Adventures with a power company

I’ve been doing something wrong for a while, and thought it worth bringing to everyone’s attention. When you’re preparing a document for PDF to share, remember to use your application’s Export feature, and not Print to PDF. Exporting retains the metadata, structure, and accessibility features that Print to PDF strips out, which hampers screen...

My penultimate post for 2024 considered my future with Mini-ITX, and how I might be looking to expand to MicroATX again for future builds. I’ve exclusively run small form factor for my personal desktops since the early 2010s, but expansion and cooling limitations have led me to reconsider this time. Whoo-oo-ah-oo, this time ♫. It’s been fun...

This is one of my favourite accounts on Mastodon. This one from last year was rather pretty, for reasons that may be obvious if you’re reading this on the site, rather than my RSS feed: It hasn’t generated my family clan tartan from my mum’s side of the family yet, but mathematically I’m sure it’s bound to eventually. (As an aside, I thought it...

This year the blog turned twenty! There were 560 posts, 204,081 words, and only a singular mention of creamed corn… right there. This was a hard year personally, but also one with lots of milestones. Next year I plan to spend less time fixated on news, more time reading people, and investing into fixing things that I’ve left on the back-burner...

I like small things. I like efficient things. I like small things that are efficient. Brute-forcing a solution by making it bigger, hotter, or louder is one thing, but performing the same work with less, in a smaller space? Or taking an existing system and shrinking it down? That’s impressive. The fact Clara is that much shorter than me and twice...