- [blog]
[politicorner]
Trans Rights Are Not Just a Distraction
politics
trans
cw-transphobia
In the UK and the US1 there has been a sharp spike in transphobic hate by elected officials. In the UK in particular there is a lot of it even from the supposedly “left-wing” party, Labour2 (though nowadays it’s milquetoast at best), and even in the mainstream “left-wing” paper, the UK Guardian (as criticised by the US branch of the same paper).
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- [blog]
[programming]
Neurodiversity and Rust
programming
neurodiversity
rust
accessibility
To say that Rust is my favourite programming language would be an understatement. Certainly, plenty of people agree with me, given it’s continued top rankings of preference in developer surveys for the past several years (even if some of it might be hype).
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- [blog]
Stop Bootlicking Death ...or, a rant on people's attitude towards those who do not accept mortality
politics
transhumanism
philosophy
technology
rant
Warning This is at least partially a vent of my frustration at the attitude towards those of us who refuse to accept death, spurred on by a recent reddit thread.
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- [blog]
Modular Thinking
neurodiversity
adhd
thinking
learning
psychology
In my life, I spend probably far too much time examining my own thought processes. In doing so, I have identified strategies that I engage in that allow me to learn and develop effectively, and asynchronously - that is, without necessarily knowing or understanding the prerequisites for a given piece of knowledge and all the associated background.
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- [blog]
Implementing Unicode Entry for All Programs With kitty's Unicode Kitten
programming
technology
awesomewm
So, kitty is a wonderful terminal emulator that is very keyboard driven. I use it for lots of things, even stuff that other people use a GUI for such as pulseaudio management (via pulsemixer, specifically).
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
There Was No Hugo Bug at All
site-meta
hugo
programming
golang
So it turns out, there was no hugo bug whatsoever technology , only user error.
For a short summary - when I commit to this site’s git repository, I run a pre-commit hook that updates the datetimes of any modified pages that have dates to match the current time, unless that page is marked finalised.
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
site-meta
A couple of people have been using janky RSS feeds by accessing <some-base-url>/<some-part-of-the-site>/index.xml. Because, up until now, I have always used relative URLs in everything (for ease of distribution in a folder), this meant the URLs in the RSS feeds would essentially have to be pasted on the end of one of my hosting locations.
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
At Some Point I'm Going to Move to Zola
site-meta
programming
rust
golang
In the previous blog post - A Weird Hugo Bug I Found technology hugo - I discovered an awful, awful bug that I have no idea of the cause.
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
A Weird Hugo Bug I Found
site-meta
programming
technology
hugo
Recently, I was writing this post climate politics future about, well, vertical farming, and I had some serious difficulties getting the leaf bundle to actually show up in the final output.
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- [articles]
[climate-adaptation]
01 - Vertical Farming & Alt-Agriculture
climate
politics
future
technology
One of the major threats posed by climate change is that of agricultural supply chain collapse due to radical shifts in environmental conditions both seasonal and long-term.
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- [articles]
[philosophy]
On Singularity
philosophy
politics
transhumanism
futurism
One of the defining concepts of transhumanist philosophical discussion is the notion of a Singularity. The meaning of this term, in common parlance, has come to be associated with one primary notion - an AI superintelligence exponentially improving itself and technology, either to technological utopia or skynet death machine scenario, depending on various factors or whoever happens to be discussing it.
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- [articles]
[philosophy]
Introduction to Transhumanism
philosophy
transhumanism
politics
It is fairly common for people to ask the question, “what is transhumanism?”, especially to me as a transhumanist. And it can be difficult to answer for a lot of people, and more difficult when there are conflicting definitions and an awful number of people who think transhumanism is as simple as sucking up to techbro billionaires who have suborned the idea of more general futurism (as you can tell, I have contempt for this attitude and consider it a horrific stifling of appreciation for the liberatory potential of transhumanist movements).
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- [blog]
[p2p-git]
Part 1 - Git Architecture
programming
p2p
git
rust
decentralisation
To create a system designed for peer-to-peer git repositories, we first must understand the ideas involved in, and the structures used by git.
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- [articles]
Transfem Diy HRT Info
trans
hrt
diyhrt
This is mostly a little archive of information on DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy for transfeminine people.
It is based on my own experiences.
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- [blog]
[p2p-git]
Part 0 - The Playing Field
programming
p2p
git
rust
decentralisation
Before I start exploring p2p git and how to build it, I want to take a peek at the current options for peer-to-peer git, their issues and my motivation for moving towards constructing my own for everyone to use.
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- [articles]
[ad/cook]
Equipment
food
cooking
One of the most important things in making food is the tools needed to do so. While not having access to a proper kitchen might at first seem to make thinking about this pointless, the opposite is in fact true - it means you need to think more about both what equipment you have and what equipment you can get that you can use within your accommodations.
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
Statically Rendering Maths ...or, a review on how I did it
personal
site-meta
technology
maths
So, in my last blog post I spent a lot of time explaining how maths is typically rendered on the internet and my issues with integrating it into this website (notably with my philosophy on when javascript should be present in static pages - that is, never), as well as being generally irritated.
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- [blog]
[sitestuff]
Trying to Statically Render Maths
site-meta
technology
maths
personal
So, I’m creating this website of mine, with weird and curious content of all types.
I’ve got a relatively clean (if script-modified to be less hardcoded) version of the wonderful simple.
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- [blog]
[FOSS]
License Classification Summary
foss
technology
This blogpost provides a summary of how I think of the spectrum of licenses from copyneutral/permissive licenses to copyleft/viral licenses. Of course, it is more complex than this, but this gives a good idea for use in discussions where the exact specifics are less relevant.
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- About
personal
site-meta
What is this page? It’s a page about both me and this website I made. Sort of an FAQ.
Where can I contact you?
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- [blog]
Just Getting Started
personal
Hey folks, I’m going to be writing all kinds of fun things on this site, all with associated tags (I had a lot of fun coming up with a CSS-only filter system):
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- [blog]
[FOSS]
reproprietization
terminology
foss
philosophy
technology
“Reproprietization” is a term I came up with for the process by which open-source software can be recontained in proprietary silos or otherwise be used in proprietary products.
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- [articles]
[ad/cook]
food desert
terminology
food
urbanism
A food desert is an area in which access to grocery stores is very limited and typically requires a car and an extended drive.
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- [articles]
[climate-adaptation]
Introduction ...or, why adapting matters more than most people think
climate
politics
future
technology
As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock the past 20 years would know, climate change is already here and already a threat, thanks in major part to obstruction and obfuscation of it’s long-term risk and effects by fossil fuel companies and the far-right.
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