An earlier draft of this post was called Xen. I’ve been using Linux hypervisors too much again.
I like my AeroPress a lot. No, scratch that, I love my AeroPress. I adore it. It’s been one of the best, most consequential pieces of kit I’ve ever had the pleasure of owning. I’ve been using the same one for more than twelve years, and have only ev...
Sendai is a city on the central-north coast of Japan, in the Tōhoku region. I was looking up its prefecture on Wikipedia because I love their flag, and ended up going down a rabbithole about its festivals. They’re most famous for the Sendai Tanabata Festival.
Accor...
Last Thursday I talked about retiring my RTX 3070 for a new AMD RX 9060 XT. This garnered a few questions from you fine people, which I’ve aggregated here.
Why not the 9070 XT?Price, availability, and requirements.
The AMD 9070...
I care little for the British royal family who, by extension, are also the royal family of Australia, a phrase that has never made sense to me whatsoever. Even the king himself expressed surprised that we weren’t a republic yet. The only thing we have going for us is that the royals have only overturned one democratically elected government in our history. Also that ...
I tend to find myself being grumpy when it comes to web auth, let alone the broader field of modern web design. Such observations lend themselves to cranky blog posts where I pontificate on how and why it got so bad, and so on. So this time I want to address something a website did that was good!
The site in question emailed me a multi-factor code (which isn’t good), w...