This is (almost*) the entire contents of the site, all articles and blog posts from newest to oldest, with preview excerpts.
- You can see just the articles: on the Articles category page (not to be confused with the /Latest news page, which is more conversational than a list of posts and may include personal news about me in addition to site news)
- Just the blog posts: on the dedicated Blog or nearly-identicalBlog Posts category page.
*Individual movie reviews won't get posted on this page. I write too many of them, it would drown everything else out.
Firefox freezes – tried setting gfx.webrender.software to true
September 25, 2026Claude says that following a kernel panic, watchdog reported threads held by Firefox GPU helper, even thought I have hardware acceleration off. I tried its suggestion of toggling gfx.webrender.software to true in about:config.
"The watchdog reports at 13:51:55 and 13:52:30 have 11 and 12 WindowServer waits on Firefox GPU Helper [47166]. The stackshot in the panic file at 13:53:15 shows the same PID, so the chain was blocked for about 80 seconds or more before the panic.
- In those reports that GPU helper had been running about 266,000 s (roughly 3 days) and had a 2,294 MB footprint.
- The panic was probably not a single event. The GPU helper was already stuck, WindowServer was already hanging, and the watchdogs fired before the kernel finally panicked at the 45 s framebuffer timeout."
A Claude incident report was recorded.
How to clear it when restarting MacOS Tahoe brings up a ton of notifications and no “Clear All” button
September 17, 2026Today I restarted my Mac OS Tahoe machine and suddenly, when I logged back in, a million old Slack notifications came up. Hovering over them, I did not get the "Close All" button on top, and had to tediously click them closed, one by one.
Turned out, in System Preferences under the Apple Menu, in the Notifications page, if I select "Slack", "Notification Grouping" was set to "None". Setting this to "Automatic" caused all the old notifications to collapse into a small visual "stack" behind the topmost notification, and when I hovered over it, the "Close All" button appeared.
Hot Take Of The Day
August 25, 2026
Michael Kupietz, chief Kwit @michael · Follow
I hate labyrinths. It seems like I always have to go to the bathroom the minute I get to the center.
11:11 PM · July 28, 2026
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Server Changes Summary — July 24, 2026
July 24, 2026Context: Investigating a WordPress site freeze on michaelkupietz.com. Root cause identified as a burst of 504 timeouts when a bot/crawler hit ~20+ uncached taxonomy archive pages (/genre/*, /topic/*) in rapid succession around 11:42.
File: /etc/php/8.3/fpm/pool.d/17002707405366737.conf
Uncommented:
slowlog = /var/log/php-fpm-slow.log request_slowlog_timeout = 5sReloaded with systemctl reload php8.3-fpm.
Purpose: Logs a full PHP stack trace any time a request takes 5+ seconds, to help diagnose future slowdowns. Negligible performance/disk impact — only…
FileMaker’s consistency check is not thorough, files can still be corrupt
July 24, 2026https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/file-consistency.html - Information that FileMaker's consistency checks are not as reliable as the Recovery function—they don't check as much. (Bear in mind that the recovery doesn't even tell you everything on the front end, you have to read the recovery log to get full info.)
Michael Kupietz, chief Kwit @michael · Follow
I've just discovered BullshitAI-GeneratedContentFarm.com is available. I'm not registering it.
I feel like this might be the most adult thing I've ever done.
4:15 PM · July 9, 2026
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To Timeshift Or Not To Timeshift
July 7, 2026Damn. I need to shift my clocks again.
Most people don't know this but, even living in CA, I live on east coast time. For about 5 years now, all my computers and clocks have been set 3 hours ahead of my neighbors. Everybody else at my company starts work at 8AM. I start at 11. They don't know.
But, man, I took a full-time job recently. And I remember this from the last time I had a full-time 9-5 job back in 1995... it's exhausting. A full day of selling your time, the discipline required to do anything with my evening other than recuperate is beyond me.
So, I'm thinking. Let's see, I get off at 7:30 Mike Standard Time (4:30 Pacific)... I go to bed around 3AM Mike Standard Time (Midnight Pacific)... if I shift my schedule 7.5 hours earlier, I could have my full evening…
Bonus Gallery: Fireworks Study Extras
July 4, 2026I had a lot of leftover images from the Fireworks Studies gallery that I had to cut out to keep the album focused, but which I liked a little too much to just let languish on my hard driver... a bunch of images that came out more figurative, plus some more fireworks landscapes and abstracts that didn't make the cut of the main album but which I still liked.
Fireworks Figuratives
Some extra fireworks image leftovers
You're Gonna Lose A Finger: Generative Art—Fireworks Studies
July 4, 2026Studies originally done for a July 4 online generative art competition, I believe? I can't quite recall.
Bonus Galleries: Fireworks Figuratives, plus some extras I liked
(Bonus Gallery Page: Fireworks Study Extras)
