I've been an Emacs user for decades now. Despite this, my knowledge of it is surprisingly shallow. For the most part, I've really mostly used it only as a text editor in the past. I knew that it was a much more powerful tool tool than what
Just the other day, Katy and I were watching a YouTube video about a cleaning method called "Junebugging" which can be helpful for people with ADHD. While this post isn't really about that video, it did kind of trigger a weird domino effect…
For the past few days, I've been participating in SDF's Plan9 bootcamp. I had attempted this bootcamp last year, but hit a couple snags early on that I just didn't have the bandwidth to deal with at the time. One of the big hinderances was
Back in September or October of last year I decided I wanted to play some Minetest. For those who don't know, Minetest is a free and open source software (FOSS) game engine that started out as an attempt to re-create Minecraft, which I quit…
Wow, I haven't posted a blog since November of last year. Guess I've just been busy. Anyhow, unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard about Threads, Meta's attempt at a Twitter competitor. It's been generating a lot of
I've been seeing a lot of heated debate around the subject of content warnings lately. I've even been repeatedly pulled into that debate myself, so I decided it was best to collect all my thoughts on the matter in a blog post to prevent fro…
I know, I know, Jon's writing another blog post about the Fediverse. Well, it's my blog. I can write what I want. I've been noticing a lot of misconceptions about the Fediverse, and specifically Mastodon lately, and I wanted to see what I c…
When I started this site, I made the very intentional decision to code everything by hand rather than relying on some over-complicated framework. Neither I, nor my users need cookies, JavaScript, bloated CSS, and so forth. They don't really…
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that I really dislike Facebook. They've demonstrated time and time again that they simply don't care about their users' right to privacy. Despite this, I kept it because it was the only line of com…
I've been a Linux user since the late 90s, but I'm not generally one to distro hop. I tend to be the sort who finds a thing that works and stick with it because it's familiar. While I've dabbled with other OSes in VMs, I can count on one ha…
Yesterday I had my long-awaited interview with Kacey from The Cult Vault. The episode isn't slated to go live until late next month, so it's a little weird writing about it before it's actually come out, but here I go anyways. I'll try not
It's been a while since I've made a blog post. I've had a family emergency that's been occupying a lot of my free time lately, but here we are again. Today I wanted to talk about TOR. Lots of people have never heard of it, but there's also