Serious Computer Business
Keeping up appearances as a professional software developer who has meaningful things to say about computers, programming, and the industry.
- 31 January 2026 — Standard Search: a search engine for standard.site posts
- 30 January 2026 — MIE Soft Mode
- 25 January 2026 — Adventures in Rust borrowing deserialisation
- 16 January 2026 — tapped: a Rust crate for building ATProto appviews with tap
- 14 January 2026 — Difficulty enabling Apple's MIE
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Tom's Opinions
Half-baked thoughts, whimsy, discussing news. Could be anything.
- 26 November 2024 — Bluesky, Fedi, and making centralisation modular
- 21 November 2024 — LLMs are DRM for information
- 8 August 2024 — Several people are typing...
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Tech Tidbits
Notes that I feel are worth recording but the only people who will care are using search engines.
- 10 February 2026 — High CPU reading epubs and PDFs in Linux
- 12 November 2025 — Getting YOLO mode in GitHub Copilot with VS Code
- 11 July 2025 — Digirig reporting incorrect channel count on Windows
- 26 February 2025 — No route to host - Debian testing firewall
- 14 January 2025 — Disabling the LED on a new Razer Cobra
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Tinkering Down Under
My previous blog with a decade of posts was originally hosted at thomask.sdf.org. That URL is no longer online, unfortunately, but I have brought over all the posts to this website so you can browse the archive if you wish.