Greetings, wanderer! Sit a while and read some: Takes
, Guides
, Varia
, Unix history , Star Trek
, X-Files
, C64 Assembly , Postcards
, Links, Humor, In total, over the span of over 3 years I published a whooping 474 articles here; some of which are readable.
This site is hosted in my living room and is built with Ruby and Emacs.
Main entities
Recently published
- X-Clacks-Overhead - September 2025
- My Software philosophy - September 2025
- L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy, 1990) - September 2025
- shell: reusing commands and parameters with bashisms - September 2025
- shell: piping concatenated commands - September 2025
- Claude Code - September 2025
- Stranger than Paradise (1984) - September 2025
- The X-Files 01x06 - Shadows - September 2025
- The X-Files 01x05 - Jersey Devil - September 2025
- The X-Files 01x04 - Conduit - September 2025
Guides
- Adding simple music server to my network
- Dynamic DNS
- Emacs: Executing code in Org files with Babel
- Emacs: Input Completiton
- Emacs: Introduction to Literate programming
- Emacs: Play Interactive Fiction in Emacs with Malyon
- Emacs: Read RSS with Elfeed
- FreeBSD: Deploying Anubis
- FreeBSD: Locking packages
- FreeBSD: Switching between WiFi and Ethernet
- FreeBSD: Template for jail with an external IP assigned via DHCP
- FreeBSD: Using PF Firewall in a Vnet jail
- Fvwm - 1 intro
- Fvwm - 3 window decoration
- Fvwm 2 - keyboard control
- GNU Stow
- Hugo: Footnotes and Goldmark
- Hugo: Moving pages
- OpenBSD: Relayd, Httpd and Acme-client
- Passkeys
- Ruby: Specimen control with RSpec's options
- X-Clacks-Overhead
- shell: piping concatenated commands
- shell: reusing commands and parameters with bashisms
Unix history
- History of Unix part I: Multics
- History of Unix part II: Birth of Unix
- History of Unix part III: Forks and Wars
Takes
A review-kind of take- A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursua Le Guin, 1968)
- Absolute FreeBSD (Michael W. Lucas, 2018)
- Armitage III (1995)
- Attack on Titan (2013-2023)
- Baptism of Fire (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1996)
- Blue Giant (2023)
- Brutalist (2024)
- Burmese Days (George Orwell, 1934)
- Chaga (Ian McDonald, 1995)
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
- Conan (Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, 1967)
- Crossroads of Ravens (Andrzej Sapkowski, 2024)
- Dead Man's Lettes (aka Lettes from a Dead Man, 1986)
- Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
- Dune: Part One (2021)
- Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Ethics Primer (Karol Wojtyła, 1982)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, 1990)
- Goodbye, Eri (Tatsuki Fujimoto, 2022)
- Grim Fandango (1998, 2020)
- Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny, 1972)
- Gwiazda, an Arthur C. Clarke's short story collection
- Hackers (1995)
- Hand of Oberon (Roger Zelazny, 1976)
- Hard to be a God (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1964)
- Hardware (1990)
- Heaven Makers (Frank Herbert, 1967)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Yoru Sumino, 2015)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy, 1990)
- Lady of the Lake (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1999)
- Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (1993)
- Lawmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
- Lawnmower Man (1992)
- Les aveux infidèles (Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 1962)
- Look Back (Tatsuki Fujimoto, 2021)
- Mars Express (2023)
- Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days (1989)
- Monday Begins on Saturday (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1965)
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- Moscow 2042 (Vladimir Voinovich, 1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- My Software philosophy
- Myst (1993)
- New Atlantis (Ursula Le Guin, 1975)
- Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970)
- Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza (Robert M. Wegner, 2009)
- Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
- Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
- Permanent Vacation (1980)
- Persona 5
- Persona 5: Strikers (2020)
- Ponyo (2008)
- Reportaże afrykańskie (Bogdan Szczygieł, 1986)
- Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997)
- Roadside Picnic (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972)
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- Running Man (1987)
- Secret of Monkey Island, The (1990)
- Seinfeld Season 8
- Severance (Season 1)
- Sign of the Unicorn (Roger Zelazny, 1975)
- Sneakers (1992)
- Sopranos (1999-2007)
- Stranger than Paradise (1984)
- Tales from Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin, 2001)
- Technical book review: Hacking APIs
- Tehanu (Ursula Le Guin, 1990)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880)
- The Courts of Chaos (Roger Zelazny, 1978)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy, 1886)
- The Farthest Shore (Ursula Le Guin, 1972)
- The Internet's Own Boy (2014)
- The Joke (Milan Kundera, 1967)
- The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula Le Guin, 1971)
- The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel (1992)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie, 1925)
- The Other Wind (Ursula Le Guin, 2001)
- The Pariah (Graham Masterton, 1983)
- The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
- The Technicolor Time Machine (Harry Harrison, 1967)
- The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula Le Guin, 1970)
- The Witcher 3 Expansion Pack: Blood and Wine (2015)
- The Witcher 3 Expansion Pack: Hearts of Stone (2015)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
- Time of Contempt (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1995)
- To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
- Tower of the Swallow (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1997)
- War with the Newts (Karel Čapek, 1936)
- Yakuza 0 (2015)
Commodore 64 Assembly
My battle jurnal- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 9 - Assembly proves itself to be a worthy challenger
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 8 - sprites and segments
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 7 - subroutines and branching
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 6 - substracting number and other math
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 5 - adding numbers
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 4: how does the machine execute machine code?
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 3: mnemonics, opcodes, pseudos, control commands, and tables
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 2: registers, memory, labels, constants, and numbers
- Commodore 64 Assembly, part 1: Hello World and basic Emacs setup
Varia
The blog part of this blog- Claude Code
- diary of my fight, aka "my magnus poopus"
- The thrill is gone
- why I am no longer nerding out here
- A better age verification for the EU
- A few more things lack of phone borough me
- Mary Shelly on Alchemy - a quotation
- It was that damn phone - the mind killer
- I was relegated to the couch - - a small personal update
- The bestest torrent of all time
- GenAI is not speech
- A quote from Stanisław Lem
- Hear! Hear! All ye who would lend ear, listen
- Crysis avoided
- News overload
- No more heroes
- There are not good big tech companies left
- My Emacs config
- Three years of blogging
- Moving my DNS to 1984
- I no longer listen to music on the go
- The Catbus
- Blog Questions Challenge: Ten Pointless Facts About Me
- Creamy Emacs
- Souvenir from Japan
- Repositioning tech in my life
- Fixing RSS after Anubis rollout
- A Lego pirate ship story
- Spring is here
- My god! It's full of tags!
- Fun Unix Fact: There are no cats in your terminal
- How little metal do you need?
- Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
- My new air purifier
- My new Emacs (and Ruby) based Static Site Generator
- Fixed RSS feed
- Ghibli: the latest victim of Altmanizations
- Hello to my new-new-new-new blog
- I stopped writing alt-text to most images here
- Installing Emacs-Plus on MacOS X Sequoia
- Re: A weekend paying for everything with cash
- Codeberg
- 50-50-1
- Changes for 2025
- The phone tragedy
- Rambling about humanity, Star Trek and GenAI
- David Lynch has passed away
- I may never buy a new electronic device ever again
- Pixelated images for vintage inspired websites
- 2024 in retrospect
- LLMs are everything that it wrong in the world of computing
- New license plate frame
- Hiatus due to Advent of Code
- Things I care about: documentation
- Things I care about: stable APIs
- GenAI dealers and self awareness
- Chotto 0.1.1 Released
- Chotto 0.1.0 Released
- Useless things you may want to know: on the origin of "vi"
- RE: Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch
- Updated pages
- Lost keys
- Sir! We reinvent the wheel here!
- This site now has an IRC channel
- The Rock Paper Shotgun 100 and PC gaming
- My old computer books
- joshua stein's website
- Digipacks
- Chotto 0.0.1 Released
- Back to Evil Mode
- MacOS X 2001-2024
- AI radio was straight out of a nightmare
- Upcoming books by Michael Lucas
- Cool things I didn't knew: multiple Git repositories in a single directory
- RE: Michał Sapka’s new home
- Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you
- Docker free since 2024
- AI radio is straight out of a nightmare
- RFC1885 and "speaks for themselves"
- FLAME ON: web
- Email, again
- New Mastodon server
- Broken system
- Yey USA!
- Thomas the Transformer
- Notes on Star Trek
- My server is now a virtual machine
- Gatekeeping in tech
- Disenshittify or die!
- A million Googles
- We have failed computer journalism
- ScummVM
- Another two websites moved
- Unix History moved
- I most definetelly should (self-host)!
- Should I self-host my site?
- Retro games are PC games for me
- Multi OS life is terrible
- Replies to my last post about Youtube
- A desktop AND a NAS?
- Ruben's Retro Corner
- Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
- Microdosing Google Youtube
- Never invest in DRM-ed content
- Crowd Strike and single point of failure
- Free Software and the wrong crowd
- Sports ruin everything
- Even bionic implants are being abandoned by companies
- Computing happy
- The Rise and Fall of The Witcher
- Ladybird is a thing now
- Updated setup
- Federation is the one new concept which excites me
- Are the LLMs worth it?
- Yey EU
- Looking for a new web browser
- From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
- Multiprocess Emacs environment
- Libraries
- Run Your Own Mail Server
- Audio gear: my new old CD player
- Cyberpunk in design is back!
- Why I run a BSD on a PC
- BSDs may not be a system for you
- OpenBSD 7.5 released
- AI is already used for genocide
- Full content in RSS
- Desk reveal 2024
- Send links to your friends and make the Web a better place
- Being a webmaster is freaking cool
- Audio formats
- Watch YouTube with Yeetube and mpv
- STD of Apple
- Let me buy your stuff
- Wireless free since 2023
- Phone usage and thoughts on Linux phone
- Books and their sizes
- I no longer love The Web
- Software devolution in the hands of Apple
- 2600
- The Email Project
- I have left Reddit
- My "whys" for Emacs
- On generative content
- One sentence per line
- Technical book review: Cybersecurity for Small Networks
- OpenBSD: Blocking bad bots using Relayd
- A few words on FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS
- Ownership in the digital age
- Removed Plausible analytics
- Now on OpenBSD 7.4
- Tired of Blogging
- Music Monday: "So What" from "Four & More"
- Charybdis
- FreeBSD: Fixing ThinkPad X1 Wifi
- OpenBSD: Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam
- OpenBSD: Forwarding requests from Relayd to a custom webserver
- Read email with Notmuch
- Reddit and the centralized Web
- Mastodon and ActivityPub
- Human Web
- Fixing IPv6 and securing the domain
- Using RSS to stop Youtube homepage-induced damage
- Today in AI: OpenAI drinking its own poison
- Keeping Browser Tabs to a Minimum
- Eugen Rochko's nationality and propaganda
- Git Objects
- Size of IPv6
- Mastodon Has Already Won
- Augumented Plain Text
- Emacs as a Shell
- Tar Is for Tape Drive
- FreeBSD 13.2 was released and broke my resume
- Open Bsd 7 3 Was Released Today
- You've Got Mail
- Looom Audiodrama
- Where Is the Interactive Education?
- #108
- Write Posix Shell
- Big Tech Is Winning the Web
- Receiving Email
- How Did Phreaking Work?
- FreeBSD on the Desktop won't improvide unless people are using it
- Rocking Portale Music Like Its 2005
- A Site About Nothing
- I love remote work, and I am toying with FreeBSD jails
- Re: Continuous Productivity Is Toxic
- My Gripes With AI
- That Ending Scene From Kids on the Slope
- First Time the ZFS Saved Me
- A Short Update on My Workman Layout Experiment
- FreeBSD: configuring Nvidia and Xorg
- FreeBSD: Fixing Resume on ThinkPad X1 Extreme G2 due to integrated graphic card
- FreeBSD: Switching Between Speakers and Headphones
- FreeBSD on modern Intel WiFi cards and resume.
- Pi Day
- It's Near Impossible to Use NoScript but the Future Is Bright
- I Still Run Local Applications
- A New Layout
- Always Have the Entire Network in Mind
- That Scene From Kids on the Slope
- GTA V and Lack of Closure
- The Thing I Want but Don't Need
- Sucking at Touching
- The True History of Vi
- The OSes I Use Most Often
- Nokia Launches Diy Repairable Budget Android Phone
- ML Is Still a Parlor Trick
- RTX Remakes
- FreeBSD: Review of Thinkpad Extreme G2
- AI Generated Artwork Looses Copyright Protection
- Pulse Width Modulation on OLED Screens
- Re: On replacing My Macbook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480
- Making Gmail Useful by Removing Modern Gmail
- Zork's Original Trilogy
- An Entire Month of Posts
- FreeBSD: Early thoughts
- Foreshadowing in Gurren Lagann
- All Hail My New TrackPoint Overlord!
- Openable Laptops
- Joylessness of Modern Web Design
- How I Reignited My Passion for Computers
- The Worst Part of Emacs After 3 Weeks
- HTTP Headers in Rails: Hyphens, Underscores, and a terrible day
- Seinfeld's Apartament Doesn't Make Any Sense
- This Blog Is AI Free
- Star Wars or Star Trek?
- Silent Cartoons From the 90s
- Shakespearian Theatre in Fallout 76
- Joining a DOS gamers club
- The Pacing of Modern Cartoons Is a Rollercoaster
- Macos Is Now Spying Even More
- Music Haul for January 2023
- Industrial Design Used to Be Cool
- My First Computer
- On Simple Software
- I am now an FSF associate
- Why Does This Site Exist?
- Resolutions for 2023
- Trying out the Workman layout
- A month with a disgusting ThinkPad
- Repartitioning the home server
- The Ivy Diaries, Chapter I
- Second version
The X-Files
Yes, I am watching The X-Files again- The X-Files 01x06 - Shadows
- The X-Files 01x05 - Jersey Devil
- The X-Files 01x04 - Conduit
- The X-Files 01x03 - Squeeze
- The X-Files 01x02 - Deep Throat
- The X-Files 01x01 - Pilot
Star Trek
Yes, I am watching The Trek- Star Trek: Voyager 06x15 - Tsunkatse
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x14 - Memorial
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x13 - Virtuoso
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x12 - Blink of an Eye
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x11 - Fair Heaven
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x10 - Pathfinder
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x09 - The Voyager Conspiracy
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x08 - One Small Step
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x07 - Dragon's Teeth
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x06 - Riddles
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x05 - Alice
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x04 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x03 - Barge of the Dead
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x02 Survival Instinct
- Star Trek: Voyager 06x01 - Equinox (part 2)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x26 - Equinox (part 1)
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x25 - Warhead
- Star Trek: Voyager 04x24 - Relativity
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x23 - 11:59
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x22 - Someone to Watch Over Me
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x21 - Juggnaut
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x20 - Think Tank
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x19 - Fight
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x18 Course: Oblivion
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x17 - The Disease
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x15/16 - Dark Frontier
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x14 - Bliss
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x13 - Gravity
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x12 - Bride of Chaotica!
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x11 - Latent Image
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x09 - Thirty Days
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x08 - Nothing Human
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x07 - Infinite Regress
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x06 - Timeless
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x05 - Once Upon a Time
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x04 - In the Flesh
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x03 - Extreme Risk
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x02 - Drone
- Star Trek: Voyager 05x01 - Night
Postcards
I July 2025, I asked my Mastodon pals to send me postards. Vouzela, Portugal




Links
Some links to other sites by like-minded folks.- 82mhz
- Tim Chase
- Datagubbe
- joshua stein
- Stefano Marinelli
- R.L. Dane
- Rubenerd
- Take on Rules
- Vermaden
- Woven Memories
Humor
I am a follower of the classic nerd style of humor: Monty Python, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, early Futurama (pre 1-st cancelation), Black Books, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, Userfriendly comic, and so on.
- Monty Python - Cheese Shop
- Monty Python - Dead Parrot
- Monty Python - Funniest Joke in the World
- Red Dward - Theme Song