Serious Computer Business
Keeping up appearances as a professional software developer who has meaningful things to say about computers, programming, and the industry.
- 23 July 2026 — Automatic JavaVM and Context detection using Rust on Android
- 22 July 2026 — Hold on to your hats, HaLow is here
- 5 July 2026 — The banal failure of 5G home internet
- 28 June 2026 — Getting ready for local inference
- 22 June 2026 — When it's the maintainer who's AI-pilled
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Tom's Opinions
Half-baked thoughts, whimsy, discussing news. Could be anything.
- 8 July 2026 — A Telstra outage today
- 1 July 2026 — Musical riddles in a world after LLMs
- 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.