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Journal (2026-11-02) - Jell-O salad and glass for kitchen windows

Date: 2026-11-02

Inspired by some old pictures of rather unappetizing Jell-O salads (also known as aspic), I decided to make a jello fruit salad recipe that I wrote down from "Home Cooking Memories."
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Making GIMP 2.10.34 available as-is for Debian 13 (Trixie)

Date: 2026-10-22

Continuing in the theme of my previous post on making Qt5 style plugins available to Debian 13 via the CozyNet Debian package repository, I've also included a pre-GTK3 version of GIMP sourced from the Debian 12 Bookworm repos.
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Making Qt5 style plugins available for Debian 13 (Trixie)

Date: 2026-10-21

On one of my desktops, I run the Trinity desktop environment with the Plastik theme. For consistency with some newer Qt5-based applications, I also use the "Plastique" widget style via Qt5ct, which is a reproduction of the original "Plastik."
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Journal (2026-10-19) - Bread mixer and milling wheat

Date: 2026-10-19

I've been wanting to get back into bread baking again, but haven't had much time for it since I would make it all by hand. The recipe I've used before was for a sifted white flour, which kneading by hand isn't so bad, but it can still be time consuming.

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Building a blog category tagging system with just PHP, HTML, and some shell scripting

Date: 2026-10-14

Last week I had some extra time to burn and figured it was time to make a category tagging system for the blog.
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Journal (2026-10-01) - Defrosting my early 1950's fridge

Date: 2026-10-01

It was a rainy kind of day today, which was the perfect occasion to defrost the old fridge! I'd been falling behind in this particular task which I should be doing every two weeks or at least a month.
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General Update v30

Date: 2026-09-25

I plan to attend the 2026 Texas Linux Fest this November. It'll be in the same location as last year, which thankfully is not down town Austin. I'm looking forward to the event and meeting up with any CozyNet blog readers too, as well as any friends that decide to go!
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Fake images polluting eBay, Craigslist, Zillow, etc...

Date: 2026-09-25

Before I start, I want to clarify that I'm mostly writing about second hand stuff and resell where real images of items and their condition are important. I've been seeing a trend on e-commerce sites and the like where falsified images of items listed for sale are being used to conceal their true condition.
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Journal (2026-09-22)

Date: 2026-09-22

Last week was an exceptionally busy one for me, unfortunately ending in sickness. Hopefully this coming week will be a little more laid-back though.
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Journal (2026-09-09) - Farmers market & rain gutter guards

Date: 2026-09-09

Last Saturday I went to a farmers market to help a friend of mine. I haven't been to a farmers market since I was a kid, so it was an interesting experience. This one seemed much more organized than the ones I remember, seeing how everyone had a fold out cover tent, tables, and food trucks.
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Writing on phones and scam calls

Date: 2026-09-04

I keep a rather large and diverse RSS News Feed of various sites and blogs, and one of those is a Mr. Joel Salatin. He recently wrote a post on "Medicare scam calls," and had the following to say...
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Journal (2026-09-03) - Ants in pantry and house cleaning

Date: 2026-09-03

Despite not writing much this past week, I have been keeping busy. Most of it is either personal or mundane in nature, which I prefer to keep off the blog, however the past week has been good!
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Journal (2026-08-24) - More windows!

Date: 2026-08-24

Despite being a day of rest, Sunday was a busy day for me, albeit an enjoyable one. Shortly after having my breakfast, I put on some shoes and went traipsing out into the barn to search for the old window casements I replaced. Since I couldn't find any aluminum tracks matching for a conventional wood window anywhere, I figured my only choice was to salvage the old ones.
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Journal (2026-08-21)

Date: 2026-08-21

This is just a journal post of random things going on, and also a good excuse to try out my snazzy new RSS feed generator! I'm sure there's some improvements that could be made to it, but in the meantime I won't know until I try it out under different situations.
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Building an RSS feed generator for CozyNet

Date: 2026-08-20

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally made an RSS feed generator for CozyNet! That's right, I don't have to manually copy stuff over into a feed index file anymore!
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Journal (20260818)

Date: 2026-08-18

Well I'm happy to say that I've finally perfected (at least enough to my standards) my window frame making technique! It's taken a long time to finally get here, but hopefully it'll pay off.

Software

A highlight of interesting software.

Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)

NsCDE is a UNIX desktop environment that mimics the look and feel of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) of the nineties, but with modern features and applications. It is a set of FVWM applications and configurations, enriched with Python and Shell drivers, GTK and Qt themes, and custom scripts.

Date: 2025-03-03

Cubic (Custom Ubuntu ISO Creator)

This is a pretty cool project for creating custom Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distro-respins. I've been testing it out to see if I can't make a most Cozy Debian based re-spin. Try it out for yourself and make your own!

Date: 2024-04-15

Trinity Desktop

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) project is a computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers.

Date: 2024-02-12

explainshell

"explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) capable of parsing man pages, extracting options and explaining a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page."

Date: 2023-07-12

GNUstep Desktop

"GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is modern Linux desktop environment that will give you NeXT/OpenStep-like user experience. It runs on top of amazing GNUstep framework and includes many wonderful apps and utilities that GNUstep community has developed over the years."

Date: 2023-07-07

Build Your Own Search Engine (Wiby)

"The software is designed for anyone with some extra computers (even a Pi), to host their own search engine catering to whatever niche matters to them. The search engine includes a simple API for meta search engines to harness."

Date: 2023-07-04

Archive Page browser extension

"Adds a button to the Chrome toolbar. When clicked, it sends the URL of the current tab to archive.today to preserve a snapshot of the page, and opens the result in a new tab."

Date: 2023-07-03

DeArrow YouTube browser extension

"DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait."

Date: 2023-07-01
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