2023: Year in review

Happy New Year, dear readers. These were the tech stories that interested me most in 2023, along with my commentary. Society scrambled to deal with the unexpected arrival of alien intelligence

Jekyll on Github Codespaces

I recently needed to write a blog post. Being a developer, this naturally amounted to spendinig half a day tinkering with the blog infrastructure. In lieu of the post I never wrote, here is a little overview of the blog...

Chrome OS Flex: Old laptop, new life

I’ve been getting back into Chromebooks recently. They’ve always been fabulously lightweight, low on admin headaches, and fast per dollar spent, but there are extra benefits nowadays.

The Missing Man Page

If only man pages were as good as the first Google result, I idly tweeted while trying to coerce curl into post a form [1]. The ensuing conversation led me to think about exactly what is missing in man pages....

Black Mirror Bandersnatch Spoilers

Here’s just a few random thoughts on Black Mirror Bandersnatch, which came out yesterday. I’d have posted these as a few lazy tweets, but didn’t want to post spoilers there.