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I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.

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Bimonthly? Update - December 15th, 2022


As with most anything I’ve tried to start as a habit, these update posts have become far less then routine. Not to say I haven’t done anything worth writing about - I’m just incredibly lazy. Anyways, here’s what’s up: What I’m Working On I’ve installed a...
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Batman Is Kind of Strange as a Concept


😵‍💫 Warning: This Diatribe Fails To Reach a Satisfying Conclusion Have you ever really sat down and thought about Batman? I had a surplus of spare time on my hands recently, so I went back and played through Batman: Arkham City. When it originally came out, people consistently told me it was good,...
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Mastodon Is Too Heavy for Its Own Good


💀 Warning: This Article Is Poorly Written With the ongoing collapse of Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the Fediverse, and primarily Mastodon, which in spite of it probably not wanting to be, is the flagship in the ActivityPub fleet. I want to preface this by saying that I think Mastodon...
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