Pihole through AT&T fiber's shitty router

I'm visiting my parents and I left a spare Zimaboard so I could set up a Pihole network and maybe some other interesting selfhosted applicatiions. Pihole was a disaster. It took half an all nighter and more searching than I should've done. Extra points off because I wanted to deploy…

The Zimaboard/CasaOS experience

This post is over a year old because I was too lazy smh. A draft was sitting in the posts tab page for the longest time. With that in mind, some beginning parts of the post below will talk about my parents' place, while the UPDATED TM parts of my…

Last Call BBS

The last Zachtronics game is out. There has yet to be any other game studio whose games scratched the engineering and design itch as well as Zachtronics's. I even ordered the deluxe physical edition. I'll miss Zachtronics. Good luck to Zach though. Despite how niche programming games are, they've been…

Self reflection on learning new programming languages

I'm currently in the middle of a schedule to get a new job before official return to office in June. Might as well strike the iron while I am still living with nary a care for dealing with cooking or cleaning by myself. This is the best conditions I could…

Setting up an IME on Linux

The last time I set up a Chinese IME on Linux was on Ubuntu back in college days. I distinctly remember using the IBus framework. After installing that and one of the pinyin inputs, it just worked TM. Now, on Endeavor OS, I thought I'd be adventurous and try another…

An old post on ImageMagick

I was browsing through my old OneNote posts, and found one record of an adventure I planned to record when I got another blog. So here it is. This is happened quite a while ago, early 2018. I signed up for an in-person Japanese course that was based in San…