Monday, July 6, 2026

Hobbies and Storage

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Just saw a quote that was too good to not rsshare for posterity in case the original source (or at least the one I saw) goes away:  "Ev...
Monday, June 29, 2026

PSA: You're doing wrong when your stuff-ups become a plot point

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Jeez (Big)Tech industry! You're doing it very wrong when not only everyday folks are having to regularly warn each other about your a...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Memories of NZ's Milk Delivery System

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The other day, I saw a post about a migrant to NZ who was surprised about the tokens we used for the milk delivery system that we used to ha...

"AI Smells" in 2026 Software Engineering

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Just like how there used to be "Code Smells", there are some remarkably obvious "AI Smells" on code and interactions tha...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Linux Tweaking - Firefox Scrollbars

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Mwhahahaha! I think I've managed to figure out a bunch of settings to force Firefox on Linux to finally keep the scrollbars visible, AND...

Projects Update - June 2026 Edition

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While I've been relatively quiet here on my blog the past few weeks, "project wise", that couldn't be further from the tru...

Linux Annoyances Rant - Solutions for Rough UX Sought

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This post covers 3 main annoyances I'm currently working on solving across various Linux machines I have to use. I'm mainly only tal...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

On Patterns and Chunks in Music

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Sunday morning thoughts on music stuff (since this is the hour when I'd have violin lessons for over a decade) Something I only really l...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

MediaSlurper Updates - Launcher works on Linux now

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Just a quick WIP teaser tonight: Today I finally bit the bullet, and figured out all the necessary changes to get MediaSlurper running under...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Reactions to Baldur Bjarnason's - "The Old World of Tech is Dying"

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This morning, I read a fascinating essay from Baldur Bjarnason: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/ A good ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Old Computer Hardware Revival Saga: Desktop 1 still crashes Kwin using a newer Live USB

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Sigh...  this evening, I finally got to test a newer KDE Live USB on Desktop 1 (which had issues with Kubuntu 25.10) Salient part of the ini...
Friday, May 8, 2026

Recent Linux Learnings + Experiments + Attempts to Upgrade Linux Laptop to Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

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After several days of trials, I've been itching to deploy Kubuntu 26.04 LTS to my Linux laptop, as it has so far seemed pretty OK, but w...