some things i did

I felt artsy so I took some photos of my favorite micropolitan hellscape.
Enjoy this gallery of the city I call home.

A City In Heaven – Official Release
Seventeen-year-old Ben Reuben recounts his grueling experience growing up with an abusive father and helpless mother in rural Texas.

The fediverse is actually kind of nice.
I’ve learned that open-source, federated, free social media is the more ethical choice.

i'm nervous, but i'm finally going to publish some of my writing projects
I’m finally ready to share some of my projects with the world.

a book a week for 2024
I’m reading a book a week this year. This is my list.

Why I write really dark fiction as an emotionless engineer.
Life is so damn weird. Bad, even. Writing dark fiction helps me figure it out.

Open-Source Software I Actually Justify Paying For
I love open-source software. There are a few projects I happily support, and I felt they deserve a shoutout.
How to Get Quartus ModelSim Working on Debian
There’s a bunch of packages you might need to install to get 32-bit support for Quartus Prime Lite Modelsim on Debian 12: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 expat:i386 fontconfig:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libexpat1:i386 libc6:i386 libgtk-3-0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libice6:i386 libsm6:i386 libncurses5:i386 zlib1g:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxft2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxt6:i386 libxtst6:i386 From there, you can navigate to your Quartus installation folder (likely ~/IntelFPGA_Lite), then navigate to the ModelSim folder, then bin, then execute ....

How to Install Scrivener on Debian
I love Scrivener. It’s one of my favorite bits of writing software for long-form writing. I also love Linux. Particularly, I love Debian running with KDE Plasma. If I can help it, it’s the only OS I use at work, school, and home. But Scrivener doesn’t make a Linux version. Let’s fix that. This tutorial assumes you know a bit about the Linux terminal. These commands are tested at the time of posting on a fresh install of Debian 12....

Introducing MossBiscuits!
I do a ton of different things, and I am so excited to have a hub to showcase them all together under one proverbial roof. From a professional portfolio and coding projects to cooking and religious blogs, I hope MossBiscuits has something interesting to offer you. What to Expect As of now, my plan is for MossBiscuits to serve a number of purposes: Act as a central hub for my wide array of projects; Feature my projects that don’t currently have a better home (including writing projects, interactive web toys, documentation, and others); and Do some boring behind-the-scenes business involving my hosting provider....