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 Title: Blog
 Summary: Welcome to my blog. This is where I put my more polished essays, thoughts, and writings out into the world.
 
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 This is my blog, the fruit stand of my [digital garden](/garden/); the place
 where I put my more polished essays, thoughts, and writings out into the world.
 Most of what I have written and published is listed below though I have removed
 posts I think are low quality or lack any valuable insight (fruit that has gone
 bad, as it were). Please note that older posts—even those that are less than a
 year old—may not match my current views or practices.
 
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 [Computers as Workspaces](/blog/computers-as-workspaces)<br>
 <span class="date">May 9, 2023</span>
 
 [OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380](/blog/openbsd-on-the-dell-xps-13-9380)<br>
 <span class="date">March 17, 2023</span>
 
 [Styling External Links](/blog/styling-external-links)<br>
 <span class="date">March 2, 2023</span>
 
 [Free Software is an Abject Failure](/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure)<br>
 <span class="date">November 8, 2021</span>
 
 [A Git Workflow With Claws Mail](/blog/a-git-workflow-with-claws-mail)<br>
 <span class="date">October 26, 2021</span>
 
 [Laptops Suck (Why I Might Get a New MacBook Air)](/blog/laptops-suck-why-i-might-get-a-macbook-air)<br>
 <span class="date">August 18, 2021</span>
 
 [Mastodon Is Dead, Long Live Misskey 🍮](/blog/mastodon-is-dead-long-live-misskey)<br>
 <span class="date">August 5, 2021</span>
 
 [Migrating from nginx to OpenBSD's httpd and relayd](/blog/migrating-from-nginx-to-openbsd-httpd-and-relayd)<br>
 <span class="date">February 17, 2021</span>
 
 [Flip Phone Challenge Complete](/blog/flip-phone-challenge-complete)<br>
 <span class="date">December 10, 2020</span>
 
 [One Week Flip Phone Challenge](/blog/flip-phone-challenge)<br>
 <span class="date">November 30, 2020</span>
 
 [Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR](/blog/why-irc-is-still-good)<br>
 <span class="date">August 30, 2020</span>
 
 [The Hacker Quarterly Magazine](/blog/the-hacker-quarterly-magazine)<br>
 <span class="date">August 14, 2020</span>
 
 [Ethical Investing](/blog/ethical-investing)<br>
 <span class="date">August 13, 2020</span>
 
 [Choosing An Investment Brokerage](/blog/choosing-an-investment-brokerage)<br>
 <span class="date">August 12, 2020</span>
 
 [My Journey With Computers](/blog/my-journey-with-computers)<br>
 <span class="date">August 03, 2020</span>
 
 [The Vortex ViBE Mechanical Keyboard](/blog/vortex-vibe-keyboard)<br>
 <span class="date">August 02, 2020</span>
 
 [My Git Server Was DDoSed](/blog/my-git-server-was-ddosed)<br>
 <span class="date">July 29, 2020</span>
 
 [Why I Hate The Term "Modern"](/blog/why-i-hate-the-term-modern)<br>
 <span class="date">July 16, 2020</span>
 
 [Installing Debian 10 Buster with Encrypted LVM and btrfs Subvolumes](/blog/debian-with-btrfs)<br>
 <span class="date">July 14, 2020</span>
 
 [Using the "rm" Command with Trash](/blog/using-rm-with-trash)<br>
 <span class="date">July 13, 2020</span>
 
 [Colours for Gitea Issues](/blog/colours-for-gitea-issues)<br>
 <span class="date">July 11, 2020</span>
 
 [My TODO Solution](/blog/my-todo-solution)<br>
 <span class="date">July 08, 2020</span>
 
 [Are TODO Applications a Waste of Time?](/blog/are-todo-applications-a-waste-of-time)<br>
 <span class="date">July 07, 2020</span>
 
 [Adding Search to This Blog](/blog/improving-blog-searching)<br>
 <span class="date">July 06, 2020</span>
 
 [Switching to cgit](/blog/switching-to-cgit)<br>
 <span class="date">July 05, 2020</span>
 
 [A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email](/blog/a-month-and-a-half-of-self-hosted-email)<br>
 <span class="date">July 02, 2020</span>
 
 [How I Keep My Home Directory Clean](/blog/how-i-keep-my-home-directory-clean)<br>
 <span class="date">June 28, 2020</span>
 
 [Use Syncthing to Sync Things](/blog/use-syncthing-to-sync-things)<br>
 <span class="date">June 26, 2020</span>
 
 [Why dwm's Window Swallowing Patch Can't Swallow tmux](/blog/why-dwm-swallowing-cant-swallow-tmux)<br>
 <span class="date">June 26, 2020</span>
 
 [My LWN Theme](/blog/my-lwn-theme)<br>
 <span class="date">June 22, 2020</span>
 
 [My New T420s](/blog/my-new-t420s)<br>
 <span class="date">June 15, 2020</span>
 
 [Managing Dotfiles Using a Git Bare Repository](/blog/how-i-manage-my-dotfiles)<br>
 <span class="date">June 13, 2020</span>
 
 [Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform](/blog/why-email-is-the-best-discussion-platform)<br>
 <span class="date">June 07, 2020</span>
 
 [Toggling Between Indentation Styles in Vim](/blog/toggling-between-indentation-styles-in-vim)<br>
 <span class="date">June 02, 2020</span>
 
 [A Quick Rant About Web Font Sizes](/blog/a-quick-rant-about-web-font-sizes)<br>
 <span class="date">May 28, 2020</span>
 
 [Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service](/blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-service)<br>
 <span class="date">May 26, 2020</span>
 
 [Paying for Software](/blog/paying-for-software)<br>
 <span class="date">May 25, 2020</span>
 
 [Self-Hosting Email](/blog/self-hosting-email)<br>
 <span class="date">May 16, 2020</span>
 
 [Diving Deeper Into the Small Internet](/blog/diving-deeper-into-the-small-internet)<br>
 <span class="date">May 13, 2020</span>
 
 [Setting Up A Gopher Site](/blog/setting-up-a-gopher-site)<br>
 <span class="date">May 12, 2020</span>
 
 [A Brief Review of Fedora 32](/blog/a-brief-review-of-fedora-32)<br>
 <span class="date">May 11, 2020</span>
 
 [The Joys of Old Tech](/blog/the-joys-of-old-tech)<br>
 <span class="date">May 07, 2020</span>
 
 [Refining My NeoMutt Configuration](/blog/refining-my-neomutt-config)<br>
 <span class="date">May 05, 2020</span>
 
 [The Diefenbunker Museum](/blog/the-diefenbunker-museum)<br>
 <span class="date">May 03, 2020</span>
 
 [Why I Blog and #100DaysToOffload](/blog/why-i-blog)<br>
 <span class="date">April 25, 2020</span>
 
 [Decommissioning My Rackmount Server](/blog/decommissioning-my-rackmount-server)<br>
 <span class="date">April 11, 2020</span>
 
 [Making My Own Vim Statusline](/blog/making-my-own-vim-statusline)<br>
 <span class="date">February 24, 2020</span>
 
 [Switching from urxvt to st](/blog/urxvt-to-st)<br>
 <span class="date">February 14, 2020</span>
 
 [The Difficulty of Educating People About Online Privacy](/blog/difficulty-of-privacy-education)<br>
 <span class="date">December 20, 2019</span>
 
 [Why I Switched Back to Firefox from Qutebrowser](/blog/qutebrowser-to-firefox)<br>
 <span class="date">June 20, 2019</span>