News

• 2024-07-06: Published Java on Linux
• 2024-07-04: Wrote Fast French Onion Soup, Revisited
• 2024-04-21: Added an article on the evolution of my site’s content management
• 2024-??-??: Fixed the Content-Security-Policy to restore the seasonal pixel art in the corner (medium-sized screens), lol oops

Pages

JavaScript toys

• Typing speed test
• 12-Tone Matrix Generator (music composition / serialism)
• Quilt Draw🌎 (block design tool)

Articles

• 📌 SOPA/PIPA protest page
• 📌 Black Lives Matter🌍
• Why I Reopened Sapphire Paw (dot org)
• Musings on Knitting
• Lessons for my Youth
• 📜 All articles ⇒

Recipes & Cooking

• The Food Lab, a Belated Review
• The Many Flavors of Oats

About Me

Millennial PHP/Perl coder by day, dabbler in all things at night: art, music (composition and piano), knitting, and sometimes reading books.

Also video games🌎.  Naturally.  I have gotten way into Super Metroid, Splatoon, and Final Fantasy (1–7) in times past.  Having played so many relatively flat JRPGs, I was really blown away by the complexity of the plot in Final Fantasy Tactics, and I used to have a shrine for it on my GeoCities page.

My favorite music is mid-2000s trance, and SNES/Genesis era game music.  I listened to whatever my older brother said was cool when growing up; unfortunately, he was a hipster before it was (re)invented for the 2010s, so I missed out on a huge swath of culture.  80s rock is probably 3rd place. Wish I’d known!

Pronouns: he/him, but gender can go jump off a cliff.

Sapphire Cat Worldwide! 🛸

• Decoded Node, a technical blog hosted by Blogger
• sapphirecat on GitHub
• sapphirepaw on Keybase
• [fka] Twitter is private/inactive due to Events™