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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 27/09/2026

End of line, man. #VRChat vrchat.com/home/launch?...

Me as a green robot in a recreation of the End of Line Club from Tron Legacy, a large dark room with blue accent lighting.

Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 21/09/2026

The funniest part of my network is the 1999 PowerMac G3 desktop having a Wi-Fi 7 connection. It maxes out at 100 Mbps, though.

The Apple System Profiler in Mac OS 9, showing an Ethernet link at 100 Mbps with duplex support, and a local IP address.

The network Topology view in the Unifi administrator panel, showing the PowerMac G3 connected to a Unifi Device Bridge Switch with Ethernet, which itself is connected to the router over Wi-Fi.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 21/09/2026

I am now a Unifi guy, following months of trying to get my two ASUS RT-BE92U routers to stop dropping packets.

Unifi Dream Router 7 with some Ethernet cables coming out the back

Unifi Device Bridge with a bunch of LAN ports on the back, a few have Ethernet cables connected

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 15/09/2026

Docker Compose is often stupid and overly complicated, but it’s cool that the entire process for moving my web servers over the weekend was copying two folders. All the containers started back up on the new system like nothing had happened!

Spider-Noir saying “it can’t be that easy,” and then a moment later, saying “it’s that easy.”

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 10/09/2026

You wouldn't even know Visual Studio Code was an IDE and text editor from looking at its current website: code.visualstudio.com It's all "manage your small army of AI agents" until you get halfway down the home page, then it's like "oh yeah you can write your own code I guess." 🙄

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 05/09/2026

It has now been about a week since I migrated my Mastodon account to a single-user GoToSocial instance. It's still working pretty well on this 1GB RAM VPS! Follow me over there if you haven't already: social.corbin.io/@corbin

Graph showing minimal CPU load from August 29 to September 4, 2026. RAM usage is around 50% for the same time period, with spikes to 60 and 70%.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 30/08/2026

Today's Stage Flight VR show was cool! #VRChat stageflight.club

Me as a green robot in a club environment, with a DJ in the background on a circular podium.

The view of the stage area from the sky, showing a circular platform surrounded by clouds, screens, and light platforms. Drones in the sky are making a pattern that looks like bird wings.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 19/08/2026

My Link Cleaner web app now has a CLI application, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux! You can use it in a terminal, or in automations like bash scripts and macOS Shortcuts. There's also a JavaScript library, which now powers the CLI and web apps. More info: blog.corbin.io/post/8253945...

Cleaning a YouTube link in a terminal window on a Mac

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 18/08/2026

My DIY cloud gaming setup worked ~600 miles from home! I can even leave the PC powered down. Tailscale lets me send a Wake-on-LAN signal and log in with Windows RDP. After that I can use Steam Remote Play like normal, and shut down the PC afterwards.

Overwatch 2 running through Steam Remote Play on a Mac, displaying the following messages:

Slow network
Capture: 1920x1080 @ 59.99
Encoder: Game D3D11 shared NV12 + NVENC HEVC
Decoder: macOS Metal hardware
decoding
Streaming latency: 38ms input, 48ms display
Incoming bitrate: 15079 kbit/s video: 603
kbit/s
Outgoing bitrate: 71 kbit/s
Packet loss: 0.00% (0.17% frame loss)

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 17/08/2026

Boston was cool! I only got on the wrong train two times.

The sun setting over the Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

A light rail train coming into a station

A bunch of paintings and old silverware along the walls in the Museum of Fine Arts

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 14/08/2026

Broadchurch is about the 10th Doctor going into hiding, forgetting his identity, and becoming a cop in a small English town. He’s even still riddled with guilt and remorse!

David Tennant and Olivia Coleman in the Broadchurch series

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 14/08/2026

Doctor Who established the pocket watch device that makes Time Lords forget their memories to stay in hiding, and as a result, you can easily pretend every other movie and show with David Tennant is just a Doctor Who episode.

The “biodata module” that the Doctor used in “The Family of Blood” that looks like a pocket watch

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 06/08/2026

I love the Discord mobile app.

A diagram of the message bar in the mobile Discord app. The area you tap to type a message says "the intended touch target." The Discord Nitro button with an absurdly-large touch zone is labelled "you fell victim to one of the classic blunders!" The emoji button is labelled "high difficulty touch target." The voice memo button is labelled "useless button."

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 06/08/2026

Surely, nothing bad is going to happen. #VRChat World: vrchat.com/home/world/w...

Me as a dark green robot, sitting at the table in the dining area of the USCSS Nostromo from the 1979 movie Alien.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 04/08/2026

Did anyone else know that JavaScript has console.table() for displaying arrays or objects as a table? It's been in browsers for like a decade, apparently? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Screenshot of a JavaScript file with an object containing keys and values. The console.table(data) prints it to the console in a formatted table.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 26/07/2026

New update for Link Cleaner! It can now convert YouTube Shorts or YouTube Music links into regular YouTube links. That way, the links don't open the vertical video player or music interface for the recipient. Try it out: linkcleaner.app

Screenshot of Link Cleaner settings with the following features:

1. Shorten YouTube video links. Converts YouTube video links to the youtu.be format.

2. Replace YouTube Shorts links. Changes YouTube Shorts links to regular video links, so the vertical video interface is not used. The links will also be shortened, if shortening YouTube video links is enabled.

3. Replace YouTube Music links. Converts music.youtube.com links to youtube.com links. If YouTube video link shortening is also enabled, individual tracks and podcast episodes will become youtu.be links.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 26/07/2026

A lovely event horizon. #VRChat vrchat.com/home/world/w...

A game screenshot of a black hole in space, warping the stars around it. A green robot is floating near it.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 22/07/2026

I have now finished Mad Men. Extremely good.

Ted Chaough laying down on a couch saying “I don’t want his juice. I want my juice.”

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 14/07/2026

Here's another look at Byline, a tool I'm making at @serpapi.com that creates a writing portfolio by scraping Google search results. It can also create offline copies of the articles by calling a third-party CLI tool. Full release is coming soon™ but the code is public: github.com/serpapi/byline

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 14/07/2026

My Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with the same SD card has better results. The upload speed is bad because I forgot to pause a file upload.

Speedtest screenshot with a 32 ms ping, 22 ms jitter, 34.1 Mbps download, and 5.42 Mbps upload.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 14/07/2026

Tailscale still supports 32-bit ARM Linux, so I was wondering if my original Raspberry Pi Model B could be a backup exit node. It has a 100 Mbps Ethernet LAN port, but my connection maxes out at 3 Mbps. 💩

Speedtest window showing a 51 ms ping, 32 ms jitter, 2.94 Mbps download, and 2.52 Mbps upload.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 09/07/2026

Voyager 1’s “Pale Blue Dot” photo of the Earth. “Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.” - Carl Sagan

A blurry photo of mostly darkness, with some vertical lens flare. A tiny white dot is barely visible in the corner.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 08/07/2026

As Clu would say, “I’ve been waiting a long time for this.”

Me holding the 4K Blu-ray release of Tron: Legacy

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 27/06/2026

You have been visited by blond Corbin.

Me but I have blonde hair instead of black hair.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 19/06/2026

I wanted to keep my 128GB iPhone 15 for another few years, but I didn’t count on so many iOS apps being 1GB or more for no reason. 🫠

iPhone Storage settings page. Minecraft is 1.35GB, SmartThings is 1.28GB, Discord is 1.28GB, VRChat is 1.11GB, Blooms TD 6 is 1.1GB, M365 Copilot is 1.04GB, Reddit is 978MB, etc.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 16/06/2026

Me when I'm asked for the best terminal text editor:

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 12/06/2026

I don’t think you need that, Google Docs.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 10/06/2026

There are still *zero* travel cases built for the Galaxy XR, not counting the one Samsung sells for $250 for some reason. Thankfully, Meta’s larger Quest carrying case (the one compatible with the Elite Strap) is a perfect fit for ~$50. www.amazon.com/Meta-Quest-C...

Galaxy XR headset with its controllers inside a round hard carrying case, on a table

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 08/06/2026

The #Furality convention was cool! I was not much of a social butterfly, but I had fun and met a few new folks. There was so much creative and technical talent on display from everyone running the production. My PC and network were not as prepared as I had hoped, though. 🫠

The main hub world that looks like a combination of a video game level and an outdoor plaza, with lots of winding platforms and hovering platforms.

A panel on hacking, with a presentation slide explaining "black hat" security and a speaker at a podium.

A DJ set in the club world, with spotlights pointed in different directions and a large projection with the words "DON'T LET GO" behind the stage.

Me in the club world, standing in front of a sign with a hastily-made drawing of an Out of Order sign with the caption "Technical difficulties, please keep dancing."

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 06/06/2026

POV: You joined the 70-person VRChat instance without Earmuff Mode enabled

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 03/06/2026

I'm working on a web portfolio backup tool at @serpapi.com! It's still early in development and doesn't have a GUI yet, but stay tuned.

Terminal screenshot of a tool that takes a web domain and author name, searches Google for matching content, and starts archiving all results

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 01/06/2026

VRChat also has a fun "AudioLink" feature that synchronizes avatar data to music playing in the world. The avatar's shader already supports that, so I just had to add a blue overlay texture and connect it. 😎

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 01/06/2026

My weekend project was learning enough Unity to do basic VRChat avatar edits. It turns out playing Planet Coaster was good practice for 3D modeling! I was able to add custom colors, GoGo Loco for better body tracking, and my Furality badge to WWR's "Norme" robot: wwr.booth.pm/items/2956482

Unity SDK screenshot showing a green robot, with a purple chestplate and a small green nametag badge

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 29/05/2026

You ever think about how Jon Hamm got typecasted as Suit Guy?

Jon Hamm in Pixar's Hoppers, wearing a navy suit

Jon Hamm in Good Omens, wearing a gray suit

Jon Hamm in Parks & Recreation, wearing a navy suit

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 26/05/2026

Under the sea? Maybe? #VRChat vrchat.com/home/world/w...

VRChat screenshot of a robot humanoid in an underwater room, with water ripple effects across the ceiling and green grass on the ground.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 23/05/2026

Here's the setup script working in Windows 8.1. I mostly just wanted full W10 support (PS 5.0), but I only had to make a few tweaks for W8.1 (PS 4.0), so why not?

Just the Browser install script in a PowerShell window on Windows 8.1, with Firefox in the background showing several group policies are enabled.

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 22/05/2026

Has Google ever put large full-size cards like this on the home page? Every time they released a new Pixel phone, or promoted a holiday or Google I/O, it was one or two lines of text under the search field. The mobile home page has the Discover feed, but that's it AFAIK.

The Google home page with a search bar, a card promoting AI Mode, a card for "Create & transform images", a card for "Helpful tips: Get the most out of AI mode", and a card for "News from Google I/O"

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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 22/05/2026

Yep, that’s exactly what I wanted, thank you Google.

A Google Search for “disregard.” Instead of the definition, there’s an AI Overview answer with the pronunciation guide and the message “Understood. Let me know what you would like to work on or discuss instead!”

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