Maximum connections have been reached
The primary purpose of lift lobbies
Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud
Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!
(Thinking about) getting new printers
pkgsrc 2025Q4 released
An “AI” check-in
The Haneda Problem, and “seeing why you would”
Coffee technique works for cheap stuff too
We had a White Xmas (cough)!
Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD
Requiring iOS 26 to fix security issues
Remembering with cheese keeki, 2025
The Silver-Breasted Broadbill
ZuluSCSI, and an Ultra SCSI Power Mac G3!?
Quick reviews № 01
Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15!
Goodbye to the Hexham Oak and Hungry Jacks
Typing is physical and wonderful
Finding (digital) houndstooth
Cold Lemonade
netbsd-users: IBM Model M issues
BSD Now 642: Look Harder
Banner for December 2025
My first bootleg manga (that I returned)
A moment of calm, from Yosemite
Undo your last git commit before you’ve pushed
Hatsune Miku hanging out on an old CD-ROM
Canary Islands, and the Rule of Tincture
This is my worst theme ever, and I love it
Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited
Things I’ve decided to live without
Vietnam blog post update
A Swedish furniture store in Sydney at Xmas
Social media history to enter the US
Flight Simulator 98: Inside Moves
App defaults, 2025
Don’t flounder in the Lake of Options
Pronouncing “southern”
Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders
Another social media break
My blog opens too many files
Tag soup
What I’m reading, week 49 2025
Pouring one out for Crucial
Vietnam, and where does one go from here?
Using List::Util instead of List::MoreUtils
The Llama Book
#Vietnam2025 Typing from a Phê La cafe
Off to Vietnam for two weeks
Eskild Hustvedt’s joy rediscovering Perl
I’m your new BSD Now podcast co-host!
Mozilla’s latest quagmire
It’s not included if it’s not listed
Be kind to retail staff
This was an incredible espresso
Building a new NetBSD machine
Fun facts, aviation edition
A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser
Problem exists between printer and chair
Small and boring system updates
Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots
What’s the point of a retro case “???”
“Backalog”
We have Nvidia snow
Unboxing the new SilverStone FLP02 retro case
Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable
When a clear film wasn’t
Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill
With thanks to Steven Rosenberg
I did a thing, and exit excuses
Helping friends can boost your mood
Did they say that?
Injunctions aren’t helping data leaks
Eventually getting an Android phone
A 64-bit PCI Adaptec SCSI card
Offset bank accounts for mortgages
The BSD, OpenZFS, and illumos communities
Apple Stores make me anxious
Feedback on what to call this site
Merging Minecraft worlds with Worldedit
I watched my first YouTube shorts, and I’m confuzzled
An affinity for specific versions
Paul Simon, Train in the Distance
Mastodon: if it could happen, doesn’t mean it did
Is this a journal, or a blog, or what?
Reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3
Þe time I reduced my caffeine intake
Bring back the letter thorn (þ)
96% keyboard layouts
Pre-sales engineering
My Retro Corner has overtaken my blog? Kinda!?
AWS outage last night
Jack Johnson, Belle
I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs
I found a Rubik’s Cube
Stuff I read, week 42 2025
Our twelfth mortgage payment
Putting the www back in URLs
The LED BlinkHAT for the Motorola 6888x
Celebrating five years on our Minecraft server
Do I recommend Hugo for blogging?
My Macs can’t mount SD cards almost half the time
The Blue Mountains and Wentworth Falls
George Benson Beyond the Sea
The utility of digressions
64-bit PCI versus PCI-X
Outlook for Mac fun
I was wrong about Steven Pinker
Feedback on those “Written by Humans” buttons
My filofax was cancelled
“Written by Humans, Not AI” badges
A highly-processed shipment
Tech optimism outside the commercial space
Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?
Modern games implementing N64-style graphics
Feedback regarding AA batteries
Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji
Visiting the historic Coal Loader in North Sydney
Younger people and AA batteries
Dingbats > emoji?
Renewables overtake coal for first time in Australia
The weather outside is gorgeous
When to replace hard drives
Sorry for the dupe
The dubious Nagorno-Karabakh anniversary
Something for the #TODO list: stick with one
Treat those who give you things well!
#SciArtSeptember: Accrete
#SciArtSeptember: Scattering
John Walker summarises gen-“AI”, and some feedback
I have an SGI Indigo2!
#SciArtSeptember: Tessellation
#SciArtSeptember: Symbiosis
86Box 5 has a VM manager
#SciArtSeptember: (Electronic) Convergence
#SciArtSeptember: Calm
Spam unsubscribe amusement
I lodged my 2024-25 taxes, and Wi-Fi
#SciArtSeptember: Synapse
#SciArtSeptember: Vesicle
Remembering our mum’s birthday 2025
#SciArtSeptember: Random
#SciArtSeptember: Tiles
10,000 blog posts
#SciArtSeptember: Orbit
BusLogic SCSI drives under DOS
#SciArtSeptember: Bloom, Sydney sakura season
Retrocomputer cheats
Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD
#SciArtSeptember: Lichen
#SciArtSeptember: Vector
The great northern Sydney power outage 2025
#SciArtSeptember: Chaos
I think Really Simple Licensing misses the mark
Age gate and VPNs in Australia
#SciArtSeptember and Music Monday: Bone
#SciArtSeptember: Fractal
#SciArtSeptember: Motif
Australian three bedroom apartments
#SciArtSeptember: Transcription
A new hand dryer review
#SciArtSeptember: Budding
E. L. Konigsburg on learning
#SciArtSeptember: Algae
#SciArtSeptember: Element
FastCode on open source software shakedowns
#SciArtSeptember: Permutation
Comfort viewing
#SciArtSeptember: Virus
Coffee shop chatter, week 37 2025
#SciArtSeptember: Growth
Robodebt, and Australia’s largest ever class action
#SciArtSeptember: Skeleton
I didn’t catch that last part
#SciArtSeptember: Diffusion
Not paying with cash
#SciArtSeptember: Inertia
Hollow fibre optic cables
#SciArtSeptember: Coral
Infosec Allison Mose, sung by Georgie Fame
#SciArtSeptember: Fluid
PSA: Not all KALLAX boxes fit the same
Meeting Bluey at Hammerbarn
Sysadmin work and design shouldn’t be so difficult
Andreas suggests a better Techtember
Asking questions with context
Links for week 35, 2025
Goodbye to Typepad
Replacing a sliding door roller
AusPost suspends most shipments to the US
Allan Jude on fault tolerance
Jack Johnson: Shot Reverse Shot
Starting with known good components
My VL-Bus i486 board lives! I’m incredibly happy
The Gateron Smoothie linear switches
My A-Z toolbox: dcfldd
Post frequency recently
Street Library book review № 1
Run illumos? The Café is open!
A parcel locker adventure, and being an edge case
The meaning of “Lenovo”
KDE Plasma removing third-party software icons
Buying a Thinkpad X230
Doctors using AI transcription
Cyclists on footpaths
Getting a cheap and cheerful second-hand ThinkPad
A new or rebooted Web
The day Twitter suspended me
Using the PicoPSU and PicoRC on an i486
Overheard coffee shop chatter, week 32 2025
Rainbow D-sub and ribbon cables
Zoophagous, and my mum, on art and the process
Australian card surcharges
Huh, teal is my favourite colour
Foggy in Sydney this morning
Status lights should stop blinding me
Let the Good Times Roll, Louis Jordan
ImageMagick accepts percentages
NetComm is/was Australian
Finally getting the new apartment sorted
When the interwebs went down
Homelabs and hyperscalers
My Hatsune Miku mug
My favourite GUI software, from the kitchen
genAI bills coming due
Installing Windows 3.1 on DR DOS 6.0
Some modern tech that made my weekend better
Being optimistic for technology
MoCA: Multimedia over Coax
Placing similar words together
Goodbye to Clear Linux
Gary Kildall’s memoirs released for free
Jewel, Satellite
The Voltage Blaster, PicoPSU, and PicoRC
What happened to the first track in iTunes?
Finally deshrouding my 3070 graphics card
Meta’s arguments for using Australian data
Got the flu again
A strange home lighting site
Ask Ruben: do you use LLMs to write posts?
Some OP shop computer book finds!
2.5 Admins discusses VMware and software audits
VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia
Talking about Apple again
A beautiful afternoon in an Asquith coffee shop
Understanding how RSS is delivered
Insomnia is a jerk, and I’m not a fan of their work
Voting in the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs
Voting with one’s wallet
Fifty percent of Australians live in the red areas
Some (IT) things you might not know about me
A message to outdoor tile stakeholders
The A2DVI gives the Apple II DVI and HDMI output
Diederick de Vries tries a paper calendar
Dan Langille and I have new laptops
Ceasing my use of Creative Commons
Improving mood in a few (literal) steps
A Packard Bell M415 Multimedia bezel!
Offline music, and MP3s and/or FLACs
Goodbye to Brandon’s Journal
What else are you doing?
A day dashing around Brisbane
Clara built us a Minecraft Pompompurin
Having a coffee in Brisbane
Music Monday, and rental inspections
My first Australian King Charles coin
The end of Intel macOS
Updates to the Retro Corner
Yeah, but do you need it?
You don’t have to like coffee shops
Goodbye to the Northbridge Café
digiDirect to buy Mwave
Graphics cards
Music Monday: Wings, Must Do Something About It
Running a minimum local nginx server
Mwave going into voluntary administration
The journey to a Dan A3-mATX case
How to make StackExchange (and others) more fun
The B1M’s video on the Grenfell Tower
Bric a brac
When a shell script (and this post) needs replacement
A wholistic spam review
The IKEA VIDJA floor lamp is extremely bright
Ouro Kronii is on the sidebar
What has expanded the utility of computers for you in the last decade?
The Corsair Nautilus 240 RS doesn’t fit in the Dan A4-H2O
Externalities
Post #Japan2025: Going to a GU store in Takaoka
Error-driven development
Australian Navy ship blocks Kiwi Internet
Being thankful for tech that helped during Covid
Be back soon, 2025 edition
In defence of vertical/sidebar tabs
An RPi bridge to the retro lab with NetBSD
No, the US doesn’t use Metric
A very silly website rebuild
A List Apart’s tips for writing the Living Web
ZuluIDE is a thing
Australian telco fined for identity checks
The Rubenerd Blog Quiz 2025
KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C
The perhaps unsurprising longevity of email
Todepond: Make stupid things!
Answering technical questions you wished they asked
Long form versus short writing
The world’s only stable Windows Me machine
Someone really wanted my Commodore Plus/4
An open letter to Gen X
Building a new home server?
Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE released
I've (mostly) stopped looking at star ratings
Share My Table
Working in IT made me a nervous traveller
Prolific blogging (or not?)
#Japan2025 Sydney, JAL, and the Sneaky Shortcut
#Japan2025 Ikebukuro and home
#Japan2025 Exploring Akiba and Kinshichō
#Japan2025 Hokuriku Shinkansen Back to Tōkyō
#Japan2025 Toyama Port and Glass Art Museum
Ten pointless facts regarding me
#Japan2025 Ending up in Shin-Takaoka
Australia’s and Canada’s Elections
#Japan2025 Toyama Tower, Castle, and French Pentax
#Japan2025 Toyama wanderings
#Japan2025 Off to Toyama and Takaoka
#Japan2025 Hida Folk Village… eventually!
#Japan2025 Exploring Takayama
#Japan2025 Taking the JR train to Takayama
#Japan2025 The Nagoya Brother Museum
#Japan2025 Chill Sunday in Nagoya
#Japan2025 Nagoya Mirai Tower and Hard Off
#Japan2025 SCMaglev and Railway Park!
#Japan2025 Nagoya Castle and the Palace
Image loading times
#Japan2025 Nagoya for the first time
#Japan2025 Cameras, and Ninomae Ina’nis
#Japan2025 Around Jinbōchō and Akihabara
#Japan2025 Flying into Haneda
Heading out for long service leave
Stefano Marinelli is expanding his blogging presence
The Firm’s photocopiers, by John Grisham
Postal voting in the 2025 Australian election
South Park got big-box retail mostly wrong
Brolific
Over/under with Lazybear
I’m on the Ye Olde Blogroll!
Blog questions challenge: TV shows
Australian airline refunding overcharged passengers
ElectroBOOM came to Sydney!
Some of my post-smartphone devices
Does your site refresh still have RSS?
Using “Re:” in blog titles
Replacing the blogroll with an aggregator
Friday nights on the train
The functional equivalent of microservices?
Normanhurst has nice trees
Dungeons and Dragons alignments
Force persistent FreshRSS publish date sorting in nginx
The Commodore 65 [sic] and MEGA65
Local versus remote RSS readers
A (potential) git whoopsie
Feedback regarding my “what’s the point?” post
Time in dreams
What’s the point?
Childhood PC rebuild: A UN-1061 MIO card!
Avoiding (smart)phones
Today is the Forth of the Forth
The Good News Train: Week 14, 2025
Riding the new Mariyung Sydney train
I’m so tired of thinking about genAI
My own Ship of Theseus post
We booked our 2025 Japan trip
Advice for technical newsletter writers
I n-now have a Commodore 116!
Wait, you don’t need permission to run BSD or Linux!?
Seeing the NSWGR 3526 steam locomotive!
The chestnut-naped antpitta
Micro Four Nerds reviews the OM-3
Everyone deserves security and privacy
Gentle rain outside
Dithering using Imagemagick
Gaining faster US airport entry
It’s my birthday 2025, and a silly purchase
Korean clothing advertised with a Mac Classic!?
Dithering images on my Retro Corner
A large dearth of small phones
The Q1 2025 “hope I didn’t break anything!” post
Matt Blaze on archiving
Chappell Roan: Pink Pony Club
Buzzing one’s hair
Mentour Pilot on speeding up
Running Winamp in Wine!
A personal library of retro VMs
NextDC’s S2 data centre has Stanley Parable vibes
Feedback about my iPhone SE upgrade post
Learning Go
A letter about silently re-enabling Apple Intelligence
#BOFH Excuse 359
Attention has a cost
Coffee shops that don’t want laptops
Making swimming accessible
Upgrading from the 15 Pro Max to the 2022 SE
Overheard coffee shop chatter, week 12 2025
Finding invoices for our first family PC from 1992!
Fruit companies and AI credibility
Anime dust collector preorders in March 2025
Wiping machines every year
The day Sydney Trains melted
How are YOU going?
Tom MacWright has a themed blogroll
Pricing enterprise software, feat. Cunningham’s Warehouse
Being keen for new macOS releases
A succinct email in just a subject line
A weekend paying for everything with cash
Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 shows impressive progress
The ISO 639-1 language code for Japanese is ja
The Flufi third-party Instagram photo browser
Earth’s oldest known crater found in rural Australia
The Speccy
The AMD Radeon RX 9070’s power efficiency
BMPs with ImageMagick, and a great Vogons thread
Goodbye to Skype
Doing maths on Hugo post params
MacVim now has fancy tabs
Fixing phone reception in rural Australia
Australia, Singapore, and the US
The tale of a cursed pair of glasses
Free Our Feeds… onto blockchain
Have you ever clicked on an ad?
Creating the Om System OM-3 Wikipedia page
POPs, and collectables for the sake of them
Window cleaner for computers
Goodbye to our Kindles
Reading for week 9 2025
“Do you not like money?”
Doing one of those “archetype” tests
A Give Way sign, but shorter
Sticking with Mini-ITX with the cute Dan A4-H2O
What do people do in coffee shops?
Zig Claybourne on joy
Turning off notifications
The elusive desoldering station
A submission for CRANK: Restaurant QR codes
The Ricoh GR III is an incredible camera
Facts about Ukraine 🇺🇦
Memories of underground car parks
Nice spot for afternoon coffee
I wish I could delete spreadsheet columns
Goodbye to the iPhone SE
Electrarc240 explains switch mode power supplies
Ey, fuhgeddaboudit
Reconciling… my brain!
Unobtainium PC building in early 2025
The 1988 Kenwood KX-47C was a great budget deck
Stopping FreeBSD jails in reverse order
Illy Intenso coffee beans
The One Wi-Fi Network
Music Monday, Let It Be
Getting some scones in beautiful weather
Joan Westenberg on complexity being a trap
A question about aviation ESG plans
Coffee shop chatter, week 7 2025
Feedback rules
A tiny cup handle
An example of what I receive, from [redacted]
This is hard, but talking about feedback
Limits before running Postgres becomes useful
A terminal survey
Tell us something good
In Sydney? Want to buy a 2017 Suzuki GSX-R600?
Blog question challenge: Technology
Every day is Coffee Cheese Day at our place
The OM SYSTEM OM-3 is the camera of my dreams
Baltic states disconnect from Russian grid
Boring tech is mature, not old
“Useful” university subjects
The Mull of Kintyre
We defeated the Ender Dragon!
Thinking about clock batteries
Using an element14 Wi-Pi [sic] on FreeBSD
Content Security Policy for inline data:image
A (blue) selection of excellent site designs
A month with MediaWiki powered by Postgres
The Hyper7-R4 is ridiculous and I want it
But you can just disable your phone stabbing you!
My (first ever) good vitamin D reading!
TLS down for a few hours
Exposing all that incredible genAI hubris
Solving the Moving Sofa Problem
Our new sandstone friend
People may want to join you, if you treat them well
Trying ALDI coffee beans
Being goal oriented, not process oriented
Cancelling should be as easy (or hard) as registration
People want solutions
SEIKO Hatsune Miku Senbonzakura Watch
Helicopters are loud
Building an Atari 1040STᴱ chip manifest
GNOME to switch from the Cantarell font
Wouter Groeneveld and Josh on blog drafts
Right to repair farm equipment
Your favourite doesn’t have to be the best
Creating the ecomyca article on Wikipedia
Wait, it’s the 31st of January!?
Year of the Linux desktop
The Kinesis mWave Keyboard
genAI also killed irony
Useful dreams
Daniel Gerlach’s programming quote collection
I accidently made abstract art
MediaWiki with PostgreSQL
Thinking aloud about self-hosted photo sharing
Robin Wong is still writing about photography
Residential ISPs cutting over to IPv6
We hatched a Minecraft sniffer!
OM-1 Mark II follow-up, and getting years wrong
When people judge you for wearing a mask
Getting in 10,000 Steps
I wish partner graphics cards got the memo
Shipping anxiety
Playing digital audio files on a Hi-Fi?
Press button, receive slop
To trans people 🏳️⚧️
It’s not a bicycle
Nick Clegg’s meagre defence of Facebook fact checking
Programming languages I’ve used
History is kept by the archivists
CAPTCHAs are getting creepy
M43, and craving the OM System OM-1 Mark II
Sometimes nerds just have to explain something
nuintari’s Rules of IT
The Tennant S960 Battery Ride-on Sweeper
Spreads I wouldn’t want on toast
Cursed curly brackets in code
Watching Nimi Nightmare’s debut! 💭 #naplings
Stuff doesn’t work
Brain ABIs, and the allure (or not) of sleeping in
Things that make me avoid a blog
The OpenWrt One, and NameTLAs
The current state of my drafts folder
Andreas, Tim, Michał, and I don’t need new machines
Lightbulbs, and two types of people in this world
Voting with our wallets
“Free Our Feeds”
My A-Z toolbox: cowsay
Random news for week 3, 2025
The Great Sydney Storm of 2025
Remember international calls?
Anticipating how CAPTCHAs want me to solve them
The limits of advice, and having your own thoughts
Why would you want something?
Using RSS over JSON Feeds?
Reverse sunk cost, and working with what you have
Part four: Installing an SSD in our PlayStation 3 Slim
My Wedgewood Egypt mug
Où Est Le Soleil?
Which shell do I use on FreeBSD?
Erin Kissane’s essay “Bad Shape”
Walking down Brain Lane
Part three: Replacing our PS3 with a PS3 Slim
Bad Apple!! But it’s a fluid simulation
Tiny KVMs for one-off colocation
My fast food tier list
Titles referring to “my stuff”, not just “stuff”
The EFF is not a serious organisation
Part two: Our (recent) history with the PlayStation 3
Downloading WatchGuard evaluation feature keys
Overheard at a coffee shop, week 1 2025
Cay Horstmann configures HiDPI on Linux
What to do with trade show lanyards?
Remembering our hi-fi and TV inputs
Franksting’s new blog: features, value, and opt-in
A big thank you to Hugo
Neverending beeps in the night
Consoles, and the PlayStation 3
Reine and Fauna’s Invincible Rainbow Arrow cover!
Our everything–is–a–transaction future
What to consider before consuming
Silly word search for 2025
Mozilla’s Orbit service
Fauna’s farewell stream #faunline
What I need in a desktop environment
yt-dlp: “Requested range not satisfiable”
The Tanmatsu portable RISC-V terminal
Refrigeration: my greatest invention of modern times
Gary Castle was tempted by clipboard parts
Spraining a finger
Export PDFs, don’t print them
Zen and the art of PCIe ×1 placement
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