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Half a year of violet

Published on 2026-10-27 at 00:27:09+01:00

The SSG I hacked together is unironically not entirely trash??

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It just works

Published on 2026-07-16 at 00:56:46+02:00

Don't you just love it when things just work? A semi-unstructured thing™️ on having lots of fun with stuff I've never done before

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Thoughts on themes

Published on 2026-03-14 at 18:53:19+01:00

Smol unstructured post on themes, theme bundles, and the pain of finding good light mode themes

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Information curation and sharing after Stack Overflow

Published on 2026-03-01 at 23:26:05+01:00

Over the last 7+ years, the company behind Stack Overflow has systematically been working against the Q&A model, the site's community, and users. This post describes how I've had to change my own approach to notes when the biggest software Q&A may not be around or have as high quality content anymore.

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Markdown and the illusion of portability

Published on 2025-12-24 at 15:13:38+01:00

Small rant on how markdown isn't as flexible as many of the tools using it claim it is, and how that became painfully obvious when trying to migrate between static site generators

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Forcing WSL to cooperate with non-standard keyboard layouts

Published on 2025-08-18 at 00:05:06+02:00

WSL has a long-standing bug that prevents custom keyboards on Windows from porting well to Linux. This post describes how I worked around the problem while still keeping my custom layout.

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