Author: chris
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 4
I have literally TWO days left for the Minimalist Game. Its been a great journey, here’s a link to the first week. I’ve still got a lot more crap I can get rid of, which honestly is not too shocking. I haven’t even touched my garage. So who knows, there might be a sequel to…
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 3
As the minimalist game continues, the ability to find things to declutter hasn’t increased in difficulty, but the amount of time decluttering has increased. I’m finding categories of objects and realizing that I have, say, 5 computer mice and a number of cycling sleeves, and trying my best to figure out which to keep and…
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Sometimes you end up buying a project.
A while back my partner wanted a new piece of furniture: a vanity so that she could have a dedicated spot for beauty labor. As a clueless guy, I just nodded and said ‘yes, this makes sense, as I have dedicated spots for all kinds of random types of labor’. We generally prefer purchasing antiques…
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Hacking your Android TV
I have a love/hate relationship with Youtube. I love the content, I hate the algorithm. I hate shorts. I hate the ads, and also the sponsors. That’s a lot of annoying crap to deal with. Never have I paid for a subscription and still had to route around so much damage. Additionally on Android TV,…
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 2
Week 2 definitely upped the difficulty (here is Week 1 btw), but it seems as though it is pretty easy to find things that we can part with. My partner is very much getting into it. She mentioned that this was a good forcing function. There were things she was going to get rid of…
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Omniwheels on a Brompton GoRack
My commuter bike is a Brompton P-Line, which I’ve done various customizations on, and I’ve done a couple videos on this topic. This post is about upgrading the wheels on it, and why you should avoid OmniWheels. 😭 The #1 best Brompton upgrade I’ve done is the GoRack. One of my more popular videos is…
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 1
Like many people, I have fallen into the trap of having way way too much crap. And sometimes I don’t really have a good answer on how to get rid of said crap. Like… what do I do with old electronics and batteries? I also have a ‘man-closet’ full of tools and parts, and a…
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🪠Link Dump August 23rd 🪠
🥸Music & Communism🥸 Molly Nilsson has a new track from another album! I also looked up some old anti-communist propaganda which she used as lyrics for one of her recent songs: 100 things you should know about communism in the USA. There were terrible copies of this floating around, but someone found and uploaded a…
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💩 Link Dump July 26th, 2025 💩
Tech 🤖 I have recently migrated a number of services and projects to a docker-based setup and while in some ways its kind of cool, its also kind of a drag. The origin of the Apple command symbol is related to Swedish campgrounds. Ideas 🤔 While I haven’t read it, I found out about a…
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🎆Link Dump July 4th🎆
🦍Thick and Thin🦒 Nickels are too thin! You know what you need? Thicker nickels, or thnickels. This is a cool thin ‘pencil tower’ in New York. It has no load-bearing interior columns, relying on its ‘concrete exoskeleton’. 🧠Illusion of Thinking for Yourself🧠 I find Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper refreshing and I enjoy the term…