I Gave an AI the Keys to My Server
18 March 2026
OpenClaw boots the AI with a blank slate. No name, no personality, no memory. It has a bootstrap file that basically says "figure out who you are" and some workspace files it can write to for persiste…
System Admin with Claude Code
5 March 2026
I've had a backup script for years. It worked. It did exactly what I told it to do, which turned out to be both a strength and a problem.
/usr/local/src
4 January 2022
As of late last year, when my work gave me a System76 Linux machine
I'm now officially 100% on Linux both at work and at home. I'm also a
programmer and on both my home and work machines I have a dire…
GIMP as a screenshot tool for Linux
15 February 2020
As a Frontend Developer by trade, I take lots and lots of
screenshots. Windows and MacOS both have several good options for
taking screenshots. The one I like a lot on my Mac is
Monosnap but they did …
How to recover data from a memory card for free
21 July 2010
I am closing down my old blog on
socketwiz.com and I didn't have much
content over there and this was and article I felt like preserving.
So a friend of mine took some pictures on her camera which c…