Justin Vollmer

The past week was both more and less eventful than normal.

I once again decided to get my M4/3 camera out when I saw some interesting light & cloud patterns this evening.

I promise I’m not a food blogger, nor am I aspiring to be one, but I like to take photos of tasty food when I’m out, and I was out to eat with coworkers a few times this week, and so… this week’s update is going to include some food photos. 😂 Monday was o…

Overall, the past week has been pretty standard, without much to write about.

This week we had a coworker from Fargo visiting our office, so Monday saw an earlier morning than normal in the office, anticipating their arrival.

This week’s update will be a little shorter than normal, as nothing overly eventful occurred.

With a shortened week this week (thanks to Independence Day on Friday), my normal work week was both shortened, but simultaneously filled with a few extra meetings as everything was compacted into 4 days.

Monday of this week I opted to work remotely, mostly due to remote meetings, and a single in-person meeting at our manufacturing facility, which is closer to my house.

Wow… it’s been another week already?

I haven’t done this often, but I’m going to include a few photos in this update, because… why not?

Intro Over the past 48 hours I’ve once again been on a journey to rethink how I take notes.

The first part of this week I spent working remotely while visiting family (meetings during the main part of the day, helping on the farm in the morning and afternoon/evenings).

Monday was Memorial Day for the US, and I mostly spent the day relaxing at home, not really working on anything in particular.

I was once again in-office the entirety of this week, and it was a pretty standard schedule for me.

This week, I was in the office all five days, though I headed home after lunch on Friday to work remotely in the afternoon.

I decided to get my M4/3 camera out last night as a storm came through the area from the east, and took this photo of some of the clouds.

First off: Happy Mother’s Day to both my amazing mother, and all of the other mothers around the world!

For the last ~16 hours I’ve been trying to figure out a weird issue with some of the pages (/tags, /series, etc) that are autogenerated by Hugo for my site.

To get it out of the way… May the Fourth Be With You!

Continuing in the vein of making my website my “virtual home”, I’ve now also copied the 9 episodes of my sister and I’s now-defunct podcast, Sibling Summit, to my website, replicated as blog posts with shownotes + links to the Archive.org audio, all shari…

After another hour of work, all of my historical Instagram posts are now also replicated on my website as status updates!

My goal for a while now has been for my personal website to be the primary source for anything I post online, past or present, and today I finally began adding historical entries.

… and done!

I’m going to be pulling many of my older Mastodon posts onto my website over the next hour or so.

This morning I was thinking about how much I wish there was a full FOSS (or even proprietary but self-hosted) replacement for Evernote.

This week was my first week back in the office after spending the last week and a half visiting family.

Today is an interesting anniversary for me, one that I never thought to keep track of until about a year ago.

Monday morning was spent hiking with my sister and second cousin, followed by some meetings, and then some afternoon canoeing!

This post is the fourth and final of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Easter Sunday: I Know That My Redeemer Lives (LSB 461) 1 I know that my Redeemer lives; What comfort this sweet sentence gives!

Yesterday, in my post on Blogging Expectations, I mentioned the concept of a website as a virtual home, and wanted to expand on it.

This post is the third of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Good Friday: Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted (LSB 451) 1 Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree!

A few days ago I ran across the post Blogging Expectations by Kev Quirk, and a quick read told me that it was something I wanted to add my commentary to.

Today, while following a blogger/IndieWeb rabbit rail (when I click on a link from someone I follow, and then promptly begin following other links to other sites that interest me), I ran across an excellent post by Naz Hamid on Operating Rules for Email C…

This post is the second of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Maundy Thursday: Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord (LSB 637) 1 Draw near and take the body of the Lord, And drink the holy blood for you outpoured; Offer…

Sunday and Monday I had a chance to once again delve back into embedded software development.

For Holy Week this year, I had the idea of posting some of my favorite Lenten/Holy Week/Easter hymns.

Saturday night/Sunday morning I didn’t sleep well, and had a few odd health symptoms.

About a week ago, I set up a new RSS feed in my feed reader, which is tied to a GitLab-based project I want to keep up to date on.

This week is even lighter (on content) than last week!

I wish I still had a copy of my original MySpace and Facebook profiles and posts.

Saturdays are (once again) perfect days for relaxing on the couch with a cup of coffee while updating my various computers & servers (both local and remote), and reflecting on the past week

It’s interesting, and somewhat unsettling, seeing photos from 5 years ago surfaced in memories. 5 years ago today I had recently pivoted to remote work for an indeterminate amount of time due to Covid-19, and apparently was working on improving my video c…

I don’t have much to report on from work this week.

Wow… it’s already been another week?

Over the last few days, I noticed that something seemed off with my website… zero traffic reported by GoatCounter (I use the analytics soley to see general trends and traffic), and some IndieWeb functionality didn’t seem to be working.

Another week, another weekly notes update!

There are a handful of books that I find myself rereading with some consistency, both to glean new ideas I’ve missed in previous read-throughs, and to refresh myself on some concepts.

A memory surfaced by Immich reminded me that today, 17 years ago, I got my 2nd Mac, and my first MacBook Pro!

I originally had this written up as two separate posts, but ultimately opted to combine it into a single update (you’ll see why shortly - I think it works better as one large update).

Unfortunately, after some personal travel over the last 2 weeks, I managed to get sick.