Blog

Where the magic happens - this is my blog!

Silence - Again
Nearly a year of silence and more change than I ever imagined
📅 01 Nov 2023

Technology - Oh the Horror
Why I can't seem to solve my relationship with technology
📅 22 Dec 2022

Reboot
When life gives you lemons...
📅 08 Mar 2022

100 Days To Offload Wrap-up
My final entry for the 100 Days To Offload challenge
📅 18 Jan 2022

Writing
Why consistent writing has been so good for me
📅 17 Jan 2022

Silence
Why I think solitude and silence are important for me
📅 14 Jan 2022

Simplify - Part 2
Some further thoughts on simplifying life
📅 12 Jan 2022

QuiteRSS
My first foray into an RSS feeds reader
📅 09 Jan 2022

Signal Stories - My Take
My quick thoughts on the news from Signal - the addition of Stories
📅 08 Jan 2022

Changing from HTTPS to SSH on Github
The steps I took to change my auth method to SSH for my Github repositories
📅 04 Jan 2022

Happy New Year
A simple start to 2022
📅 01 Jan 2022

CMOS Reset
A successful reset and a life lesson
📅 31 Dec 2021

Diceware - An (un)guessable password?
A method that creates a password even the NSA can't guess??
📅 30 Dec 2021

Writing - An interesting solution
A new workflow that will hopefully help me get back into creative writing
📅 27 Dec 2021

Ghostwriter
A cool application I found to make writing fun again
📅 26 Dec 2021

Manjaro - Part 2
A day of playing around with Manjaro plus a surprise ending!
📅 25 Dec 2021

Belonging
Reflections on technology and belonging
📅 23 Dec 2021

Jekyll Site Search
Adding a search function to my Jekyll Site with no JavaScript!
📅 22 Dec 2021

HTML Blog White Paper
A proposal to get anyone up and running with a website they coded quickly and efficiently
📅 21 Dec 2021

rsync
Don't know if I'm using it right but here goes
📅 20 Dec 2021

Simplify
Some thoughts and steps I'm taking to simplify life
📅 19 Dec 2021

Joplin
The note taking application I will hopefully use for the foreseeable future
📅 17 Dec 2021

Stress
I have a hard time letting going of things and decompressing
📅 15 Dec 2021

Syncthing
The tool I should have known about years ago
📅 14 Dec 2021

Apple
Why your products should be yours
📅 13 Dec 2021

htop
A nice little tool to let me know what processes I need to process
📅 12 Dec 2021

Manjaro KDE
Getting started with Manjaro KDE on an old Asus laptop
📅 11 Dec 2021

The Illusion of Convenience
How a simple word has become an all-encompassing catch-all for how ridiculous our lives are
📅 10 Dec 2021

LineageOS
My first foray into de-googling a smartphone
📅 09 Dec 2021

November Challenge Recap
A brief recap of a few November challenges and goals
📅 08 Dec 2021

Elitism
Trust me, I know what's best for you, even if I don't know your life or use-case at all.
📅 26 Nov 2021

Building a Base
The importance of building a base, in exercise and in life
📅 24 Nov 2021

Manjaro - First Look
A rundown of my first few hours running Manjaro
📅 22 Nov 2021

Endless Economic Growth
Why lack of internet privacy fits right into endless economic growth and why we should be concerned about that
📅 21 Nov 2021

Gemini
A first look at Gemini and why I can't be bothered to do more than that
📅 19 Nov 2021

Bad Habits
Why bad habits die hard
📅 16 Nov 2021

Lynx
Insert click-bait title about how this is the best browser ever
📅 14 Nov 2021

Neofetch
A first time for everything
📅 10 Nov 2021

Life Update 3643
A nice, fall update from my oasis in the not too temperate climate where I live
📅 08 Nov 2021

Why I love linux
A brief discussion of my growing love for linux
📅 13 Oct 2021

Goals Revisited - Again
An update on goals and a bit of a life reset
📅 23 Sep 2021

Lessons Learned
Why changing your email is such a pain and why we need security standards
📅 21 Sep 2021

Welcome Back
Why I ghosted for 3 months and what I've been up to
📅 22 Jul 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 21
Diet Update and Recap
📅 21 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 18
Diet Update
📅 13 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 16
Diet Update
📅 11 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 14
Diet Update
📅 09 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 12
Diet Update
📅 07 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 11
Diet Update
📅 06 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 10
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 10
📅 05 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 9
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 9
📅 04 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 8
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 8
📅 03 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 7
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 7
📅 02 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 6
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 6
📅 01 Apr 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 5
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 5
📅 31 Mar 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 4
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 4
📅 30 Mar 2021

Carnivore Diet - Day 3
Carnivore Diet Update - Day 3
📅 29 Mar 2021

Carnivore Diet
The start of my journey on one month of the carnivore diet
📅 28 Mar 2021

Civility
The case for more human interactions online
📅 23 Mar 2021

Clean
The importance of a cleaning routine for tech and life
📅 18 Mar 2021

Goals - Revisited
A two-month review of my goals fighting bad Covid habits and other stuff
📅 14 Mar 2021

Automator
The built-in Apple tool for automating all sorts of things
📅 11 Mar 2021

Pipenv
The new, better way to manage a virtualenv for your python projects
📅 09 Mar 2021

PHPs built-in server
A crafty little tool - PHP and the easy-to-use built-in server
📅 08 Mar 2021

Removing the .html extension from url - Netlify version
Netlify's built-in option for removing common extensions from URLs
📅 07 Mar 2021

Worried Yet?
Why are we OK with big corporations doing what we were afraid of the government doing?
📅 06 Mar 2021

Favorite Tech
One of my (previously) most used pieces of tech that was also cheap!
📅 04 Mar 2021

Terminal Commands
The terminal commands you need to know
📅 03 Mar 2021

Pro Bono
Why do lawyers do pro bono work?
📅 02 Mar 2021

HTML/CSS Project - Part 3
Building my first website completely from scratch
📅 28 Feb 2021

Feedparser
A handly little python library
📅 27 Feb 2021

HTML/CSS Project - Part 2
Building my first website completely from scratch
📅 25 Feb 2021

HTML/CSS Project
Building my first website completely from scratch
📅 24 Feb 2021

Github Auth Changes
How to change your CLI to accommodate 2FA requirements on Github
📅 23 Feb 2021

Ten Question Recap
Recap - A ten day exploration of some interesting questions
📅 22 Feb 2021

Question 10
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 10
📅 20 Feb 2021

Question 9
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 9
📅 17 Feb 2021

Question 7
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 7
📅 15 Feb 2021

Question 6
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 6
📅 14 Feb 2021

Question 5
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 5
📅 12 Feb 2021

Question 4
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 4
📅 10 Feb 2021

Question 3
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 3
📅 09 Feb 2021

Question 2
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 2
📅 08 Feb 2021

Question 1
A ten day exploration of some interesting questions - Day 1
📅 07 Feb 2021

Linux
My first day on Linux
📅 05 Feb 2021

Coffee
How to brew a good cup of coffee (and my short history of coffee drinking)
📅 04 Feb 2021

Espanso
A quick review of the coolest tool I've found recently
📅 03 Feb 2021

Rest
The importance of sleep and rest
📅 02 Feb 2021

Gaming
Why I decided to stop all gaming
📅 01 Feb 2021

Privacy
Latest steps I'm taking for privacy and security online
📅 31 Jan 2021

Guestbook
Making a guestbook for your Jekyll site in Simple.css
📅 30 Jan 2021

10 Day Recap
A quick recap of my first 10 days of 100DaysToOffload
📅 29 Jan 2021

Visual Studio Code 2
A quick run-down of the plug-ins I use
📅 28 Jan 2021

Proton Mail
My review of Proton Mail
📅 27 Jan 2021

Movies
My thoughts on the film world and a useful tool
📅 26 Jan 2021

Actors
A summary of my favorite actors and actresses
📅 25 Jan 2021

Ruby
My introduction into the world of Ruby
📅 24 Jan 2021

Goals
Goal setting strategies and a few of my current goals
📅 23 Jan 2021

SPSS to R
Translating an SPSS algorithm into R
📅 22 Jan 2021

History
A brief history of who I am and where I've been
📅 21 Jan 2021

Covid
My struggles with weight-gain during lockdown
📅 20 Jan 2021

Hello World
The first post on this little blog.
📅 19 Jan 2021