15 years ago, I watched a lot of TV. Usually, not live, but instead downloading it on my computer for binge-watching purposes. This was before Netflix or any of the other streaming services really took off, so the only way to get shows was iTunes or similar services or buying actual DVDs. My point is, I watched a...

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I’m forever keeping my eyes peeled for brick-and-mortar stores in my city that sell decent incense, particularly Japanese incense. As such, I was delighted to discover Five Elements Home in the beautiful Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville. On my first visit to the store, I darted right past the beautiful imported...

Shifting halls unfold Looking for Room 46 Steps gone, dawn resets Ever since it was announced, I was really excited for Blue Prince. In Blue Prince you play as Simon, a young adolescent boy (I’m not sure if his age is mentioned in the game) who just inherited the manor estate of his uncle. However, Simon’s uncle has...

Updated artwork to be under a more permissive creative commons license and sharing some digimon icons at the end as a treat.

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Neben Ostereiermalen mit unserem Patenkind Z, Eltern S+N und Patenonkel T stand heute auch die Namenstaufe für die Seidis auf dem Programm. Die fünf Wattebällchen wohnen jetzt schon fast zwei Wochen bei uns und dank tatsächlich unterschiedlicher Charaktere, Merkmale und jetzt auch Namen können wir sie mittlerweile...

I have posted a handful of quick-and-dirty recipes in this space over the years, a practice I should probably resume, given that I cook a lot more, and have both a stable of go-tos and a willingness to experiment. In recent months, my cooking has taken on a healthy bent. I still love to eat, […]

Table of Contents Introduction What is meant by the End of History? Russia The United States of America The People’s Republic of China Conclusion Introduction Francis Fukuyama is probably the person most connected to the concept of “the End of History”, but he is not the originator of it. Fukuyama’s intial article1...

Pushing data to and from your Android device requires a dedicated app like FolderSync. It is a solid tool that supports many popular cloud services and protocols, but it's a closed source paid app. So if you are running an alternative ROM on your Android device, or you prefer to use open-source software, Round Sync...

April 18, 2025 Hey friends, I want to share a lesson I learned today about properly managing my 11ty site repository. For a while now, I've been noticing something strange whenever I committed changes to GitHub. When I'd make edits with my development server running (npm start), my commits would include a bunch of...

I don't think I need to recapitulate everything that's happened in the last week. There's little point because you've heard about it, and either you're okay with it (in which case, please fuck off into the nearest black hole ASAP) or you're not. It is a truism that Those Fucking People on board with Satsuma...

One of my sporadic book reviews

In my previous post, I wrote about using Eza on Fedora 41, which works well and it can be installed via dnf. This week, I upgraded my main computer to Fedora 42 and noticed that the Eza package is no longer available and couldn’t be installed using dnf. I looked into the rust-eza and discovered that the maintainer...