SteGrainer.com - Journal

There is much in the world that is complex, confusing, or downright confounding.

When did summer arrive?

I’ve toyed around with a handful of static site generators over the years.

Another busy week so I'm posting the Friday Fave on Saturday.

Ugh, that friggin’ sucks.

Whoops, this week’s Friday Fave got bumped to Saturday because it’s been a busy week!

I don’t remember when I first played Settlers of Catan.

Over the last few years, I’ve found myself reaching for Cmd-+ more and more often in applications to make things larger and easier to read.

Almost a decade ago, I developed pretty severe plantar fasciitis on both of my feet.

A common refrain in business and product circles goes along the lines of “What gets measured gets managed” or “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”

Apparently I was very excited about EPCOT as a kid.

Once upon a time, I was an early adopter of any and every interesting social media app or site.

I first read through The Lord of the Rings during a summer vacation at my grandparents’ river house in middle school.

A quick note a couple days after originally posting this: I sat down to write my thoughts on the current moment in politics, technology, and the world at large on a Saturday morning.

This week’s Friday Fave is for the web nerds out there.

There were tons of cute chalk drawings scattered all over EPCOT during the Festival of the Arts, including this cute one of Figment.

My wife Kristen took this lovely photo of the conservatory at Lewis Ginter from the rose garden.

I had most of this written by yesterday but didn’t have time to finish it and post.

I was reading a post on Marcin Wichary’s prolific blog about taking screenshots and the history of the keyboard shortcuts for doing so on the Mac.

This weekend, I wrapped up the last of a planned batch of changes to this site.

I’m starting something new here.

We’ve been playing Ticket to Ride as a family for a decade or more, starting with the original game using a map of the United States.

Ice (and ICE) has dominated both the local and national news over the past week.

As part of my exploration theme for this year, I wanted to try some new approaches and new applications to solve some of my current needs.

Some years my annual theme is just obvious before the year even starts.

The funny thing I discovered when I started 3D printing is just how many projects I made FOR my 3D printer.

Some years feel like sequels.

It’s that stretch of time between Christmas and New Years.

I purchased a 3D printer at the beginning of this year.

While I was moving content to the new version of my site and got to My Favorite Podcasts post from 2019, it occurred to me that some of them had changed.

I was making some small tweaks to this site over the weekend.

One of the more uniquely Richmond things is our weird but fun obsession with tacky Christmas lights.

Wow, November already.

Some days it feels like AI is consuming the whole of our collective attention in the same way that its servers and crawlers are consuming so much of our network and energy grid.

Ratings are subjective.

Last weekend we drove two hours west for a whirlwind weekend.

I am overwhelmed and thankful to every wonderful person who donated to St.

Yesterday on Mastodon, Dave Rupert made this statement: We probably need a better metaphor than "packages" because that makes it sound like something you got from a Better Business Bureau retailer (you didn't) and you opened the box (you didn't) and you k…

We’ve donated to St.

If you’re reading this post, my new site is live.

Tomorrow is the first day of school for the kiddo.

Ever since I first discovered RSS Club, I knew I wanted to participate on my site.

Since starting a new full-time UX role in the healthcare industry last year, I’ve been busy learning a lot.

Last weekend, we did something we’ve talked about doing for years.

The world has gotten kind of arches an eyebrow and gestures all around lately, you know.

With everything that happened last year, my theme (Rebuild) kind of took a back seat to taking care of my family first.

Who could resist those puppy dog eyes?

I’ve seen this challenge making the rounds on a bunch of sites: Ethan Marcotte, Rachel Andrew, Jon Hicks, Lynn Fisher, Naz Hamid, Jeremy Keith, Zach Leatherman, and Matt Haughey.

Yes, I’m posting my 2024 year in review a month into the next year.

My mom passed away on November 2 of last year.