Writing about stuff I have vague interests in and commenting on stuff I read.
In November 2025, a pull request was opened for the Tailwind website repository to add llms.txt as an endpoint for, you guessed it, providing an LLM-friendly version of the popular CSS framework’s documentation. It first sat idle for a while and the issuer started pinging Tailwind employees for review. After not getting any kind of response, Tailwind’s creator chimed in and laid down some bad…
Critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has some neat tricks up its sleeve when paired with a PlayStation 5 DualSense controller. The game makes use of the built-in speaker, adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, just as it does on PS5. I could never get these features to work on Linux—until recently. And the solution is surprisingly straight-forward. Solving this riddle led me down a rabbit…
I remember a time when the social internet wasn’t just five endless scrolling websites. Not a day went by when there wasn’t something new and exciting just around the corner. Today, it seems like that internet is but a distant memory fading away. What we’re left with is something inherently harmful to the way people foster connections. In her video essay The Internet Used to Be a Place , Sarah…
On December 4, 2025, after 18 long years, the moment Metroid fans the world over have been waiting for finally arrived: The eagerly awaited fourth installment in the Metroid Prime series, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, was released for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. And expectations were anything but low. The fourth installment in the Prime series was first announced in a 2017 Nintendo Direct. Nothing…
Furries are immensely creative critters, and art plays a crucial role in expressing this creativity. The fursonas people express themselves with come in all shapes and sizes. In order to portray them accurately, most artists require some form of reference material from you. The first picture of my dragon is from 2009, it was gifted to me by a friend whose comics I had proofread. By 2013, I had…
Getting files to and from your Steam Deck can be achieved in a couple of ways. The most obvious one would be a USB flash drive or external hard drive. But unless those are already USB-C, you’ll need an adapter or a dock. You might use a micro SD card, but if you already use one for expanding your Steam Deck’s storage, it formats it with a file system neither Windows or macOS can read. What if I…
Gaming storefronts Steam and itch.io have come under fire recently for taking NSFW games and media off their platforms or preventing such contents from showing up in search results. Both Steam and itch.io have been known for their lenient policy regarding such games and media and nobody seemingly bat an eye over it—until an Australian activist group entered the picture. That group’s name is…
Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly deceptive, GPUs are missing processing units when they leave the factory, and the drivers, for which NVIDIA has always…
Windows 10 support ends for good October 14, 2025 and from what I’ve been able to tell, people aren’t looking forward to upgrading to Windows 11 any time soon. Microsoft surely isn’t doing itself any favors with the heavy push into “AI” and stuffing Copilot into everything. Also, full screen ads at start-up basically nagging people to upgrade—if their computer can even run Windows 11—or buy an…
NFTs arrived on the scene with big promises. They were pitched as the future of digital ownership. Using the blockchain as their basis, they were supposed to last forever. With an NFT one was supposed to prove beyond any doubt a digital asset was unique and truly owned. Fast forward only a couple years and the only thing that got owned were the people who blew their live savings on JPEGs of…
The Switch 2 was revealed and alongside it the new Mario Kart World which will be a launch title for the upcoming Nintendo console. The reveal certainly has been the talk of the town for a while now, but aren’t raving on about how good they think the new console is or how good games on it look. The Switch 2 will see a 50% price increase over its predecessor, from around $300 to around $450. This…
News about tech has been very grim lately. Microsoft keeps pushing Copilot on everyone in Windows, GitHub, even keyboards. The “AI” craze has seen companies burn down years of goodwill in a flash in the search of The Next Big Thing . Enthusiasm in tech is at an all time low and people are looking for a way out of the cycle of trash. The only alternative that remains is the one people keep…
Recently, the question of why Bluesky was gaining significantly more traction than Mastodon from yet another Twitter exodus came up again. I used to ask myself the same question, so I went digging. That question usually gets asked in tech-centric circles where nobody can meaningfully answer or it’s agreed upon rather hand-wavingly that it must be the usual reasons. So I took it upon myself to ask…
Today is the day. I’ve been mulling over whether I should keep it around for good ol’ times or to reserve the handle, but I’ve ultimately decided it’s time to call it quits and no longer maintain a presence. Today I’m quitting Twitter, full stop. At first, I thought about just locking the account and leaving it to collect dust. That way, at least nobody could steal the handle and impersonate me.…
Blog posts are meant to be shared. When sharing links, you’ll often see a preview on social media and instant messengers. But how does it work and how can you do it with Eleventy? The metadata that makes share previews on social media and messengers work is called the Open Graph protocol . Originally conceived by Facebook to map relationships between people, it is now used primarily on social…
Apple recently unveiled their refresh of the iPad mini. Most surprising to me is that it comes with the A17 Pro chip. That got me thinking… Wasn’t the iPad mini meant as a small casual device? Why does it need a Pro chip?! But in conversations with friends I came to realize that the iPad lineup has been getting ever more confusing as time went on. And I’m not alone. Since the launch of the iPhone…
While you can certainly host your image files with the Git repo your Eleventy site is checked into, or add them manually after building it, neither option is ideal if you want responsive images in multiple formats to save precious bandwidth. GitHub imposes limits on the size of files you can commit, and when your repo reaches a certain size, GitHub will ask you nicely to reduce its size (or else…)…
I recently felt like getting back into blogging. But setting up and maintaining WordPress felt like more than I was looking for. I was looking for something much simpler. Preferably file-based and with Markdown support. That was my introduction to Eleventy. Update 2025-02-17 Updated Tailwind instructions for Tailwind v4 Starting an Eleventy project is fairly straight-forward if you’ve ever worked…