Ode to the AA Battery Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I’m fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven’t used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at the moment. Devices with built-in rechargeable batteries
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Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website
Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors A few weeks ago, I started hearing a slight crackle at the loudest parts of whenever sound was playing through my PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers. It was very faint, but quite annoying, especially when editing my YouTube videos. For a few days I thought it could be a hearing problem (at
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On thugs Those of us who tried to stop Trump from ever coming to power—and who then tried to stop his return to power—were accused of hysterics, of Trump Derangement Syndrome, when we talked about authoritarianism and the death of liberal democracy. Yet masked government agents summarily executing protesters in the street,
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Migrating 13000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo After 16 years on the LAMP stack, I finished migrating this website from Drupal to Hugo a few weeks ago. What’s old is new, as this blog was originally built with Thingamablog, a Java-based Static Site Generator (SSG) I ran on my Mac to generate HTML and FTP it up to
I Had A Dream Alas, the dream that I had last night was not the inspiring, MLK kind of dream, even though tomorrow happens to be the great man’s day. No, I had the literal kind of dream, where everything seems real but then you wake up and remember only the last fragments. In
Scott A on Scott A on Scott A Scott Alexander has put up one of his greatest posts ever, a 10,000-word eulogy to Dilbert creator Scott Adams, of which I would’ve been happy to read 40,000 words more. In it, Alexander trains a microscope on Adams’ tragic flaws as a thinker and human being, but he adds: In