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The most fun way is always the most dangerous way. That's why I always the 'dd' command to copy my .iso install images to physical media:

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November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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My Google Merchant center account has now been suspended. After 3 attempts to meet all of Google's requirements, I am still guilty of Misrepresentations, so my regex sticker ads won't show, but you can still watch my regex videos:

youtu.be/JSgTok3ZwbE
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
The Terminal Block Mining Simulation Game now supports scroll bars:

youtu.be/2I68TqMcin8
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Yesterday, someone asked me if TBMSG runs in Termux, so I tried it on mobile for the first time ever: It worked perfectly right away without modification! Here's an old video explanation of the game:

youtu.be/nRGTXZQg5Gg
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Guys, I can explain! Here is my explanation:

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November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Thinking of starting an online business? Here's why you're going to fail:

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November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
IDEs are full of bloat and bugs. That's why I always make sure to figure out how to get my projects compiling without the IDE, including Arduino projects:

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November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Yesterday, someone asked me about the compatibility between neovim and vim. I don't know anything about neovim, but I have lots to say about the compatibility between vim and ed:

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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Whenever I change the lens on my camera and see the exposed image sensor, I always think to myself about the potential for prototyping new optical systems:

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November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
If you liked my video about "What Causes Bit Flips In Memory?", you should also watch my 27 minute video where I root cause a corrupted hard drive image down to a bit flip in memory:

youtu.be/0itrM7t4l34
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
Whenever I'm working on a script for a new video, my favourite thing to do is count how many lines are in my script using the 'wc' command:

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November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Recent data from the GOES Proton Flux satellite shows a historically large geomagnetic event. Geomagnetic storms like this can cause bit flips in memory. For more information about bit flips in memory, click here:

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November 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
I use the 'date' command with the +%s flag to schedule my dentist appointment in Unix timestamp format so that my dentist can learn about the power of Linux:

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November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
roberteldersoft.bsky.social
Someone asked me yesterday about the setup that I used to film the scenes of rotating microchips. Here's a video where I explain my method:

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November 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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My landlord uses the 'mv' command to ask the superior court to set aside the tenant board's judgement against them in the hopes of having their case heard again in the lower court:

youtu.be/sCm0jez-Pko
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Semiconductor analysis doesn't have to be hard or expensive. Scientists have been using this one weird old trick to analyze semiconductors in the park for decades:

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November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The laundry machine in my apartment building uses the 'timeout' command to 'time out' the washing cycle after ~42 minutes (even though the timer says 40 minutes):

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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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For the first 582 days, YouTube was like "Nah, this video isn't very good", but then on day 583 it suddenly said "WOW! THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING!" See video here:

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November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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This is what the Terminal Block Mining Simulation Game used to look like before the layer underneath was visible. Hard to believe how much things have changed:

youtu.be/nRGTXZQg5Gg
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Hey guys, look what I found on my floor! It's a GPL168001A:

youtu.be/-X7UyhMmzUE
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Canada's new budget promises to accelerate development of a high-speed rail project. You can use the 'sl' command to view an early prototype of this exciting new rail project:

youtu.be/tlhd-L3hQRk
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Whenever my multi-threaded program deadlocks, I always make sure to perform a topological sort on the dependency relationships of any blocked threads to identify graph cycles. For this, I use the 'tsort' command:

youtu.be/pg7Z5i75-5c
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I use the 'echo' command with the special ANSI escape selector values '48', '2' to print arbitrary RGB colours. For more information on the 'echo' command, see:

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November 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I use the ANSI escape sequence 'CSI' '[' n ';' m 'H' to move the cursor to row n, column m in the terminal so that I can render my terminal based video game:

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November 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I use the 'marketing' command to successfully market my products subtly in a video about marketing:

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November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM