About This Site
This web site is artisanal HTML, mostly written by hand with a little help from tools from time to time. I aim to make it function just as well on vintage browsers as it does on modern ones, though I do use some modern HTML/CSS features from time to time so there isn't complete backwards compatibility.
Pages
Elsewhere on the World Wide Web
- My wiki mostly contains information about my growing vintage software and hardware collection, along with hi-res scans of packaging and rips of media.
- I do a decent amount of mapping work on OpenStreetMap.
- I also have a web site for my fursona. Be warned, this site contains adult content and should only be viewed by those 18 or older.
Blog Posts
| Title | Category | Date |
|---|---|---|
| First Black & White Photos | Photography | |
| Some mid-day photos | Photography | |
| State of the Hi-Fi (and new additions!) | My Tech | |
| Deploying Go with Apache? (using FastCGI) | Reference | |
| half•alive in Houston | Life | |
| A Couple Neat Car Spots Near LTX | Travel | |
| Pictures from My Time at LTX 2023 | Travel | |
| What Is This "Radical Left" I Keep Hearing About? | Essays | |
| Goodbye Tesla, hello BMW | Garage | |
| How I Went Overboard Cataloging My Library | How I Went Overboard | |
| Installing Multicraft on Debian 9 ("Stretch") | Tutorials |
Link Blog
I'm mirroring these links in case the source goes down or changes. The mirror links are rel=nofollow and excluded in my robots.txt, so they
shouldn't be crawled by search crawlers. If your site is listed here and you object to me hosting a mirror, reach out via email (anything at piperswe.me) and
I'll delete it promptly.
- 13 Aug 2023 (added 24 Mar 2025) - Sony Minidisc in a 1968 Chevy Camaro. It's exactly what it says on the tin! Stumbled across it searching videos with Kagi, and it's exactly the kind of esoteric tech thing that tickles my fancy.
- 17 Jan 2025 - Hands-on graphics without X11 by Julio Merino (mirror) is a neat exploration into some often ignored NetBSD features
- 8 Jan 2025 - Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook by John Goerzen (mirror) delves into the history of moderation on message boards and social media, especially in regard to Meta's recent decision to significantly cut down on moderation.
Blogroll
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Tech
- Dhole Moments (feed) by Soatok
Great posts about cryptography, the Internet, and the furry fandom - Xe Iaso's blog (feed)
Somewhat random computer- and cloud-related stuff - rachelbythebay Writing (feed)
- joshua stein's blog (feed)
Lots of classic Mac OS programming, alongside some OpenBSD - Computers Are Bad (feed) by J.B. Crawford
Tales about standards, infrastructure, and problems
- Dhole Moments (feed) by Soatok
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Webcomics
- Episodic
- Serial
Advertising
I don't like invasive ads, or ones that track you across the Web. I do think a banner ad would spruce up this site though, so I'd like to make an offer to other folks with personal web sites.
If you wanna show a banner ad on this home page (at no cost, of course! just for the fun of it), shoot me an email and we can chat about it. I don't want to advertise some random company or anything. If I wanted to do that, I'd throw on some AdSense and call it a day. I'd like some actual character.
This offer is only open to personal web sites, blogs, or web comics. The ad must link to a personal domain, Neocities page, or the like - no social media (incl. sites like Mastodon/Misskey or Webtoon/Tapas/etc) links allowed.