Hi, I’m Farai
Just Some Random Guy On The Internet
Welcome to my corner of the internet where I share whatever’s on my mind, be it about programming or anything else!
What’s Worth Looking At
Technically everything, but you can start with these pages:
- The Bikeshed is where I ovethink how I make this very website.
- The Colophon provides a brief outline of the technologies I used to make this site.
- Mowing The Lawn Turned Me Into A Proto-Urbanist, Along With Parking on Black Friday
- February 2025 Link Roundup
- Colophon
- Real Real Japan Explains Quirks in Japanese With Deadpan Humor
- File Locksmith Shows You Which Application is Locking A File and Lets You Terminate It
- What Have Black People Done In Computing
- Explaining Why The Radio Powered Electric Car Is Nonsense
- I Never Thought That The English Literature I Was Forced To Learn In High School Would Come In Handy
- Why Aren’t Egg Prices High In Neibouring Mexico and Canada?
- Cream Soda Can Be Clear?
- A Running List of Things I Promised to Do But Didn’t
- How To Work With PDFs
- I Spent A Few Days In Morocco and I’ve Got To Say, African Countries Can Look Really Good
- Now
- I Got What I Thought I Wanted. Now I’m The Dog Who Caught The Car
- Shit, I’ve Had To Hire Someone. What Am I Supposed To Do?
- Andy of Salem Techsperts Is Truly The Greatest Technician That’s Ever Lived
- This is a Stonemaier Games Appreciation Post
- PowerToys Workspaces Lets You Arrange Your Apps In A Specific Layout
- Know My Blog
- Chipotle
- January 2025 Link Roundup
- Here’s How I Set Up My Laptop
- new domain; who dis? ffg.co.zw is my new personal domain.
- Henry’s Got An Incredibly Beautiful Website
- Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
- Do You Know Why Those 100 Companies are Responsible for 70% of emissions?
- My iPhone’s Setup
- 2024—The Year Nothing Got Better Except For The Few Things That Did
- Maven is a Really Cool Former Wrestler With Lots To Share
- A Roundup of A Bunch of Old Links I Had Lying Around Since 2020
- Japa Isn’t All That, Who Coulda Guessed?
- A Falsehood Programmers Believe About Currency: All Payment Methods in the Same Currency Is Worth The Same Amount
- Angela Collier is Great at Discussing Physics
- the sham legacy of Richard Feynman [VIDEO 2:48:11]
- Visiting The War Remnants Museum in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Why Did I Spend 90 Minutes Telling you About French Quotation Marks in CSS?
- A Hasty Review of Morocco’s Trains
- I Listened to That Much Litle Mix? And Other Revalations From My 2024 Apple Replay
- Why Is It Called Cyclone Chido?
- Why Oh Why Would You Feature Such A Complex Dropdown That Isn’t Even Sorted, Morroco Foreign Ministry?
- O’Mari’s Merchant Payments Is Rather Convenient
- That’s An Insane Image to Use For a Former Vice President
- iOS Standby is Pretty Cool
- I Tried To Use A French Press. It worked ok.
- I Got A New Laptop 3 Years Ago and It’s Holding Up Fine
- This Website Must Be Studied For Science
- KDEConnect Is Like AirDrop But Better
- How To Get To JFK Through Mass Transit
lite-yt.html- How To Make A WiFi QR Code
- hi, it’s been a minute
- Thoughts on Starlink in Zimbabwe: A Suprisingly Low Bar Zimbabwean ISPs Have Failed To Clear
- Be My Eyes
updates.html- ZiG’s Currency Code is Now ZWG
render-image.htmlrender-link.html- I Haven’t Dated Much in My Life. I’m Gonna Talk About It Anyway.
- War Dog<s/cite>
- Nobody Cares About What I Blog About. Why Do I Still Do It?
- Don’t Expect ZIG to be a Currency Code
- 2024 Is The Year I Destroy My Drafts
- You Don’t ‘Lack Follow Through’ - 5 Signs You’re Self-Regulating Through Future Fantasies
- My CSS Reset
- I Went To Philly—Part 1: Getting There And Settling In
- Hugo Now Includes a Default Render Hook for Links and Images
- Thoughts on Zimbabwe’s New Money the ZiG
- Happy 404 Day!
- Apple, You Know That Tino’s…
- My Bank Made A Mistake And Sent Me A Check for $0.07!
- Bikeshedding Must Fall—My (Possibly Ill-fated) Attempt To Stop Overthinking This Site And To Focus on More Important Things
- My 2024 Has Been a Huge Pain In The Ass So Far
- The Rest of My USA Trip
- Apple Devices is Garbage so Far
- I’ve Finally Finished Writing About My Trip To The US In 2022
- Support
- Time for Some Much Needed Rest and Relaxation
To be very clear, free speech is when you give me money
—Manchild Elon Musk- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Reminds Me of The Days I Loved The Lonley Island
- Formative Posts
- SNEAKING Into A BANNED Country [VIDEO 27:48]
- A Comprehensive Survey of ExTwitter Users
- Damn, Writing “Short” Posts is Harder Than I Thought
- No!!! My MX Master’s Universal Receiver is Dying!
- If You’re In My Office It’s Already Too Late
- I Was Denied Entry Into The Country Of Georgia For No Clear Reason
ass-ref.html- scrollable.html
- The Country Behind the $100,000,000,000,000 Bill Hits a New Stage of Dysfunction
showFile.htmlShortcodefigure.htmlandfigcaption.htmlShortcodes- Damn, Writing Needs a Lot of Effort
- I Finally Visited Qatar in November 2022, But Not For The World Cup
- Your Browser is Lying [VIDEO: 15:06]
- My Failed Attempt At Learning Japanese Just To Play A Video Game
- Making a Useful 404 Page To My Site
- string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard - YouTube
- Posting Blog Posts via The iSH App
- Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
- Don’t Forget To Specify a 404 Page For Your Cloudflare Pages Site!
- I Thought of Making a Mini Squoosh But It Didn’t Work Out
- AI Bonus: Very Stupid CSS
- This Is The Stupidest CSS You Could Ever Write
- What’s Next For Web Monetization?
- The Internet At Work Sucks, But The Alternatives Aren’t Any Better
- Coil bids farewell, but not goodbye [ARCHIVE]
- I Use PowerToy’s Launchy So Much, I Almost Forgot It Wasn’t Built Into Windows
- Edge, Can You Please Fuck Off and Let Me Browse The Web In Peace?
- Should You Take Weigth Loss Drugs? [VIDEO 27:21]
- Code Blocks Look Strange In Safari
- Ok Bing, I’ll Actually Start Using You
- How Bad Was The Travel Chaos I Was Scared Of?
- 2022 USA Trip Part 3—Didn’t Expect Such Great Urbanism In The US
- 2022 USA Trip Part 2—Travel Chaos, Albeit Self Inflicted
- Thank You Xbox Game Pass for Turning Me Into A Yakuza Fan
- How I Chose The College I Went To
- Yes, The TV Fridge Door Exists
- Scriptic Crime Stories is What Happens if Netflix Shows Were Video Games
- Cyberpunk 2077 Was A Buggy Mess I Couldn’t Stop Playing
- All The Time I Spent Playing The Yakuza Games
- Chrome Depracates JPEG XL
- Kwik Trip Appreciation
- All The Other Interesting Links of October 2022
- 2022 USA Trip Part 1—A False Start
- Spud
breadcrumbs.html- Paradise Killer is a Weird Yet Interesting Detective Game That Made Me Sick
- Awake Is a Helpful Utility For Keeping Your Windows Computer Awake
- When Facebook Peaked (To Me)
- Please Have an Actual Website For Your Business Instead of Relying on Facebook
- I’m Bad at Information Architecture and I Don’t Know What To Do About It
- Fine, I Guess I’ll Just Write Shit
- The TRUTH Behind the Airport Travel CHAOS!
- Scunthorpe Sans đź—Żđźš« profanity-blocking font
- Squoosh
- Top 10 Web-Design Mistakes of 2021 [VIDEO 21:00]
- Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS
- Ten Posts out in an Hours
- Flirting with Microblogging
- Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
- Initial Impressions of My New Laptop After Using It For A Month
- Random Notes About My Trip To Indonesia
- Hey Reddit, I Don’t Want To Install Your Fucking App
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- How to Get HEVC Video Extensions for Windows For Free
- Let a website be a worry stone
- I’m Not Ready To Blog And Program Again and I Doubt I Ever Will So I’ll Figure It Out As I Go
- Rendering a Copyright Footer In Hugo
- Fixing Section 2.5.2
- Where You Can Find The Various Default Web Browser Style Sheets
- Elements Typically In The HTMLTag as Well as TheTag Itself Can Be Made Visible With
display:block - Making Word Clock, A Clock Which Tells The Time With Words
- Goodbye fgandiya, Hello faraixyz
- I Actually Made Money In 2019—$1.81 To Be Exact
- What I Did At My Job In The College Library
- Things I Tried To Make My Fast Static Site Even Faster
- QuickPush Revisited
- Retweet Be Gone Revisited
- My Bachelor’s of Arts in Computer Degree Revisited
- College Hackathons Revisited
- My Software Engineering Internship Interview At Goldman Sachs
- Why I Didn’t Make Anything During Minnehacks 2017
- Math.floor(it): Now You Can See if Speeding Is Worth It
- Uncommon Hacks 2017
- My First Tech Interview
- My First Chrome Extension: The Story of QuickPush
- My First Hackathon
- Word Clock