Zero 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...
View ArticleTemporal Intersection
Nintendo was, famously, founded in 1889 as a playing card company. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The Island Of Dr. Moreau was published in 1896, and 1897 – a remarkable year for...
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Idiosyncra
The other day I wrote and deleted a bunch of words about linux after somebody on Mastodon – no joke, this is a real thing that happened, dear lwn I never thought this would happen to me but – asked...
View ArticleMash, Boil, Stew, Etc
For posterity’s sake: You can combine the techniques of Jacques Pepin’s fast baked potatoes with Marco Pierre White’s recipe for mashed potatos to create the best mashed potatoes I’ve made with about...
View ArticleBlocked 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...
View ArticleCoffee 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleBags 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”...
View ArticlePassive 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...
View Article1000x
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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