On Dec 31st 2025, I boldly announced that I was thinking of trying to publish a vast quantity of posts, in lieu of a handful of long-chewed-over deep dives.

Feedback came in 69:31 in favor of the experiment. Despite my encouragement of honest/blunt feedback, I assume a slight bias toward positive feedback, but the sentiment was probably still >50% positive, which meant it was up to me — and I thought, let’s go for it.

In the past month, I published four times more posts (24) than I published in all of 2025 (6).

I’ll be the first to admit: they aren’t as good. But this is not the beginning of a long slide into short-form clickbait and tech tutorials. This post-a-lot-and-see-what-sticks experiment is temporary, and calculated to do two things: 1) give me a lot of practice writing, and 2) create a large quantity of quietly useful posts that help people solve problems, and also bring in new readers for the more philosophical essays, by giving search engine exposure. In the long run, I plan to continue the gradual transition — which this experiment has temporarily interrupted — toward more in-depth posts and perennial topics.

Five or six of the posts are general-interest. My favorites are probably Human Beings are Waterproof and Dostoyevsky Isn’t Difficult. There are also a couple of posts on sleep (a favorite activity of mine). I drafted many philosophical posts, but I tended to get cold feet about publishing them when they were still raw, and fall back on tech how-tos.

I tried to put enough jokes in the niche tech tutorials to make them modestly entertaining even for people who don’t have the problems they solve. I enjoyed writing about Patching KOReader (because I actually fixed it), Split Testing in ~50 Lines of JavaScript (more technically in-depth than some), and the psychology of Ghost signup spam (because I made funny memes).

Here’s the full list of posts:

Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price

The same number of channels of EEG/EMG/ECG for half the price

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Filtering RSS feeds by tag

Use CommaFeed filter expressions to hide irrelevant posts like this one

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An unsolved question in sleep science

Or, a display of my ignorance of sleep science

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A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit

Especially free-to-use instances that might be around for a while

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Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support

Now you can star Wallabag entries from the comfort of your Kobo e-reader

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Sleep is a continuum

Don’t believe the Hypnograms

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Wallabag wins, despite its flaws

Freedom and flexibility make up for the rough edges (and the competition has its own usability issues)

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Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing

And it’s not just for programmers

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Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way

Create custom feeds, on custom routes, without editing theme files

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Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API

Once upon a time I deleted the production database

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How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device

And probably not even brick it

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What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?

My theory of mind is failing

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A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files

Text editors are for normies

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Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript

I tried to use a Matomo A/B testing plugin and it didn’t work, so I wrote my own: sometimes, re-inventing the wheel is the fastest way to get on the road.

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Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works

For decades, I’ve contemplated capitulating and buying a proprietary dictation app, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. Now I don’t have to.

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And then there’s Readeck

A look at another open-source read-it-later app with Kobo support

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Human beings are waterproof

Some exceptions apply

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The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols

A guide to devolving your handwriting

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I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one

Writing a web app because I want to do calculations in a spreadsheet

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Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult

Other than the names. The names are difficult.

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My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live

What comes before alpha?

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It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin

I check every year or so

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I fixed my crashing AWS t2.micro instance by adding swap

An obvious solution to a simple problem, overlooked due to previous experience

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You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble

Someone I know started teaching a podcasting course at a better-than-average high school in one of the richest parts of one of the richest countries. After his first day, he told me, with wide eyes, some of the students don’t know how to move or copy a file. I

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Thanks for sticking with us for this experiment!

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