Here's a fun one! You may already know that tarball is a pure archive format, and that any compression is applied to the whole archive as a unit. That is to say that compression is not actually applie...

I've been using nushell as my daily driver for about six months now, and wanted to show a few simple examples of why I'm enjoying it so much. I think it's a breath of fresh air compared to most shells...

If you're a developer or sysadmin, there's a pretty good chance you've had to transfer files back and forth. Back in the old days, you may have used the ftp utility or something similar (I think my fi...

It occurred to me that things which work well are often under-represented online. I absolutely love my listening headphones, so I thought I'd write a quick post about them. To say I love music is an u...

It's not quite two months in, but I said I'd give an update on the Elecom Deft Pro after some use, so here I am! Bad Stuff Bad news first... Initial Adjustment Period I'm not gonna lie, the initial ad...

Pretty much overnight, it seems that a movie I had never even heard of became the most-watched movie ever on Netflix. People everywhere are now singing the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It originall...

I'm currently working on a project which involves a lot of lower level data structures. By lower level I mean things like layout and bit positions, and exact sizes being important. As such, I have a n...

I recently picked up a new trackball to replace my prematurely aging Elecom HUGE. Here are my first impressions after only a few hours, since there wasn't much I could find online comparing them prope...

Over the past few days of vacation I finally had the chance to finish reading Dragonball! I started this a few years ago and have gone in spurts, sometimes not reading for months at a time as work got...

Today's episode of "things that make you go 'wat'" is sponsored by unzip. Yes, the venerable utility ubiquitous on UNIX-like systems. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? This morning I was...