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I’ve done quite a lot this month now that I think about it.

Everything that follows is my own opinion.

Turned 31 this month.

I spent a lot of my time this month indoors as it was way too hot and humid to go out during the day, even indoors was not fun.

There has been a decent amount of stuff happening on my end.

This month was fairly slow.

KDE Plasma is very popular right now1 and many new Linux users are using it by default.

Between not getting enough sleep and having a ton of personal and work stuff to do, I’ve not really been active this month.

Another busy month.

This article has been bouncing in my brain for a long time, but Michal’s post about the subject motivated me to look at my drafts folder and finish this one.

There is age verification is a hot topic right now.

A busy month.

A lot of people are jumping on the Linux bandwagon after being abused for too long by big tech companies, but a lot bounce off due to friction and an unwillingness to learn a new way to work.

This is the first month of the year and it has been a rough one.

Descanso Gardens is a large 150-acre botanical garden near Los Angeles.

This month was a lot calmer than last month.

Happy New Year!

Of all the proprietary programs I use, there are very few that I use willingly.

This was a crazy month, in a good way this time.

I started this month with the goal of making something/doing something creative every day, but with a literal authoritarian government taking over the US and general life stuff taking my mental energy, I was not nearly as productive as I would have hoped.

Tech enthusiasts and really anyone with hobbies have had it rough over the last couple of decades.

I need a distraction from the things going on in the world and have been thinking about making more stuff in general this month.

It was a crazy month.

RSS is awesome technology that makes the internet fun, but to use it you need an RSS feed reader.

This has been a wild month.

Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, CA is one of my partner and I’s favorite places in the city.

I took these photos while in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles with a friend, same trip as in this set of photos.

Went on a walk around Echo Park in Los Angeles, CA this month with a friend.

I’ve been in LA for years now, but never went to Chinatown.

This month was a bit busy, but I finally found time to create a photo gallery template for Hugo.

I finally created a photo gallery for the website!

This month was a bit busy and I didn’t write as much as I’d have liked.

I mostly shot some photos of my cats, Dara and Saoirse, and some flowers.

No kings protest pictures.

As much as I’d like to avoid any more politics, the United States currently has a president that thinks he is above the law.

It has been another busy month, but not much to really report in my personal life.

I didn’t spend as much time as I normally do online lately.

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These photos are from when I just got my Sony A6700 and the Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary Lens.

I tried to avoid the politics this month that didn’t directly effect me or my friends.

In a recent attempt to erode trust in the company, Amazon removed the ability for people to download their eBooks to their computer, surprising no one.

The views expressed here are purely my own and do not reflect that of my employer or anyone I’m affiliated with (should be obvious, but I’m in the country where you can be fired without notice).

Update: Wouter shared his stationery drawers in response to this post.

This is the first month of the year and it has been a busy one.

So I’m going through my config files (dot files) for programs I use this morning and notice some of my secrets (passwords, API keys, etc) are saved as plain text in the config files.

With prices likely to skyrocket in the U.S. due to upcoming tariffs and most products being garbage anyway I figured this year will be one where I try to cut back on spending.

2024 was a crazy year.

This year has been a crazy one.

The year is almost over and somehow I’ve published one of these favorites articles each month so far.

This is not a technical article or even my normal “share stuff from across the internet” kind of thing.