Netflix's Narcos Mexico Season 3 is a Let Down
Netflix’s “Narcos”, and its companion “Narcos: Mexico” are very exciting shows to watch. I, uh, am under the impression these shows play quite fast and loose with history in order to make a compelling drama. It does make for good entertainment. I was excited to see “Narcos: Mexico”’s Season 3 recently released, and sat down to binge my way through [...]
Example of Using Nix to Run Software Using Different Build Flags
I recently wanted to use FreeCAD to export a glTF file from a STEP file. Unfortunately, I found that FreeCad needed to be built with OCC built with rapidjson. The suggested solution isn’t hard, as such; but it is more tedious than just installing a package: Building from OCC from scratch: 1. get the source code from (https://gitlab.com/blobfish/occt ) –> [...]
Using Nix-Shell for Project-Specific Tools for Emacs
UPDATE: “Project Specific Tooling in Emacs with Nix Flakes and Direnv” discusses an approach with works with the devShell of flake.nix by making use of direnv.
One feature VSCode has is its “Remote - Containers” extension which allows for developing inside a container. I found this strange when I first heard it; since every time I’ve
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Static Site Generators are Well Suited to Hobbyist Programming
Static site generators are definitely a “for developers” tool. Or that’s the impression I get from seeing that staticsitegenerators.net has hundreds of projects listed, ranging from a few GitHub stars all the way up to tens of thousands of GitHub stars. I’m reminded of a comment I saw on Hacker News talking about Factorio. Factorio is a game with gameplay [...]
Follow-up Review of the BM40 Ortholinear Keyboard
EDIT: 2025-04: KPRepublic’s Violations of the QMK License EDIT: 2025-04: I’ve noticed that kprepublic (which sells the BM40) has been put on QMK’s list of vendors violating the QMK’s license. QMK’s code is licensed with GPL. GPL is a copyleft license. Basically, it’s a pro-social “I’m sharing this, but you have to share if you use it”. Or as it [...]
Dreamy Eyes is Very Sweet
I watched “Dreamy Eyes” on Netflix.
I recommend it. It’s (at times) intensely romantically sweet. Although it doesn’t have a happy ending.
(Well, without a happy ending I suppose “angsty” is more apt than “sweet”). It’s a drama set in Vietnam during the 1960s - 1970s. The main character has an unrequited love for his childhood friend. In [...]
Thoughts on Netflix's Bridgerton S1
I just finished watching Netflix’s “Bridgerton” series. I’d enjoyed reading the book series some time ago. The third book in the Bridgeron series was the first book I ever stayed up the whole night to read. The Bridgerton series is a famous and well-loved series of romance novels by Julia Quinn, featuring the Bridgerton family. The author has a charming [...]
Early Impressions of BM40RGB Ortholinear Keyboard
I finally received my BM40RGB keyboard that I’d ordered from KPRepublic on AliExpress. EDIT: 2025-04: KPRepublic’s Violations of the QMK License EDIT: 2025-04: I’ve noticed that kprepublic (which sells the BM40) has been put on QMK’s list of vendors violating the QMK’s license. QMK’s code is licensed with GPL. GPL is a copyleft license. Basically, it’s a pro-social “I’m sharing [...]
Repairing my Razer Keyboard
I recently repaired my mechanical keyboard. It’s a Razer BlackWidow Ultimate, 2016 Edition that I’d bought on sale a couple of years ago.
The result was an imperfect success. The successful part: my keyboard now works and can be reliably used for typing and gaming. (Before, many of the keys didn’t activate when pressed; or only activated some of [...]
Replaying Halo CE
Halo recently re-released to Steam as part of the Halo Master Chief Collection. And I finally got around to re-playing it. I’d played the game on PC some time after it was released.
But I couldn’t remember the game as a whole. I did remember bits and pieces. I remember the first time I got to drive the Warthog [...]