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Ruining Your Keyspace For Fun And Profit

Apparently the Hulu activation codes can/could accidentally include hilarious stuff like 6 F A G S E X!

Oh, the memories.

One of the early design decisions at CoverMyMeds was to generate alphanumeric keys for each Prior Auth, to ease communication about them. We

Zed: Early Thoughts

I’ve been using Zed a bit, and as a software developer on the internet, I have thoughts.

I’m using it to write Elixir/Phoenix, HTML/CSS, and some Markdown, and it’s trying to take the place of the venerable Emacs (running DOOM).

LAN Voice Chat with Mumble

My kids, 11yo and 7yo, are really into playing Minecraft and Terraria together. But, being siblings, it doesn’t always go as well as anyone really wants it to. Sometimes, it’s just that they can’t be in the same room together. And since they both have fancy gaming headsets, they

The Names We Discard

It’s the name you used for thirty-some years. It’s not evil.

– My wife

HOWTO: Fix Steam Deck Unresponsive Touchscreen

If you’ve picked up your Steam Deck recently and the touchscreen just randomly stopped working, there is a super quick fix! Instead of factory resetting and wondering if you accidentally dropped the damn thing, do this:

HOWTO: Use the KVM in the Odyssey Ark Gen2

I splurged on the absolutely monstrous Samsung Odyssey Ark 55” (Gen 2) monitor.

If you want a gigantic beast of a monitor and you don’t mind it also being a Smart TV kinda thing with its own Home screen and wifi connection, this is a fantastic device!