I got tasked to fix some bizarre issues a friend was having with their gaming PC. They had had lots of bluetooth issues, and recently their mouse stopped working entirely in Windows 11 - nothing would show up in Control Panel. Other mice also didn’t work.

I purchased an Xbox Series X out of some misplaced sense of nostalgia for the 360 and because I needed a 4K player. At the time you could still do the trick where you load up on Xbox Live Gold and then convert it to Game Pass Ultimate cheaply.

I have an incredibly niche use case where I

TL;DR Play the game at minesweeper.jayd.ml! See the AGPL source code here! Why?? I decided to recreate Windows 2000 minesweeper in Godot 4.1 as accurately as I reasonably could. I wanted to get more familiar with Godot, and wanted a project where I didn’t have to worry about ...

Dispatches From The Wormhole

In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.

For the past 8 months or so I’ve been using Arch my locales have been kind of half broken and I couldn’t figure out why. I would see output like this:

Programming Note: You may have subscribed to this blog because of a snarky post about YouTube that for some reason was popular. Instead of more insightful(?) content like that, you’re getting a complaint to no audience in particular about XML in Golang. You’re welcome.

Contenders:

Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination:

Recently Microsoft told me that my Surface Book 1 was garbage and I should throw it in the trash. Even though it is old and only a dual core and only has 8 GB of RAM, I resent being told what to do.