I bought a gently-used XBOX One X from a guy on EBay about a month or two before the Series X launched. This sounds like a really strange time to buy one, they had been recently discontinued, it was clear there was a new generation approaching, I already had a …

As you can tell from the subtitle of this blog, I don't use Bash anymore. In fact, I switched away from Bash a long time ago now, for a myriad of reasons. I'll probably touch on some of those here, but the basic point is that my old post about …

I've posted a series of articles talking about my transition away from hand-coded HTML to Pelican. However, in all of this, I haven't really talked about my own workflow and how I handle writing and posting to the blog. Now that I've more or less finished transferring everything over to …

I bought a used Playstation 4 Slim in late 2017 from GameStop with a PSVR. I've been using it fairly regularly ever since. Now that we're a few years into the lifetime of the PS5 and I've had some time to put off buying one, I thought it would be …

GNOME Shell is a pretty great tablet UI. It's not the most polished one ever, but it works really well, in spite of targeting desktop first these days.

I honestly wish I could get it on my (up-to-date) Surface RT.

This all started from a post I did a couple …

Not that many years ago, there was a significant amount of worry from people in the PC world. There was a new, disruptive marketplace segment that threatened to wipe out the PC world entirely. The tablet takeover is all but irrelevant now, and PCs remain (in one form or another …

In my last post in the tech blog, I talked about how blogging tech is hard, and generally whined about how I managed my site for way too long. My conclusion was that it was my own fault and I should do better. Eventually, I implemented the changes I had …

Update (2022-08-23): This post was written long before I started using Pelican, and the entire post was originally shown via the desktop site. If you see mentions of the technology showing this post/blog and you want the full experience of what that looked like (and you're on a desktop …

Recently I've been toying a lot with the idea of doing more lisp programming to solve some of the tasks I generally would do with Python or BASH. Lisp often gets written off as old or weird, and while it is old and weird, it's certainly not past its usefulness …

Before reading, please note that anything surrounded by 'm/ and /' is to be interpreted as regex. If you are not familiar with regex, or REGular EXpressions, please  visit this CodeProject page. If you know a little, but don't know the syntax I'm using, visit the PerlDoc page for regex.

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One of the things which most people in web programming have to deal with is the problem of interactive content. The oldest methods for solving this were through the use of Java applets, and Flash content. There are other ways to accomplish this too, with software such as QuickTime, Real …

In the world of Linux and Unix, one of the most powerful tools available is the command line. Those of us who are lucky enough to have Bash at our disposal will probably know of many of its varied powers and features. These include the ability to modify and rerun …