Universal currency
God does not play dice with the universe, but he does spin coins. Blink and you might make heads or tails of it, but it’s still spinning undecided for now.
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Toothless is an insult
In that Haddaway way Don't find yourself A hurtless waste Bite me
Introducing poems
I’ve been planning to host some of my poetry here for a few years. Today, I’m uploading a backlog and selection of my favourite poems spanning back to 2023.
Tongue
I crave a language Only the faithful speak I wish for words Without judgement or authority I picture prose To say sometimes, not for sure I feel a tongue That dances whole on its own I dream of a dialect That neither stammers nor preaches I long for letters Like wet sand on beaches I crave a language Only the faithful speak
Bitty
Porkington beans Loafington toes Bim-Bim my sweet, What do you nose? Stinkington fruit Darlington sneeze Hey there you lizard, Did you take my keys? Littlemost creature Plotting most crimes Softness my sidekick, You're always on time
Uncurtained
Wake yourself one day Absolutely convinced Of terrors so certain Your whole body winced Wade your way back Determined but scared The krakens uncurtained So overprepared Tie yourself knotted Up tightly with string Next time you fall Unraveled you'll cling Lie yourself naked Back into the trap Stripped of your all Only then can you nap
The part I forget about you
that's the part i forget about you your wounds are not so visible i know you're in pain you show it a lot i think you forget it too
A Desktop Monitor Follow-up
Two months ago, I wrote about desktop monitors . Since then, I’ve found something that pretty much meets my needs. Let’s see how it stacks up to my demands. - 27-inch (16:9) or ultrawide equivalent - 10-bit, glossy - >= 160 ppi, (i.e., 4K or greater) - 120Hz or 144Hz, more is overkill - Better than average office display response times - 400 nits BARE minimum, 600 nits (actual) - Looks…
A Desktop Monitor For 2025
Discuss on Hacker News This post is an extension of a rant thread 1 I wrote recently. All I want is a monitor that looks good next to my 14" M1 MacBook Pro. Is that too much to ask? Apple has taken the quality of MacBook displays seriously for as long as I can remember, which for me goes back to the first unibody designs. Soon after that, Apple was the first company brave enough to ship a notebook…
macOS Window Drag Hotkey
Sway and Hyprland let you drag windows around from any point with a held keyboard modifier. This setting lets you hold Control ⌃ + Command ⌘ with the left mouse button to do the same in macOS. Log out or reboot to apply. defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
about
Danielle De Leo (she/her) is a 31 year old software developer based in Canada. Away from her desk, she is an avid and enthusiastic amateur photographer, she gardens, she does pottery, she writes poetry, and is finally starting to figure it all out.
Allegory
The cave lights cease their flicker Another fire stoked
Back on the Fediverse
My main social media accounts are for the forseeable future going to be ActivityPub-based. I don’t find BlueSky to be the right place for me, though I might return at some point.
Glide
Not marching Not floating Not frozen Nor rushing It's steady and stable But not a gallop or trot It flaps and it glides It can sustain, and it does There's no guilt in a pause You land on a perch To breathe and swoop And resume calmly Momentum and potential
transpile.net
I finally got around to updating this blog to the new domain name: transpile.net . It’s a double entendre, get it? Even though I haven’t touched this blog since around this time last year, it was effortless to get it up and running with the latest version of Hugo and a switch to GitLab Pages. I have lots of ideas for writing and follow-ups, so check back.
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periwiki
MediaWiki-inspired, Goldmark powered wiki written in Go with an SQLite backend.
Commentary: GamerZahk's Upcoming City-Building Games in 2022 & 2023 video
This post is a copy of a YouTube comment I wrote in response to a “listicle”-style video by GamerZahk of upcoming city builders. You can watch it here . If EA released a cleaned up “HD Edition” version of SC4 with 64 bit multi-core optimizations, support for Vulkan/DX12, and provided a documented modding API to make things like NAM easier, I would be happy. Obviously…
virt-manager on M1 Macs
I found the easiest way to get virt-manager and virt-viewer to run on Monterey (M1) was to use a separate Intel installation of homebrew. Then I looked through the recent forks of jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager for something that looked reasonably up to date and did the usual brew tap installation.
New tank day
I recently sold the two aquariums I’ve had for the last year and a bit and replaced them with a bigger, nicer one. I’m going all out with CO2, tons of tricky plants, great natural decor, and maybe even discus! For now, I have a handful of corydoras panda swimming around a giant tank. Quick aside, I hope the ones I bought were tank-bred, because they’re a near-threatened species.…
Squash Borers
Although the garden is looking great, I recently discovered a sinister pest called the squash vine borer. The black and orange moth lands on gourds, lays its eggs, and the resulting larva bore through well established vines and kill the plant. I’ve been systematically excising them from pumpkins and zucchini with tweezers but it’s a losing battle.
Endtimes gardening
Our garden has never looked better, all thanks to thanks to SARS-CoV-2. When I saw the headlines in Decemeber 2019 I stocked up on tons of seeds: hot peppers, pumpkins, squash, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and greens. I knew I’d have lots of time at home.
Compilers are hard
Compilers are hard. The cliff you have to climb to get LLVM to spit out ‘Hello world’ is several kilometres tall. Of course, that’s after you’ve crossed the Sahara on foot, without water, to write a parser and lexer.
stats
This site is built with Hugo, a static site generator. Here are some fun stats; all generated at compile time! The word counts only apply to body text, including this text.
In Search of a Mechanical Keyboard Endgame: Part 1
It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with mechanical keyboards. Ever since I bought my first mechanical keyboard in 2009, I’ve been hooked. This (not so) short post is a stream a stream of consciousness recount of my years of ‘keebing’. ## Naive Beginnings Back in the stone age of 2009, I bought my first honest-to-goodness ‘mech: a Razer Blackwidow, with Cherry MX…
gmihtml
gmihtml is a simple work in progress gmi-to-html parser and formatter written in Go.
My Blogging Workstation
## ThinkPad X60 Although I do my day to day work on a MacBook, I have a deep soft spot for ThinkPads. My old X60T (swapped out with a X61S motherboard) is the perfect distraction-free blogging device from a more civilized age. It has a small SATA SSD (that runs at SATA 3 speeds thanks to Middleton’s ThinkPad BIOS mods). The Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 runs at a blistering 1.60GHz. free tells me I…
A ThinkPad For 2020
Updated on February 12, 2020. Here are some links to read and contribute to the converstation. Tildes Reddit Think. I’ve always loved ThinkPads. Every time I touch one I feel a pang of regret and jealousy because, for the last few years, I’ve been using MacBooks. I still have my old T410, used to have an X230T, frequently help my mom with her P53, and a couple years ago I bought an old…