Use the Force; read the source! This blog is mostly a collection of study notes on ASM, ASP .NET, Blender, BASIC, C/C++, C#, ChucK, Computer Architecture, Computer Literacy, CSS, Digital Logic, Electronics, F#, GIMP, GTK+, Haskel, Java, Julia, JavaScript (ES6+) & JSON, LISP, Nim, OOP, Photoshop, PLAD, Python, Qt, Ruby, Scheme, SQL (MySQL & SQLite), Super Collider, UML, Verilog, VHDL, WASM, XML. If I can learn it and make notes on it, I'll write about it. || Blog images copyright Markus Spiske and Pixabay
17 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Today, I came across a post on BlueSky, stating that Mozilla aims to make Firefox into an "AI browser". This is seen by many as a bad move that alienates the majority of the userbase, whom will migrate to other browsers (such as LibreWolf, Waterfox a...
22 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Boondoggle: a wasteful or impractical project or activity, often involving graft — Merriam-Webster Dictionary Tonight, I started Reading "Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation", as part of my reading up on AI. (It's recommended r...
4 Nov 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
According to the EFF ... Google’s new program, set to launch worldwide next year, [is] requiring developers to register with the company in order to have their apps installable on Android certified devices — including paying a fee and providing pers...
2 Oct 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
"Yesterday it worked.Today, it is not working.Windows is like that."— GNU Joke Haiku error messages [1] A number of weeks ago, I Installed node.js and npm on my computer, using the official repository packages for Ubuntu (Plucky Puffin). I then pro...
5 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I've started learning Node.js, after putting it off for a quite a while (probably longer than I should have). I still don't know if it contains any evil, seeing as it uses V8 (the CSS, HTML and JS processing engine used by Google Chrome). I haven't l...
1 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Hi all. I hope you're having a better day than I am. Today, I tried to install programs on OS/2 Warp 4.52. It did not go well (including not installing the OS on VirtualBox; I had to download a VDI file with it already installed). It's hard to find v...
27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Ay, folks! I'm back from my dry spell of not having anything about which to write. It's time for the wonders of obscure and esoteric operating systems! Today's instalment is 9front, a fork (and update) of Plan 9 from Bell Labs (the people whom brough...
11 Mar 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
If you're like me, you procrastinate terribly and leave things to the last minute, then stress out like mad while you rush to get shit done, causing yourself to burn out. If you're like me, you will have tried a number of hacks/tips to stop procrasti...
22 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I've been reading more of Blockchain Basics this week. Despite the Byzantine Generals problem being one of the core problems faced by distributed P2P networks (in terms of integrity), the book mentions it briefly in one sentence before moving on. I f...
28 Jun 2024 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
“Life is never what you want, Unless you plan it from the start. Now, wouldn't that be smart?“ — The Like; Don't Make a Sound I live in chaos and disorder (which I have done for years), never seeming to make any headway or get much of anything do...
