Posts

August 12, 2024 AOL Gold Browser Review // Introduction As many people born in the 90s can remember, there was once a time when AOL, short for America Online, ruled the world. Besides Internet Explorer, they were one of the most used browsers in the world. From their humble beginnings on the Commodore 64 as [...]
April 19, 2024 Deus Ex - Where Are They Now? // Where Are They now? A new article series Introduction, and why I am starting this series *1 The purpose of this series is to look at developers, writers, designers, etc. of popular games to see where they are now and what they have made in the decades since their [...]
February 5, 2024 Alternative search engines // last updated 8/14/2024 Introduction Google for decades now has completely cornered the market in terms of search engine use. The closest alternative most people know about is Bing by Microsoft. Both Google and Bing have many, many privacy concerns that security [...]
November 17, 2023 Upgrading The Steam Deck // The Steam Deck is a truly marvellous piece of hardware. Running off of a version of Arch Linux, selling good specs at a low cost, it is a good deal for anyone looking to play their Steam Library at a low cost. The best model, in my opinion, is the 64 GB model. It costs [...]
November 8, 2023 New theme added + some announcements // Added a new theme to whoisthisjoker.com! Trust me, there is a reason. So originally I used hugo.386 as my theme. It was awesome, and I loved it like crazy. If I had the choice, I would have made that be my permanent theme and I never would have changed it. for [...]
September 4, 2023 RSS Feed now fixed! // The RSS feed now shows the full body of every article, as of today! For some reason, Hugo chooses by default to only include the description of an article in the RSS feed rather than put everything into the feed. This, obviously, defeats the purpose of having RSS to [...]
August 31, 2023 How to bring back old YouTube // YouTube ain’t great anymore. It used to be THE way to watch online video. It had lots of features that I loved, recommended me a lot of videos that I enjoyed, and was generally pleasant to use. That has changed in the past few years. The front page, which used to be to [...]
July 24, 2023 Bibliofile update // Bibliofile_update v. 1.0 did not release over July 4th break, and I did not update with a new post. Shame on me. It is very hard to self-motivate on personal projects, especially when you have family coming over, and you are getting ready to celebrate something. I don’t [...]
June 28, 2023 What a month // Storms, broken cars, power outages, and more This month has been absolutely insane. At the beginning, my car broke down. Twice. Once it wouldn’t crank, the second time the engine nearly blew. Both times it turned out to be a minor fix that the mechanic barely even [...]
June 7, 2023 Bibliofile // Bibliofile: the new ebook reader So, in December, I wrote out a plan to write 10 medium sized programs in order to get myself enthusiastic about programming again. Some very unfortunate events that took place in January ensured that this would not happen, as there is [...]
June 7, 2023 Thoughts on Apples viewfinder // WWDC recently happened, and overall it was mostly boring. They announced widgets four separate times, a Snoopy watchface for the Apple Watch, and you can now set multiple alarms for Iphone. Neat. Then the “One More Thing” happened, as it always does. This “One More [...]
June 6, 2023 Hello world // Hello! I have moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo. Some reasons for this is: Hugo is faster. It can run on Github Pages. It costs less than self-hosting a server to run Wordpress on. Hugo is more customizable than Wordpress. Wordpress required either a subscription, or [...]
May 19, 2023 Why I switched to Linux // In 2015 Windows 10 was released. Two years earlier I had gained a Windows 8.1 laptop that I had a love-hate relationship with. I preferred using Windows 7 on the desktop because it was a more traditional desktop than what I had running on my laptop. Then, something [...]
February 4, 2023 AmigaOS C and lifting // January was a pretty sad month. I don’t want to get into too much detail, as I already covered what happened in the article Absence. TL;DR my mother died, and I have had a hard time coping with that fact. As much as I miss her though, life must move on and I am trying [...]
January 31, 2023 Absence // So, it has been a LONG time since I posted here. And, believe me, there is a reason. For the most part, I got too busy spending time with family, so programming instead of spending time with loved ones was not appropriate. For January, the reason was because my mother [...]
December 4, 2022 Programming for fun vs programming for work // Lately, I have been trying to get back into programming. In college I used to program all the time, urged on by the ever-present deadline. But, having been graduated for years now, I find that programming for fun tends to become harder and harder. Don’t get me wrong, I [...]