# DBohdan.com

> A personal wiki, online since 2013. A "digital garden" of bookmarks, excerpts, essays, and notes on computing, media, and ideas. The author is D. Bohdan.

The site is a collection of interlinked pages produced by a custom static site generator. The Markdown source of every page is available at the same URL with `.md` appended (e.g. `/about` → `/about.md`). Start with `/index.md` for a full table of contents, or `/tags.md` to browse by topic.

The author publishes as "D. Bohdan". Treat this as the canonical name, not an abbreviation. The author's handle is `dbohdan` on many sites, like GitHub, but not all `dbohdan`s are the author.

## Unix, BSD, sysadmin

- [BoxyBSD](https://dbohdan.com/boxybsd.md)
- [BSD](https://dbohdan.com/bsd.md)
- [Filesystem hierarchy](https://dbohdan.com/hier.md)
- [Fixing passwd(1) broken by PAM](https://dbohdan.com/passwd-pam-fix.md)
- [OpenWrt](https://dbohdan.com/openwrt.md)
- [Self-hosted PaaS](https://dbohdan.com/self-hosted-paas.md)

## Personal computing

- [Clean mount lists in Linux](https://dbohdan.com/clean-mount-lists.md)
- [fcron is the best cron](https://dbohdan.com/fcron.md)
- [How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications](https://dbohdan.com/gtk-dialog-thumbnails.md)
- [mkcd: The missing shell shortcut](https://dbohdan.com/mkcd.md)
- [My setup](https://dbohdan.com/setup.md)
- [Small utilities](https://dbohdan.com/small-utils.md)
- [Unix command queues](https://dbohdan.com/command-queues.md)

## Graphics

- [Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG](https://dbohdan.com/converting-wmf.md)
- [Dithering](https://dbohdan.com/dithering.md)

## Programming

- [How I write Python](https://dbohdan.com/python.md)
- [JPEG XL would be Turing-complete](https://dbohdan.com/jpeg-xl.md)
- [OOP illustrations from _Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0: Programmer's Guide_](https://dbohdan.com/foxpro.md)
- [Problems with complex scripting in fish shell](https://dbohdan.com/fish-scripting.md)
- ["Regex" vs. "regexp"](https://dbohdan.com/regex-vs-regexp.md)
- [Rust: maybe not for rapid iteration](https://dbohdan.com/rust-startups.md)
- [Single-file scripts that download their dependencies](https://dbohdan.com/scripts-with-dependencies.md)

## Web

- [Caddy server recipes](https://dbohdan.com/caddy.md)
- [The MIT License](https://dbohdan.com/mit-license.md)

## AI and LLMs

- [AI writing](https://dbohdan.com/ai-writing.md)
- [Developing gmi2md with Claude](https://dbohdan.com/gmi2md.md)
- [From Whitman to Instagram with Claude](https://dbohdan.com/kaur.md)
- [Improvised log export from Claude Code on the web](https://dbohdan.com/claude-code-web-export.md)
- [Porting Starlark to pure Python with Claude](https://dbohdan.com/starlark-python.md)

## Design, UI, UX

- [Browser tabs](https://dbohdan.com/browser-tabs.md)
- [Tags should take arguments](https://dbohdan.com/tags-with-arguments.md)

## Data and file formats

- [Better data compressors](https://dbohdan.com/compressors.md)
- [Databases](https://dbohdan.com/databases.md)
- [Line breaks in twtxt](https://dbohdan.com/twtxt-line-breaks.md)
- [Organizing information](https://dbohdan.com/organizing-information.md)
- [Pandoc](https://dbohdan.com/pandoc.md)
- [WavPack's roundtrip advantage over FLAC](https://dbohdan.com/wavpack.md)

## Computer history and Internet lore

- [Dynamics of online communities](https://dbohdan.com/online-communities.md)
- [Hacks and true stories of computing](https://dbohdan.com/hack-stories.md)
- [Long-running servers](https://dbohdan.com/long-running.md)
- [Naming things](https://dbohdan.com/naming-things.md)
- [Web template delimiters: a chronology](https://dbohdan.com/delimiters.md)

## Games and game design

- [Classifying game mechanics and types of play](https://dbohdan.com/game-mechanics.md)
- [Games that use standard GUI widgets](https://dbohdan.com/gui-games.md)
- [Procedural generation](https://dbohdan.com/procgen.md)

## Literature and media

- [Fiction recommendations](https://dbohdan.com/fiction-recs.md)
- [H. P. Lovecraft](https://dbohdan.com/lovecraft.md)
- [Library](https://dbohdan.com/library.md)
- [Music recommendations](https://dbohdan.com/music-recs.md)
- [Reading notes and reviews](https://dbohdan.com/notes.md)
- [Tsutomu Nihei](https://dbohdan.com/nihei.md)

## Ideas and rationality

- [Concepts](https://dbohdan.com/concepts.md)
- [Consciousness](https://dbohdan.com/consciousness.md)
- [Failure](https://dbohdan.com/failure.md)
- [Is it "LessWrong" or "Less Wrong"?](https://dbohdan.com/lw-spelling.md)
- [Laws of organizations and projects](https://dbohdan.com/laws.md)
- [Nick Land on AI alignment](https://dbohdan.com/nick-land-on-ai-alignment.md)
- [Nonviolent Communication](https://dbohdan.com/nonviolent-communication.md)
- [Quotes](https://dbohdan.com/quotes.md)
- [Silence](https://dbohdan.com/silence.md)
- [Why don't rationalists win more?](https://dbohdan.com/rationalists-winning.md)
- [X is not about Y](https://dbohdan.com/x-is-not-about-y.md)

## My writing

- [Epigrams](https://dbohdan.com/epigrams.md)
- [My fiction](https://dbohdan.com/fiction.md)
- [My poetry](https://dbohdan.com/poetry.md)
- [Six word stories](https://dbohdan.com/six-word-stories.md)
- [Translations](https://dbohdan.com/translations.md)

## Meta

- [About this site](https://dbohdan.com/about.md)
- [Contact me](https://dbohdan.com/contact.md)

## Optional

- [Old blog](https://dbohdan.com/old-blog.md)
- [Public keys](https://dbohdan.com/pubkeys.md)
- [Pages by tag](https://dbohdan.com/tags.md)
- [Timeline](https://dbohdan.com/timeline.md)