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All the posts in the site, tags in alphabetical order, and then chronologically.
There's also a chronological list here.

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#bike-rides

• Secaucus - 4th of July bike ride

#blogging

• Thinking of renaming the site (but nothing really changes) (2025-11-12)
• It happened: tag navigation (2025-08-18)
• (over) 1 year of blogging - then and now
• People and Blogs and spreading web positivity
• I am back, and still have no idea what I am doing
• Defining things is hard, example, "simple"
• Live forever is a frigging great song - and the case for twtxt
• More site-wide changes
• Very meta: site updates
• I broke the site + why BlueSky
• On forcing a post out - for me
• Procrastinating an update...
• Now with RSS
• Oh but users don't know what they want
• Post about blogging trap
• A fresh start

#books

• After the rain review (manga) (2025-11-30)
• While I wait - A timely Little Women review (2025-09-25)
• Bookmarks: the original quicksave (2025-09-08)
• Book review - The Girl Who Drank the Moon

#coloradorapids

• The tale of two Rapids games - and some Vélez happenings (2025-08-27)
• My (light) analysis of the Colorado Rapids-Minnesota United game
• Wasting solo time in online drama
• A day out in Philadelphia (and football musings)
• Someone hates money (the unobtainable jersey)

#emacs

• Giving Emacs keybindings some thought (2025-11-11)
• Abandoning use-package? (2025-10-10)
• Mode line region size indicator, revisited (2025-09-18)
• Come and see, three updates three (keyboard, browser, bindings) (2025-09-13)
• Emacs pages and micro-packages (2025-09-09)
• Emacs and the endless parade of built-in features (2025-09-07)
• Typing insecurity and generated code (2025-08-26)
• Stubvex - new Emacs mini-package (2025-08-25)
• My problem with the "elevator pitch"
• A review of the review feature
• My Emacs mode line, and a config tip
• Emacs: toggle narrowing
• Why I wrote my own Emacs theme
• Emacs minimalism, again! A step too far?
• Documentation for yourself - a form of reflection
• twtxt - decentralized twitter?
• Slowing down (friction)
• Very meta: site updates
• Emacs: multiple commands in a single binding, without Transient
• Stop recommending WSL for Emacs on Windows
• Making the mundane interesting (a work tale)
• Emacs minimalism revisited
• How (my) packages are born
• I contributed to Emacs! :)
• Naming matters, completion hides it
• Minibuffer completion - an update
• Emacs: using default minibuffer completion
• Emacs vc-mode tutorial
• Emacs: undo magic
• Emacs config: big or small

#email

• The email management conundrum
• More site-wide changes
• Y U NOT EMAIL

#español

#failures

• A fail story: opening a bank account (2025-11-12)
• Reading list and parenting (2025-11-02)
• How many side projects can one have? (2025-10-13)
• Stuck with Firefox...out of laziness? (2025-09-03)
• Wasting solo time in online drama
• Flat tire and familiarity
• Vibe reality, news, and LA protests
• Corporate training in a forest
• Back to Fedora Silverblue
• Broke the site. Again.
• A comment, an observation, and a curiosity
• Ooops I broke my tea pot :(
• SAP, stuck in the past, unsurprisingly
• Just renewed my keys - confirming why no one uses encrypted email
• On my last Git rant...
• Git is mysterious
• Someone hates money (the unobtainable jersey)
• The goggles they do nothing! (useless? switch to iPhone)
• My other plan was foiled - and some ramblings
• Guess who's back...
• I broke the site + why BlueSky
• In which I overload myself and then rant about it
• 45 minute deploys and duplicate scripts
• My 30 minutes experience with "consumer grade" Windows 11
• Michael Bay would be proud
• My RPi projects - surprise, there are no projects!

#film-tv

• Apollo 13 - IMAX re-release (2025-09-22)
• Superman, wokeness, outrage
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime review part 2
• The Beekeeper review
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime (early) review
• Arcane - Mini review with spoilers
• Old is new: movies with live music
• Edward Platt and timeless comedy

#fútbol

• Vélez supercup winner (AKA questionable but I'll take it) (2025-09-07)
• Some ramblings - and grandfather memories (2025-08-30)
• The tale of two Rapids games - and some Vélez happenings (2025-08-27)
• My (light) analysis of the Colorado Rapids-Minnesota United game
• Wasting solo time in online drama
• A day out in Philadelphia (and football musings)
• OK Go, photos, and digital conservation
• Someone hates money (the unobtainable jersey)

#gaming

• Dusk - somewhat detailed game review
• ScourgeBringer - Detailed game review
• Black Mesa - a (short?) (pre)review

#infusions

• It's been a while: tea reviews (2025-09-29)
• Tea time (from yesterday) (2025-08-18)
• Tea reviews
• The philosophy of teapots
• Ooops I broke my tea pot :(
• Tea...reviews? experiences?
• New tea habits
• Getting (back) into tea

#link-post

• Developers, estimations, and endless optimism (2025-11-21)
• Three headings: walk of shame, weird décor, git self-hosting (2025-11-17)
• RE: Thumbs up (2025-11-10)
• Re: Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? (2025-09-16)
• Installing FreeTDS in Windows
• On reliability and simplicity
• Slowing down (friction)
• Emacs minimalism revisited
• Emacs config: big or small

#linux

• Hello from a new host (2025-10-04)
• Stuck with Firefox...out of laziness? (2025-09-03)
• The lie of homogeneous corporate environments
• Back to Fedora Silverblue
• Guess who's back...

#meta

• Tools website updates (2025-11-17)
• Thinking of renaming the site (but nothing really changes) (2025-11-12)
• Renaming "hoagiebin" to "peanut butter" - and some code changes (2025-10-26)
• Hoagiebin improvements (2025-10-21)
• How many side projects can one have? (2025-10-13)
• Hello from a new host (2025-10-04)
• It happened: tag navigation (2025-08-18)
• (over) 1 year of blogging - then and now
• I am back, and still have no idea what I am doing
• A review of the review feature
• Defining things is hard, example, "simple"
• Broke the site. Again.
• A comment, an observation, and a curiosity
• Weekend getaway, work, and priorities
• Just renewed my keys - confirming why no one uses encrypted email
• Live forever is a frigging great song - and the case for twtxt
• Guess who's back...
• More site-wide changes
• Very meta: site updates
• I broke the site + why BlueSky
• On forcing a post out - for me
• Procrastinating an update...
• Now with RSS
• Oh but users don't know what they want
• Font journey (or, in praise of Berkeley Mono)
• Post about blogging trap
• A fresh start

#monty

• Welcome, Monty (2025-10-21)

#music

• For and against Apple Music
• Coldplay and completionism
• Live forever is a frigging great song - and the case for twtxt
• Core computer memories and music discovery

#nyc

• Decaying grandeur (2025-11-27)
• I want to work with this crew
• Michael Bay would be proud
• Radiation emergency
• My favorite NYC building, as a metaphor for software I like
• This morning

#overblown-minor-annoyances

• A fail story: opening a bank account (2025-11-12)
• Abandoning use-package? (2025-10-10)
• Come and see, three updates three (keyboard, browser, bindings) (2025-09-13)
• Stuck with Firefox...out of laziness? (2025-09-03)
• Drivers: use signals in the correct order (2025-08-31)
• Typing insecurity and generated code (2025-08-26)
• First world problems: keyboard edition
• The lie of homogeneous corporate environments
• Git and clean history - tidying up the wrong thing
• Stop recommending WSL for Emacs on Windows
• Modern laptop gripes

#pic

• How to make your little obsessions presentable (2025-09-21)
• I don't think this is what they meant... (2025-08-21)
• Tea time (from yesterday) (2025-08-18)
• A day out in Philadelphia (and football musings)
• Graphic design is my faith
• Secaucus - 4th of July bike ride
• I want to work with this crew
• Lonely Suzie
• Winter and childish humor
• My plan was foiled
• Crypto and Wall Street
• Michael Bay would be proud
• Rails to the sun
• Radiation emergency
• Atomic fascination
• My favorite NYC building, as a metaphor for software I like
• Friday Company
• Slice of life sequence
• This morning

#politics

• Decaying grandeur (2025-11-27)
• USA and immigration schizophrenia (2025-10-02)
• I don't think this is what they meant... (2025-08-21)
• Superman, wokeness, outrage
• Vibe reality, news, and LA protests

#programming

• Developers, estimations, and endless optimism (2025-11-21)
• Writing code is a creative act, like writing prose (2025-11-21)
• Three headings: walk of shame, weird décor, git self-hosting (2025-11-17)
• Tools website updates (2025-11-17)
• Renaming "hoagiebin" to "peanut butter" - and some code changes (2025-10-26)
• Hoagiebin improvements (2025-10-21)
• "Last commit date" is not a good metric in a vacuum (2025-10-16)
• The joy of building, the itch to do more (2025-10-15)
• Re: Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? (2025-09-16)
• Emacs pages and micro-packages (2025-09-09)
• Emacs and the endless parade of built-in features (2025-09-07)
• Typing insecurity and generated code (2025-08-26)
• Stubvex - new Emacs mini-package (2025-08-25)
• A review of the review feature
• The lie of homogeneous corporate environments
• Defining things is hard, example, "simple"
• Emacs: toggle narrowing
• Installing FreeTDS in Windows
• Why I wrote my own Emacs theme
• On my last Git rant...
• Git is mysterious
• Git and clean history - tidying up the wrong thing
• Documentation for yourself - a form of reflection
• Slowing down (friction)
• Making the mundane interesting (a work tale)
• 45 minute deploys and duplicate scripts
• Having a site is unexpectedly useful
• How (my) packages are born
• I contributed to Emacs! :)
• Naming matters, completion hides it
• My favorite NYC building, as a metaphor for software I like
• Oh but users don't know what they want
• Font journey (or, in praise of Berkeley Mono)
• Minibuffer completion - an update
• Emacs: using default minibuffer completion
• When to write a library

#random-thoughts

• Decaying grandeur (2025-11-27)
• Developers, estimations, and endless optimism (2025-11-21)
• Writing code is a creative act, like writing prose (2025-11-21)
• Three headings: walk of shame, weird décor, git self-hosting (2025-11-17)
• A seagull attitude (2025-11-05)
• How many side projects can one have? (2025-10-13)
• Abandoning use-package? (2025-10-10)
• Pass with care and sleep voyeurism (2025-10-07)
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• USA and immigration schizophrenia (2025-10-02)
• How to make your little obsessions presentable (2025-09-21)
• Re: Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? (2025-09-16)
• Fishing and football have one thing in common (for me) (2025-09-14)
• NJ Fishing license: filling the gaps in the story (2025-08-18)
• My problem with the "elevator pitch"
• What is your stage?
• On taking stances
• Superman, wokeness, outrage
• I jump started a car. ONCE.
• Age, wisdom, and exhaustion
• Flat tire and familiarity
• OK Go, photos, and digital conservation
• Corporate training in a forest
• Defining things is hard, example, "simple"
• The philosophy of teapots
• Cities are like people - the same and different
• Weekend getaway, work, and priorities
• Group dynamics - everywhere
• On reliability and simplicity
• Coldplay and completionism
• Getting (back) into tea
• Emacs minimalism, again! A step too far?
• Live forever is a frigging great song - and the case for twtxt
• Constant outrage is unhealthy
• My other plan was foiled - and some ramblings
• Slowing down (friction)
• First solo travel since 2012
• On forcing a post out - for me
• Been there, endured that
• I voted
• Having a site is unexpectedly useful
• Bikes and smiles

#retro

• Bookmarks: the original quicksave (2025-09-08)
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime review part 2
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime (early) review
• Old is new: movies with live music
• Core computer memories and music discovery

#reviews

• After the rain review (manga) (2025-11-30)
• It's been a while: tea reviews (2025-09-29)
• While I wait - A timely Little Women review (2025-09-25)
• Apollo 13 - IMAX re-release (2025-09-22)
• Book review - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
• Tea reviews
• For and against Apple Music
• Back to Fedora Silverblue
• Dusk - somewhat detailed game review
• Tea...reviews? experiences?
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime review part 2
• The Beekeeper review
• Apple TV 4K - First impressions
• Magic Knight Rayearth - retro anime (early) review
• ScourgeBringer - Detailed game review
• Arcane - Mini review with spoilers
• My 30 minutes experience with "consumer grade" Windows 11
• I'll keep carrying my Leatherman
• Black Mesa - a (short?) (pre)review

#rpi

• My RPi projects - surprise, there are no projects!

#smallweb

• RE: Thumbs up (2025-11-10)
• Renaming "hoagiebin" to "peanut butter" - and some code changes (2025-10-26)
• Hoagiebin improvements (2025-10-21)
• The joy of building, the itch to do more (2025-10-15)
• People and Blogs and spreading web positivity
• A comment, an observation, and a curiosity
• twtxt - decentralized twitter?
• Having a site is unexpectedly useful
• Less tabs and more "back"
• A fresh start

#suzie

• Welcome, Monty (2025-10-21)
• Lonely Suzie
• My plan was foiled
• Friday Company
• Slice of life sequence

#tutorial

• Emacs: multiple commands in a single binding, without Transient
• Emacs vc-mode tutorial

#useless-facts

• A fail story: opening a bank account (2025-11-12)
• Hello from a new host (2025-10-04)
• Come and see, three updates three (keyboard, browser, bindings) (2025-09-13)
• (over) 1 year of blogging - then and now
• New Jersey billboard silliness
• Edward Platt and timeless comedy

#vélezsarsfield

• Vélez supercup winner (AKA questionable but I'll take it) (2025-09-07)
• The tale of two Rapids games - and some Vélez happenings (2025-08-27)
• A day out in Philadelphia (and football musings)

#yell-at-cloud

• RE: Thumbs up (2025-11-10)
• "Last commit date" is not a good metric in a vacuum (2025-10-16)
• Typing insecurity and generated code (2025-08-26)
• The smallest things can make you happy
• The lie of homogeneous corporate environments
• For and against Apple Music
• SAP, stuck in the past, unsurprisingly
• Just renewed my keys - confirming why no one uses encrypted email
• On my last Git rant...
• Git is mysterious
• Git and clean history - tidying up the wrong thing
• The goggles they do nothing! (useless? switch to iPhone)
• I broke the site + why BlueSky
• Microsoft never changes
• Less tabs and more "back"
• Y U NOT EMAIL

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