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Blocked By Transport Restrictions

More edge cases, more documentation. If we don’t push the small rocks up the molehills, how are we going to make mountains out of them? For future reference – hello future, I hope you’re out there...

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For Whom The Ring Tones

This is a true story: in 2007, Ringtones were a billion dollar business. The history of this industry is full of technological advances that – at least first – include a few (seemingly) inherently...

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Coffee And The Null Result

For fans of coffee, empiricism, and honesty in the face of failure, this weekend I decided to try pushing the envelope on a cold brew recipe I’d seen earlier in the week. I decided to try a “triple...

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A Technique

One of the unpleasant realities of modern life is that you often open something shiny and metal-clad to repair it, and discover that inside it’s all plastic parts that have worn down just enough that...

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This Again

It’s amazing how quickly the FreeOurFeeds thing dropped out of the discourse, but I guess there’s a log going on these days. Even so, spending thirty million dollars to somehow “force” Bluesky...

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Bags Again

With their kid heading off to university and Given Our Current Situation, a friend asked if I could suggest an excellent bag for them, with the caveats being “fashionable”, “durable”, “fits a laptop”...

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Passive Security

This started as a Mastodon thread, but I’m putting it here for future reference. Tell me (email, I guess, I don’t do comments anymore) if this chain of thinking is reasonable: We deploy fleets of...

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1000x

A draft. I might revisit it later, but for now: a video game review. I would not have anticipated that 1000xResist would be totally impossible to play twice because now that I mostly understand what’s...

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High Altitude, Low Opening

In stark contrast to 1000x, I enjoyed this series back in the day; I love a big world with some big ideas in it, I love a good shooter/space-opera, and it was all of that once. ODST and Reach were the...

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About Printers

As the joke goes: Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands...

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