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It’s always interesting to see programming books out at local book fairs and garage sales. They’re always used copies, so they tend to be about passé programming topics. They’re artifacts of what programmers used to care about. I wonder what the owners of these books do on their computers now. Want to learn about Forth or Tcl? How about ma...

The PC version of the Nintendo Switch version of a great PC game from 2003!

Can you really trust Big Pi? Find out the truth yourself by drawing circles and finding pi independently!

Toolbx containers make tool setup less messy. Just shortcuts complex commands. Here’s how to use them to make Jekyll site development more manageable.

It’s what I hoped for, with a few acceptable drawbacks.

Did you know Canonical used to send Ubuntu CDs to anyone who asked, completely for free?

I love it when the snow clings to tree branches.

National Novel Writing Month was less scary than I expected.

The quick guide to something that should be really simple, but just isn’t for some reason.

It’s about 3.16. Why fight COVID-19 when you can instead make a program in Rust to confirm a mathematical fact that’s been known for millenia?

Ottawa has some nice hiking paths.

After a few days of messing with Jekyll, I’ve actually figured out how to deploy an actual site with it! This is what jon.liu.fyi used to look like: