A Place at the Table
An Irish family keeps an old Halloween tradition: a place at the table for the dead. Their hospitality is to die for.
Day of the Matthews
Whispers chase me down the school halls:
“What kind of girl is called Matthew at all?”
“Her parents so woke, just a name to …
Using Git Submodules with Local Overrides
Managing your own libraries as Git submodules can be awkward: normally, you have to push and pull between different directories to keep everything in …
Bulk delete bookmarks in Microsoft Word
A quick VBA script to delete all bookmarks in a Word document.
Goddamned Clocks!
For the third time in two days, I was foiled by this monstrous idiosyncrasy in our modern society that so arbitrarily wrenches the very fabric of time …
AI Safety: A Quick Reference
A practical checklist covering data privacy, hallucination risks, and what to consider before uploading anything to an AI service.
Filtering and searching in hledger
I am an advocate of plaintext accounting, and hledger is my go-to tool for this. A good summary ...
Auto-Deploy Hugo from Github
Using GitHub Actions to auto-deploy a Hugo site to a VPS (such as Linode) or directly to GitHub Pages.
Firefox: Vertical tabs are here!
With the demise of Arc Browser, fear not, horizontal tabs are finally here in Firefox (with a little help)