Tag: tech

08 Dec 2024
Memvalid Back on Render
Some years ago I was trying to learn some short piece of text or lyrics verbatim, and stumbled upon an article that sug...
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...
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Nim: Outdated nimble.ini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...
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...