Mordecai Kipng'etich

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

After setting up Audiobookshelf, my media stack was pretty much complete.

Like many people with the homelab itch, you’ll inevitably want to self-host more and more applications.

In light of Sony killing game discs, I couldn’t help but reminisce about the days when CDs were the dominant physical format for all forms of media.

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

As many frequent readers of this site might know, I jumped ship to Apple Music from Spotify.

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

TL;DR This is my backstory on the Game of Thrones franchise but more like a nudge and a validation that one can get into the franchise through House of The Dragon without prior knowledge and simply get hooked.

With it being Pride month in certain parts of the world, I’ve found myself, at times, discussing the LGBTQ+ community with some friends.

In the past few days, Microsoft announced that it would end the support of Office for Mac.

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

For most of this year, I’ve travelled every Thursday to and fro Nanyuki for work.

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month.

TLDR First of all, check out if you have the official Google Photos to iCloud Photos option available in Google Takeout.

A lot of individuals on the “indie web” have a periodic dump of links and I always find them cool, so why shouldn’t I give it a try?

Watching Linus Tech Tips’ latest Linux challenge video, especially Linus’ sections, is a genuinely painful experience.

After getting my media stack stable as shown in my previous post, the next question was remote access.

I originally built this media stack as a complete beginner to homelabbing.

Cloudflare has been gently (and not so gently) nudging folks away from Pages for a while now.

Like every previous year, Goodreads prompted me to set how many books I wanted to read as the year began.

All I want for Christmas is to find that darn movie I’ve been meaning to watch.

Marques Brownlee sometimes mentions on his podcast that TV viewership of YouTube videos is on the rise.

Besides Mariah Carey having fully thawed, it’s that time when we all realise how much we repeat the same tunes over and over while pretending we’ve discovered something new.

Guess what?

Perhaps the universe willed me on after writing the previous article, or maybe it was just sheer luck.

I pride myself on having old photos backed up somewhere, and I also cheekily threaten some friends with posting their old photos but the irony never escapes me.

The loss of a dear pet is one of the hardest things to bear.

Someone shared this photo recently as a status update and it had me intrigued.

Guess what?

After 8 years on Sweden’s finest app, 4000+ liked songs, a bunch of playlists and 100+ albums, I made the switch to Cupertino just over a month ago.

I refreshed Unread a few moments ago only to find three posts with the same title as this.

This was meant to be posted end of last year but as a result of the festivities and perhaps procrastination, here we are.

James from James’ Coffee Blog wrote The Joy of Bookshops and just the title sparked something within me inspiring this piece.

I thought I’d post my Spotify Wrapped on this corner of the internet this year and not just on social media.

While relaxing with a freshly brewed cup of coffee in hand, I got this wave of inspiration.

I struggle with the pronouns ‘they/them’ but let’s get things straight, I do not hate or discriminate against people who use these pronouns or the queer community at large.

There are some songs that just feel grand and Iron Sky is absolutely one of them.

Years ago, I left comments on people’s blogs which led to interesting discussions and even friendships.

Recently, I find myself watching and reading materials on single-use devices.

Recently, Google ‘killed’ Chromecast and launched a new product.

Apple is working on bringing watchOS 11 in a few weeks, and one of the features that got people excited is the ability to have rest days on the Apple Watch.

Recently, The Verge had this headline about the EU imposing more tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).

We all have those items that linger in our Amazon baskets.

Some of you might have noticed that I’m gradually shifting the tone and style of my writings on this blog.

Roundabout 100 people from the streets, ask them about subscriptions, and you’ll find that nearly everyone is familiar with the concept, unlike a few years ago - at least here in Kenya.

For about a month, this website was not sending data to GoatCounter.

On 7th October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his purchase of Twitter and it has been quite a journey since then.

For the love of God, please stop installing bloatware on your computer.

This article was done in fulfillment of an assignment for a Software Engineering course.