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JFC, It's November
Holy hell, it's already November 2026. I'm giving Eleventy a try. It was simple enough to transition my former Jekyll blog over to Eleventy, even though I did have to write the theme from scratch and implement the templating. I am hoping to eventually shift Left Is Best over to this...
June Musings
I’ve been up to quite a bit lately, on and off. I’ve been trying to maintain the Labor Working Group at my city’s DSA, to limited effect; I’ve been trying to be an active steward at my store for my union, to limited effect; I’ve been trying to participate in...
Left Is Best library up
Over the past month or so I've been working on a new site. I was reading some works by Anna Louise Strong, the legendary communist journalist, and I found that at least two of her works (The Stalin Era and In North Korea) were technically in the public domain, their...
DizzyPrice NetHack Price ID beta
So like 7+ years ago when NetHack 3.6 came out, they changed how prices were calculated in shops compared to 3.4.3. I wrote a command line tool in Python called DizzyPrice that served as a way to do price identification for the new 3.6, since all of the old tools...
Recording Chess Moves in Casual OTB
If you want to record chess moves during casual over-the-board play, the most common way is to write the moves down on a piece of paper. This is what's done during tournaments, particularly because most technology is not allowed because it could allow cheating. But what if you're playing casually with friends, and want...