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Kindle Display for Eaton UPS (via NUT)
I turned my 7th Gen Amazon Kindle ebook reader into an always-on display that sits on my wall and shows the status of the UPS, its load, and its battery charge.
Generating Alpha In Financial Markets: A Framework
As my investment strategy has gradually shifted from passive to active investing, I want to share some of the ways of thinking that have helped me beat the market over the past decade.
Polybius And The Special Effects Arcade (Fiction)
A story of the game that played me as a kid.
Hanafuda Beginner’s Guide & Cheat Sheet (Part 1: Sakura)
Learn the Sakura card game using Nintendo Hanafuda cards
The Block Size Debate: 5 Years Later
Why it costs several dollars to send Bitcoin today, instead of being cheap as its creator Satoshi Nakamoto intended.
The Absurdity Of Paying For 5G
5G is coming. Refuse to pay extra for it.
The Quiet Meditation of Getting Over It
What the game 'Getting Over It' taught me about loss and setback.
Why Is It Called “Punycode”?
Punycode creator Adam Costello shares the reason he named it “Punycode”
GitHub Takeout
In 2020, there still isn't a great way to back up a GitHub account.
How I Removed My Profile Pic from Sydex.net and Alumnius.net People Search
Using internet backbone records, I traced Sydex and Alumnius to a Dutch web host involved in Russia-USA election interference.
How To Remove Your MyLife.com Profile
This mini-article shares what language worked for me in getting my MyLife.com profile removed.
How I Removed My Own Face From My Head
To avoid facial recognition, I surgically removed my own face off of my head. Here's how to do it.
Literary Analysis: Dire Dire Docks by Luke Saward
If an audiophile is studious enough in the uncovering of rare music, there comes a time in his life when he hears an arrangement so profound, so rousing of his base emotions, that he is all but forced to pause and reflect, lest he no longer be a consumer of music but consumed by it instead. Luke Saward's arrangement of Dire Dire Docks is a such an arrangement.
Dear Spammers…
I do not want you to redesign my website. I do not want you to make my website mobile-responsive. I do not want you to build a mobile app for my website. I do not want to republish your blog post on my website. I do not want you to send me a No Obligation Audit Report. I do not want to improve my website's SEO. I do not want to be on the 1st page of Google or Get My First 10,000 Visitors From…
Overwatch Should Have Balance Patches Every 60 Seconds
A few years ago I was playing Overwatch, and someone had set up a custom server where they had randomly changed the stats of all the weapons and abilities. Some weapons/abilities were much weaker, some much stronger, and some were super overpowered to the point of being ridiculous.
Thoughts on the MakerDAO USDC Proposal
This crisis should be a wake-up call for MakerDAO, an opportunity to review its policy tools and set a roadmap to adjust them over the long term.
Fixed: WordPress VVV 502 error when visiting plugins.php page
While developing a WordPress plugin using VVV, I was getting a 502 error when visiting the plugin management page. It turns out that VVV's dependency, Vagrant 2.2.6, is not compatible with the newest version of VirtualBox (6.1).
How To Enable “Strict Mode” On JavaScript Classes
Answer: You don't need to do anything. Strict mode is already enabled on ES6 JavaScript classes by default.
Grub Init Tune - Mario Bros. Mushroom Powerup
This Grub Init Tune will make your computer sound like a Super Mushroom every time you turn it on! This only works for the Grub bootloader - this generally means you need to have Linux (or other Grub-based OS) installed.
Run IPFS on Boot (Ubuntu/Debian)
Here's how to get IPFS to run in the background, so you can continually host your pinned files to the IPFS network.
ProtonMail Sieve Email Filter for Tagging Forwarded Gmail
If you have an old Gmail address, and a new ProtonMail email address, and you are forwarding all your email from Gmail to ProtonMail, this Sieve filter is for you.
Long Live Bitcoin (on Ethereum!)
Ethereum’s Bitcoin derivatives will replace Bitcoin itself, making the Bitcoin network obsolete.
3 Reasons NOT To Use A CDN For Your Website
Using a CDN is usually a good decision. However, in some cases the performance drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
Recipe: Garlic Sautéed Kale
I'd like to share my favorite way to cook kale, hands-down. It's super fast and easy, and the result is a tasty, zingy side dish.
How To Hide Related Videos In YouTube Embeds
In September 2018, YouTube disabled the ability for users to prevent related videos from showing on YouTube embeds. This tutorial will teach you how to bypass that limitation and prevent related videos from showing anyway.
Why Does Microsoft Charge $100 For BitLocker?
Every other OS encrypts for free. So why does Microsoft charge?
Rest in Peace, Tribes Ascend
It recently came to my attention that the Game Of The Year first person shooter game Tribes: Ascend is no longer searchable on Steam, Hirez's website, or Google Search, and the only way to still get to it is to already have the URL. In other words, Hirez Studios has finally decided to stop distributing Tribes: Ascend.
Keto Is Not A High Protein Diet
The purpose of this article is not to extoll the virtues of the keto diet. By the end of this article I have one singular goal: to correct a very common misconception about the definition of the keto diet.
I Want You To Be Uncomfortable.
We spend most of our lives avoiding discomfort, without understanding what it really is or how it works. In this post I share how a traumatic experience reshaped my relationship with discomfort, and why discomfort is not the bad guy everyone makes it out to be.
Status Update 2 on the MusicalWolfe Channel
I had a bad experience with YouTube deleting my videos. Read about what happened, and why I ultimately went back to YouTube.
How to Get 10% off McDonald’s Burgers for Life (as a multi-billionaire)
If you follow this guide, you will have 10% off all McDonald's food for life. All you need is a brokerage account, a few minutes, and $66 billion.
YouTube is Deleting Your Favorite Videos, And They Won’t Say Why
YouTube partners are struggling to get their videos reinstated after false copyright claims. Where's the Fair Use?
How to use Google App Engine as a free redirect server
This guide will show you how to set up a redirect app on Google App Engine that uses a mapping of input URLS to output URLs to redirect the user depending on the path on your website that they visited.
How to Limit the Bandwidth of Bitcoin Core on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
In this article, we will learn how to limit the outgoing bandwidth of Bitcoin Core (formerly Bitcoin-qt) on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, so we can leave it listening in the background without completely saturating our internet connection.
CSS ‘will-change’ Property: A Performance Case Study
In this article, we will look at the real-world performance gains made possible by the will-change CSS property. I’ll go over some of the background behind the will-change property, what it does, and how to use it to improve the performance of web pages that rely on Javascript animation of DOM elements.
Status Update on the MusicalWolfe Channel
I want to apologize for the lack of communication regarding my long and sudden hiatus from YouTube, and give everyone a rough idea of what they can expect from my channel in the future.
Running Bitcoin Core on the Raspberry Pi
So you’ve decided to run the full Bitcoin client on your Raspberry Pi. Perhaps you want give back to the Bitcoin network, maybe you just want to test how well it runs. There are no official binaries for Bitcoin-qt on Raspberry Pi, so this guide will focus on compiling Bitcoin from source. Fortunately, it’s not too tough – we can follow the official build instructions almost verbatim.