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my impressions from the streets of rage series

As a kid, I didn’t have any 16-bit consoles, and at best, my experience with them was restricted to playing them for a short while when hanging out with my family’s old friends and their kids. Out of the games I got to experience that way, I played Sonic 1 and 2, Columns, Tom & Jerry: Frantic Antics and other games, but not any of the Streets of Rage games. Instead, the first time I discovered this games was when I discovered emulators.


vim hints

These are some of the useful settings and functions I use when working with vim.


cvlvl6 fanfic

Trying to preserve an old page that I had a hard time finding online.


note on cpan

Note to self: if your distro’s repositories don’t have a Perl package, it’s best to install them from CPAN instead. A tool called cpan minus (In Alpine, its packaged as perl-app-cpanminus) can do it easily, either installing packages into one’s home directory or globally.


riichi mahjong

One of my big interests is things relating to riichi mahjong (リーチ麻雀): a variant of the Chinese tabletop game “mahjong” invented in Japan. It’s a rather complicated, but fun game where the players take turns picking and discarding tiles (which function similar to cards in a game like poker) in order to build a winning hand.


midnight commander tips

Assorted key combinations that are useful in MC.


freetype hinting settings

I have a bunch of FreeType settings that I prefer on my systems, and these differ from the defaults on basically every Linux distro these days.

2026 update: This is a rather old post, made back when the monitors I used were pretty low-resolution, and saving every pixel of space seemed like a good idea. These days, high-DPI monitors are more common, and the old settings I preferred look absolutely terrible on these.


my pixel art

Here be pixel-art dragons.


Alpine Linux

This page will host an assortment of tips and tricks collected while using Alpine Linux.


pixel art fonts

This is the page where I’ll be hosting all the pixel art fonts which I drew.