Solderpunk's Phlog
Bitter complaining about the state of the modern internet,
interspersed with electronics tinkering, homebrew computing and try
to live simply, minimally and deliberately. So much fun at parties
Except for posts which are replies to things posted in Gopherspace,
are otherwise only likely to be of interest to the Gopher community
everything posted here is also posted to my gemlog at:
gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/
TEXT (2024-07-21) Velouria blogs again!
TEXT (2024-07-17) Hostname pedantry II and farewell to the Red Consensus
TEXT (2024-07-03) Suomiward bound
TEXT (2024-06-05) A mostly offline May
TEXT (2024-05-08) I'm here, I'm glad you're there (they were St.GIGA)
TEXT (2024-04-29) Smol Earth in five cold points (resp. to adiabatic again)
TEXT (2024-04-22) Differentiating myself and Smol Earth from the Amish (resp. to adiabatic)
TEXT (2024-04-22) A smol.earth update on Earth day
TEXT (2024-04-19) Embracing the universe like a blazing star
TEXT (2024-04-14) Akebono, Musashimaru and Konishiki
TEXT (2024-04-14) OFFLFIRSOCH thoughts and observations
TEXT (2024-04-02) OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 round up
TEXT (2024-03-29) An offline city database
TEXT (2024-03-06) Book excerpts
TEXT (2024-03-01) Announcing OFFLFIRSOCH 2024
TEXT (2024-01-31) Radio 208 in the cabin
TEXT (2024-01-13) Cold and clear
TEXT (2023-11-26) Metabolism in architecture
TEXT (2023-11-19) Lunatic drivetrains
TEXT (2023-11-07) Koyaanisqatsi
TEXT (2023-11-05) A quick autumnal update
TEXT (2023-10-01) ROOPHLOCH 2023 round up
TEXT (2023-09-30) ROOPHLOCH 2023 explanation post
TEXT (2023-09-19) ROOPHLOCH 2023 433 MHz transmission 01
TEXT (2023-09-10) Announcing the Smol Earth Compendium
TEXT (2023-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2023
TEXT (2023-08-26) Talking about the weather
TEXT (2023-05-21) MiniDisc updates
TEXT (2023-05-20) Spring time, nature observations and lo-fi log
TEXT (2023-05-19) Ascension day ponderings
TEXT (2023-05-10) Six years of gopher
TEXT (2023-04-22) An Earth Day rant against class warfare environmentalism
TEXT (2023-04-16) aussies.space gopher server
TEXT (2023-04-08) Penguin Green Ideas, simple graphic art
TEXT (2023-04-01) Cloud spotting blues (resp. to tfurrows)
TEXT (2023-03-13) The gnat hitch
TEXT (2023-03-10) Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
TEXT (2023-02-02) Zaibatsu downtime notice
TEXT (2023-01-31) One billion, one continent
TEXT (2023-01-22) Do you even compute, bro?
TEXT (2023-01-21) Orphans of Netscape, part II
TEXT (2023-01-19) Permacomputing II
TEXT (2023-01-12) The Earth is not for us
TEXT (2023-01-11) Orphans of Netscape
TEXT (2023-01-08) Reading list added
TEXT (2023-01-06) ThinkPad thermal paste replacement
TEXT (2023-01-01) Micro album reviews 04
TEXT (2022-12-31) "Stray" is a great game
TEXT (2022-12-30) Radio updates
TEXT (2022-12-29) Gardening decrescendo
TEXT (2022-12-28) More binocular astronomy
TEXT (2022-10-07) Binocular observation of Jupiter and the moon
TEXT (2022-10-01) ROOPHLOCH 2022 roundoup
TEXT (2022-09-29) Story of a ROOPHLOP
TEXT (2022-09-18) Franken-Peugeot updates
TEXT (2022-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2022
TEXT (2021-11-10) Green days in Brunei
TEXT (2021-10-23) Vodka and cigarette sustainability
TEXT (2021-10-23) Low budget P2P content distribution with git
TEXT (2021-10-11) Smartphones vs real cameras (resp. to Alex Schroeder)
TEXT (2021-10-09) Micro album reviews 03
TEXT (2021-10-08) Been an even longer time
TEXT (2021-10-02) ROOPHLOCH 2021 roundup
TEXT (2021-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2021
TEXT (2021-05-02) Been a long time
TEXT (2021-03-07) Micro album reviews 02
TEXT (2021-01-02) 2021 resolutions
TEXT (2020-12-20) A new circumlunar colony
TEXT (2020-11-28) Mac mouse madness
TEXT (2020-11-08) The short-lived browser
TEXT (2020-11-01) Permacomputing
TEXT (2020-10-30) Micro album reviews 01
TEXT (2020-10-21) Digital audio on tape
TEXT (2020-10-07) Video tapes and helical scan
TEXT (2020-10-04) 2020 gardening wrap-up
TEXT (2020-10-03) ROPHLOCH 2020 round up
TEXT (2020-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2020
TEXT (2020-08-16) Progress toward "offline first"
TEXT (2020-08-14) Album review: Kikagaku Moyo's "House in the Tall Grass"
TEXT (2020-08-09) Computing less, but with more focus
TEXT (2020-08-08) Keyboard hegemony
TEXT (2020-08-02) The standard salvaged computing platform
TEXT (2020-07-26) Discussions toward radically sustainable computing
TEXT (2020-07-15) Resisting, and not resisting, photographic purchases
TEXT (2020-07-15) Gardening update
TEXT (2020-07-11) My second S24O
TEXT (2020-07-03) New email address
TEXT (2020-07-03) Getting my tabs under control
TEXT (2020-06-03) So tired of waking up tired
TEXT (2020-05-19) Actually listening to music again, part 2
TEXT (2020-05-16) The spiritual side of computing
TEXT (2020-05-16) Actually listening to music again, part 1
TEXT (2020-05-10) Three years of gopher
TEXT (2020-05-09) Almost square foot gardening
TEXT (2020-05-09) Zaibatsu upgrade, setuid woes
TEXT (2020-05-07) World class tree climbing
TEXT (2020-03-29) Conscripting surveillance capitalism to fight COVID-19
TEXT (2020-03-26) The roos shall flock again (resp. to tildecow)
TEXT (2020-03-20) Silver linings
TEXT (2020-03-02) Quick thoughts on DoH
TEXT (2020-01-01) Crossing the Baltic sea by bicycle
TEXT (2020-01-01) A new start
TEXT (2019-10-27) W3rdn4's ruins
TEXT (2019-10-27) Pentax MX prereview
TEXT (2019-10-20) The individual archivist, and ghosts of Gophers past
TEXT (2019-10-13) Decent exposure
TEXT (2019-10-13) Pentax ME Super review
TEXT (2019-10-01) ROPHLOCH 2019 round up
TEXT (2019-09-22) WiFi in the forest (ROPHLOCH2019 entry)
TEXT (2019-09-21) In praise of real camping (resp. to katolaz)
TEXT (2019-09-21) Gopherspace: the tip is the best! (resp. to jynx et al)
TEXT (2019-09-21) VF-1, AV-98 and Agena (response to Tomasino)
TEXT (2019-09-09) Space at the Zaibatsu
TEXT (2019-09-05) Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP-1000 review
TEXT (2019-08-31) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2019
TEXT (2019-08-25) Gardening update
TEXT (2019-08-18) Musical milestone ponderings (resp. to tomasino)
TEXT (2019-08-18) In praise of good libraries (resp. to slugmax)
TEXT (2019-08-17) Gopher as a rural retreat
TEXT (2019-08-06) Home again, and the tyranny of robot bathrooms
TEXT (2019-06-30) Little library in a fridge
TEXT (2019-06-25) Look, Ma! No lightmeter!
TEXT (2019-06-20) Project Gemini
TEXT (2019-06-18) Summer (response to jynx)
TEXT (2019-06-18) Everything2 is non-awful web
TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt III
TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt III
TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt II
TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt I
TEXT (2019-06-15) Off-grid fun
TEXT (2019-06-13) Materialism revisited (resp. to nermagermalous)
TEXT (2019-06-12) The soul of gopher
TEXT (2019-06-11) My hundred square metres
TEXT (2019-06-02) Circumlunar updates II
TEXT (2019-06-01) Cycles of optimism and pessimism
TEXT (2019-05-31) Board and card games
TEXT (2019-04-21) Can we all walk away?
TEXT (2019-04-07) More on gopher and crypto
TEXT (2019-04-07) The three questions of Tomasino
TEXT (2019-03-31) Why gopher needs crypto
TEXT (2019-03-30) Ikea hackers
TEXT (2019-03-24) Some thoughts on software copyright licenses
TEXT (2019-03-03) Pondering what's inbetween gopher and the web
TEXT (2019-02-26) Copy and paste with wsmoused on OpenBSD
TEXT (2019-02-26) The looming return of cycling
TEXT (2019-02-23) OpenBSD on an eeePC 1005HA
TEXT (2019-02-05) Phone ranting (resp. to cmccabe)
TEXT (2019-02-02) The zen of pubnix
TEXT (2019-01-20) Manifestos "R" Us
TEXT (2019-01-19) Discrimination and philosophy of mind (resp. to Visiblink and Yargo)
TEXT (2019-01-05) Port 70 stickers
TEXT (2019-01-05) Visiting my S24O site in the snow
TEXT (2019-01-02) We're bringin' finger back!
TEXT (2018-12-31) Learning to love Lua
TEXT (2018-12-30) Reading questions
TEXT (2018-12-11) Micro-pubnixes, local flavour and two-tier structure
TEXT (2018-12-09) On obsolescence
TEXT (2018-11-30) Hostname pedantry, or GNU/Circumlunar
TEXT (2018-11-28) So much cool stuff (resp. to Jynx and Tomasino)
TEXT (2018-11-15) Comic book memories (RIP Stan Lee)
TEXT (2018-11-10) Circumlunar updates
TEXT (2018-11-06) Hey you! Host something!
TEXT (2018-11-04) On SDF and the future of public access Unix
TEXT (2018-10-27) Greetings, knives and Civ
TEXT (2018-10-06) Tagged gophers
TEXT (2018-10-06) Crystal radio in 2018
TEXT (2018-09-22) My first S24O
TEXT (2018-08-19) Data security threat models
TEXT (2018-08-10) Data security ratings
TEXT (2018-08-10) Shiny new gopher content
TEXT (2018-08-03) Replies to tomasino, tfurrows, and yargo
TEXT (2018-07-28) Photos, Yashica 35-ME review
TEXT (2018-07-16) Death cleaning
TEXT (2018-07-07) Greetings from Australia
TEXT (2018-06-27) Ups and downs
TEXT (2018-06-08) AFK
TEXT (2018-06-03) Welcome back, phlogger!
TEXT (2018-06-02) Bike thoughts and projects
TEXT (2018-05-31) Offline life
TEXT (2018-05-10) A year of gopher
TEXT (2018-05-06) On the futility of individual action
TEXT (2018-04-29) Response to ja re: smartphones
TEXT (2018-04-29) Muesli with yoghurt
TEXT (2018-04-24) Chiptune musings
TEXT (2018-04-14) Dumbphone dilemma
TEXT (2018-04-14) Amazon and me
TEXT (2018-04-13) Mental dominance of Javascript
TEXT (2018-04-13) The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
TEXT (2018-04-12) Getting high
TEXT (2018-04-11) Gophery things
TEXT (2018-04-10) VF-1 updates and tips
TEXT (2018-04-04) Spring, at last
TEXT (2018-03-26) Article on attention
TEXT (2018-03-26) On Gopher conservatism
TEXT (2018-03-26) Looking at long stuff with VF-1 (response to tomasino)
TEXT (2018-03-26) Securing circumlunar.space with bind mounts
TEXT (2018-03-17) On tiny servers
TEXT (2018-03-17) Decentralising gopherspace
TEXT (2018-03-17) Woods recap
TEXT (2018-03-16) Email problems
TEXT (2018-03-15) Papa's Antisocial Media Manifesto
TEXT (2018-03-10) Circumlunar space
TEXT (2018-03-03) Going innawoods
TEXT (2018-03-03) Hobby farming (response to tfurrows)
TEXT (2018-03-03) In defence of Aussie coffee
TEXT (2018-03-02) Printing RFCs
TEXT (2018-02-25) Against connoiseurship
TEXT (2018-02-23) Rebuilding attention span
TEXT (2018-02-22) Coffee promises and responses (Kroovy, Defanor)
TEXT (2018-02-19) Half Hour of Power
TEXT (2018-02-19) Period rec rooms
TEXT (2018-02-14) Assorted replies and acknowledgements
TEXT (2018-02-13) Lead acid life
TEXT (2018-02-13) All I want
TEXT (2018-02-12) Snow
TEXT (2018-02-11) On EDC
TEXT (2018-02-11) Musical rodents
TEXT (2018-02-10) Things I've been doing lately
TEXT (2018-02-05) On bungled listings
TEXT (2018-02-03) Precious bodily fluids
TEXT (2018-01-31) On the growth and searching of Goperhspace
TEXT (2018-01-30) Miscellaneous, etc.
TEXT (2018-01-20) Thoughts on "The Future Will be Technical", part 1
TEXT (2018-01-19) On hats
TEXT (2018-01-16) On physicality
TEXT (2018-01-15) More on PMR-466 and going off-grid
TEXT (2018-01-14) Introducing VF-1
TEXT (2018-01-13) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (just about everyone)
TEXT (2018-01-11) Only a matter of time
TEXT (2018-01-10) On devils and bentos
TEXT (2018-01-09) On common interests (resp. to Logout)
TEXT (2018-01-08) Response to psztrnk on Mastodon
TEXT (2018-01-08) Responses on pseudonymity (slugmax, psztrnk, ZLG)
TEXT (2018-01-07) Thoughts on Mastodon and decentralisation
TEXT (2018-01-06) My favourite software
TEXT (2018-01-04) Pocket Gopher / Grumpy old man phone rant
TEXT (2018-01-02) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (tfurrows, pet84rik, slugmax, tomasino)
TEXT (2018-01-01) Pseudonymity woes
TEXT (2017-12-25) Diving into DOS
TEXT (2017-12-24) Merry Christmas and thanks
TEXT (2017-11-26) Sorting out PDPs
TEXT (2017-11-21) Hotel Viru and the KGB
TEXT (2017-11-19) Lightweight prepping
TEXT (2017-11-08) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (cat, jynx, ZLG, melton)
TEXT (2017-10-31) Hobbyist electronics without hypocrisy
TEXT (2017-10-30) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (ZLG, tfurrows, hobbsc)
TEXT (2017-10-28) A Solderpunk once more
TEXT (2017-10-26) Frugal entertainment
TEXT (2017-10-25) Belated responses
TEXT (2017-10-24) Radical frugality, or something like it
TEXT (2017-10-22) Technoskepticism, or something like it
TEXT (2017-10-19) Asceticism, or something like it
TEXT (2017-10-11) More battery thoughts
TEXT (2017-10-10) Lithium blues (resp. to Yargo)
TEXT (2017-10-08) Let me tell you about my mother
TEXT (2017-10-02) Delusional ambo fantasies
TEXT (2017-09-29) Missing AnonRadio
TEXT (2017-09-26) The rise and fall of AVCon
TEXT (2017-09-25) My dream setup
TEXT (2017-09-24) On the apparently looming death of FTP
TEXT (2017-09-09) Disconnecting
TEXT (2017-08-28) Call me!
TEXT (2017-08-27) On phones and phreaks
TEXT (2017-08-26) How I phlog
TEXT (2017-08-26) Building models
TEXT (2017-08-08) Quick gophery thoughts
TEXT (2017-07-30) More on walled gardens
TEXT (2017-07-22) Two walls good, four walls bad
TEXT (2017-07-19) URL shorteners are evil
TEXT (2017-07-07) GameBoy tech links
TEXT (2017-07-05) I want to ride my bicycle...
TEXT (2017-07-04) Overpowered browsers
TEXT (2017-06-29) Alive and well
TEXT (2017-06-21) Aussie anime nostaliga
TEXT (2017-06-18) Phlog on!
TEXT (2017-06-17) Airpot WiFi vs OpSec
TEXT (2017-06-06) Chicken Noun
TEXT (2017-06-01) The casino web
TEXT (2017-05-28) Too much stuff
TEXT (2017-05-27) Home again
TEXT (2017-05-21) Anti-Google sentiment
TEXT (2017-05-18) Thanks for your emails
TEXT (2017-05-16) Web apps are houses built on sand
TEXT (2017-05-14) I'm giving myself Sundays off
TEXT (2017-05-13) Future GameBoy hacks?
TEXT (2017-05-12) Rainy days
TEXT (2017-05-11) We've lost our way
TEXT (2017-05-10) Introduction