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What’s it like to write a thousand reviews in a year?
Can you imagine writing a thousand online reviews in one year? Well, I couldn’t have imagined it a year ago, but I’m well on my way to that number for 2023, thanks to the Amazon Vine program. What’s...
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A single-board Chia plotter, a DOA RMA, and an adventure in external boot...
This isn’t entirely a Chia post, although it was inspired as such. You may have seen a teaser post on r/Chia, but if you didn’t, you’ll be okay. In my time in the Evergreen Miner community, and...
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Little-known ways to work with GPUs for Chia farming with Gigahorse (#4 will...
A lot of people hate reading documentation, so I’m writing meta-documentation based on the documentation to help you get things going with FlexFarmer and Gigahorse compressed plots. The authoritative...
View ArticleOne easy step to save two weeks of waiting for Chia Network farming, and a...
I’ve started work on a walkthrough of Chia farming from download to payout. It’s turned out to be a bit more challenging than I thought, but I’m still plowing through. This video (below) is NOT the...
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A Decade of Blogging: An Experimental Look At How ChatGPT Enhances the...
As someone who has been blogging about technology and tech culture for the over ten years, I’ve witnessed significant changes in the way information is shared and consumed. Blogging, once a hobbyist’s...
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Flexpool has closed, as has my dalliance with end user customer support
As my regular readers know, I was laid off in 2020 and refreshed my cryptocurrency investments (time and money) in early 2021. Soon after that, I took a part time gig supporting miners (and later...
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I went in seeking a heatsink, and came out with a Raspberry Pi 5
[Updated 2023-11-12 for farming experience and PoE splitter] I was on the waitlist for Raspberry Pi 5 8GB at my local computer shop, Central Computer. I had to go in to get a cooler for a new machine...
View ArticleThe Lonely Silver Rain and the Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: Two things...
I’ve been pondering this topic for a few days now, and have thought about it occasionally over the last 30 years. I go through phases of fiction reading, often going through a writer’s entire catalog,...
View ArticleWriting the entire Harry Potter series in a year: A return to regular story...
[Updated 2024-03-31 for March metrics] There’s a bit of clickbait to that title, but according to a quick web search, the first Harry Potter book (Sorcerer’s Stone) has just short of 77,000 words. And...
View ArticleJack Of Too Many Trades is live
Since the early days of the Pandemic, I’ve pondered a review-focused site. It’s a way to share some of the gadgets and useful items I’ve acquired, recommend interesting products to my readers, and...
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