How I got through my inbox in only two months
Concluding the thing I started three entries ago, I've replied to the pile of email I'd let accumulate. And I'm really pleased with my new hand-rolled personal contact database...
Concluding the thing I started three entries ago, I've replied to the pile of email I'd let accumulate. And I'm really pleased with my new hand-rolled personal contact database...
My Zig timeline so far (reverse chronology): 2023 (Oct): Created a third Zig standard library HTML thingy called zstd-browse2: repo and results! 2023 (Sept): Ziglings moves to Codeberg! And check out the new url: ziglings.org! 2023 (May): I…
Hello RSS readers! Project Inbox 2026 is coming along very nicely, thank you. Don't worry, that's still my only MAIN project. I do other small things in parallel with the main project. This entry is a small thing I did recently in my pocket…
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!…
Back to projects or onward to stack-display or Finishing Things (for a much more thorough treatment). Everybody’s got a "todo" list. They’re okay, I guess. For normal people. Around 21:30 last night, I found myself hacking on a script to pr…
I really like the term "digital garden" because it makes me imagine a person carefully tending to something, over time, trimming and growing and adding little signs and walking paths. I think what makes a "digital garden" unique from other,…
This was originally supposed to be a pretty short note. But it turned out I had a bunch of related thoughts all tangled up. And once I started to tease them apart, it became something much longer. This could have been half a dozen separate
Ever wonder what the legendary OpenBSD is for? Me too! (This old laptop still works fine, even with the original spinning platter HDD and 32-bit CPU!) Featured articles (or keep scrolling down for the blog): My home network observes bedtime…
Go back to my OpenBSD page for more entries. On OpenBSD 7.6, acme-client is already installed. I’m gonna just follow along with the instructions. Okay, so it looks like you can just drop this location block into a server block listening on
In addition to the books I’ve recently read below, I also have the following book-related pages: How I manage my e-books with Calibre My enjoyment of writing reviews on Goodreads for many years Amazon 1998-2024 (I quit "Earth’s Biggest Book…
As I gradually re-write all of my Perl scripts to Ruby, I’m increasingly convinced that it’s an excellent little language and Unix citizen. The standard library is excellent. It sure has its quirks, but learning a couple handfuls of Ruby me…
I’ve been using this actual paper stack method for keeping track of personal projects for almost a month and it’s working great for me. Update 9 months later: Still working and featured here: Finishing Things. I make useful and/or whimsical…