Recent content on yequari.com
One of my goals for this year was to read 10 books start to finish. I haven’t really read for recreation since I was a child, so I felt 10 was a high enough number to have to work towards but still low enough to be attainable. So far, I have finished 7 books, so I thought I’d write out some brief thoughts on them. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by…
Recently, I’ve been completely absorbed by the newly released Gundam Card Game. After doing a few booster set and starter deck release events, I went to my first local constructed tournament for the game last week and had a blast. My expectation was that many players would be playing late game control decks based on results from other tournaments, so I tried to take advantage of this with a…
Pink Floyd at Pompeii is a live concert film, originally released in 1972, where the band plays in the amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii. Last weekend I had the excellent of experience of seeing a showing of the 2025 IMAX Remaster. The remastered footage looked great, and the remastered audio was mind-blowing. The original recording was not of particularly great quality, but the mastering work…
It’s been (almost exactly) one year since my last fitness update. I wanted to look back at my goals and see how I’ve progressed. Body Weight : 210lbs(ish) my weight has fluctuated a bit but it has stayed in the 210-215 range. Not quite where I wanted to be but it is an improvement. Lifts : My lifting has pretty much stagnated. I’m still only able to hit 115lbs maximum on…
The other day, I received my acceptance letter for an online Computer Science Masters program. There is some administrative minutiae to complete before I can register for classes, but it’s really happening! It will be difficult to balance my schoolwork while also working full time, but I’m excited to learn all I can! I’m hoping to pivot my career into systems programming, I…
I have played exactly two games of League of Legends in the past 35 days. Since I started playing the game back in 2013, I’ve consistently played matches almost daily. I’ve had breaks of a week or two, usually to dive into some other game that was flavor of the month, but for the past 12 years, League of Legends was a constant part of my life. About a month ago, I was playing a game,…
I recently came across ava’s blog and this post in particular stood out to me. I’m sorting through all of my belongings in preparation to move later this year and it’s really true that getting rid of things is sometimes way more difficult than acquiring it in the first place. Something to keep in mind before buying any new stuff.
Brandon at What’s a Computer? writes about his 2025 Streetpass challenge to see how many Streetpass tags he can get with his 3DS. I miss Streetpass a lot, I have fond memories of going on a school trip and getting tags from people all over the country. Seeing the indicator lit up at the end of the day was exciting! It’s a shame the Switch gave up on this feature.
One day this page will pull some info from APIs to create a more interesting page but for now I just manually update it as needed. Video Games Balatro Tabletop Games Playing D&D 5e (2024) as a Human Cleric of Tyr named Sam. Shows and Movies Nothing currently Music Hosimachi Suisei, she9, Moon in June - Been really into Japanese music recently Other Stuff Found some cool retro Transformers at a…
Andreas Kling likes computers! He works on SerenityOS and the Ladybird Browser.
Drew DeVault is a software engineer working on multiple projects, notably swaywm and the Hare programming language.
fLaMEd writes about his hobbies and the web.
Julia’s blog is all about content that dives deep into how computers work, but makes it accessible for non-experts.
Chris Wellon’s personal blog with a lot of great tips and pointers (pun intended) for C programming.
An inclusive community dedicated to making web development approachable to newcomers.
A forum focused on smallweb development, styled like an old-school web 1.0 website!
A project from m15o, who describes it as “A vibrant metropolis in an uncharted internet territory.”
The work of Laura Kalbag and Aral Balkan, the Small Technology Foundation advocates for building the small web using small technology designed to increase human welfare.
A manifesto written by Andrew Roach proposing that we should try to do things on a human scale again, instead of trying to design everything to scale infinitely.
A list of small, free, or experimental tools for building websites or games.
A web simulation of the old Megaman NT Warrior Advanced PET toy from the mid-2000s
A real-world application of UNIX skills.
A chronological reading order for IDW’s Transformers series (2005).
A modern interpretation of the Gettysburg Address.
A retrospective from someone who worked on the Windows 95 user interface detailing the design process and iteration that went into creating an interface that was accessible to both first-time computer users and existing power users.
A Wired article about a Spanish engineer who built up a distributed wifi network to provide Internet to his town because telecom companies wouldn’t.
Cory Doctorow writes about DRM and the bullshit of digital “ownership”
An article discussing how writing on the Internet is changing because of AI
An excellent tutorial on how to set up webmentions on your site, specifically tailored to neocities users.
An approachable beginner’s guide to RSS, written by the folks in the Melonland community.
Every C class teaches you to use scanf() to read input. Every Cbest practices guide tells you to never use scanf(). This article describes how.
Coming from CSS Tricks is a terrific guide to using CSS flexbox with examples and explanations of all the properties. My go-to resource whenever I have questions regarding flexbox.
An amazing and wild project that creates an executable file compatible with Unix, Windows, and MacOS.
A graduate class taught by Jan Schaumann at Stevens Institute of Technology covering the development of complex system software for UNIX systems.
A talk from Strange Loop 2023 by Devine Lu Linvega about managing software complexity and developing software with preservation in mind. Devine show off a virtual machine and language they created for building games and software, with a focus on being well documented and easily re-implementable.
Beej’s Guides are all excellent tools to learn various programming languages and technologies. Notably useful for me are Beej’s Guide to Network Programming and Beej’s Guide to C (both volumes)
Some suggestions for projects programmers should try in order to level up their skills.
Permacomputing focuses on sustainable computing, inspired by permaculture, aiming to utilize existing compute resources rather than new ones. The wiki is very incomplete, but is something to keep an eye on as it grows.
A list of tips when writing shell scripts. Especially useful for me since I’m not super familiar with bash but use it on a daily basis.
A virtual machine simulating a base 3 computer. Alternatives to the traditional models of computing are of great interest to me and I want to learn more about programming in base 3.
An interesting look into how C structs work and how to squeeze some extra optimization out of them.
fLaMEd fury recently tagged me in his Blog Question Challenge post that has been circulating around the indieweb over the past month. I finally got into a headspace to write for my website a bit, so here are my answers! Why did you start blogging in the first place? I have a lot of thoughts which are, in my unbiased opinion, pretty great and other people’s lives will improve by reading them.…
Madeline Miller recently wrote about motion sickness triggered by video games, potential causes, and potential fixes. I feel seen. As a child, I distinctly remember playing Shadow the Hedgehog of all things when I first discoved games could make me nauseous. I am able to build up a tolerance to games if I play daily, which is how I dumped many hours into Minecraft as a teenager and Cyberpunk 2077…
A couple of weeks ago my brain suddenly got an itch. I was at the office listening to music on my old Sansa Clip+ player when it’s battery died halfway through the day again. Disappointed, I put it and my headphones away and continued my day in silence. But my brain would not be silent. This was a problem and it needed to be solved now (or at least as soon as the postal service allows). I…
The results of last night’s election are disappointing, angering, and horrifying. But they are not shocking. I’ve seen lots of talk about how stupid and racist and sexist the general American populace is to be able to vote the way the did. I don’t think that is accurate. Of course, there is no doubt which candidate the racists and sexists voted for. However, in a society where we…
As I mentioned in my previous post , I’ve been using LibreWolf as my daily driver browser. It’s been about two weeks since then, and I had some thoughts. I originally tried to compile LibreWolf myself, which is how I found out 16GB of RAM is not enough to compile a web browser. I found this interesting since I was able to compile Floorp just fine a while back. Have browsers really…
Mozilla is seemingly allergic to making good decisions, as shown by two recent (anti-)features it has brought to Firefox. First, is an AccuWeather widget on the new tab screen, enabled by default. On the surface, this seems mundane, but in order for this to work, Firefox is sending your “approximate” location to AccuWeather servers periodically in the background, even if you disable…
I’ve been using Arch Linux (btw) since the beginning of this year. It is a barebones distro, meaning you have to install every package you are going to use yourself. While not the most fun exercise in the world, it made me think about what software I need to make my computer usable. Beyond the necessary stuff like wi-fi drivers, I was forced to choose what I wanted my computing experience to…
Transformers 00s Store Exclusives This page was created as an entry into the 32-Bit Cafe’s Codejam #5 . While not necessarily a “complicated topic”, it is a topic I can ramble on about for hours. The early- to mid-2000s period of the Transformers franchise had an interesting product strategy, one that Hasbro seemed to shift away from following the success of the first live-action…