Posts

12 Aug 2024
RSSGuard without RSS: scraping with CSS selectors
Despite the modern internet's tendency to centralise towards a small number of big content gateways (Reddit, Twitter, H...
01 Apr 2024
How I started programming
# 8-bits for an 8 year-old My parents got me a Commodore 64 really late in its lifespan, maybe around 1990. Although t...
01 Apr 2024
New Substack publication: Scéalta na hOiche
I've been unemployed for over a year now, which has given me extra time to do various things. While I mostly write (ext...
31 Dec 2023
Gunzip into dd: don't forget `-c`
Recently I was trying to copy the contents of one SD card to an identically-sized blank card, and ran into the problem ...
16 Dec 2023
Puzzle: Trauma Team bomb defusal #2
One of my kids has gotten into the old Nintendo Wii game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Team[Trauma Team], part o...
05 Aug 2023
Nim: Outdated nimble.ini
I was interested today in trying to write a simple GUI program using Nim's [nimx] library. But even with the latest Nim...
26 Jul 2023
Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ALC6 RAM upgrade: ignore the official docs
In late 2021 I picked up a Lenovo Ideapad 3 (15ALC6), a Ryzen 7 5700U-based laptop with 16GB RAM and a nice 1TB SSD. It...
05 Jul 2023
Defold Android build issue: Problem parsing the package
While working on my first hobby gamedev project with Defold, I ran into an issue when trying to install the debug APK o...
02 Jun 2023
Rodland Intro Chords
I was watching cutscenes from the old arcade game "Rodland" and noticed a couple of chords with some nice voice leading...
30 Apr 2023
Benben
Today I was absolutely delighted to stumble upon a new command-line VGM (Video Game Music file) player called https://c...
18 Apr 2023
BAM! and the history is gone
A few years ago I took this photo on Barrow Street near Ringsend, Dublin. BAM were tearing down some of the old https:/...
16 May 2021
Playing Revenant using Wine and Proton
_TL;DR: I tried to run an old game called Revenant on Linux using both WINE and Proton, but both had problems. Here's h...
04 Apr 2020
Living with dwm
You may have heard of tiling window managers like https://dwm.suckless.org[dwm] or https://i3wm.org/[i3]. These are pre...
24 Jul 2018
Jeff Schneider's Sick R&B Chords
Jeff Schneider has some excellent instructive content on YouTube, and takes the time to explain some of the theory behi...
22 Jul 2018
Jazz chords from Paul Barton's "Piano Sounds Never Heard Before!"
There's a really nice sequence of jazzy chords in Paul Barton's YouTube video "Piano Sounds Never Heard Before!" at the...