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Cutting Flavor
“The character of the steel is only partly set by its formula and the mill in which it was made. It’s finalized by the processes of forging and hardening, of heating the steel and pounding it, making...
View ArticleZero Return
For the sake of posterity, this is about “SSL Library Error 6”, and the short version is that it’s a spurious error that is almost certainly a dead end unrelated to the real TLS or SSL problem you’re...
View ArticleGaggia Coffee Machine, Error 5
This is another half blog-post, half documenting a fix for posterity thing. The afflicted device is a Gaggia Magenta, though I believe this is a common problem across the Gaggia line, and the error...
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Press Onward
It’s just wild that I wrote this in February. Mullenweg’s been melting down for most of a year at this point, and there’s no end in sight. My heart goes out to the people who work there – kids, when...
View ArticleThe Macroeconomics Of Privacy And Dignity
The talks from MatrixConf 2024 are up! Here’s mine, called “The Macroeconomics of Privacy and Dignity”. I think it’s a good enough talk that I don’t mind saying “definitely watch it” but the core of my...
View ArticleSauce Templates
As per tradition, we need to start any cooking blogpost with a life story. This post is about making hot sauces. It’s easy and fun, and great with wings or dumplings! I was in an alley in the outskirts...
View ArticlePapa’s Got A Brand New Bag
Back in the mists of prehistory, by which I mean 2014, I bought a Timbuk2 messenger bag and spent the next six or seven years loving it into the ground. When it finally fell part Timbuk2 had lost their...
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Aarke Carbonator Pro Repair
Again, I’m dumping this on the internet to save some future person some time and effort, maybe keep something useful out of the dumpster. For the sake of hoping something ends up being what Google was...
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Type
Having sat down and squint-slogged my way through the “Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works” book, which you have here freely available and lovingly rendered in PDF I am regrettably here...
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Nitride
I probably don’t want the same thing from computing that you do, but that’s OK. Computing never really feels like we’re direct manipulating the language of the universe, I think, particularly with so...
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