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[blog] [politicorner] Trans Rights Are Not Just a Distraction politics trans cw-transphobia
In the UK and the US1 there has been a sharp spike in transphobic hate by elected officials. In the UK in particular there is a lot of it even from the supposedly “left-wing” party, Labour2 (though nowadays it’s milquetoast at best), and even in the mainstream “left-wing” paper, the UK Guardian (as criticised by the US branch of the same paper). Read more...
[blog] [programming] Neurodiversity and Rust programming neurodiversity rust accessibility
To say that Rust is my favourite programming language would be an understatement. Certainly, plenty of people agree with me, given it’s continued top rankings of preference in developer surveys for the past several years (even if some of it might be hype). Read more...
[blog] Stop Bootlicking Death ...or, a rant on people's attitude towards those who do not accept mortality politics transhumanism philosophy technology rant
Warning This is at least partially a vent of my frustration at the attitude towards those of us who refuse to accept death, spurred on by a recent reddit thread. Read more...
[blog] Modular Thinking neurodiversity adhd thinking learning psychology
In my life, I spend probably far too much time examining my own thought processes. In doing so, I have identified strategies that I engage in that allow me to learn and develop effectively, and asynchronously - that is, without necessarily knowing or understanding the prerequisites for a given piece of knowledge and all the associated background. Read more...
[blog] Implementing Unicode Entry for All Programs With kitty's Unicode Kitten programming technology awesomewm
So, kitty is a wonderful terminal emulator that is very keyboard driven. I use it for lots of things, even stuff that other people use a GUI for such as pulseaudio management (via pulsemixer, specifically). Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] There Was No Hugo Bug at All site-meta hugo programming golang
So it turns out, there was no hugo bug whatsoever technology , only user error. For a short summary - when I commit to this site’s git repository, I run a pre-commit hook that updates the datetimes of any modified pages that have dates to match the current time, unless that page is marked finalised. Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] So Now This Site Has Real RSS site-meta
A couple of people have been using janky RSS feeds by accessing <some-base-url>/<some-part-of-the-site>/index.xml. Because, up until now, I have always used relative URLs in everything (for ease of distribution in a folder), this meant the URLs in the RSS feeds would essentially have to be pasted on the end of one of my hosting locations. Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] At Some Point I'm Going to Move to Zola site-meta programming rust golang
In the previous blog post - A Weird Hugo Bug I Found technology hugo - I discovered an awful, awful bug that I have no idea of the cause. Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] A Weird Hugo Bug I Found site-meta programming technology hugo
Recently, I was writing this post climate politics future about, well, vertical farming, and I had some serious difficulties getting the leaf bundle to actually show up in the final output. Read more...
[articles] [climate-adaptation] 01 - Vertical Farming & Alt-Agriculture climate politics future technology
One of the major threats posed by climate change is that of agricultural supply chain collapse due to radical shifts in environmental conditions both seasonal and long-term. Read more...
[articles] [philosophy] On Singularity philosophy politics transhumanism futurism
One of the defining concepts of transhumanist philosophical discussion is the notion of a Singularity. The meaning of this term, in common parlance, has come to be associated with one primary notion - an AI superintelligence exponentially improving itself and technology, either to technological utopia or skynet death machine scenario, depending on various factors or whoever happens to be discussing it. Read more...
[articles] [philosophy] Introduction to Transhumanism philosophy transhumanism politics
It is fairly common for people to ask the question, “what is transhumanism?”, especially to me as a transhumanist. And it can be difficult to answer for a lot of people, and more difficult when there are conflicting definitions and an awful number of people who think transhumanism is as simple as sucking up to techbro billionaires who have suborned the idea of more general futurism (as you can tell, I have contempt for this attitude and consider it a horrific stifling of appreciation for the liberatory potential of transhumanist movements). Read more...
[blog] [p2p-git] Part 1 - Git Architecture programming p2p git rust decentralisation
To create a system designed for peer-to-peer git repositories, we first must understand the ideas involved in, and the structures used by git. Read more...
[articles] Transfem Diy HRT Info trans hrt diyhrt
This is mostly a little archive of information on DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy for transfeminine people. It is based on my own experiences. Read more...
[blog] [p2p-git] Part 0 - The Playing Field programming p2p git rust decentralisation
Before I start exploring p2p git and how to build it, I want to take a peek at the current options for peer-to-peer git, their issues and my motivation for moving towards constructing my own for everyone to use. Read more...
[articles] [ad/cook] Equipment food cooking
One of the most important things in making food is the tools needed to do so. While not having access to a proper kitchen might at first seem to make thinking about this pointless, the opposite is in fact true - it means you need to think more about both what equipment you have and what equipment you can get that you can use within your accommodations. Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] Statically Rendering Maths ...or, a review on how I did it personal site-meta technology maths
So, in my last blog post I spent a lot of time explaining how maths is typically rendered on the internet and my issues with integrating it into this website (notably with my philosophy on when javascript should be present in static pages - that is, never), as well as being generally irritated. Read more...
[blog] [sitestuff] Trying to Statically Render Maths site-meta technology maths personal
So, I’m creating this website of mine, with weird and curious content of all types. I’ve got a relatively clean (if script-modified to be less hardcoded) version of the wonderful simple. Read more...
[blog] [FOSS] License Classification Summary foss technology
This blogpost provides a summary of how I think of the spectrum of licenses from copyneutral/permissive licenses to copyleft/viral licenses. Of course, it is more complex than this, but this gives a good idea for use in discussions where the exact specifics are less relevant. Read more...
About personal site-meta
What is this page? It’s a page about both me and this website I made. Sort of an FAQ. Where can I contact you? Read more...
[blog] Just Getting Started personal
Hey folks, I’m going to be writing all kinds of fun things on this site, all with associated tags (I had a lot of fun coming up with a CSS-only filter system): Read more...
[blog] [FOSS] reproprietization terminology foss philosophy technology
“Reproprietization” is a term I came up with for the process by which open-source software can be recontained in proprietary silos or otherwise be used in proprietary products. Read more...
[articles] [ad/cook] food desert terminology food urbanism
A food desert is an area in which access to grocery stores is very limited and typically requires a car and an extended drive. Read more...
[articles] [climate-adaptation] Introduction ...or, why adapting matters more than most people think climate politics future technology
As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock the past 20 years would know, climate change is already here and already a threat, thanks in major part to obstruction and obfuscation of it’s long-term risk and effects by fossil fuel companies and the far-right. Read more...

[Series] Climate Adaptation series climate politics future technology

Introduction ...or, why adapting matters more than most people think
As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock the past 20 years would know, climate change is already here and already a threat, thanks in major part to obstruction and obfuscation of it’s long-term risk and effects by fossil fuel companies and the far-right. Read more...
01 - Vertical Farming & Alt-Agriculture
One of the major threats posed by climate change is that of agricultural supply chain collapse due to radical shifts in environmental conditions both seasonal and long-term. Read more...

[Series] The Journey to P2P Git series programming p2p git rust decentralisation

Part 0 - The Playing Field
Before I start exploring p2p git and how to build it, I want to take a peek at the current options for peer-to-peer git, their issues and my motivation for moving towards constructing my own for everyone to use. Read more...
Part 1 - Git Architecture
To create a system designed for peer-to-peer git repositories, we first must understand the ideas involved in, and the structures used by git. Read more...

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Blogposts
This is where I blog about random stuff, including politics and programming. It’s honestly fairly similar to the articles section.
[blog] Programming programming
Place for all random posts about programming things.
[blog] Sitestuff site-meta
Simple subsection of the blog for interesting things vaguely related to the site.
Articles
This section contains all the articles on the site. It is fairly similar to blogs, but it tends to be slightly more researched and organised on various subjects. Read more...
[articles] [philosophy] Philosophy of the Multiverse philosophy
A series of articles exploring various aspects of philosophy that can be related to hypothetical multiverses (regardless of whether they exist or not), or otherwise alternate realities. Read more...
Copies of the Ultimate Transmasc/fem DIY Guides (for reference) trans hrt diyhrt
This holds site-local copies of the transfem guide google doc and transmasc guide google doc listed at https://diy-hrt.carrd.co/ - using a simple trick to download as HTML with postprocessing, in case the original gets lost or taken down. Read more...
[blog] The Politi-Corner politics
This is where I write about politics and political philosophy or just general philosophy if it relates to politics. Prepare for spicy transhumanism, lgbt+ rights, futurism and more. Read more...
[blog] Maths maths
The part of my blog dedicated to random maths shit.
[articles] [ad/cook] Guides food cooking
Page for all the guides - at varying levels of cooking capability. Recommended reading order is from lowest capability - the No Cooking Eating Guide - up to the highest capability. Read more...
[articles] Adaptable Cooking food cooking
So. You’re in an accommodation bind, staying in temporary accommodation and lacking access to a kitchen. Or, perhaps, you’re in shared accommodation and attempting to self-isolate. Read more...
[articles] Philosophy philosophy
Section dedicated to my musings and thoughts and other such related to more abstract philosophy and ideas for general argument forms and structures. Read more...
[blog] The Free and Open Source Software Section foss technology
This section of the site is dedicated to blogposts primarily about Free and Open Source Software and related topics. In case you are unaware, FOSS software is software in which the source code is available (generally upon request), and free to modify and redistribute. Read more...