Neale's Blog

Blog is short for “web log”: a public online journal. You can read more about this blog, or see a list of tags I use.

MIDI Concertina Progress (2026-Jan-12)
Emergency Card (2026-Jan-10)
Linux on an ARM Chromebook (2026-Jan-04)
About this blog (2025-Dec-31)
Enterprise Software (2025-Dec-30)
Pipe Flares (2025-Dec-28)
Tuners and Nuts (2025-Dec-28)
No more dumbphone (2025-Dec-01)
Filing my nut / Uilleann practice chanter (2025-Oct-21)
Technology's impact on socialization (2025-Oct-06)
Debian 13.1 on Framework 12 (2025-Sep-24)
LineageOS on the Jelly Star (2025-Sep-12)
Nokia Playlists (2025-Sep-11)
Gitolite (2025-Sep-02)
Food on the train to Pasco and back (2025-Aug-28)
Git Hooks for my Homepage (2025-Aug-21)
Git static pages (2025-Aug-20)
Drug Insurance (2025-Aug-04)
Why I thank the AI (2025-Aug-04)
Practice on the front porch (2025-Jul-28)
The Day I Figured Out AI (2025-Jun-30)
Folk Music Transcription (2025-Jun-28)
Why there's a big gap in my blog (2025-Jun-22)
The 414s (2025-Jun-19)
The End of Things (2025-May-28)
The Love Boat s02e015 (2025-May-10)
Flute Bore Smoothness (2025-May-01)
Low E Whistle (2025-May-01)
Studio Recording (2025-Apr-08)
On travel again (2025-Mar-30)
Drone reed (2025-Jan-29)
My pipes and flute (2025-Jan-19)
Jelly Star apps (2025-Jan-17)
Auto-cran (2025-Jan-15)
Flute breakthrough (2025-Jan-03)
3D Printed Flute (2024-Dec-04)
New Uilleann Pipes (2024-Nov-27)
business-train-primer (2024-Nov-25)
Jelly Star: 1 month review (2024-Oct-23)
Jelly Star (2024-Sep-24)
Podcast RSS Generator (2024-Sep-02)
Self-Hosted Email (2024-Sep-02)
Emacs (2024-Aug-14)
Backup strategy (2024-Aug-13)
Featurephone: still going (2024-Jul-30)
LinkedIn Blocked Me (2024-Jul-30)
The Featurephone Experiment (2024-Feb-05)
Light Phone 2 (Guest Post!) (2024-Jan-28)
Featurephone Woes (2024-Jan-23)
Modem simulator (2024-Jan-22)
Nokia 2780 Review (2024-Jan-21)
My Dumb Dumbphone Experiment (2024-Jan-17)
The State of Homebuilt Rock Band Drums (2024-Jan-15)
Arduino, Big Builder, and Make (2024-Jan-05)
Wii drum controller (2024-Jan-03)
Rock Band / Clone Hero instruments (2023-Dec-27)
Alpine Linux Homelab (2023-Dec-22)
Windows Customizations (2023-Dec-15)
Self-Hosted Email (2023-Nov-29)
Your First Train Trip (2023-Oct-28)
Big Builder (2023-Oct-27)
How I Get from Los Alamos to Richland (2023-Oct-21)
Train Bag (2023-Oct-10)
High School Reunion (2023-Sep-26)
Business Travel on Amtrak (2023-Sep-25)
New Job (2023-Jun-20)
Universal Date Format (2023-Mar-14)
Trains (2023-Mar-07)
The Love Boat s2e11 (2023-Jan-30)
The Love Boat s02e10 (2023-Jan-25)
The Love Boat s02e01-e09 (2023-Jan-24)
Photography (2023-Jan-23)
Doctor Who S04E15: Dr Who goes to Scotland (2023-Jan-12)
The Yurt (2023-Jan-07)
Iceland trip (2023-Jan-06)
Smart Watches (2022-Nov-28)
My technological flag in the sand (2022-Oct-28)
CLRG Results Analysis (2022-Oct-28)
CLRG Award Points Artifacts (2022-Oct-10)
CLRG Scoring Analyzed (2022-Oct-09)
My Take on CLRG's Cheating Scandal (2022-Oct-05)
CLRG's Cheating Scandal (2022-Oct-04)
Cars I Have Known (2022-Oct-02)
Truck bling (2022-Sep-06)
Lights! ... (2022-Sep-04)
My (online) Generation (2022-Aug-05)
Bicycling (2022-Aug-03)
Return of the blog (2022-Aug-01)
Doctor Who S01E01-E03: Honey, I shrunk Doctor Who (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E01-E04: Cavemen and Fire (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E05-E11: Daleks! (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E12-E13: A Tardis Button Gets Stuck (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E14-20: Doctor Who goes to China (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E21-26: Finding the Chips (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E27-30: Doctor Who goes to Mexico (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E31-36: The Sensorites (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S01E37-42: Doctor Who vs the French Revolution (2021-Dec-23)
Doctor Who S02E04-E09: Earth Again, and Daleks again (2021-Dec-23)
Making Unix a little more Plan9-like (2015-Apr-08)
How to make your X11 stuff feel more like Plan9
Runit as init (2015-Apr-08)
My experience using runit as PID 1 for two years
Futzing with PID 1 (2015-Feb-02)
Choosing a Roller Derby Helmet (2014-Feb-21)
Writing formal letters with roff's "mm" package (2013-Jul-18)
Working with plan9port (2013-Feb-18)
Runit on Arch Linux (2012-Dec-05)
Copyright Advice for Small Leagues (2012-Sep-18)
Why you shouldn't use Derby Software (2012-Aug-03)
Running Audio/Visual for a Roller Derby Bout (2012-Mar-18)
Debian on Digimatrix (2004-Oct-27)