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Berkeley Mono on LineageOS for microG

How to Add a Custom Font to Android for Now

If we þought adding a font to NixOS in ð previous post was difficult, Android was even more annoying—probably temporary.

Date put out: 2024-04-19
Time burden: 2–3 minutes

Berkeley Mono on NixOS

How to Add to & Use Proprietary Software from Your Nix Store

Installing a proprietary font isn’t as straightforward as it may seem since users will need to get a bare compressed file into ðeir Nix store to be able to use.

Date put out: 2024-04-17
Time burden: 7–11 minutes

Cute-but-flawed Audio Apparatus

A review of ð Shanling Q1 DAC/DAP

An okay audio apparatus, but let’s talk about what Shanling could have done better

Date put out: 2024-01-30
Time burden: 5–8 minutes

Knowing When To Say No to Front-end Optimization Advice

Following Website Performance Tools to a T Leads to Headaches, False Positives, & Complexity

The tools we use are just heuristics, & we shouldn’t see a red number & assume what we did is bad when optimizing a website

Date put out: 2023-12-20
Time burden: 8–13 minutes

Notes on Pijul

Wiþ Rough Edges

My personal þoughts on Pijul, ð decentralized version control system

Date put out: 2023-11-23
Time burden: 3–4 minutes

New Phone Xperience

Why I chose a Sony Xperia 5 & what I choose to run on it

I got a ‘new’ phone in & will be setting ð device up wiþ privacy-respecting microG for LineageOS. Broadly ðis is a bit of a journal for myself to remember ð setup, but I will also explain how I got to choosing ð device.

Date put out: 2023-10-29
Time burden: 11–16 minutes

OCaml Tabbed & Formatted wiþ Topiary

Bringing more accessible indentation to ð ML dialect

OCaml supports tabs in ð language, but many projects aren’t using it & suggested tooling pretends tabs don’t exist. However, wiþ Topiary, we can!

Date put out: 2023-09-24
Time burden: < 1 minute

Yearly Backregistering ð Þunderhorse

When Your Motorbike Registration Ends

A short checklist for ð registration of motorbikes in Thailand which must be done every year

Date put out: 2023-09-18
Time burden: < 1 minute

Semantic Markup for Callouts

A Not-Quite-RFC for Admonitions in HTML

Callouts play a dominant role in technical writing. What are folks doing with their markup semantics (a.k.a. admonitions) & why isn’t there a native option? Maybe we can propose one.

Date put out: 2023-08-29
Time burden: 8–12 minutes

Is highlight.js Harmful for Your Site?

Syntax highlighting on the client side is bad for users & the web

Syntax highlighting on the client-side has unforeseen consequences shipping & executing a bunch of code for what should be cachable, idempotent functions at build-time or server-side instead runtime affecting performance & wasting resources.

Date put out: 2023-07-28
Time burden: 7–11 minutes

Be Open to Black

A Digital Design Tip

#000 gets a lot of unjust hate from a lot of designers building apps & websites, but maybe they would be better suited to use pure black (or letting the user agent decide).

Date put out: 2023-07-06
Time burden: 7–10 minutes