WA𐕣LY 🎃

October beach trips have become a thing.

The videotape episodes of The Twilight Zone suck. I’d be bummed if the remainder of the series were shot like this.

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Another trip to the mall means another photo of a 911.

Rad is to BMX movies as Hackers is to hacking movies. They both rule. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

It’s a lovely fall evening.

Saw Sylvan Esso last night and it was awesome.

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Users will always find unintended ways of using software.

I don’t know, man, what if, like, I want to know how something works and isn’t completely abstracted away from me? What if I like the ancient art of programming by hand?

I picked up some cool flickering pumpkins from Five Below. The on/off switch is underneath the battery cover on the bottom. It’s annoying to turn them on/off. I hacked it with an ESP32 so that it works with HomeKit now.

Being able to walk into a physical store and buy this stuff off the shelf makes me happy. Micro Center rules.

Surely S1E31 of The Twilight Zone inspired Obsession.

Remember to take time to chill.

I can’t stop listening to Turnstile. Help.

Window border radii in macOS 27 are so much better.

Wanted to set up CI/CD for my stupid little homepage so that it would copy files from GitHub to my OpenBSD server upon pushing to main. Realized this was all too complicated with extra users and SSH keys and I still don't 100% trust computers so I wrote a stupid Makefile to tar files over SSH.

I’m watching The Twilight Zone today. What a coincidence.

I feel like the Crypt Keeper still holds up today. We should do more puppeteering and practical effects in television.

How it feels going on the internet these days.

I’m genuinely impressed with trackpad support on Linux these days. GNOME’s multi-touch gestures are almost as smooth as macOS. Almost.

Perhaps a little Dokken while we compile the kernel.

We get it, Lewis. You have an F40.

"Everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now" in Somewhat Damaged always throws me off. "Everything you swore would never change is different now" makes more sense in my brain.

Tried wired EarPods at the gym tonight just for the hell of it... and I don't understand how people do it. They are no replacement for headphones with ANC. I had to crank up the volume to block out the noise and it wasn't great.

I don’t think I can use OpenBSD on a laptop without a trackpoint. Sigh.

Oof. The Dell XPS 13 has gnarly coil whine when scrolling pages in Firefox. It might have to do with the 120Hz screen locked at full brightness on OpenBSD but it's bad. The animations on frame.work make it sound like crickets are in my office.

I have been thinking bout running OpenBSD on a laptop again. My immediate thought is ThinkPad but the current line is kind of crap and that makes me sad. Framework Pro seems cool but expensive for what it is. A MacBook would be cheaper... OpenBSD on a MacBook Neo would be a hell of a combo.

You know what I love? Opening a web page and seeing a modal appear then quickly disappear and then I can’t scroll. Why all the JS madness? The browser works, guys. We don’t have to reinvent everything all the god damn time.

Boy, I really should have picked up more than one M4 Mac mini when I got mine at Micro Center for $399 last year.

I haven't used lobste.rs in a very long time. It used to feel simpler. There's just more... stuff.

I wrote something up on how you can get an OpenBSD server for $4/month. nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-...

Noticed my bank’s app kept timing out when logging in. Went to the site in Safari and was greeted with a GoDaddy domain for sale page. Cool.

Is “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet” a good read?

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Honestly though, I just want something like The Adventures of Ishmael and Queequeg.

I finally finished Moby Dick. The ending was satisfying.