Tue 22 September 2026
❤️🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions fascism in tech.
Today: MNT Station Crowd Supply campaign ending – Industry Standard Tools – Perl's decline
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Mon 21 September 2026
❤️🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions fascism in tech and "AI" image generation.
Today: DigitalOcean funding fascists – status pages with Gatus – Captain Kirk in a suit and tie
Sat 19 September 2026
After a long hiatus I'm back and will try doing this blogging thing more regularly.
Today: European cloud providers – zero-latency "mega dropdown" UX – version control with blobs – open-source development in 2026 – Are you a Tech Bro?
Thu 05 March 2026
Today my sleep schedule is all messed up and I've got a headache, so here are some of my open tabs instead of new things:
Let's Encrypt short-lived and IP address certs – Wikimedia's public DNS service – multi-room audio by the Open Home Foundation – organizing your life in four digits – remote access to vintage Unices – Discord alternatives
Wed 04 March 2026
Today: Host Europe gets rid of IPv6 – converting LGPL to MIT via Claude? – new ThinkPads 10/10 on iFixit – Prodigy wins second Emmy – 10 % of Firefox crashes are faulty hardware – Toad sings Chandelier – new Archive album
Tue 03 March 2026
Today: animated bokeh – Wikimedia removing archive.today links – customizable 256-color palette in the terminal – OpenNTPD vs. chrony – fps display in DXVK games
Fri 06 February 2026
- A paper on ultra-wideband EMP-shielded glass windows using metal mesh films for civilian and military infrastructure (via Dennis-Kenji Kipker)
- Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck, Bo-Katan) started a YouTube/Patreon series where she watches Battlestar Galactica for the first time, together with her husband Robin Gadsby.
Thu 05 February 2026
Today: static status pages — easy cases for your KiCad projects — miniature atomic clock — TUI spreadsheets — Bluetooth sensor standard — Steam Machine delayed due to AI — Fediverse hashtags
Wrapping flac to set a default compression level
I'm using Whipper to rip CDs into FLAC files on the command-line. It comes with support for MusicBrainz and focuses on bit-perfect archival of the original audio data.
However, what it doesn't come with is a lot of configuration options, and choosing a compression level for your FLAC files (or customizing the CLI arguments passed to the flac command) is not something you can easily do.
Which is why I wrote a custom wrapper script in Python to get around this.
Wed 04 February 2026
❤️🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions transmisia, J. K. Rowling, and the Epstein Files.
Today: genuine SD cards — guitar strings attached to a magnet — what if Signal goes away — Hans Zimmer's transmisia — Bash in the Epstein Files — MicroPythonOS — university exams in the age of chatbots — Chrome to ship cache sharing — parsing Link: headers — analyzing Midnight City and You Spin Me Round — documenting samples in MusicBrainz