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  • Updates!

    June 2, 2022

    Just a quick set of updates as I get ready to run to work here. WordPress has hit a milestone release with version 6 of their platform software recently. They’ve come a long, long way from their initial fork of b2 ages ago, and I’ll gladly say Congrats to Automattic and team for the work […]

  • Is flat, like ironing board.

    April 23, 2022

    This brief quip is brought to you by my distaste for the nitrous-infused soda released by Pepsi. I bought a can, despite not having access to a no-sugar variant, because I figured I would at least give it a try. Let’s just say that both myself and a housemate could conjure up ideas of things […]

  • Not a coilover, but Coil.

    April 3, 2022

    For a while now, I’ve been quietly monetizing my weblog here using a micropayments service called Coil. Why Micropayments? Why not? is the question I propose in return. By and large, we’ve become ad-deaf. That is, we’ve learned to mentally tune out banner ads, ignore posts that are seemingly 91% advertisement and 9% content by […]

  • Electric vehicles and the human need.

    March 17, 2022

    A preface: I started writing this post a few years prior, and it got lost in thought. While my transportation modality has changed: I now own an automobile, the bulk of what I said still stands. For a year and a half, I owned an electric scooter, which was sadly recently stolen after being down […]

  • On legally acquired media, acquisition of media, and increasing difficulty in consumption.

    March 12, 2022

    Xial talks about an in-house streaming machine for their already purchased content.

  • Archaic Standards of User Information Tracking, revisited.

    October 24, 2021

    Let’s start with the Salt Cup of things. You’re likely reading this here on a less common gTLD, that is, lick.blue. You’ve seen all the dot-coms, dot-nets, dot-orgs, and the country codes in general, and now there’re these colorful new gTLDs, like .abogado (lawyers and law firms!), .dog (downward facing — oh, wait, that’s .yoga; […]

  • There are gTLDs, developers.

    October 9, 2021

    Bloody act like it. This starts a rant about Cost Plus World Market, and many other websites that requests your email address, but uses some archaic, distressingly not-updated method of determining if the email address might or might not be valid. As you can see, this post happens to be sitting on a domain, lick.blue; […]

  • The Pharmaceutical Desert grows…

    October 3, 2021

    Xial laments and rambles about the growth of the local pharmaceutical desert in their area.

  • Depress the clutch, release the clutch.

    August 27, 2021

    Just a short one, this time. I’m learning how to drive a manual transmission car, by way of being blessed with one recently. I’m doing reasonably well with the concept, and with further thought, I think that if I ever need to buy another car and it’s not all electric, I could buy a stick […]

  • A ponderance on new hosting digs…

    August 17, 2021

    Well… I’m starting to ponder a change of hosting. In theory, I could move most of my stuff to my recently configured Scaleway Stardust instance, as I’m using it to learn Caddy. Caddy has been extra easy, thus far, though I am not sure how I would handle the equivalent of Apache’s mod_rewrite rules, which […]

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