Personal

Jul 2 2019

Several years after I quite the insanity job, I helped close it down. It ended in perfect company style: with disorganization, disinterest and chaos.

Personal

Mar 17 2019

A friend of mine discovered, as an adult, that she’s been face blind her whole life. It was a remarkable and powerful discovery.

Technology

Jul 10 2018

Back when I still ran a Mastodon server, I had a brief need to run two of them on one server. With Gargron’s help, I worked out how.

Technology

Apr 10 2018

Gravis rants about stuff that really does suck. It’s good.

Personal

Apr 5 2018

A friend sent me a toy pistol, and Australian customs was unimpressed. This spring-loaded toy was, apparently, a legitimate firearm and fuck no I couldn’t have it.

Technology

Mar 18 2018

I’ve been running my webserver on Windows for a long time, and moving to Linux meant that a whole lot of files were coming up 404 because they had upper or lower case filenames and the page that referenced them didn’t match. This 404 script for nginx fixes that.

Technology

Mar 11 2018

Some smart people are scared of artificial intelligence, of machine learning, but not in the sci-fi robots-gonna-eat-us way. The reality is worse.

Technology

Mar 11 2018

Mostly for my own benefit, a log of shit I have to deal with in nginx, and the solutions to same.

Games

Mar 7 2018

Back in 1996, the Japanese arcade magazine Gamest did a ten year retrospective, and I’ve listed their favourite games here. The transition from shooters to fighting games is very interesting to see.

Personal

Feb 25 2018

This is part four of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.