The title for my autobiography would probably be I Thought I Was a Child Prodigy But I Am Actually a Late Bloomer. Going from being the youngest guy in the room to the oldest guy in the room happens suddenly, surprisingly, and permanently. As such, the programming languages and technologies I learned long ago are...

I’ve been using my iPod classic as my sole music player all summer now. The replaced screen, battery, storage, and front shell are all steady. I’ve found myself on an alternate build of Rockbox called Rockpod; the main thing I like about it is very superficial: it changes the theme colors based on the playing...

I’ve been very happy with my Y1 MP3 player over the past 9 or so months. I take it with me everywhere! It’s a companion on my commute, it’s a focus tool in my open office, it’s a way to have a single-purpose device that doesn’t have the distractions of my glass Everything Rectangle and, as the phone ages, a way to...

I’ve been very happy with my Y1 MP3 player over the past 9 or so months. I take it with me everywhere! It’s a companion on my commute, it’s a focus tool in my open office, it’s a way to have a single-purpose device that doesn’t have the distractions of my glass Everything Rectangle and, as the phone ages, a way to...

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I bought an Xteink X4! It’s small! It’s cheap! It’s hackable! I have an e-book collection, if you could call it that, but I always purchased PDFs. This thing reads epubs by default, which I don’t have. I want to use this to read my books! So I’ve been...

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I took the one part of the suttered Omaha open source project by Google and i’m making it a library I can consume elsewhere. That is all.

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I’ve forked Lea Anthony’s library that eventually made its way into core Wails for two reasons: I want it in Wails 3 and it’s not there I want to shave a meg off the binary size by not providing the embedded installer exe So here we are.

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I’ve forked Lea Anthony’s library that eventually made its way into core Wails for two reasons: I want it in Wails 3 and it’s not there I want to shave a meg off the binary size by not providing the embedded installer exe So here we are.

February 8th of 2026 marks the tenth anniversary of me moving to the Bay Area to work for tech startups. I didn’t quite have much to say about the tenth year so I held off. I’ve been here long enough that it’s no longer a temporary sojourn. It’s not a step. It’s a quarter of my life and even as I’ve stepped forward...

I’m trying out Niri! You know how I encourage getting used to the defaults? Well I’m not following my own advice! I’m using it with Dank Shell too, also ignoring my own advice! Anyhow! One liner! If Steam isn’t working do this: edit /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop and change the Exec= line to this: Exec=bash...

My motherboard was dying and the Nobara project hates old GPUs, so I recently upgraded my middle-tier mid-2020 Prebuilt Costco Gaming PC for a middle-tier late-2025 Hand-Built Gaming PC! I mostly went with a pre-picked set of options that Newegg had suggested, removing the storage and RAM (I had fortunately just...

Every deviation from default is slowing you down from getting started and making it harder to help others. I use about 5 distinct laptops/desktops on an average day, not to mention the VMs within them and other machines I shell into. Having a consistent experience is useful, but equally important is my ability to...