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2026

Nix on Sailfish X (Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia): Drowning in software from Nixpkgs, the largest software package setoriginal ↗
30 May 2026
Nixtamal cast on Full Time Nixoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026

2025

Thaiger Sprint 2025 2: Hacking on a Nix Pinning Softwareoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2025
Applying for a Thai Marriage Non-Immigrant O Visa: Ð Falsehoods, ð Bad, & ð Uglyoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
Nix Development Setup for Factor: Not Too Cold for Velociraptorsoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2025
“Overlaying” NixOS modules: How to use disabledModules to override default modulesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025
Thaiger Sprint 2025: Starring H2O, the HTTP server (& dropping Nginx)original ↗
4 Mar 2025

2024

3 Shifted 3 Shapes: Making a w3m Logooriginal ↗
30 Dec 2024
Home Base Chanthaburi: Why I Chose This Sleepy Province (& You Might Too?)original ↗
12 Aug 2024
How to Loop Hero on NixOS: A Janky Way to Deal wiþ Deprecated Librariesoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2024
Was Courier Important‽: How to Mess up System Fonts in a Web Applicationoriginal ↗
22 May 2024
Berkeley Mono on LineageOS for microG: How to Add a Custom Font to Android for Noworiginal ↗
19 Apr 2024
Berkeley Mono on NixOS: How to Add to & Use Proprietary Software from Your Nix Storeoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2024
Cute-but-flawed Audio Apparatus: A review of ð Shanling Q1 DAC/DAPoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2024

2023

Knowing When To Say No to Front-end Optimization Advice: Following Website Performance Tools to a T Leads to Headaches, False Positives, & Complexityoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2023
Notes on Pijul: Wiþ Rough Edgesoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2023
New Phone Xperience: Why I chose a Sony Xperia 5 & what I choose to run on itoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2023
OCaml Tabbed & Formatted wiþ Topiary: Bringing more accessible indentation to ð ML dialectoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2023
Yearly Backregistering ð Þunderhorse: When Your Motorbike Registration Endsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2023
Semantic Markup for Callouts: A Not-Quite-RFC for Admonitions in HTMLoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2023
Is highlight.js Harmful for Your Site?: Syntax highlighting on the client side is bad for users & the weboriginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
Be Open to Black: A Digital Design Tiporiginal ↗
6 Jul 2023
Weblog Rebuilt: New Build System, Host, Practices & Ideasoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2023

2020

Dreaming of a Laptop: Am I too niche?original ↗
23 Jan 2020

2019

The State of Social Photo Publishing Rounding Out 2019: Why Instagram is Trash & Why the Fediverse is Goodoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2019

2017

How To Publish a PureScript Package (2017): I Wanna Be Pursuit Famous!original ↗
31 Dec 2017
Playing With Prisms: For the Not-So-Isomorphicoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2017
Anatomy of Maybe — Part II — Functor: Understanding Functional Programming Thru Optionalityoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2017

2016

Anatomy of Maybe — Part I — Introduction: Understanding Functional Programming Thru Optionalityoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2016
Tup the Magic Build Tool: A Dumb Builder With Guaranteesoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2016
Rewriting React & Releasing Elm Into the Wild: A Reflection on the Experienceoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2016
Crocodiles & Alligators: Practical Lenses for Fun & Profit in Elmoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2016
Optical Swordplay With Components: Using Lenses & Monads to Refract the Elm Updateoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2016
Seer Stones: Translations Using Unions in Elmoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2016
Getting Ourselves Organized: File & Folder Structure for an Elm SPAoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2016
Elm Applicatives & JSON Decoders: Mapping & Applying Our Way to Deserialization Victoryoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2016