In the News (2026.09.20)
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In the News (2026.09.20)

Let's see what has been recently interesting on the internet shall we? New Old Games at Gamestop This is a bit older but apparently Gamestop, as part of some sort of "Retro initiative" is selling games for old systems. Physical games, for the NES, Dreamcast, Gameboy, etc. I mean, like half are a partnership probably with Limited Run games, but it's kind of neat. It does seem kind of funny that so little gets made for old systems still, but also not. Physical carts like this are expensive to make. And it's for a system that you can't even easily…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.19)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.19)

Super slow this week, I guess it's that time of year or something. Or probably just, they can't all be bangers. Or something... So let's talk a bit about the garden. For basically the first time since moving here, almost ten years ago now, I am actually getting stuff from the garden. Granted, I didn't do the garden at first so it's been more like, 6 years. I have moved it around several places and added some protection and I have managed to deter the animals enough that I get the food and not them. Though they still get some…
Twenty Five Some Odd Years of Linux Use
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Twenty Five Some Odd Years of Linux Use

Boy, I comment sometimes that I have "used Linux for ages". And I was looking at some past journal entries and found some from 2001 where I was complaining about Linux. I am not positive, but it may have been from my first time using it, or trying to. I mostly was just bitching about how Windows was better and Linux sucks. It's kind of funny how far I have come there, I run Linux probably more than Windows. If Fortnite ranin Linux I probably wouldn't run Windows at all. It seems like a dumb reason but games have been…
In the News (2026.09.13)
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In the News (2026.09.13)

Hopefully I remember it, but I had a good name for this but forgot it before I wrote it down. That's why I make these notes so I can better remember things. Anyway, I have decided to try something new here, maybe it will become a regular thing. Essentially the idea is to sort of talk about recent-ish random news stuff that I want to talk about. It doesn't even have to be from "last week" or "the upcoming week". Weekly Wrap Up on Saturday is looking back, these posts, will be a bit looking ahead. I don't plan for…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.05)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.05)

I want to share a dumb little side note on specifically these posts. One, I often write them throughout the week, as I do things, so I don't forget. Sometimes they probably feel a bit disjointed for that, but I try to keep a flow. Second, when I write in Joplin, everything gets a date. Either the date written, or the date it gets published on the blog. Like I may write a review without a date, but once its scheduled, I add a date. Its sort of a way to keep track of if I need to push something…
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Code Project – Python + AI – Raspberry Pi Keyboard Jiggler v2

I wrote a while back about building a "keyboard jiggler" with my Raspberry Pi Pico board. Overtime I modified and improved it a bit to also work with mouse presses (hold M1). Basic keyboard commands were fine for idling in Fortnite LEGO, but for Droid Tycoon, I needed to be able to press a mouse. I also added an on/off toggle was supposed to get a button but I never got around to soldering a button to it and just short the pins with a wire to start and stop it. I also started improving it with help from Claude.…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.29)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.29)

A bit of travel this week. Work travel, but not the usual "go work at the other location" deal. Because I have a company car now, I had to go take a leader led defensive driving class. Because the class was scheduled for all day, I was allowed to go stay in a hotel for a couple of nights instead of driving back and forth super early and super late. So I went down Tuesday, and did some work at the office down there, went to the class Wednesday, and then back to do a bit more work at the…