Scott Knight's Blog

If you’ve spent any time in a city council meeting lately, you’ve likely heard someone recite this phrase: “there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.”

A photo from last week’s trip to Grayton Beach, FL.

Quick housekeeping note: [tl;dr] This site has moved from scottk.mba to sknight.xyz.

Site updates I’ve decided to further consolidate and simplify some of the functionality as I continue to centralize my web presence.

Hi there, glad you stopped by.

After several years of building apps, websites, and automations for clients, I’ve chosen to retire my freelance practice to focus on engineering and long-term projects.

“A man should never get lost in the details of his life and forget that, ultimately and in truth, life amounts to nothing rather than what is the deepest truth of this present moment.

Recently I was running some tasks on my Macbook Pro I wanted to prevent the machine from sleeping.

Good typography is the foundation of a well-designed website, especially for personal sites and blogs like this one, where words are the main focus.

As we enter the final days of 2024, I’m reflecting on my goal post from January.

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It’s been a year and some change since I began publishing on this site and I’ve recently been reflecting on the initial challenges I’d set for myself.

I’m perched atop a D.C. rooftop, enjoying a view of our majestic Capitol Dome.

Some time last year I wrote about using a cheap Lenovo Thinkcentre I bought as a lab machine to run my homelab server.

While settling into my new home I’ve had to get back in the swing of grocery shopping and proper meal planning.

I’ve written here about my career in the software industry, but I’m also a big fan of analog technology.

I recently wrote here about buying my new home.

I probably picked the largest, most stressful item on my 24 in ‘24 list to start with but I’m glad to update that I’m just getting settled into my new home.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well th…

Welcome back, fellow adventurers.

You may have noticed it’s been quiet around here lately.

Since I started using Hey for my personal email a while back, I’ve enjoyed following the stuff coming out of the 37signals shop.

I recently wrote here about some of my favorite personal automations.

After some interest from my last post where I discussed some of my personal automations, I’d like to expand on the topic of personal automation a bit and discuss how you can automate (mostly) the boring or tedious stuff in your life!

Since I learned to code, I’ve always been a fan of eliminating boring and/or tedious stuff with automation.

After my grandparents’ house fire last year, we came across a bunch of old photo slides and 8mm film reels.

It’s often the case that I’m referred potential website clients who have never had their own site before.

After reading about 23andMe’s recent data breach issue this morning, I’d like to share some thoughts on data governance from my perspective as a Data Automation Engineer.

As a founding fellow of the Engineering fellowship at Coho, I was asked to write a guest post for their inaugural Blueprint newsletter when it launched a few months ago.

There’s a ton of advice out there on personal finance, but I’ve only ever found one resource that provided an actionable path to gaining Financial Independence and Retiring Early (F.I.R.E.).

I’ve been a board member of a local non-profit for several years now.

For years, a favorite vacation spot of our family has been Tennessee.

I’m Scott Knight, an engineer and builder drawn to useful work, clear thinking, and the lifelong pursuit of wisdom.

Update: After some polling, I decided to make these changes.

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I thought it’d be a fun exercise to create a space for tracking changes to this site’s design, as I’m always tinkering with the theme and improving various things.

What does it mean to be wealthy?

An element of any good website/personal blog is that it allows readers to consume content in a variety of formats.

“They don’t make stuff like they used to.”

It’s almost fall, y’all.

Yesterday I went to check out our local library’s annual used book sale, and one of the books I picked up is titled Essentials of Artificial Intelligence by Matt Ginsberg.

A couple of weeks ago a family member struck up a conversation that’s become somewhat commonplace in my social dealings.

Despite the recent hellish heatwave(s) distressing the southern U.S. lately, we’ve been enjoying crabbing as a weekend family pastime down here in south Louisiana.

Last week I posted here about open-sourcing my decision on which Linux distribution to use on my new lab machine.

The Problem I recently decided that I wanted to beef up my home lab a bit by adding a small, inexpensive machine that I can use as a sandbox for server projects and testing operating systems.

Threads, the new app from Instagram (Meta), is designed to be a more “intimate and private” way to connect with your friends.

The reMarkable 2 found its way to my Instagram feed in early 2022, a time when I was in the trenches of trying to get two companies off the ground while also just starting grad school working toward my MBA.

There’s an old story that goes something like this: There are five frogs sitting on a log.

I’ve been browsing around for project ideas for an old Dell Inspiron 15 I have laying around.

How long can a site continue to alienate its user base and volunteer moderators before its bull-headed CEO corrects course?