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...

Forgive me in advance, but this post will probably be a bit rant-y. If you're looking for a way to do container builds in GitLab CI without a lot of fuss, this article is for you. RIP Kaniko I'm writi...

Recently I've been doing some work using Apache DataFusion for some high-throughput data pipelines. One of the interesting things I noticed on the user guide was the suggestion to set RUSTFLAGS='-C ta...

Rust's ownership system is well-known for the ways it enforces memory safety guaranteees. For example, you can't use some value after it's been freed. Further, it also ensures that mutability is expli...