Posts on Justin Vollmer

One of the podcasts I listen to daily brought up a recent news article about several Hong Kong based VPNs that were found to expose private user data, even though they claimed that they didn’t.

Yesterday, I got a delivery of bison snacks, including some Bison Biltong, with Southwest Verde flavoring.

Today has been another long day, and I don’t have a lot to talk about personally.

Today was another day where, for some reason that I don’t fully understand, I woke up an hour earlier than I intended to and was unable to fall back asleep.

Today wasn’t a particularly bad day.

I frequently ponder the same question: if I’m doing what I’m enjoying, does it matter that I’m putting way more time into than is, perhaps, “healthy”?

It’s raining!

I realized once again today that I have so many interests that I rarely have time to pursue them all.

This is my first stab at another new concept post.

I was outside at a friend’s house for the last hour, just standing around and talking.

It’s easy to be distracted.

For the first time in many months (due to COVID-19), I finally got to spend a few days with my immediate family!

It’s the 4th of July, the day that Americans celebrate Independence Day.

I have occasionally described myself as a technophile, due to my tendency to enjoy reading about, buying, playing with, and testing out the latest technology.

Wow.

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

I don’t tend to watch a ton of movies.

Short blog today.

Anyone who knows me knows that I like routine.

There’s a new podcast out from Tom Merritt, one of the hosts of Daily Tech News Show, entitled “Know a Little More“.

I have a habit of reading before bed.

I’ve used a number of different browsers over the years.

Okay, so maybe the title isn’t 100% accurate… But I honestly don’t feel like I’ve accomplished that much today (so far).

I’ve read many articles over the years emphasizing the importance of downtime, of relaxing, and sometimes “turning off your brain” (possibly my translation, but either way, definitely a phrase I’ve heard).

I first heard this story yesterday, but didn’t read any of the details until today.

Here’s an interesting Twitter thread I ran across today from Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

Click here for the audio on Archive.org What caused Hannah to purchase a new computer?

Earlier this evening I was attempting to open a 25+ GB mp4 file to edit (1920×1980 resolution, 35 mins long).

A few months ago, around the time that the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect the Untied States, I began playing a weekly round of Name That Tune with my family.

As has happened many times in the past few weeks, I had elaborate plans for what to write about today.

For many years, I’ve heard recommendations from privacy-conscious individuals that if you choose to be on a social media platform, it’s best to just use the web interface, and not an app.

This is a short post that I will probably revisit later.

I got my first Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) today, and took a short amount of time to begin migrating my Home Assistant setup to it.

Well, I’ve officially finished my first full week back at work after 2 months of working from home.

Inspired by Things that work!

Day 40!

Today marks the beginning of working from the office primarily again for me, instead of at home.

Click here for the audio on Archive.org How do you determine when it’s time to quit a hobby?

Yesterday I wrote a brief blog post announcing that I had completed my new gaming PC build.

I was originally hoping to post a more thought-out blog post today.

Every once in a while, I wake up super early, and can’t fall back to sleep.

Yesterday I blogged briefly about reinstalling Windows on my gaming PC.

Every once in a while I fire up an older Windows 10 PC, mostly to play games.

Short post today.

For I do not understand my own actions.

I wasn’t sure what to write about today.

Click here for the audio on Archive.org In a special (belated) Mother’s Day episode, we talk with our mom about her experiences with blogging, her thoughts on technology, and her first impressions of the new iPad Pro!

It’s Friday.

A coworker asked me a question this evening about how to move a Git submodule to a sub-directory, and as it’s something I’ve had to look up multiple times in the past, I decided it would be good to post it here for easy lookup in the future.

Earlier today, Kev posted an update to the #100DaysToOffload challenge on his blog.