Linux Driver for TP-Link AX1750 nano
Mar 06, 2026
My son is having his first encounter with hardware that doesn’t “just work” on Linux.
Adapted from https://github.com/morrownr/rtw89
Note that I took out the steps about Secure Boot, because we’re not using that. Here’s how you can tell if your system has Secure Boot enabled:
mokutil --sb-state
git clone https://github.com/morrownr/rtw89 cd rtw89 sudo apt install -y dkms sudo make cleanup_target_system sudo dkms install $PWD sudo make install_fw sudo cp -v rtw89.
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DRI Your Career
Feb 15, 2026
I’m enrolled in the inaugural cohort of a new career coaching course: https://driyourcareer.com and it’s really good!
DRI stands for Directly Responsible Individual, and apparently it’s a concept from the corporate culture at Amazon. The idea is that there needs to be one person ultimately responsible for any given initiative, so you can dodge the common misunderstandings about who was supposed to do what.
In the course, Cate Huston and Jean Hsu are teaching how to be the directly responsible individual for your career, because nobody else is going to do that for you.
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I Love Night School Bar
Sep 22, 2025
I have recently relocated to Durham. I wanted to integrate well with my new city, so I went looking for the fun things that people are doing.
So far, the coolest thing I’ve found is Night School Bar, which is pretty much what it says on the tin. It’s for adults who want to keep learning, and meet others who feel the same. It’s a bar, much like any other, except you can sign up for classes in the arts and humanities!
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rclone?
May 21, 2025
I just installed rclone in my little Oracle Cloud ARM server. It should work better than aws s3 sync for updating the files on my blog!
Split Fiction
May 21, 2025
I just finished playing Split Fiction with my 14-year old daughter. It’s a fantastic couch co-op adventure with lots of imagination and
Obsidian Tricks
May 15, 2025
I started using a popular plugin with Obsidian called Templater. I would have called it something like Scripter because it allows you to replace special tags with the execution output of a script.
I wrote two little JavaScript programs for it: one calls a WeatherAPI endpoint and fetches today’s forecast, and the other calls the NYTimes API and fetches the current top headline. I use both of these as front matter in my daily notes!
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Unsplash + Raycast + Obsidian
May 15, 2025
I just installed an extension that allows me to quickly search for Unsplash images in Raycast. Here’s one for the search term “gamer:” Author credit
Blogs are more fun with images, right?
Russia?
Apr 04, 2025
Why don’t the tariffs include Russia?! Hmmm?
Death of a Unicorn
Apr 01, 2025
I went to see this with Eila on Sunday. I don’t know what to make of it. It was sometimes funny, but not usually. The villainous pharmaceutical family is fun to despise, though. Stealth Brit Will Poulter gets the funniest line in the movie, “Let’s hot tub about it.”
Paul Rudd is wasted here. He mainly stands around being confused.
I would pass on this unless you’re bored on an airplane.
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