Posts on Justin Vollmer

The past week was pretty busy at work, with a combination of meetings, project kickoffs, and Spring beta testing/troubleshooting.

The last week in March (Holy Week), I was traveling for both work and to visit family, and didn’t take the time to write up my weekly notes.

The past week was once again relatively uneventful, with work consuming a lot of my time.

This past week was pretty uneventful.

This week was, for some reason, slightly exhausting for me, though I can’t point to any one specific event or series of events that caused the exhaustion.

Last week I referenced to trippy, a handy networking tool that I had run across but hadn’t had a use for yet.

This week I ran across trippy, an interesting little networking tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping.

A large portion of this week in the office was spent working through some interesting networking configuration to allow test devices at remote sites to securely access a cloud database… thankfully people much smarter than I were able to assist!

Early this week I set up an old Lenovo ThinkCentre to run a headless install of Ubuntu, and started playing around with some projects I’ve heard of from others, but never used myself.

News articles are continuing to be published regarding Precision Planting’s 2024 announcements.

Overall, this week was relatively uneventful (outside of some stuff at work).

Even though it’s technically a holiday, I had work on Monday, preparing for our conference, and will instead use it as a floating holiday sometime later this year.

Early in the week, I spent a little time to make my Mastodon account discoverable by searching for this domain.

This morning I made some changes to the permalink structure of my blog posts, which inadvertently caused a number of my older posts to reappear in the RSS feeds.

While doing some reading on integrating Mastodon and Hugo this afternoon, I ran across a handy little project by Francesco Maida.

I decided to try something a little different this year.

One day after the tenth anniversary of this blog, and I’m already making changes?!?

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of this website.

Wow, this year has seemingly flown by!

I first saw this trend a little over a month ago from Kev Quirk, and soon after, most of my favorite bloggers had joined in.

Almost all bugs can be a “security” issue.

Something that’s been on my tech to-do list for a number of years is to set up a self-hosted photo/video storage solution for myself that utilizes my home server, and can be easily backed up to an external storage solution if/as needed.

There is something special about using an app that the developer has clearly put a lot of time and effort into, and it shows in the small details, the little finishing touches that make the app a delight to use.

From a blog post by Manuel Moreale: Please, for the love of all things web-related, if you decide to do anything online, get yourself a domain name.

A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog post on a new laptop I had recently acquired to use for embedded development.

This afternoon I updated the format of my reading list.

From Monique Judge, writing for The Verge: In the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web.

It’s December 31st again!

Warning: I have no conclusions in this blog post.

I told myself this day would never come.

A little over 21 months ago, I finally scratched the itch that I’d had off and on for years to migrate my website to a static site generator (SSG).

Michael Steeber: The Apple Store Time Machine is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years.

For a while now I’ve been considering splitting posts on my site into different categories, primarily to allow myself more freedom in the type of content I author, while also allowing readers to filter out only the posts they are interested in seeing.

Federico Vittici, writing for MacStories: With WordleForever, you can put the original Wordle on your iPhone or iPad Home Screen and play the original game (with the same words as everyone else) for years to come.

Author’s note: This post is a deviation from my standard posts which have historically been mostly technology-related.

Happy Memorial Day!

iOS 14.5 was released yesterday (2021/04/26), bringing a whole host of changes that have been heavily covered on all of the major tech news outlets.

I first got the idea for this blog post from Kev Quirk, and have since sought out other examples online to satiate my own curiosity on how people spend their days.

Over the last few years, the general population has become increasingly more interested in fitness tracking, health metrics, and other associated smart wearables.

January 1st.

December 31st, 2020.

Now that I’ve migrated from WordPress to Hugo, it’s time for Stage 2 of my website redesign.

A little under 3 years ago I wrote a post entitled Site Redesign and Migration, where I unveiled a full redesign of my website after having moved it off of the Squarespace.

Well, I did it. 100 blog posts in 100 days.

Every once in a while, I get distracted watching a video that goes into detail on how something was made.

Long day, so not many personal thoughts.

I followed some of the congressional hearings today involving Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

I realized today that literally everything in life is an experiment.

I’ve talked about this before, but one thing I occasionally find tricky is following through plans or limits that I have given myself.

Note: I no longer recommend listening to Bill Johnson, as I have strong disagreements with his theology, but I’m leaving this up for historical purposes. (2024-11-03) “I can’t afford to live in reaction to darkness.