Mitch's Notes: Technical stuff, and maybe even some recipes.

Frickin' ChatGPT (even ChatGPT 5) is so damn frustrating. It's almost useful, to the point where it's useless, because it chews up so much time while you try to push it from nearly right to actually right. I've enlisted its help in doing some website…

So, if you need a package that’s part of your OS that didn’t get installed at install time, you can install them later with apt or dnf. And, some packages on your computer may be written in Python. The collection of software that makes up…

So an ongoing project of mine is an autopilot for my boat. Here’s the latest incarnation: The highest point on the board is the red fuse in the middle of the board, which is made even higher by the fuse holder underneath it. 21mm is…

(Note this is from 2023; we’ve moved since then) There’s no soil where we live, just a concrete space. Everything we plant has to be in a container of some sort, and our soil (3m² of it) was shipped in on a truck: When exploring…