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Trying to avoid cognitive surrender while also making neat things.

Posted on October 12, 2026

If you haven’t heard, there’s a small new thing hitting the streets. People tell me it’s called “AI” or something, but everybody who knows how the technology works is, or should be, well aware that this technology is not artificially intelligent - it is a model that uses massive corpuses... [Read More]

Refreshing my coding ... to beyond where I was.

Sometimes going back to the start is what you need to do to get to the future.

Posted on October 2, 2025

When I was out of my first tech job, because they were bought, I took a python course. This is the spring of 2016. After that, I became basically the ‘Python expert’ in the team that I joined, and wrote a lot of scripts - including an RPM, and a... [Read More]

Active and Passive cooling options in Windows are hidden behind a registry flag, because Windows hates its users.

:|

Posted on August 17, 2025

It’s been a minute! … I found something frustrating about windows, and NixOS, so figured I’d make a post. [Read More]

... Nextcloud on Windows can be annoying with spaces in the front of your files sometimes. But you can fix it!

Just a little tip!

Posted on July 13, 2025

So I have a 1TB Nextcloud instance. This is what I use to store all my personal files, and back up purchases. However, sometimes I download files, and it’s a large bank of things, and half of them are named “ 1.txt” or something. Let’s say you buy a large... [Read More]

Oh no! Once again a file is not the right format.

it took me longer than I hoped for this, heh.

Posted on May 22, 2025

Long time no talk! I’ve been good, honestly. Took a long amount of time offline and I don’t hate coding anymore, which is /pretty great/!! Still on sabbatical, but I caught covid. … And I made a small technical string to do something I wanted to do, so I figured... [Read More]