case
  200. The meaning of “Lenovo”
  201. KDE Plasma removing third-party software icons
  202. Buying a thinkpad x230
  203. issue of consent
  204. Cyclists on footpaths
  205. Getting a cheap and cheerful second-hand ThinkPad
  206. A new or rebooted Web
  207. The day Twitter suspended me
  208. PicoPSU and PicoRC
  209. Teal
  210. in the context of homelabs
  211. horrendously expensive dead ends
  212. missed being optimistic about technology
  213. ran it with a deshroud
  214. slippery when wet
  215. A2DVI Plus
  216. externalities
  217. GU trousers
  218. exploring HARD·OFF stores
  219. SCVMaglev Museum in Nagoya last year
  220. post-smartphone devices
  221. what the point of NetBSD is
  222. MIO card
  223. thinking about “AI”
  224. almost two decades
  225. Everyone deserves this
  226. an expedited clearance plan
  227. purchase invoice
  228. great power efficiency
  229. why I don’t love it
  230. cassettes
  231. Ethics
  232. PlayStation 3

2024 19

  1. 20th anniversary
  2. buying our own apartment together
  3. swap the rubber gasket out once
  4. Quicksilver Power Mac G4
  5. which I’m fine with
  6. expressed optimism
  7. off the side of the road
  8. renewed appreciation
  9. late 1990s air conditioning controllers
  10. unusual SPAOE card
  11. Numbers that dont have nine in them
  12. just as I did last time
  13. surprising exception of Aldi
  14. Titanic exhibition
  15. take the train
  16. Tangara music player
  17. wrote about this in more detail
  18. small homelab with this stuff
  19. spoiled for choice

2023 11

  1. Annexe
  2. dislike the term
  3. Bic Cristal Re’New
  4. retrocomputer authenticity
  5. how to acquire one
  6. prematurely validating text
  7. September 2023
  8. NovelKeys board with Gateron North Pole 2.0 linear switches
  9. personal knowledgebase
  10. I’m not smart, and I won’t remember
  11. tried all the traditional adaptors

2022 7

  1. Numbers that dont have 8 in them
  2. but one factor
  3. Sony NW-A55
  4. joked about being “absolutely” serious
  5. this 2017 retrospective
  6. from official channels
  7. FreeBSD pkg autoremove

2021 1

  1. shared images

2020 8

  1. Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots
  2. Problem exists between printer and chair
  3. Small and boring system updates
  4. We have Nvidia snow
  5. Seven, again
  6. records
  7. was a pain
  8. described in this post

2019 2

  1. cited Wikipedia’s orientability article
  2. It has numbers in them

2018 3

  1. Queen Mary
  2. briefly
  3. went to Japan the second time

2017 2

  1. evolved over time
  2. don’t see the point

2016 1

  1. goodbye junk

2014 1

  1. stolen by my first web host

2013 2

  1. were willing to look as stupid as I did
  2. Thirteen years ago

2012 1

  1. Belkin f5d7010 fedora freebsd

2011 2

  1. Borders shut their doors
  2. Having fun with hotlinkers

2010 2

  1. former O’Brians outlet at Jelita
  2. As I wrote at the time

2009 4

  1. Dos thinkpad x40
  2. at a sandwich bar in Malaysia
  3. Unicomp Spacesaver
  4. loading DOS CD-ROM drivers

2008 4

  1. Singapore in 2008
  2. After seventeen years
  3. posts like this
  4. FreeBSD desktop from 2008

2007 1

  1. Visoka, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria

2006 1

  1. Two decades ago to the day

2004 1

  1. when I was a teenager

Undated 38

  1. Photo
  2. Apple //e Platinum
  3. IIɢꜱ board
  4. Vc 20
  5. Pieces of 8
  6. beige Dell Dimension
  7. first computer
  8. PAL Commodore 64C
  9. Commodore 116
  10. Power Mac G4 QuickSilver
  11. Commodore 64 “Aldi” machine
  12. publish my own FOAF profile
  13. Commodore 16
  14. Dell towers like this
  15. my first computer
  16. Atari ST
  17. HP Brio
  18. Retro Corner
  19. Retro Corner
  20. Apple //e
  21. IBM Aptiva
  22. Lotus Organiser
  23. Faqs
  24. Omake
  25. The Retro Corner
  26. 64c
  27. Commodore 128
  28. 1980s AT clone desktop
  29. Sanyo MPC-880
  30. NEC APEX
  31. Presario 5060
  32. Retro Corner
  33. þoughts
  34. QuickSilver G4
  35. downloads page
  36. MV4-V4S471/472P motherboard
  37. DFI Am386 machine
  38. SPARCStation 5