Technology
Fond Memories of Hamachi
I learned about Hamachi because I was ten and wanted to play Minecraft with someone. In 2026, I went down a rabbit hole and found out it was more interesting than it had any right to be.
I do not recommend Cloudflare anymore.
My website had an intermittent ten-second stall that hit every device in my city at once, survived a full backend swap, and could not be reproduced on demand. The only fix Cloudflare offered was a support tier I would have to pay for, on a domain I had bought from them.
Writing software for my keyboard
I wanted to remap one key on my new keyboard. To do that, I read 25,000 lines of 8051 assembly.
Microsoft Was Right. They Were Just Fifteen Years Early.
Windows 8 was correct. Metro was correct. Microsoft saw convergence before anyone and got laughed off the stage for it. Fifteen years later Valve and Google are eating the lunch Microsoft left on the counter.
I'm forcing myself to buy a new router and I'm not happy about it.
640,000 hostile requests, Claude hacking BSD and FFmpeg, and the expensive realization that my router is on borrowed time.
LTT Somehow Predicted my Peripherals
I wanted a wireless keyboard and ended up finding the factory behind half the brands on AliExpress.
The Laptop That Refused to Retire
I bought a Lenovo V14 out of desperation, built a desktop two years later, and somehow the laptop is still working — it just changed jobs.