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The directory is a list of every page that's live on the site. Adding tag filters and sort options are on my to-do list, but for now, everything is alphabetized by title.
| Directory | |||
| Title | Date | Summary | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| About | Apr 22, 2025 | About me and why I made this place. | meta |
| The Apple Experience | Mar 20, 2026 | Despite being around Macs for most of my life and using them here or there, I'd never actually owned one. This post talks about my experience getting my dad's old MacBook Pro up and running and making an honest effort to use OS X. | blog, computers, mac |
| Cashing Out My Childhood | Feb 8, 2026 | A reflection on the horrific state of the retro games market and what the physical cartridges mean to me compared to the software within. | blog |
| Compressing Media Disc Images Using 7zip | Jan 20, 2025 | An analysis of the efficiency of 7zip compression used to compress ISO images of media discs for long-term preservation. It was found that compressing ISO images reduces disk usage by about 4% at the cost of convenience because the compressed archives must be decompressed before the ISO within can be accessed. | computers |
| E-Bike Costs | Jun 3, 2026 | In which I try to convince myself of something I already know: that an e-bike will actually pay for itself quite quickly, and that the running cost of a car is much more expensive than it immediately appears. | blog, ebike |
| ECC Error Injection | May 18, 2026 | ECC computer memory is a good defense against file corruption and system instability. However, it's generally impossible to verify if a system actually supports ECC, and the errors against which it protects are uncommon in practice. I replicated a research paper and verified that my servers do indeed support ECC while an old budget desktop that was rumored to actually does not. | computers |
| Flooded Park | Apr 23, 2025 | A collection of panoramas taken at a park during and after flooding. This page provides some background information and context. | photography |
| Flooded Park - Gallery | Apr 23, 2025 | A collection of panoramas taken at a park during and after flooding. This page is an interactive Javascript tool. | javascript, photography |
| Game Boy Camera Adventures | Sep 30, 2025 | A writeup detailing the design and usage of a Nikon F-mount lens adapter for a Game Boy Camera. It also features an analysis of photos to determine the crop factor and angular resolution of the camera. | photography |
| Game Boy Camera Gallery | Sep 30, 2025 | A gallery of Game Boy Camera photos predominantly taken using Nikon F-mount lenses. | photography |
| Game Boy Printer Emulator Decoder | Sep 30, 2025 | The Javascript tool that I used to transfer Game Boy Camera photos to a computer. It's based on Mofosyne's arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator with some additional features such as custom palettes, scaling, and the ability to merge RGB photos. | javascript, photography |
| Lossy Loss Project | Dec 30, 2025 | Revisiting a project I'd abandoned years ago that attempts to answer a question: what does JPEG compression look like? Not "what does a compressed JPEG look like?" but rather "what does the compression itself look like?" This page has a brief framing device and a write-up explaining how the code works. | javascript, photography |
| Lossy Photo Gallery | Dec 30, 2025 | A gallery with images that become compressed over time. It has photos from a selection of cameras plus a scan of a pencil sketch. | javascript, photography |
| MacBook Neo Review: the Ideal Laptop | Mar 28, 2026 | The only review of the MacBook Neo on Al Gore's Internet that doesn't cite performance benchmarks because it's the only review of the MacBook Neo that actually understands what this machine is. | computers, mac |
| MacBook Neo Thermal Pad Mod and Analysis | Apr 20, 2026 | A detailed analysis of the MacBook Neo's performance and thermal throttling behavior when modified such that the SoCSystem-on-a-chip can use the chassis as a heatsink. The modified Neo was able to transcode videos in 8.4% less time compared to stock while using negligibly more energy. However, the chassis became dangerously hot under sustained workloads and was capable of burning the user. | computers, mac |
| numbr™ | Jan 20, 2026 | "this was a stupid use of two hours and i'm not sure it's even funny but if we slap a ko-fi link on this bad boy we'll have some walking around money in no time" | javascript |
| Template v2 | May 9, 2026 | The template that I use for creating new pages. This page is unique because it, its CSS, and its Javascript are commented and human-readable; the pages, scripts, and stylesheets on the rest of the site have their comments stripped out and whitespace removed to reduce page load times as if a few kilobytes matter these days. Adapt it for your own website if you want! | meta |
| Voltorb Flip | Jan 25, 2025 | My Javascript take on Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver's minigame that replaced the slot machines in the Game Corner. This page gives background information about why it had to exist outside of Japan and instructions for playing. | pokemon |
| Voltorb Flip - Game | Jan 25, 2025 | My Javascript take on Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver's minigame that replaced the slot machines in the Game Corner. This is the game itself. I attempted to keep it as authentic as feasible while also providing some options to make the game easier. | game, javascript, pokemon |