This is Ariel Millennium Thornton's commonplace book: a library of scraps, odds and ends, intellectual kipple, or a virtual mathom house, as it were. Commonplace books are sort of like handwritten scrapbooks of facts, quotes, thoughts, ideas, and other collections of technical and creative writing, compiled and kept as a personal reference guide. This one's just collected and partly organized as a book of HTML pages.

List of Scraps in the Book

Projects:

• AMTSWG: Ariel Millennium Thornton's Static Website Generator
  • A Makefile-based system for creating, maintaining, and evolving a coherent website made of static files. AMTSWG is what powers this website.

Computers and Computing:

Using:

• FreeBSD
  • GELI Encrypted USB Backup of ZFS Filesystems in FreeBSD 13 (new)
  • Ports Make Targets
• Web Browsers:
  • Make the Firefox Scrollbar Work Like It Used To

Programming:

• Commodore (64, 128, 16, Plus-4, Vic-20):
  • GEOS:
    • Ariel's GEOS Programmer's Reference Guide (still a work in progress)
    • geoProgrammer Errata
• Unix and Linux:
  • Simulating the Cron Environment To Troubleshoot Cronjobs
  • Useful and Decorative Minimalist Desktops (still a work in progress)
  • For Sparkly Shellscript Princesses:
    • Find IP Addresses on a /24 Subnet Quickly with Ping
• The Internet and Websites:
  • How To Add Site Search to a Static Website

Miscellaneous:

Franklin's 13 Virtues

General Site Trivia

This site is under construction

Perpetually, same as with any other site. It won't be finished until it's dead.

JavaScript is optional

A Web browser with JavaScript supported and enabled may be required in order to access some of the more obscure content, such as embedded videos, but no JavaScript support is required in order to access most of the site content, including all of the important site content, and site navigation features.

That Little Code Just Under the Search Link

There's a small and very short code near the top of most pages. That code is a rickdate representing the last time that page got an update Ariel remembered to log, and corresponding to the regular civil date in the footer of most pages. If it's changed since the last time you saw it, that means the page got an update, either new content or a reasonably important writing fix.