Updated 03-Aug-2025 Paprika, or more accurately smoked paprika is a lovely spice which gives an earthy flavor. Nice on yogurt. Basically it consists of roasted bell peppers (aka capsicum, sweet peppers). In Thai, these are called prik waan (พริกหยวก) sweet peppers.
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W17/2025: Monday 21 April - Sunday 27 April 2025 Caption: Peanut butter on toast mmmm. Work Not much done, see health. Tech Some renovations to the kitchen included a new toaster oven (replacing a 15-year-old beast whose timer stopped turning off the burners after the time was up). I've added a second induction ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also: Part 1: Stop using their stuff For me, both open source (defined below) and sustainability (some kind of appropriate life-span and level of health) are both important, together. Though also I believe that reasonable business models around closed source (proprietary) should also be sustainable (in a non-rapacious sense). What is Sustainability? ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Thunar is the Saxon name for Thor. Thunar is the default file manager for the XFCE desktop but can of course be installed on most distributions. In general it is low-resource, highly flexible, and extensible (supports plugins, and custom actions). It can easily be used for SFTP connections as well. See also Thunar ... Read more
Updated 12-Aug-2025 See also Symfonium Quod Libet is an absolutely brilliant music player / library tool, with a nice community and set of plugins. Open source and cross platform (Linux, OSX, Windows), it can't be beat in terms of speed (fast), resource utilization (low), and flexibility (UI, streaming, podcasts, etc.). Truly a gem. The last ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W16/2025: Monday 14 April - Sunday 20 April 2025 Work Ah well, can't win them all. Tech Some stuff on golang Stop using their stuff (work in progress) Health The big boy has been sick for more than a week. We've changed the medication. He is not getting worse, and the lungs check ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also: Part 2: Open source project sustainability -- not yet available This article is a work in progress See also Against venture capital We really need to learn from Google, Twitter, etc. The fact is, these large companies are unaccountable, and not only illegally scrape but also can scan your stuff, delete ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 I guess I'll be using Golang. Go Getting started Go packages Go for web programming I provisionally agree with the idea of starting with simple libraries that are idiomatic with Go, rather than some larger framework that cannot be replaced without trashing all the code. In this case, I'll be using go-chi an ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W15/2025: Monday 07 April - Sunday 13 April 2025 Caption: Think Think Think Work Trump is killing me with a 36% tariff. Whoever thought this senile criminal is a mastermind should be forced to light all their money on fire. It's what he is doing. Tech This approach to developing a PWA using ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W14/2025: Monday 31 March - Sunday 06 April 2025 Caption: midnight snack Work Managed to distribute a lot, though this depleted much of our stock. Paid the printers. Trump's stupid tariffs are going to make it impossible to ship goods to the United States, as we have less than a 37% profit margin, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The 19th century phenomenon, has different (distinct) implementations but is generally the same. One (or usually more than one) person move a glass or marker of some kind across a board (wood or paper) with letters and numbers on it, spelling out different answers to questions that are posed. A spirit supposedly guides ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This information is specifically about Thailand and the United States, though it may later be expanded to other countries, their rules, and traditions. United States Allows dual nationality. Thailand Allows dual nationality. Two passports (from the United States) Sometimes this is called concurrent passports, though usually second passports. Under certain conditions it is ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W13/2025: Monday 24 March - Sunday 30 March 2025 Work Ah, so much. Tech What about Phoenix as a web framework? Uses Elixir and LiveView instead of Javascript abominations. See more here. Maybe overkill (or simply too different), and something like Svelte (which can also be used to build things like Obsidian plugins) ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 (Pictured: Kindle Paperwhite 2018, 2022, paper Manga) See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KOReader open source ebook reader Top Note: This page needs to be reworked as it is several articles concatenated ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W12/2025: Monday 17 March - Sunday 23 March 2025 Caption: Which one of these is white? Hint, the one on the left is cream, the one on the right is not silver. The one in the middle is light gray. Note, these BYD Dolphins are the best selling BEVs in Thailand in 2024, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KO Reader open source ebook reader Ebook formats Ebooks are ubiquitous, though generally the are in the form of pdfs, .epubs, .cbr (for manga), and a ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Venture Capital has a way of despoiling a product or service by focusing only on growth and (ultimately) profits. This means that the typical approach is to invest a lot of money (edging out less-endowed competitors), and then jacking up the revenue streams, usually by lowering quality and increasing enshittification. Cory Doctorow used ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W11/2025: Monday 10 March - Sunday 16 March 2025 Caption: Ben is now (age 9) nearly as tall as his nanny, who took care of him from 1-2.5 years Work Still working out the switchover to new products, and trying to get a large distributor to reorder. Tech Updated page on budget Android ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There are many choices for PDF readers and editors for the Linux platform. I've used a variety over the years. Lately I had preferred these two: Xournal++ (xournalpp), which is a reader and editor, and is touted as a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support ... supports pen input from devices such ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W10/2025: Monday 03 March - Sunday 09 March 2025 Work Figure out how to learn Japanese (and Thai), put together basic outline of what is needed, what is different Produce IPA comparisons between English and Thai, English and Japanese, Japanese and Thai Tech Need to get serious about getting RSS feeds organized and ... Read more