bugwo.men blog https://bugwo.men/blog/ 2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 Ada Isopod https://bugwo.men/me/ ME The IKEA LITOSFÄR Battery Charger is Literally Perfect litosfar 2026-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 2026-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 Glazing a $20 product from a furniture giant for 593 words. It really is that good, though. You should buy one. Ada The Incontinent AC Saga fuckass_air_conditioner 2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 Complaining about my messy portable air conditioner and what I had to do to contain its secretions. Ada 100 Questions for Webmasters 100webmaster 2026-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 Haven't you heard? Doing the equivalent of 2010's Tumblr ask games on your blog instead of actually writing posts is the new hotness! Ada Trying to Escape Discord: 2026 Edition discord2 2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 2026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 In light of recent developments, here's this knee-jerk and ever-evolving write-up on every alternative to Discord I could come up with that's halfway worth considering. Ada duckduckgo.com Custom Cans Single 4 Pin Mini XLR Pinout customcans_4pin_pinout 2026-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 2026-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 In which I once again suffer the consequences of my decision to buy custom headphones, and document my findings this time so as to suffer a bit less in future. In other words, I reverse-engineered the connector pinout my modded DT770 uses, made a diagram, and posted it here. Hi, future me! Ada Building a Cooler Body or: How to Get Estrogen In Alberta 2026 Updated Guide (No AHS) building_a_cooler_body 2026-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 A log of the process I went through to get estrogen in President's Choice Brand Texas, with a lot of gritty details that I would have liked to know going in. Obvious content warning for medical topics in this one. Also, the original publish date is my HRT anniversary. Ada How to get Rosy Maple Moths in Skyfactory 5 sf5_estrogen_moth 2025-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 2025-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 Documenting a janky, incomplete solution I came up with to integrate the Create: Estrogen mod with Skyfactory 5's bespoke nonesense to get some moths in my world "legitimately". Ada Building a Very Regular Bed building_a_regular_bed 2025-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 2025-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 I just moved and the new digs are kinda lacking in square footage. In this one, I design and build a loft bed from scratch to try to fix that. Ada Revealing All My Deepest Blogging Secrets (Blog questions challenge) blog_questions 2025-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 2025-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 In probably the least challenging challenge I've ever been challenged with, I answer a list of blog-centric question prompts that's been making the rounds in the blog-o-sphere. Ada Revisiting "AI" ai2 2025-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 2025-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 I'm still not very fond of the subject of the current tech hype cycle, but my thoughts on the matter have developed some nuance since I last posted about it. Ada Fighting LLM Scrapers With Nepenthes And Fail2Ban grow_spikes 2025-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 2025-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 A comprehensive explanation of (and guide to replicate) my new and improved anti-scraper defenses. Ada I've Just Moved Hosting Providers renting_an_unremarkable_server 2025-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 2025-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 I've just migrated all my self-hosted stuff onto a new type of hosting solution with a new provider, and apparently I had a lot more to say about it than I thought. I promise my next post will be about something other than a computer. Ada Holiday Special: My First Computer toshiba_chromebook 2024-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 2024-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 Reminiscing about the first computer I ever owned, which taught me everything I know, and in a just world would be turning 10 years old this Christmas. Ada Building a Relatively Sensible Server building_a_sensible_server 2024-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 2024-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 The wacky DIY NAS I built out of my old gaming laptop last year isn't working as well as I hoped. Follow me as I strip it for parts and construct a better one, properly this time. Ada How to Set Up Pi-Hole (On a Le Potato) guide_pihole_lepotato 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 How to set up Pi-hole, a network-wide DNS-level ad-blocker, on the particular discount Raspberry Pi I did it on. Ada You Should Learn To Make Cables make_your_own_cables 2024-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 I saved $140 by splicing together my own audio cables, and you can too! Ada Admins Can Read Your DMs fediverse_dms 2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 Yes, the admins of your fediverse server can read your DMs. No, that's not actually a problem. Ada Building a Completely Normal Server building_a_normal_server 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 I spent the past few months making full use of all my physical engineering talents to build a NAS that is completely normal, and not weird at all, and involved an amount of 3D modeling, 3D printing, and hacksawing that is entirely typical of most home computer builds, all in the name of reusing an old laptop. Ada My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Distro Hop my_terrible_distro_hop 2024-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 2024-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 A chronicle of my brief journey from EndeavourOS to Fedora to back to EndeavourOS, and wrestling with a VPN client that sees itself as above such trifling matters as "functioning". Ada How to Make Youtube Videos Buffer All The Way Like The Old Days (In Firefox) guide_fix_youtube_buffering_firefox 2024-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 Alternate title: Common Firefox W Ada I Don't Like AI Art ai_art 2024-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 2024-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 My actual thoughts on AI, in case seeing an AI-generated article in your RSS feed didn't get the vibe across. Ada The Invaluable Contributions of AI Tools to Humanity: A Look at the Unparalleled Benefits invaluable_contributions 2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 AI tools offer unparalleled benefits to humanity, enhancing efficiency, healthcare, education, environmental sustainability, customer experiences, scientific research, and social accessibility. Despite ethical concerns, responsible development ensures that the positive impact of AI far outweighs potential downsides. ChatGPT The Unity Runtime Fee and Proprietary Software unity_runtime_fee_and_proprietary_software 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 Unity's new Runtime Fee is yet another data point on the pile against ever trusting for-profit software companies. Ada Blacklisting Websites in SearXNG guide_blacklist_websites_searxng 2023-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 How to permanently banish geeksforgeeks.org from your search results in the event you're using a self-hosted SearXNG instance and can't just install uBlacklist. Ada Stop Using Chromium stop_using_chromium 2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 An article about why you should quit using Chromium-based browsers, originally published as a standalone website for the purpose of automatically redirecting Chromium users to it. Ada Discord - So Your Favourite Chat App Sucks Now discord 2023-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 Why Discord sucks, and how to find something that doesn't. Ada How to Automount Drives On Boot in Linux guide_how_to_automount_drives_on_boot_in_linux 2023-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 How to configure a Linux system to automatically mount drives on boot by editing /etc/fstab. Ada How to Block User Agents With Nginx guide_blocking_user_agents_nginx 2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 How to configure Nginx to tell Cloudflare and their shitty centralized Fediverse server to go fuck themselves. And other unwelcome stuff too, I guess. Ada deeptwisty.com 2nd anniversary - A History of This Bullshit deeptwistycom_2nd_anniversary_-_a_history_of_this_bullshit 2022-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 An abridged history of my presence on the World Wide Web, from my first customized Tumblr pages to now. Ada