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Page created: 2024-08-04

Updated: 2026-07-03

I wish I’d thought to do this sooner. I have a recent additions list on the welcome card, but I was deleting old entries as they aged out. Oh well, it’s never too late to start. (Or to be more accurate, It is seldom too late to start.)

Previous updates:

2026

2026-05-06 The Dillo web browser
2026-05-03 The First of a Double-Take (I accidentally saw some art!)
2026-05-02 Oops! That last card should have been named Text files as a user interface, so now it is!
2026-04-29 A text editor as a user interface and Ruby for "shell scripting" and The paradox of POSIX.
2026-04-16 Parenting taught me the value of my free time
2026-04-11 Creativity is a muscle
2026-03-28 A git diff with all changed and new unstaged files
2026-03-22 Do NOT use *.local names for your home network unless you are using mDNS
2026-03-02 Fitted sheet update: Unfolding a professionally folded fitted sheet!
2026-02-16 Vim: Loading defaults.vim
2026-01-10 How big is a Git commit?

2025

2025-11-07 On Acceptance (of emotions)
2025-10-22 LibreWolf The re-packaged Firefox that is sheilding me from Mozilla’s insanity.
2025-10-09 JavaScript: Blank line scanning/parsing/lexing by hand vs regex
2025-09-26 tmux: Error-Monitoring Windows
2025-09-08 Using and Debugging a Web Font
2025-09-06 Make a Web Font Subset
2025-08-30 SQLite 3 - Monotonic updates
2025-08-24 The "not quite the same" problem
2025-08-12 Serving Local Markdown with PHP
2025-08-09 JS "Fuzzy" Search (sequential partial matching)
2025-08-08 Ratfactor’s Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets (a month in the making!)
2025-08-07 Block those insanely annoying Google login popups
2025-07-31 Gift-Wrap Your Projects
2025-07-30 sharing, page-or-didnt-happen
2025-07-29 aura (Aura = Idea + Time)
2025-07-12 Super Easy* 2-Stage Git Deployment
2025-07-06 stack-display (A little cardboard display my paper project stack)
2025-06-30 long-term-animal and live-every-last-day
2025-06-24 partial-automation (WORK IN PROGRESS)
2025-06-10 A busy morning and evening!
- Auto-running a script when a file changes with inotifywait
- Make Small PNG images with GNU Imp
- The Project Stack! (an actual paper stack)
- SVG Sourcecode Shapes (A Little Ruby Script that can make a self-portrait in SVG)
2025-06-05 temporary clones of myself
2025-06-04 Small Programs and Languages
2025-05-22 asrock-uefi-cmos-reset
2025-05-20 The One-Tree Website
2025-05-16 forever-world
2025-05-15 exiftool-strip
2025-05-12 Of CSS and Palm Oil
2025-04-27 Go read Peter Naur’s "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers
2025-04-24 Have a target for your programming language
2025-04-06 tmux: error monitoring panes
2025-04-02 rTorrent Quick Guide
2025-03-24 C as a scripting language
2025-03-06 Big Complexity (updated)
2025-01-30 contenteditable

2024

2024-12-08 arch-brother-printer and Shell startup files that echo their names as a prefix
2024-12-03 firefox-cached-css
2024-12-01 vimrc-minimal - just a dump of my "bare minimum vim setup" and git-bare-repos
2024-11-30 Shell startup files (.profile vs .*rc), profile-menu and xfce4-terminal-automation and ssh-startup-commands
2024-11-29 sqlite-comparisons (1 != '1') and SQLite3 CLI notes (display headers and columns, .sqliterc)
2024-11-27 sqlite-today-date (SQLite - selecting today’s entries from a series of dates)
2024-10-23 html-smaller-monospace-font-fix
2024-10-18 applied-learning (tripled the size of this card after watch a talk by Sean Cribbs)
2024-10-17 dsl (domain-specific language(s))
2024-10-16 tmux-replay (now with more Vim!) and pl-simplicity and free-verse-programming
2024-09-21 arch-time (enabling NTP on Arch Linux)
2024-09-04 linux and unix stub cards
2024-08-16 linux-add-new-drive (hand-writing fstab entries for fun and…profit???)
2024-08-04 Debouncing JavaScript input and js-localstorage
2024-08-03 Getting started with Snobol
2024-06-07 rsync-a
2024-05-23 freedom-verus-inconvenience
2024-05-15 nature-is-neat
2024-05-14 Condemn bad actions (don’t accept them as inevitable) (in the tech industry)
2024-05-09 lucky-learner
2024-04-27 ruby-imports and ruby-system
2024-04-26 arch-linux and pacman
2024-04-25 interactive-vim
2024-04-16 xfce desktop environment, dev-log
2024-03-30 ruby-ordered-hash, basically a reminder to myself that, yes, Ruby does preserve insertion order for hashes!!!
2024-02-23 Arch Linux for Gaming
2024-01-21 chapterwords.rb, a word-count script for authors
2024-01-15 trying to prevent windows 11, firefox-savepersite
2024-01-11 Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond