Programming, Linux, Web, and Fiction Reviews
UPDATE 2026-07-26: Added links to The Death Generator and The Spriters Resource as suggestions for how to make a custom welcome message more fun and a link to an example of how to sandbox a miniserve-based companion HTTP server using Continue reading
Here are my 2025 tips too short for anywhere but Mastodon:
I ve been playing Stardew Valley with a few friends, with mods, and, when one of them started experiencing intermittent packet loss that messed up the Discord call, I decided to set up a private Mumble server since Mumble has a Continue reading
Here are a few things that I posted on Mastodon because they were too short for a blog post, but which I think should be cross-posted anyway for archival:
EDIT: It turns out hotplug wasn t the problem. Something else is resetting the X11 keymap without it involving the device getting reset I m done with this nonsense. I ll temporarily set a user cronjob to force it back to what it s Continue reading
Taylor Varga by mp3.1415player Length: 2,058,592 wordsStatus: OngoingCrossover: Worm + Luna Varga (but with the assumption nobody but the author has seen Luna Varga) Today s fic is a doozy and not just for its eye-opening length. Like the stories by Continue reading
If you have a Vorke V1 Plus that doesn t want to drive its fan under Linux, or which doesn t want to shut off the fan after the UEFI turns it on at boot, here s what worked for me: As for Continue reading
…so you naively thought that continuing past the Windows XP compatibility warning and installing pcANYWHERE 8.0 would give you a working pcANYWHERE client but no server? …and you now have a machine that just boots into a black 640 480 screen Continue reading
How does a completed Worm crackfic based around Taylor Hebert triggering with superpowered laziness sound? What about a fic with bits like this? You let my brother hijack your body… so you don t have to walk? said Cherie with an Continue reading
If you re trying to set up DOS games like Jetpack in something like RetroPie or Batocera, you might run into a problem where pressing the S key ( start new game in Jetpack) doesn t do anything, whether through a physical keyboard Continue reading