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I read a lot, blogs, papers, news, etc. My eyes are sensitive to artificial light so I prefer to read on e-ink. I also like to work outside, so things that try to fight the sun by feebly (relative to sun) shining even more light into my eyes are frustrating. I also find that e-ink screen limitations like slower updates and lack of color to be wonderful for not getting distracted by shiny pictures, videos. ...

It used to be that blogs all had RSS feeds. Somehow there are more blogs than ever before, but some people do not bother with setting up an RSS feed. The following blogs have nice content, but are annoying to follow without RSS. https://aider.chat/blog/ https://jkatz05.com/ https://getreuer.info/ Every time I stumble on one of these, it takes me a while to remember a fun workaround. I decided to write this down as a blog post so I have an easier time looking up the details. ...

I’m switching my blog over to a new hugo theme. It looks slightly nicer now, but migrations are hard and there will be some broken posts. Background When I was at Mozilla back in pre-2014 years I blogged on their corp wordpress setup. It was awful. I hated the WP editor, I hated the WP themes, I hated the WP plugins. I had cool blog posts on there, but they were all deleted when I left. I managed to get a backup, but never found the energy to restore it. The posts are on tech which is long obsolete, so the motivation is decreasing with time. I did spent the time to rewrite the coolest blog post I had on there on tracing how page faults work while taking the time to switch from SystemTap to Ebpf. ...

tldr: GitHub is where most CLI tools live. eget is a tool that makes it easy to download and install their binaries. ...

If you’re happy reading on your laptop or Apple device, you can skip this post. ...