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Released in 2023, played on Linux in 2024. Mush your dog sled across cruel Arctic wastelands, driven onwards by a brisk and intense companion, who hired you to take him back to some remote spot...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/that-which-gave-chase/

Loving the new keyboard, an Epomaker Galaxy80 with Feker Marble White switches. My requirements are pretty much the same as last time I bough a keyboard: Tenkeyless layout, or TKL as it's known...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/overhauled-manual-for-epomaker-galaxy80-keyboard/

I have some folders of .jpg images that make up a comic. I want to convert them into a PDF to read on my tab and other devices, and import into by bookshelf in Calibre. 1. INSTALL SOME PREREQUI...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/til-constructing-a-pdf-from-jpg-image-files/

envsubst is an executable you likely already have on your PATH (part of the gettext package, often installed with dev packages), which is a convenient way to replace $VAR or ${VAR} style environm...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/til-shell-environment-variable-tricks/

Directed and written by John Hughes, 1986. IMDB So, way back in my teen years, we had a VHS tape of this, which friends and I played and played and played, probably racking up more rewatches t...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/ferris-buellers-day-off/

Resolution (2012) The Endless (2017) I only had a hazy awareness of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the writer and directors, before watching these movies. But having discovered them, I n...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/resolution-and-the-endless/

by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2015 It has long been held by fans of science fiction that fantasy is a lowly subset of science-fiction, or perhaps a disreputable cousin, one for whom the normal rules...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/aurora/

Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station. New job means new laptop means it's time to clean and re-org the desk. Leftmost blue skies Linux laptop (a free hand-me...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/fully-operational/

by Samuel Delaney, 1975 It broke me. I need to take another run up to this. Advice welcome. did-not-finish

https://www.tartley.com/posts/dhalgren/

> I wrote this high-level public-facing guide while employed by IBM, > creating the security groups feature for IBM Cloud. It used to > reside >  > on the IBM blog, bu...

https://www.tartley.com/posts/illustrating-uses-of-ibm-cloud-security-groups/