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2026

07

Fighting the loudness war, one battle at a time

Music review: Mystifier - Goëtia (1993)

Anime review: Yagate Kimi ni Naru (2018)

06

High quality image resizing: ImageMagick vs libplacebo

Music review: My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans (1993)

Novel review: Herman Melville - Moby-Dick (1851)

Music review: Melvins - Lysol (1992)

Music review: Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War (2000)

Video game review: Divinity: Original Sin II (2017)

A peek at POSIX sh's future goodies

05

Anime review: Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (2013)

Anime review: Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na! (2020)

Music review: Maldoror - In Saturn Mystique (2000)

A bored look at my sshd authlog

OpenBSD migration

Monday downtime

Novel review: Terry Pratchett - Night Watch (2002)

Anime review: Xam'd: Lost Memories (2008)

04

Music review: Leak - God Hates the South (1997)

My first engine oil change

Release of mangadex-tools v1.0.0

Music review: Floor - Floor (2002)

Anime review: NieA Under 7 (2000)

03

What makes a good album

Music review: Crystal Castles - II (2010)

Movie review: Gattaca (1997)

Anime review: Shingeki no Kyojin S1-S2 (2013-2017)

02

Anime review: WataMote (2013)

Movie review: Office Space (1990)

Novel review: Richard Preston - The Hot Zone (1995)

Anime review: Gun x Sword (2005)

Anime review: Dantalian no Shoka (2011)

Novel review: Frank Herbert - Hellstrom's Hive (1973)

Anime review: PaniPoni Dash! (2005)

01

Live migration of root disk with Linux

Video game review: Fallout New Vegas (2010)

Movie review: Brazil (1985)

2025

12

Music review: Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine (1978)

Memoizing wrapper for Tcl procs

Anime review: Ergo Proxy (2006)

Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp

Introduction and code

11

Music review: Katatonia - Dance of December Souls (1993)

Function tracing in Common Lisp

Code golfing FizzBuzz in 88 bytes of C

Novel review: Alain Damasio - La Horde du Contrevent (2004)

Movie review: M (1931)

Music review: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)

Movie review: Dark Water (2002)

10

Music review: Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

Novel review: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic (1972)

Anime review: New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2025)

Movie review: Event Horizon (1997)

Novel review: Joe Abercrombie - The First Law (2006-2008)

Movie review: Stalker (1979)

09

Local Japanese culture festival haul

Music review: Gorguts - Obscura (1998)

Anime review: Katanagatari (2010)

Music review: Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (1986)

08

Novel review: Stanisław Lem - Solaris (1961)

Music review: Godkiller - The End of the World (1998)

Anime review: Spriggan (1998)

Movie review: The Running Man (1987)

Music review: Burzum - Burzum (1992)

Movie review: A History of Violence (2005)

Anime review: Psycho-Pass (2012)

Movie review: Faust (1994)

Novel review: Jean-Philippe Jaworsky - Même pas mort (2013)

Music review: Acid Bath - Demos: 1993-1996 (2005)

Music review: Godflesh - Slavestate (1991)

Compilation speed of CL implementations

fio-crystaldiskbenchmark

07

Emacs htmlize as batch script

Music review: Foetus - Nail (1985)

Music review: Eyehategod - Dopesick (1996)

Music review: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)

X11 record and replay

06

Novel review: Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow (1895)

Making of a 88x31 button

Movie review: HANA-BI (1997)

Music review: Dystopia - Human = Garbage (1994)

Music review: Dødheimsgard - 666 International (1999)

A bubblewrap wrapper

NAS setup logbook

Topology and filesystem

A productive week-end update

05

Novel review: S.M. Stirling - The Stone Dogs (1990)

Small Pyrenees trip

Addendum: unexpected comeback "presents"

Music review: Down - NOLA (1995)

Novel review: Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues (1987)

Music review: diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral (1993)

Novel review: S.M. Stirling - Under the Yoke (1989)

04

Music review: Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (2004)

Ogg Vorbis cover art embedding: Tcl vs Common Lisp

In MY Common Lisp

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

Movie review: Ford v Ferrari (2019)

Music review: Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)

Music review: Dark Tranquility - Skydancer (1993)

03

Music review: Darkthrone - Goatlord (1996)

Music review: Danzig - Danzig II - Lucifuge (1990)

Music review: Crowbar - Crowbar (1993)

Speeding up cljqalbum

Pruning Portage package config files

Music review: Comus - First Utterance (1971)

Movie review: Idiocracy (2006)

A Common Lisp jq replacement

Music review: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)

02

Music review: Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée (1995)

Music questions challenge

What are five of your favorite albums?

What are five of your favorite songs?

Favorite instrument(s)?

What song or album are you currently listening to?

Do you listen to the radio? If so, how often?

How often do you listen to music?

How often do you discover music? And how do you discover music?

What's a song or album that you enjoy that you wish had more recognition?

What's your favorite song of all time?

Has your taste in music evolved over the years?

Music review: 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo) - 勝訴ストリップ (Shōso Strip) (2000)

Linux pipe(2) vs ring buffer

Novel review: Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)

Music review: Black Flag - My War (1984)

01

Music review: Belkètre - Ambre Zuèrkl Vuorhdrévarvtre (1996)

Cooking recipe: bœuf bourguignon

Most memorable extreme music screaming

Music review: Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (2006)

Novel review: Terry Pratchett - Mort (1987)

Novel review: Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves (2000)

PDF to CBZ for e-reader

Music review: Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (1996)

Video game review: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2019)

Dotfiles management

2024

12

Novel Review: Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem (2008)

GNU parallel out, pararun in

Advent of Code 2024: retrospective

Advent of Code 2024: Day 01

11

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GC

Initial C weenie stance

Insights and updated views

Music review: Thee Maldoror Kollective - New Era Viral Order (Dogma Slaughterhouse and the Children of Anaemia) (2002)

Novel review: Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! (1989) & Men at Arms (1993)

Smuggling files under Google's nose

First blood: nested zips

Second skirmish: file signature doctoring

Final setback and victory

Emacs: separate minibuffer history for a command

Music review: Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb (2001)

CL iterate's COLLECT performance notice

10

Music review: Burzum - Det som engang var (1993)

QoL addition to Common Lisp :start/:end

Closures in Tcl

What kind of closures

Music review: Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art (1998)

git secret filter

Personal additions

09

Music review: Samael - Eternal (1999)

Movie review: The Crow (1994)

Bourne shell stdio trivia

while read loops and interactive commands

Default stream buffering

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