Roy Tang :: Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart.
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Latest blog posts:
- Weeknotes 2026-11-08
- Movies / TV - September & October 2026
- Weeknotes 2026-11-01 Undas Edition
- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries book 4)
- MTG: The Hobbit
Latest shared links:
- I made a film in Excel
- How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
- Slouching towards Bethlehem | deadSimpleTech
- Some final words on Foursquare.
- An Ode to Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Latest notes:
- Nov. 13, 2026, 1:46 p.m. : In an ideal world, a big outage like this would teach people not to rely on big centralized corporate subscription based platforms. Sigh.
- Nov. 2, 2026, 1:39 p.m. : So many local small businesses have these #genai slop posters, its maddening and such a huge turnoff, I just grimace whenever I walk past them
- Oct. 30, 2026, 10:34 p.m. : My favorite Picard quote: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." #rip Sir Patrick Stewart, a great loss
- Oct. 23, 2026, 1:39 p.m. : I spent a long time trying to figure out why my PHP version on Ubuntu wouldn't patch to the known fixed versions, staying at 8.5.4, before eventually finding out that Ubuntu backports security fixes and I already had the fix all along! While trying to figure this out I also managed to update my distro to the latest LTS, so that's something, but a bunch of things broke and it took me a couple of days to get everything back up and running again. is running my own webserver even still worth it?!?
- Oct. 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m. : Where was this announced?
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