Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

I’m not the sort of person to read LifeHacker, since it’s of relative use for myself at best, most of the time, but I just stumbled upon this clickbait:

Ahem.. I’m possibly late to the party, but: Capacitors are not batteries.

Replacing capacitors with batteries is not going to end well, eve...

I doubt that many of us here in the US knew of this.. It’s called “The Year of the Sex Olympics”. It projects the ideology of reality TV, and may things, which now are considered normal.

The author, Nigel Kneale, died 12 years ago, so he did get to experience the initial “Survivor” shows, but I wo...

I’ve been a fan of renting my own servers, rather than renting space on someone elses- for various reasons. Security, sustainability, et al.

Well, recently it became less than ideal to manage my own node just for this (and a few other) sites. So, I went looking around, and found some great NetCup...

What do these latest Intel/AMD/ARM/etc CPU problems actually mean? Likely nothing for most users- provided nothing runs on your computer that you can’t trust.

So, what does this actually mean to you? If you are the only person to use your computer at one time- most likely relatively little, as l...

Yes.

You read that right. I’m finally ditching my 2006ish design and will be updating to a more common flow than the deprecated blog-style (although it fits, er, my blog quite well).

I discovered several plugins I have used are not PHP7 compliant, and I don’t know how many I really wish to maint...

Just in case those of you who still use your handy-dandy VCR codes in the TV listings opposite the comic page aren’t aware, there is some rather simple mathematics used in the creation of the “VCR Plus” codes which inhibit it from working after 2049 – this is a recreation of the logic:

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