I hate biopics
Except when they're about pinball, apparently.
Raphi Rambles
Latest posts
A pelican plugin to avoid publishing drafts
My quick and dirty solution to avoid spamming your feed with crap.
Doc Watson lick on the mandolin
Rambling about music day and stealing from the late Doc Watson.
.git/info/exclude is awesome!
Let's be enthusiastic about something for a change. And then apologize for a stupîd mistake, because nice things are no fun if you don't mess them up.
Please don't poop on my books
Losing Alexandria all over again.
Les Amishs avaient raison
Cramez les tous.
Spot the difference
I don't care if you use AI. I'd appreciate being told if you're gonna use it on me, though.
The history of the Web
Sharing a pretty cool resource about how the web took shape.
Google est mort
C'est pas souvent, mais pour une fois, je suis d'accord avec Steve Jobs.
The quest for quests
Game dev is hard, but doing it badly is still pretty fun.
A tune from Canada: L'air mignonne
Here's a cute little tune for y'all.
Smart Sandwich
Un papa un peu idiot démontre qu'un ordinateur, c'est con comme un manche.
Still enjoying the mandolin
Progress being made. Still a long road to go.
Please stop selling me my future
How I stopped caring whether or not people would call me an old fart so I could keep ranting.
Troquets Numériques
Ou comment une poignée de parasites nous ont volé le web sans qu'on soit foutu de réagir.
Never Surrender
Some quick nerding out over a story about stories.
Unsung Heroes
A bitter, 14 years late eulogy leads to asking who we should pay attention to and why.
Why Do The Bad Songs Always Last So Long
Stumbled on a song I wrote some years ago and figured I'd share it on here.
Tellement Dément
Amnesty dit des choses intéressantes, et je suis décidément pas doué pour les titres.
Where the hell is Patrick Costello ?
A quick tip of the hat that grew into its own post because the internet sucks.
Half-assed banjo tuning
How to jazz up a blues tune out of sheer lazyness.
RIP JP
Monde de merde
Getting started on the mandolin
Applying concepts from Harmony 101 to explore a new instrument.
Microsoft is stealing my vimrc
Yet another rant about AI crawlers and how they're ruining the web.
Don't post when you're pissed
AKA know when it's time to stop everything and go get a drink.
MarkyPond out on Github
MarkyPond extension is now on Github.
Markdown + Lilypond = ?
Spending an afternoon building a simple tool that may or may not prove useful in the near or far future.
Happy Pony
My two cents on the django web framework, which just celebrated its 20th birthday.
Dark Mode: Followup
Warning: This article contains way too much Javascript.
Implementing Dark Mode
Minor site update.
Qui veut la peau des hyperliens ?
Une vague envie de jouer au cyber-activiste.
Learning Touch Typing
Do pianists make for better hackers ? I suck at those keyboards too, so I wouldn't know.
I Don't Care About Star Wars Anymore
Is Star Wars trending these days ? If not, then it's probably time to chime in.
I Made A Thing
Post mortem on a trivial script and a quick rant about Python's type hints.
Let's Build a Thing
Feeling like playing around with RSS feeds, which seems like a good excuse for some quick old-tech evangelizing.
So You Wanna Get Into Bluegrass Lead Guitar
A handful of tips to make getting started on the road to country / bluegrass soloing (hopefully) less scary.
Tooltip Odissey
Or how a quick afternoon hack led to paying tribute to one of my heroes. And also to some lessons in UX design, I guess.
Hello World
1, 2, Testing...