I'm Rick, and this is my home on the web.

I'm curious about a lot of different topics, but most of what you'll find here is about software (open-source in particular), human-machine interfaces, gaming of various types, GNU/Linux, Emacs, and systems to organize information (like org-mode and Tiddlywiki).

My main social media is Hacker News, because it's the best place I can find for curious conversation. I joined a while ago, and you can see my profile if you're curious.

There are a few sections to browse through.

Tech Notes - Notes about small hobby projects and problems I've worked through for reference later, and for others that might be working on something related.
Writing - Longer notes about various topics I'm interested in.
Thoughts - My microblog-style thoughts about interesting articles I run across in my RSS feeds.
Gaming - I'm interested in lots of different games, and I keep notes on some of them here.
EDM - Hub for my annual EDM track collections

I have a couple of projects I've worked on, which have their own notes.

• Notedeck
• todotxt.el

Most Recent Additions

My current projects are listed on my /now page.

Here are some of the most recent pages I've added in various categories.

Thoughts

• Social Media and Advertising
• Reddit's Impending Shutdown
• Training Models to be Virtuous
• Resisting AI Hype
• Wizard Zines

Tech Notes

• Printing PDF Booklets
• llama.cpp Notes
• Browser Scratch Pad
• User Scripts
• Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver

EDM

• Ashley Wallbridge and John Grand - Echoes
• Gareth Emery, LSR/CITY and Annabel - Like A Prayer
• Woo York - Samum (8kays remix)
• John Grand - Metanoia
• John Grand and Ashley Wallbridge - Echoes

Other

• SaaS Licensing
• Coup Quickref
• Coup
• Now
• Digital Self-Determination (2023)

Last update: 2026-05-17