Jim Kalafut

Our new house has a wood stove.

Test post following a couple of changes to blog publishing: The content can now come from Bear.

I don’t watch much TV these days.

Alice in Chains’ Jar of Flies is one of my all time favorites!

The AI hype is real, and so are the AI benefits.

The article below is NOT my creation.

The SQLite docs steer you away from AUTOINCREMENT: The AUTOINCREMENT keyword imposes extra CPU, memory, disk space, and disk I/O overhead and should be avoided if not strictly needed.

Behold the Thunderbolt 1000 siren: Midwesterners of a certain age will feel their blood run cold when its blower motor winds up and the siren starts blaring.

I’ve been intrigued by Fossil SCM and have written about it a couple of times (2016, 2015).

A few months ago, I started learning Flutter to build an app I’d been thinking about for a while.

This email request is headed right to the Spam bin, but it was nonetheless interesting to see how the flattening of the world continues to take place, how rates level out, how folks work around regional imbalances, etc.: I’m XXX from China and I found you…

Most of the online places I visit are politically left-leaning.

I don’t write much SQL and I rarely have to do performance optimization since systems are so fast relative to my data sizes.

Today, I was leaving the store and what drove by neatly captured America’s attitude towards pedestrians.

I’ve used both AWS S3 and Cloudflare for a long time, often to deliver simple static hosting with a TLS posture. 99.9% of the time I’m just updating the content, but every few years I need to set up a brand new domain, and this gives me angst.

Boogie Boards are pretty handy for the kids.

I’m one of those people who gets really irritated when even the potential of a movie/TV spoiler arises, and consuming media is becoming very difficult.

I just discovered that my kalafut.net domain had a birthday yesterday!

This is a close cousin to the renewal BS I wrote about previously.

Flossing is important, as your dental hygienist has no doubt reminded you continuously.

I’ve finally imported all of the previous blog posts (from the other blogs) into the main index.

Tinted car windows aren’t all bad.

Today, I pumped my own gas.

It’s that time of year when a few of my news subscriptions come due.

It is summer break, so it is time to figure out how to keep the kids busy.

2021 MacBook Pro iPhone 14 Fastmail VS Code Arq (to B2) Apple Photos OmniFocus & Bear Hetzner VPS’s

Despite my recent critique of Things, it is still my main task organization tool.

Last month I released/announced Sherwood Sports.

Things is one of the best designed apps for iOS and Mac, and it has been my task management app of choice for many years.

My name is Jim and I’ve liked technology for as long as I can remember.

While it may look the same, everything to build and deliver this site has changed.

A Go/Fiber side project I’m working on needs some interactive elements.

I’m a happy user of Bun and like the work being done at Uptrace.

A much complained about issue with the otherwise pretty decent Plex app for Samsung TVs is that despite giving you the impression that you’re choosing the audio track, the app actually only ever plays the first track.

I recently gave the restic backup tool a try and was impressed.

I’ve been [using Anki a lot more recently]({% post_url 2022-01-02-anki %}).

Great list of CLI tools in the tweet and replies, though he could have done without the childish “dated cli tools that suck” flourish 🙄.

A couple of years ago I published a WWV simulator.

I’m delighted to see. folks. discussing. the sad state of search.

I’ve been aware of and have occasionally used Anki since it came out 15 years ago.

Welcome to 2022!

I don’t write much here, but I occasionally write something and have done so for over 15 years in various forms.

I won’t even bother to recollect anything about 2020 on this last day of year.

I just released my WWV Simulator to the wild.

The search for an acceptable digital photo management solution is neverending.

I’ve often come across comparisons between JSON, MessagePack and Protocol Buffers (protobuf) for transfer and/or storage.

I started working at Garmin shortly after Google announced the introduction of Google Maps on Android with free turn-by-turn directions.

I’ve never benefitted from Django’s multi-app architecture and find the hijacking of a precious project name pretty annoying.

One thing I’ve learned from many years of using different task management approaches is to keep expectations in check.

I’m here to acknowledge that it has been exactly one year since my last post.