The Great Sydney Storm of 2025

You know how I blogged recently about a certain VTuber’s graduation from Hololive? Unrelated to this, Nimi Nightmare debued! (Atom feed here). It was wonderful hearing her voice and jokes again. Her artists did an amazing job matching her design to her personality as well. Caspurr Catachini, Clara’s and my favourite male VTuber, also lent his...

I have a draft riffing on something I read recently about how people don’t care about things. It started getting a bit long, and included a lot of semi-related stuff about tech that I thought would make more sense breaking out into its own post. Hey look, that’s this one! Have you ever noticed that so many things in our daily lives often just…...

I slept in yesterday. I’d had a rough Friday at work, and I wasn’t feeling it when I got up at my usual time Saturday morning. I rolled over expecting to sleep for another half an hour, and woke up… at 10:30. Great! I hear the normal among you say in response. Sleeping in is a wonderful treat for days off, and certainly something many of you...

This post was originally typo’d with “bog” instead of “blog”. As that Oblique Strategy says, honour thy error as a hidden intention. I’ve written before about the things I look for in a blog. This time I thought I’d flip this on its head… an exercise that used to be much easier when I was into gymnastics. This is what will make me bounce...

The news of this slipped me by last year, but I just saw OpenWrt has their own hardware now, based on the BananaPi: OpenWrt One is based on the MediaTek Filogic 820 SoC and has WiFi 6, dual-band, 3×3/2×2, 1x 2.5Gbit WAN, 1x 1Gbit LAN, 1GB DDR4 RAM, 256 MiB NAND, 16 MiB NOR (for recovery), M.2 SSD, USB-C Serial console and USB 2.0. You can buy the...