Thirteen Years Later, an Old MacBook Pro Is Still My Favourite Laptop

May 28, 2025

It has a lower res TN screen. It runs an outdated processor. Heck, it hasn't been officially supported by macOS since 2020. But why am I still using this old beat-up unibody hunk of aluminium?

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New Domain!

September 14, 2022

If you're visiting for the first time, hey, I got a new, way cheaper and way smaller domain! 6 letters! All for 500 roubles! And it comes with a free helping of nostalgia for a country that fell apart more than 30 years ago. Anyways, Rive.quest is dead, long live Rive.SU.


On Realism, Graphics and Cameras

June 11, 2022

Foreword

Twitter is a breeding ground for terrible takes. Nuance and reason are dead on a website which limits your thoughts to 280 symbols a message, even if you string those into threads. Hence why the only posts that really gain traction on Twitter are either memes, jokes or very inflammatory statements.

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Websites are hard, actually

August 22, 2021

You know, I feel like I understand why people pay so much for webhosting with ready-to-go blogs. Because managing your own VPS server, installing your own CMS, configuring the damn thing so it doesn't crash your stuff is hard. Really hard.

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