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I switched e-readers I've been using a Kindle Paperwhite for a while now, and it was fine.

Any die-hard baseball fan that you know is at least a little superstitious.

Everyone please meet Superhero Pickles.

Work has changed I wrote my last post / Now update on March 8th. 2 days later, I got laid off.

We went on vacation For my kid's birthday + mine & my wife's wedding anniversary, we went back to Disney World.

Last year, my friend Robb posted about picking up a Camp Snap camera, and I instantly knew that I wanted one of these for my kid.

(This is a VERY nerdy post about some automation I've recently added to my blog.

I last updated my App Defaults at the start of last year, so I figured I'd look it all over and give it an update. 📨 Email: Mimestream (Mac + iOS Testflight) and Gmail (iOS) - I'm gonna need to figure something out now that I have an iCloud account with a…

Recap of Past Themes 2022 was The Year of the Garden.

I've long wanted to integrate my Goodreads or Storygraph data onto my website.

Two random quotes I've heard from people today: I need to learn how to believe people who say the reason you’re stressed out is because you care, while to me it feels like I’m stressed because I’m bad at my job.

My dad's phone "breaks" again.

Each September, the Relay podcast network rallies support for the life-saving mission of St.

This is a story about baking bread.

Past You & Future You want Present You to take good care of yourself.

I can still remember practically every computer/device setup I've ever had: Family computers, starting in the mid 90s (a PowerMac G4 and an iMac DV SE) My first laptop in 2005 (a PowerBook G4 Titanium), as I went off to college Running 3 laptops (Mac, Win…

Years ago, my friend Patrick said or shared the phrase "do one thing well".

It's almost September.

Stop reading that book or playing that game that you're not really enjoying.

I forgot our first wedding anniversary.

Back in the summer of 2024, I wrote out a little Apple wishlist of some things I really would've liked to see.

I'm currently in San Francisco.

I've been a fan of the Dracula color scheme for a while now; I used to use Monokai in all of my code editors ever since I discovered Sublime Text way back in the day, but when I took the leap to using VS Code at my current job, I couldn't find a version of

I'm busy This is the second time I've tried writing this post.

I've been relatively radio silent this year.

Long-time JetBrains IDE users will be familiar with the "Move {direction}" options from the tab contextual menus.

I like to fiddle.

The setting: college.

An Alfred workflow to look up STL files for 3D printing on MakerWorld, Printables, and STLFinder.

I picked up a new Mac mini last week, and it's been an absolute delight going through and setting everything up fresh again.

In 2024, Apple launched a new feature for Macs that show a lovely purple icon on your menu bar any time it believes your screen is being recorded.

I really enjoyed the year in media wrap-up that I did for 2023, so I thought I'd do it again this year.

My wife and I went to a football game.

Back in June, I released the first version of my Daily Sports Emails project.

An object at rest tends to stay at rest.

TL;DR I'm on Bluesky now.

I’m Tired Because… I woke up at 2am on Wednesday, saw the election results, and couldn’t get back to sleep.

I was telling my therapist that I feel like my whole life is basically a 7 out of 10[1], and I couldn't remember the last time that I felt joy.

I've been going to the gym (somewhat) regularly.

July has come and gone.

Hopefully, if you subscribe to my RSS feed, this is the only post you're seeing today, and you're not inundated with [checks notes] 382 additional notifications.

Back in college, I came up with a concept for a fantasy football (FFB) keeper league that resonated with all of my friends.

Well, I did it.

What a crazy month June ended up being.

This is a post about politics.

When a single Shortcut takes up 4 icons worth of space, it's hard to justify.

On March 19, 2024, I sent a very excited message to my friends: ✅ ADHD med prescription With a toddler running around the house, attempting to white-knuckle my way through life when I knew my brain would not let me concentrate on stuff was just no longer…

A GitHub Action written in NodeJS that pulls in schedules & standings, and sends you an email on a schedule.

I love prog (or progressive) metal.

With all of the recent news coming out lately about Apple Intelligence crawling the web to build it's own LLM, a lot of people have woken up to the nightmare that is our data being used to train these models without our consent.