Blog Archive

2025

Astro 💫

Gatsby is abandonware, and was never really that great anyway.

LLMs

Let's explore the state of LLMs in early 2025.

NTFS on Mac

Using NTFS on macOS is still a pain. Let's work around it.

fish is Also Great

fish is the first shell I've used that feels like it's actually designed around how I want to use a shell.

Python is Great

Python is my favorite language at this point. It's so incredibly powerful and easy to work with.

Ooblets

This blog's design is even more Ooblets than before!

2024

2023

Steam Deck is Neat

I've used the Deck deeply and heavily now, and it's really awesome.

2022

Playdate

I finally got my Playdate! Let's talk about the interesting games and excellent SDK!

2021

Tailwind 3 Redesign!

Tailwind 3 is out, and it's great! Once again it gave me a great opportunity to do a redesign of the site. I like it!

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub was going to change software development in many ways. This wasn't one I expected.

It's purple now.

I like colors and now this blog has some more colors. It will have more later.

2020

Too Many Drives

Following up on my last server update, I've got a new case and even more drives for some reason.

2019

A New Blog Style

I've rebuilt my blog's visual style again, this time on Tailwind CSS with some fun new tooling.

2018

Building the Web, Properly

We've reached a point in web technology where we're just making everything worse for no real reason.

Too Many Phones

I've purchased five new smart phones this year. I should really stop.

YABS4S

This blog is now yet another Bootstrap 4-based site. It's just too awesome.

New Year, New Server

After reaching 98% disk usage, it was definitely time to rebuild my home file server.

2017

My First iPhone

I've always had an interest in Apple products. Despite that, I've never owned an iPhone until now.

Spark

I finally gave in and bought a drone. It's fun!

Splatoon 2

Nintendo is running an open beta for Splatoon 2 today on the Nintendo Switch. It's pretty fun!

Spectacles

Snap, Inc.'s Spectacles are amazing. They're some of the best-designed reasonably-affordable new tech I've seen in a long time.

2016

MySQL Backups

Flexible backup methods with mysqldump, and crazy-fast multi-threaded backups using mydumper

2015

Windows 10

I really like Windows 10. I'm just not going to use it for a while.

I Accidentally 3 TB

So Saturday night, after Microsoft had released the new Windows 10 Tech Preview, I was going to make a USB installer for it. It didn't go quite as I intended.

2014

Ubuntu PHP FPM Update

The latest PHP-FPM update on Ubuntu 14.04 changes the default UNIX socket permissions for some reason.

Sublime Text Plugins

Here's my collection of Sublime Text packages and configuration files that I couldn't make it through a day without.

2013

2012

A new twist

There are n somethings of something somewhere...

2011