Borneo - Animals (no spiders)
Recently we visited Borneo, third largest island on the planet and home to some amazing wildlife and geography. There is too much to describe in a short blog post so...
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Impolite Spiders
For years now I have been aghast at the terribly impolite behavior of some bots who spider my site. It is extremely common to see many successive requests to the...
Let's See How itch.io Is Working Out For Me
Just under a week ago I published my old game on itch.io for the first time as an experiment. I have always been told that itch really helps with engagement...
Voyage of the Marigold is Now Available on Itch.io
Voyage of the Marigold, my StarTrek-esque game of commanding a starship on a dangerous mission, is now available on Itch.io. There are no updates to the game itself, and the...
Sossusvlei and Surroundings, Namibia
Another entry in my not-a-travel-blog - this time sketching out the start of our Namibia odyssey. We flew into Windhoek and picked up our rental - a large Ford Ranger....
Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant)
Avif files are the new hotness, and to be honest they are pretty good. Basically a replacement for both jpeg and png with better compression and (finally!) support for alpha...
Hoba Meteorite, Namibia
This is not really a travel blog but we have been traveling and my camera roll is ponderous with photos from around the world. I plan to post some of...
Who Is That Knocking At My (SSH) Door?
Note: As I was writing this I became aware of an even better project covering much the same ground in a more detailed way - I Left Port 22 Open...
I have Thoughts on the Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Recently I finished The Gate of the Feral Gods, Book 4 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. DCC is real success story, starting out self-published by author Matt Dinniman before...
Small Website Update - Dark Mode
It has been on my todo list for years but I have finally gotten around to implementing dark mode in the default theme for the static site generator that runs...
Blocking HTTP1.1 - Some Results
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I was experimenting with blocking HTTP1.1 requests to my site. Here are some observations, in case anyone is thinking of following in...
I Am Experimenting with Blocking HTTP1.1
Update: I have a followup post with some updates and results.Most of the traffic I get on this site is bots - it isn't even close. And, for whatever reason,...
Two Non-fiction Books Touching on Evolutionary Biology
Travel brings up amazing contrasts. Sometimes you are eating croissants on a high-speed train zooming through Europe. Sometimes you sipping wine in a huge metal tube flying over Greenland's icecaps....
C++ Threads - There is a Right Way and a Wrong Way but the Wrong Way is Probably Fine
A recent post on one of the C++ subreddits caught my eye. It has since been deleted but I thought it illustrated an interesting point.Paraphrasing from memory:These are good questions...
It Is A War Out There - Take Control of Your Supply Lines with HtDTY
This post advocates minimizing dependencies in web pages that you do not directly control. It conflates dependencies during build time and dependencies in the browser. I maintain that they are...