Some stuff has been going on with my life, so you can basically consider this site "on hold". I don't plan for it to be the end forever, but for now, it's dormant. I don't know when I'm going to return.
If you somehow stumbled on this site and are reading it, please don't.
Beneath Google's slick consumer appliance sits a massive stack of open-source C daemons shouting into a void. On the Sooner, a panic in a taxi, and why Google would rather die than admit your phone runs Linux.
A long look at why 'Linux is better than Windows' is a category error, why printers are a perfect case study in who software is built for, and why customization culture turns an operating system into a mirror that enthusiasts can't stand to look at honestly.
If you stop looking, they die. A look into why witnessing the war in Ukraine has become a finite resource, the dread of powerless knowledge, and what happens when the public’s capacity for horror finally hits its limit.
After revisiting a hedgehog's most successful outing on the Wii, I found a masterclass in how *not* to write a story. On the supercilious tone of the 2010s era, corporate sabotage, and why you can't create a compelling hero if the company that made him thinks heroism is an embarrassing chore.
The Library of Alexandria has one key-holder, and they think my IP is a data centre. On the danger of heroic one-man operations, how efficiency kills resilience, the technical arrogance of a Western admin, and the realisation that when you contribute to a wiki, you’re just building a castle you aren’t allowed to live in.
After corrupting my root partition (again), I installed my 30-something-th distro and realised Desktop Linux isn't ready. Not for casual users, not even for enthusiasts. On sleep/wake Russian roulette, ideology over UX, why knowing too much makes you a terrible judge of usability, the prison of endless distro-hopping, and the fact I'm growing tired of something I've loved so dearly.
After discovering a music player actively removed Russian translations and silenced discussion about it, I got angry enough to fork a 20-year-old C codebase. Here's what that taught me about FOSS, authority, and why 'just fork it' is terrible advice.
The ideas are appealing, but can it actually work at the scale of a nation? On the information problem, tragic trade-offs during scarcity, human nature, and why every economic system sucks, just in different ways.