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Why You Should Stop Reading News
News is, by definition, something that doesn’t last. It exists for only a moment before it changes. As news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased, and the...
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Get Hooked
Are you tired of doing everything by hand, having to remote into a build server to switch to that certain user account, then type in a bunch of commands, looking them up in your shell's history?Or has...
View ArticleMeta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square
Why I have zero interest in trying Threads, even read-only.Mosseri’s take here is strange and fairly alarming for a few reasons. For one, it echoes some of the anodyne ways that Facebook has described...
View ArticleFree Public WiFi
Remember Free Public WiFi?Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated...
View ArticleOn YouTube, adblocking, the state of our ad-driven internet
Internet 'fundamentalist' Louis Rossmann on YouTube, adblocking and the state of the ad-supported internet that's currently our reality.There are some good points made about how the internet turned to...
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Monaspaced
As some of you might know, GitHub with their GitHubNext team recently released their own monospace font, Monaspace in five variants. I was intrigued, because they actually made for an interesting take...
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nginx atom feed configuration
Today I got an email from the Google Search Console about a page, or pages on dammIT that are "Duplicate without user-selected canonical". That generally means that a website has two (very) similar...
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Playing audio/music on Steam Deck from other device
Recently I acquired the Linux gaming handheld better known as the Valve Steam Deck, pictured above sitting on top of a cozy plaid as winter is here. Getting one was kind of a gamble for me, as I was...
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NerdFonts on ChromeOS
I get way too much 'kick' out of a good font, and the Nerd Fonts project has been doing an awesome job at combining about every monospace font with glyphs/icons from FontAwesome, Devicons etc, for use...
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Twenty years of blogging
Twenty years ago - not long after the turn of the century - I was tinkering with some PHP code to replace a static HTML page I had been experimenting with. It was becoming my private website, in the...
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Have an uneventful 2024
Today was the first day of a new year. 2023 is behind us, but we are not done with the things we started during it. It was a year of both struggles and good times. Sometimes simultaneously.2024 should...
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GitHub Spam is out of control
Dan Janes writes:Spam is nothing new, spam on GitHub is also not particularly new. Any site that accepts user-generated content will need to figure out how to prevent people from submitting spam,...
View ArticleBig media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product...
Housefresh - an independent publisher and reviewer of air purifiers for your home - recently published a well-researched and damning article about how big media companies game the system by flooding...
View Article"Is This Project Still Maintained?"
If you - like me - regularly check out sourcecode (read: Git) repositories of projects that you stumble across or use in a hobby project/product or at work, you will now and then find one or more...
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The age of average (encore)
It is not you. It is the music. It is decidedly average.If you were wondering if there is a trend of music converging into some kind of homogeneous soup, you might not be entirely correct, but also not...
View ArticleFixing i915 display glitches
Lately I've had two laptops randomly glitch their screens at me. At first I worried their hinges were starting to give out (the connectors in those things are scarely fragile), but I noticed a message...
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Reading challenge: a start
I have a problem. I have too many hobbies.Thankfully, that's actually a pretty good problem to have, and it is not even the actual issue. The matter at hand is the limited time in a typical day. This...
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Brain fog
The brain fog is real.You know that feeling, when you have a cold or the flue, and aside from the incessant sniffling (or just total lack of air), you are aware that you are a magnitude less clever...
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When Power-over-Ethernet isn't
At the start of this year I bought this cute little bugger:It replaced an ancient Netgear WNDR 3700v2 WiFi router running DD-WRT that had been serving our home internet for ages, but was showing...
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Literata
Lately I have been reading quite a bit, and while doing so I came across the Literata serif font. I really like its style and how well it reads in both regular and italics, and decided to play around...
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