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Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
27th Mar 2025
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Angkor Wat resources

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27th Mar 2025
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs

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31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
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Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024) The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear...
27th Nov 2024
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Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024)

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27th Nov 2024
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be chaotic and disruptive to many...
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AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
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AI enhanced search

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20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
28th Aug 2024
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8BitDo Game Controllers

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28th Aug 2024
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
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PreSonus Eris speakers PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a...
8th Jun 2024
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PreSonus Eris speakers

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8th Jun 2024
PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube videos, compressed music, games. ...
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Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
13th May 2024
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Kagi is a good search engine

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13th May 2024
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
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Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
5th Feb 2024
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Restic

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5th Feb 2024
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
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Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
18th Jan 2024
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Proxmox

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18th Jan 2024
Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
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My racism at accents Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
17th Dec 2023
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My racism at accents

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17th Dec 2023
Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth. What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at that. I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
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