You are a demon made of glass and pain. And yet, you must skate. Skate Story website I stay fairly up to date with games that are coming out, though it’s pretty rarely that I actually play them brand new. So when I say I bought Skate Story on day one after playing the demo, that’s high praise because that never...

For the past five years or so, my home server has been a Dell office PC I found at a thrift store for $5 during my student days. It’s served me incredibly well over the years. Between hosting Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and (at one point) Minecraft, there’s no way I haven’t gotten my money’s worth out of it. But I also...

I added a widget to every page here that lets anyone in the world immediately send me a notification. Type a message, hit send, and it’ll pop up on my phone, watch, and computer near instantly. Is this a good idea? No. But it’s a funny idea, and that’s all that counts these days. Scroll to the bottom of this page if...

I’ve seen an increase in talk about this relatively new Wayland compositor called Niri recently and I decided to test drive it for a while. The big thing that sets Niri apart is that it’s a scrollable tiling window manager. If you’ve used a normal tiling window manager, Niri behaves more or less like you’d expect...

Testing out Helix as my new text editor I first tried out Helix several years ago before I even gave Neovim a real shot. I’ve seen a few posts pop up about Helix this past week, so I had the idea to ditch Neovim and give it another go. Julia Evans: Notes on switching to Helix from vim Artem Golubin: How I’m using...

Around ten years ago, it used to be that most of the music I listened to was from my own personal file collection in lossless formats. Over time though as my music tastes changed and I leaned on streaming more and more, my collection didn’t keep up and I stopped paying attention to audio quality as much as I once...

It’s been a while, huh? Season 2 of week notes coming right up. Learning Typescript with a new project I started a new web-based fediverse-related programming project recently. It’s nothing too serious right now and is mostly an excuse to have something to work on with my work being pretty unfulfilling these days....

My wife’s grandfather passed away near the start of this year, and while going through his things her family found an iMac that nobody knew the password to. I’m sort of the go-to person in the family for problems like this, but it also seemed like a fun challenge so I figured I’d take a crack at it. I didn’t learn...

I picked up Control for cheap on the Steam summer sale, but one thing that was getting in the way of my enjoyment of it was the game’s extremely broken texture streaming. A quick glance at the game’s subreddit page or Steam discussions shows it’s a really common problem, and it took me long enough to piece together...

I wanted to quickly highlight a little game I’ve been enjoying called Replicube because I think there’s a good chance some people reading here will enjoy it. The gist is that you’re given a 3D model made out of colored voxels (blocks), and your goal is to recreate the model in code. The code you write will be run...

This last weekend I was traveling out of town for a wedding. On Monday before my flight out I had some extra time, and with my old university campus on the way to the airport anyway I decided to visit. It was nice just walking around in “free roam” mode with no objectives. There’s plenty that’s changed in the short...

I’ve been trying something a bit new with my phone since yesterday. What am I looking at? This is a launcher for Android called Olauncher and I’m trying it out to see if it can help me cut down on mindless phone usage. Olauncher replaces the built-in Android home screen with a simple list of 0-8 apps of your...