Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird. Most of the time we don’t even realize we are. We forget because it’s become so mundane, but we live in a highly connected online society largely influenced by giant corporations, and not for the better. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting… Continue reading Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird
Category: Online
Mastodon notes
So I’ve been using Mastodon a bit for the past few months, and with the latest influx of users via the great Twitter Migration of Late 2022 I thought I’d jot down some of my notes on the platform. I have two active accounts, on different servers: The first thing all new users encounter when… Continue reading Mastodon notes
The best chicken article I’ve read in awhile.
Actually this might be the only chicken article I’ve read now that I think about it. It’s long but really good. Did you know the Egyptians “mastered the technique of artificial incubation”? I did not. Oh, and don’t forget, chickens are basically the descendants of dinosaurs which is awesome.
Timeline of the far future
On a similar topic to my previous post about the scale of the universe, I’ve been enjoying Wikipedia’s Timeline of the far future for equal amounts of mind-boggling scale. Really, once you hit 1020 years from now the numbers are pretty much meaningless to realistic human comprehension. But when you start hitting the exponents of… Continue reading Timeline of the far future
The Scale of the Universe
I realized I missed posting in April entirely(!), and I don’t like the look of the gap in the archive calendar, so I’m back-dating this entry. And you need to check this out, a Flash-animated Scale of the Universe that is simply mind-boggling. From the smallest structures known (quantum foam, the Planck length) to the… Continue reading The Scale of the Universe
Anatomy of a blog hack
So, last weekend I found out that my blogs had been hacked. Actually, it wasn’t just my blogs, nothing personal involved or anything like that: the shared server space my sites were hosted on was compromised, and a good number of other sites and files were hacked as well. Based on what I can piece… Continue reading Anatomy of a blog hack
The best thing I’ve seen lately
Just in time for Halloween!
Twitter cleaning
I figure I need to clean up my @chuggnutt Twitter account (and probably the @hackbend and @brewsite ones as well). Not that I have an extraordinary number of followers, or people I’m following—522 and 425, respectively—but I realized there’s a fair amount of “noise” on what amounts to my personal Twitter account and there are… Continue reading Twitter cleaning
Pandora
The last several weeks I’ve been checking out Pandora, the “Internet Radio” site that lets you build custom stations of music based on your personal preferences (and provides a live stream of said music). You can give it artists or genres to choose from, and from there—and based on what you tell it you like… Continue reading Pandora
Tools of the trade
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything overly technical here, but it strikes me that a “snapshot” of what I do (for work) and how I do it (the tech) might be useful to some. What I do is web development for Smart Solutions here in Bend. Smart Solutions is a web and software development… Continue reading Tools of the trade