Dave's Virtual Box of Cards
This is a collection of short, interconnected notes. Why?
It is intentionally sprawling and incomplete. There will be dead ends. It may or may not be of use to others.
Stats! In February 2023, I noticed it had been almost exactly a year since I started this "Virtual Box of Cards." I’m gonna try to keep updating this every February when I notice again:
+----------+-------+---------+ | Date | Cards | Words | $==========$=======$=========$ | 2022 Feb | 5 | 1,700 | | 2023 Feb | 156 | 31,500 | | 2024 Feb | 248 | 66,037 | | 2025 Feb | 292 | 83,461 | +----------+-------+---------+
NEW cards (or significant updates)
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2025-09-08 Using and Debugging a Web Font
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2025-09-06 Make a Web Font Subset
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2025-08-30 SQLite 3 - Monotonic updates
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2025-08-24 The "not quite the same" problem
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2025-08-12 Serving Local Markdown with PHP
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2025-08-08 Ratfactor’s Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets (a month in the making!)
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2025-08-07 Block those insanely annoying Google login popups
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2025-07-31 Gift-Wrap Your Projects
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2025-07-30 sharing, page-or-didnt-happen
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2025-07-29 aura (Aura = Idea + Time)
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2025-07-12 Super Easy* 2-Stage Git Deployment
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2025-07-06 stack-display (A little cardboard display my paper project stack)
Learning/Growing/Creativity
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learning and journaling and sharing
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creativity and workspaces and copying and ideas and the importance of limitations
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friendship and time and wisdom and Notes to Self
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projects and hobbies and productivity (and anti-productivity) and One Thing
Computing
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computing, linux, unix (including the BSDs, particularly OpenBSD)
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homelab (physical computer hardware and systems in my house) and linux-data-recovery xfce
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programming, (forth, ruby, javascript), pl-design, pl-small, retro-simplicity
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Terminals: Livin' the pseudoterminal life! And tmux, git, rtorrent
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trying to prevent windows 11 and firefox-savepersite and firefox-cached-css and block-google-login-popups
Art, Design, and Creative Writing
Meta (about the cards themselves)
Torn, crumpled
Scattered cards that won’t fit neatly in a deck or box.
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Time cycles (making Eternity friendly for the human mind!)
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Be Weird (no, seriously, give it a try)
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ←--ahhhh!!!
Here’s a scratch space for other notes I want to work on or flesh out but don’t yet have an obvious place to be linked.