A post detailing the things I'm focusing on right now (February 2025)

Some time ago I as I perused the incense display of a nearby Whole Foods, hoping to see the Shoyeido sticks that once graced the shelves, I noticed a range of Indian-style sticks, their otherwise matching packaging in a variety of colors. Listed prominently on each package was the text: “Incense of Auroville.” This...

This is a minor update: the ASM Bibliography is returning to its original home on the social media alternatives project page.

It's not my fault that my avoidance of social media makes me hard to contact. It's your fault for letting yourself become hooked on it.

The Playdate SDK comes with its own compiler pdc. Since leaving Vim to build my code and going back into Vim to make necessary changes is a cumbersome workflow, I started to look into ways of compiling my code inside the editor. Vim offers a couple of solutions for that. The naïve approach is running executables via...

The Fairphone 5 5G Being a geek with a gadget problem I've been using handheld tech longer than the average user. My first handheld computer was an early 90's Psion Series 3, followed by a Compaq iPAQ, then my first real smartphone, an O2 XDA,…