Blog
2026
Bay FC Home Opener
Tess, a friend, and I went to the Bay FC home opener against the Denver Summit over the weekend.
mpd and rmpc
I recently re-discovered mpd, a headless music player, and a neat TUI client for it.
Upgrading to FreeBSD 15
I upgraded my VPS to FreeBSD 15.0 and ran into some problems.
2025
I’m a Student Again
I started taking Japanese classes at CCSF.
Fixing Up Japanese Language Tags
Updating Japanese language tag slugs to make them easier to navigate.
Qud
A short review of Caves of Qud, a roguelike video game I’ve been playing recently.
2024
Departure Mono
A fun fixed-width font evoking old school terminals and pixel fonts from early computing.
Christmas in Massachusetts
This year, I spent Christmas with Tess and Erin in Massachusetts.
¡Ay Carmela!
Pero nada pueden bombas
Donde sobra corazón
Jackson and Other Holes
My fourth annual trip with a group of high school friends took us to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Chicago
Tess and I traveled to Chicago to attend the wedding of one of my oldest friends, visit some family, and do a little sightseeing.
BSD make != GNU make
Discussing some differences between the BSD and GNU variants of make(1).
Weeknotes for 2024W24
WWDC, Family, Blender, and Japanese
Eclipse
I traveled to Austin, TX to watch the total solar eclipse that passed over North America, and visit my friend Breanna Carzoo.
B612
An open source font I rediscovered recently.
2023
Hello Chess Friend
I started building a chess engine in Rust. Here it is.
Less Instagram, More Blog
Resolving, yet again, to blog more and social media less.
Netscape Meteors: Retrospective
Someone shared my Netscape Meteors post on the Orange Website, causing it to be moderately viral for a few days. Here’s an update on the web traffic my server received.
Netscape Meteors
I went on a hunt to find the “Meteors” loading animation from Netscape back in the 90s, and wrote up my adventure.
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene
A brief book report.
2022
My Best Nethack Game (So Far)
A summary of my best-to-date game of Nethack.
Lunar Eclipse 🌝
A quick note about the upcoming lunar eclipse in the morning of 2022-11-08.
Hugo’s Dictionary API
I’ve found Hugo’s API for collections to be difficult to understand. Here’s my attempt to summarize it’s quirks.
Making an Audio Scope with P5.js
A writeup of a small JavaScript waveform visualizer I made with P5.js.
Roguelikes I Like
Some roguelikes I’ve enjoyed recently.
Oh Dear, She Got Hooked on Nethack Again
In which I get hooked on that one roguelike (God help me)
Profiling ZSH
In which I learn about how to profile my ZSH init files.
Colorado Modular Synth Society Three Module Challenge
In which I submit a video of me playing a small Eurorack system to CMSS
2021
PNW Reunion Trip
In which I travel to the Pacific Northwest with some high school friends, and have a lot of warm fuzzy feelings about it.
日本町
A quick staycation getaway to San Francisco’s Japantown with Tess.
Oskitone Scout
A timelapse video of me building an Oskitone Scout set to music produced using the Scout itself.
2020
Booting a Raspberry Pi Over TFTP
A writeup of how I set up a Raspberry Pi to boot over TFTP to facilitate an operating system development project.