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A post about a subject, any subject, that moved me: it'll typically be a short article. It's different from a "POST."

Mailboxes with a yellow one in the middle of the picture.

Email Archiving System: Hot, Warm, Cold, and Restricted (Plus Setup Steps)

Email archiving is how that trail is kept without letting it swallow the floor.

Two hands typing on a, what seems to be, a Mac.

A Personal Journal Folder Structure To Last a Lifetime

For Linux, Mac, Windows, iPad, Android tablet... the works.

Front view of the green Qware SND‑WT335PK walkie-talkie

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Qware SND‑WT335PK Walkie‑Talkie Manual Reconstruct

Let’s give you something useful, not a scavenger hunt.

Person sick in the stomach stuck in the toilet seat.

Connections

LinkedIn, the digital alleyway where everyone pretends their shoes aren’t soaked in rain and desperation.

Another year hits the dust

Another year hits the dust

The Gutter Knows the Truth

A Filofax agenda open with a view on the inserts.

Filofax Diaries 2026

Inserts to print and punch.

Screenshot of a computer screen showing computer code.

Europe’s Open Source Hangover

Circling the word sovereignty like a drunk who can’t remember where he left his keys.

Scrabble cube blocks saying real is rare.

An offer you can't refuse?

How to sell fake for real money.

A sign hanging on the wall with a man and a woman.

Why Ghislaine Maxwell Went to Prison.

While Epstein’s Network Remains Untouched.

A Requiem That Never Lands.

A Requiem That Never Lands.

They say macOS is dead. Again.

A pair of old fashioned, worn shoes photographed in black & white.

Sixty years old. Now what?

Palooka's Compass of What Matters.

reMarkable Paper Pro Move

reMarkable Paper Pro Move

The Move walks in like a stranger with confidence, promising to be different.

Anb old, photo camera lens.

Lightroom 15.0

A Look into the Guts of the Machine.

Rows of archive boxes.

"The Internet" as an archive.

Reflection on "The Internet" as an archive comparable to the library of Alexandria.

A blue, neon sign hanging in front of an office window saying: "What is your story?"

The Memex Method

How does Cory Doctorow do it?

A concrete slab which is part of a wall, surrounded by grass with a graffiti saying "eat the rich, feed the poor."

American Obsession With Socialism

From all the questions that could cross your mind about Cory Doctorow, this one is probably the most American one.

Photo of a cruise ship in open sea.

"I am urgently chasing"

MP Rupert Lowe warns authorities and posts on X that "Brittain needs mass deportations."

Space Shuttle photographed from above while flying.

But you didn't

"Why couldn't we just discover that on our own?"

A R/C car at night with the LED's switched on.

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Little Machines, Big Messes

A sun-dried fish fragment rests on the golden sand, its scales glistening under the relentless sun.

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Berlin is circling the drain

A pencil on a black background.

Teaser: Keaton Brase in Shattered Facades

A job wasn’t worth doing unless it reeked up the joint.

Encryption machine, probably an Enigma, behind glass.

PGP encryption for Linux file browser

Secure Nemo and his Nautilius.

Old tape pulled out if its housing.

Flat Tyre With Flatpak

Let's plug the hole.

A wall of old, red bricks;

Block naughty IP's with UFW

Let that little firewall work.

Prompt on a Linux terminal showing a command line on an Ubuntu PC.

Make the headphones sing with Linux

Without the snakeoil.