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  6. Midnight Library

    November 1st 2026 (week 44 of 2026)

    "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig is another recommendation I received from a friend.

  7. Multiline editing with sed

    October 27th 2026 (week 44 of 2026)

    sed(1) is notorious for not allowing patterns containing the newline character, but there are ways to work around this limitation.

  14. Salt in Wounds

    October 18th 2026 (week 42 of 2026)

    A fantasy setting centered around a city that is an "economic powerhouse fueled by centuries of perpetual butchery of an unkillable regenerating giant monster".

  15. Sway keyboard configuration

    October 13th 2026 (week 42 of 2026)

    Because a physical keyboard is not always just a single input device (featuring the AJAZZ AK820 keyboard).

  16. Dead Witch Walking

    October 12th 2026 (week 42 of 2026)

    Kim Harrison's "Dead Witch Walking" is an entertaining book.

  18. Lanzarote

    October 6th 2026 (week 41 of 2026)

    Lanzarote is a weird book. It is also the first Michel Houellebecq's book that I am neutral about.

  20. Red Sonja (1985)

    September 28th 2026 (week 40 of 2026)

    A film from the wood-and-cheese genre.

  22. Hang 'em High (1968)

    September 19th 2026 (week 38 of 2026)

    Clint Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood in an old Western film about a man on a quest for revenge.

  23. "If Not Corruption, Why Corruption Shaped?"

    September 9th 2026 (week 37 of 2026)

    Another informative video from Gamers Nexus, about the insanity that is the current state of the what-used-to-be computer hardware industry. It looks more and more as if the good ol' computers were passe and Nvidia wanted every computing device to be an LLM terminal instead.

  31. Appleseed (1988)

    August 9th 2026 (week 32 of 2026)

    A woman and a cyborg working at a special police unit try to stop a terrorist from destroying a utopian city.

  35. Fastner & Larson

    July 26th 2026 (week 30 of 2026)

    Messrs Steve Fastner and Rich Larson have some wonderfully pulpy (the subtitle of their page is "New Pulp Art") on their website.

  39. Fury (1936)

    July 22nd 2026 (week 30 of 2026)

    Fury (1936) is one of the best films I have ever watched.

  42. Control your monitor with ddcutil

    July 6th 2026 (week 28 of 2026)

    Quoting the source: "ddcutil is a Linux program for querying and changing monitor settings, such as brightness, color levels, and input connector."

  44. Micron: WTF?

    July 3rd 2026 (week 27 of 2026)

    Another video by Gamers Nexus on the topic of the AI-fuelled insanity that is current PC market.

  46. Decimal places in IEEE 754

    June 25th 2026 (week 26 of 2026)

    IEEE 754, the floating-point number standard, has finite precision. The number of decimal places a double-precision IEEE 754 number can represent is 15.

  55. Conformité Européenne vs China Export

    May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

    The CE symbol representing China Export is deceptively similar to the CE symbol representing Conformité Européenne. I am sure this is just a coincidence.

  58. Disk usage calculators for btrfs RAID

    April 27th 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

    So you want to create or expand your btrfs RAID filesystem, but have no idea how much space you will have (or want to check your math)? Here's a couple of links to help you.

  59. Adding a device to btrfs RAID1

    April 26th 2026 (week 17 of 2026)

    Adding a new device to a expand space on nearly-full btrfs filesystem in RAID1 configuration is easy. Rebalancing the filesystem to make use of the extra space is less so.

  60. Working 1 Gbit/s Ethernet USB-C adapter

    April 23rd 2026 (week 17 of 2026)

    Early this year I bought a new laptop that has everything that I need except an Ethernet port. And so, I also had to get an Ethernet to USB adapter.

  61. Marty (1955)

    April 17th 2026 (week 16 of 2026)

    Marty (1955) is categorised as a "romantic drama" film. I do not necessarily disagree, but I think the film may also be viewed another way.

  65. Automatically unload inactive tabs in Firefox

    January 12th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

    Even if you are using a completely reasonable amount of tabs, say around a thousand, memory usage of Firefox may grow over time. Tab unloading to the rescue!

  66. The European Way to Die

    January 10th 2026 (week 2 of 2026)

    An article on euthanasia and assisted suicide written by Michel Houellebecq, and translated by Robyn Creswell.

  72. Brother DCP-1610W on Arch Linux

    December 25th 2025 (week 52 of 2025)

    DCP-1610W is a printer-scanner combo produced by the Brother company. It is a good choice if you need a reliable black-and-white laser printer that works well on Linux.

  78. run0 devoured my disk!

    December 13th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)

    How I got slapped with a "No space left on device" when trying to run with elevated privileges, and what I did about it.

  91. GNU Guix and its directories

    October 14th 2025 (week 42 of 2025)

    GNU Guix needs two main directories to run: /gnu/store and /var/guix. By default, they are both mounted on / which can be problematic.

  93. Fat Android filenames

    October 3rd 2025 (week 40 of 2025)

    Not all file names that can be used on Linux can be used on Android. Beware the : and the ..

  95. Typst

    September 22nd 2025 (week 39 of 2025)

    The cover image says it all.

  96. Sixel and viu

    September 16th 2025 (week 38 of 2025)

    Graphics in terminal? That is crazy talk!

  97. Grausame Töchter at Backstage, München

    September 11th 2025 (week 37 of 2025)

    "Grausame Töchter ist nicht nur eine Band. Grausame Töchter ist ein Angriff!" Despite the motto, no Annikas have been harmed at the concert.

  100. btrfs

    August 31st 2025 (week 35 of 2025)

    I recently changed the way I use my disks, and this involved doing things with btrfs.

  101. Karaluchy Spalone Słońcem - A.J.K.S.

    March 25th 2025 (week 13 of 2025)

    Translation of another A.J.K.S. track. This time it is Karaluchy Spalone Słońcem, which means Cockroaches burnt by the Sun.

  102. Traces of two pasts

    March 23rd 2025 (week 12 of 2025)

    A novel by Kazushige Nojima accompanying the Final Fantasy VII Remake games. I like FF7, but I expected the book to be typical video game related novel ie, nothing special. How wrong have I been...

  103. Plateforme

    March 16th 2025 (week 11 of 2025)

    So far, all of Houellebecq's novels I have read follow the same basic plot. Plateforme is not really any different to Les Particules élémentaires, and even in Extension du domaine de la lutte one can see the same pattern—although in a raw, experimental form.

  104. Les Particules élémentaires

    March 4th 2025 (week 10 of 2025)

    "Atomised" is the second novel written by Michel Houellebecq. To me, it shares its theme with Whatever—Houellebecq's first novel—but explores it in more depth and from a different angle.

  107. Structure and aesthetics

    January 21st 2025 (week 4 of 2025)

    Think about the classic Greek epics eg, Illiad or Odyssey: the stories are impressive, but you can also look at the text itself and find that the hexameter itself has a certain kind of beauty.

  108. Iron Head in Piąty Dom

    December 7th 2024 (week 49 of 2024)

    Iron Head is a Polish heavy metal core band. I saw them play at Piąty Dom in Katowice, Poland. While the band was not the headliner for the evening they absolutely stole the show.

  109. To learn OCaml

    October 15th 2024 (week 42 of 2024)

    It was on my radar for the longest time, and I have finally decided to pull the trigger and do it. I am going to learn OCaml.

  111. Chciałbym być taki jak ja - Krzysztof Sokołowski

    October 6th 2024 (week 40 of 2024)

    Translation of "Chciałbym być taki jak ja", which means "I would like to be like me". It is a song written by Krzysztof Sokołowski, best known as the vocalist of the Nocny Kochanek band, for his solo project.

  112. Hylang 1.0.0

    September 23rd 2024 (week 39 of 2024)

    The Hy programming language saw its first stable release yesterday. While not introducing any new semantics, Hy is a great improvement on Python's sometimes atrocious syntax.

  113. Programming and Alchemy

    August 26th 2024 (week 35 of 2024)

    The main idea in Jung's Psychology and Alchemy is that alchemists used alchemical processes as the means of projecting their inner psychological processes onto matter. Is a similar thing happening to computer programmers?

  114. Przychodzą Nocą - A.J.K.S.

    July 12th 2024 (week 28 of 2024)

    Translation of another A.J.K.S. track. This time it is Przychodzą Nocą, which means They Come at Night.

  115. Living in Free Fall

    July 7th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    I have recently talked to a friend about the furniture I put in the apartment I rent. It is nothing fancy—almost everything I have lives on IVAR shelves from IKEA.

  116. Spokój - A.J.K.S.

    July 5th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    This is another rough translation of a A.J.K.S. track. This time the song is called Spokój which translates as calm or peace, or Ruhe in German.

  117. Radar Bocznego Wybierania - A.J.K.S.

    July 4th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    This is a—very—rough translation of the "Radar Bocznego Wybierania" track by Polish death rap artist A.J.K.S. I did for a friend of mine who doesn't speak the language.