12 Pages Tagged “100daysToOffload”
In May 2026, I started a challenge to write 100 new blog posts or pages on my website over the following year.
Reviews
- Forbidden Solitaire ★★★★⯪ Framed as a lost (and cursed) CD-ROM game from the 1990s, and it nails the 90s gore look for the dungeon. The playing mechanic is fun, and the framing story around it is suitably creepy.
- Murderbot Season 1 ★★★★★ A pitch-perfect adaptation of All Systems Red. Alexander Skarsgård is dead on as the socially-anxious security cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch its shows, but has to protect its humans from alien creatures, their own naivete, and rival corporations willing to kill.
- Tehanu
A character-driven look at the lives of ordinary people in a world of magic, especially the women and children (and not a few men) caught underfoot when wizards, heroes and villains fight. And (of course) dragons.
Tech Tips
- /dev/null: Permission denied on Alpine Linux One of my Alpine Linux VMs broke during an upgrade and started throwing errors about the permissions on /dev/null. Just fixing the permissions didn’t persist across reboots, but resetting the device manager did.
Other
- Editorial Policy for KVibber.com How I handle revisions, dates and photo adjustments on here. I don't use AI. Don't contact me asking to place guest posts, paid links, or advertising on my personal site.
Blog Posts
- Free Shavocado is Back
A decade ago, a local Del Taco’s mis-spaced sign offering FRE SH A VOCA DO gained immortality on Vine. The restaurant even briefly changed their sign to offer FREE SHAVOCADO. Someone at the restaurant appears to be nostalgic for the meme, because it’s back on the sign.
- Pokédrones
A few years back, Niantic posted about a geospatial model they were building using Pokémon Go players’ scans of Pokéstops. This week that model is back in the news, since it’s being used for military drone navigation.
- To Vegas and Back
Las Vegas is a lot bigger than it was last time I visited (almost 20 years ago). Most of the new resorts are generic glass-and-steel, but Hard Rock is building a giant guitar. (Also: solar towers are *bright!*)
- The Road That Broke the Peninsula
I stumbled on an old map to Marineland from 1962, with Crenshaw running through the landslide zone to the coast. Wait, did it really used to connect? When? And what happened? I assumed the shifting ground took out the road, but it’s more the other way around.
- Wall! Of! Text!
A software project enforced a no-LLM-use policy by using prompt injection to delete itself. An “AI” agent-using coder filed a bug report with long-winded LLM-generated comments, as if they assumed the maintainer would use AI to summarize them.
- Instagram Targets
I remember a brief period shortly after Instagram introduced in-feed advertisements when I was getting mostly travel ads that consisted of well-composed scenic landscape, cityscapes and nature photos. Which was fine! Of course it didn’t last.
- 100 Posts?
I’m considering starting the 100 Days To Unload challenge to post 100 times to my personal website over the next year.