If you’re reading this post, and found it through Mastodon, Matt did a thing. I’m working on making a python script that will auto-toot my posts automatically, then get the toot ID so that the comments show up. Doing it through a Docker container and a bit of CI magic on Gitlab. If you read this and didn’t come here...

If every sentence you write ends with an exclamation point, the mark loses all meaning! Please stop! This isn’t a good way to write! It is almost as bad as SHOUTING IN YOUR TEXT MESSAGES FOR NO REASON!!!!! I have two big pet peeves when it comes to writing these days, whether it’s professional or just random people...

Video: https://youtu.be/fBfJMNS0MnQ?si=mxBOzq0wXYGfLFsGThis is the best video I've ever watchedSimply amazing.

I haven’t done one of these in forever, so it’s time to get back on the wagon. Blaugust 2026 Complete bust. I wrote 3 posts in 31 days. That’s actually more than I thought, but it wasn’t great. I haven’t done well blogging this year at all, so it’s not that much of a surprise. Maybe I can rectify that in the last...

This is something that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. How do you think of the Internet? Is it social for you? A source of information? A simple tool? A burden? A toxic place filled with assholes? All of the above? For me, I have a hard time narrowing down what the Internet even is. Oh, I know the technologies...

Last year, it was comments. This year it’s AI. Now, I think if you’re going to blog, you should do it yourself. Using AI for inspiration, I suppose, is okay, but the actual writing? Why bother having a blog if you’re not going to do the writing yourself? The entire point of blogging is to express yourself. That...

So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start. The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options....

So, awhile back, I decided to start self hosting my music collection. I’m sure I’ve at least mentioned it somewhere here on the blog. I re-downloaded my entire collection and more beyond that. Nearly 5TB of new music was stored on my various hard drives. It took months. And by the end, I was pretty damn proud of it....

Last October I posted a review of 11/22/63. In that post I wrote: This was 900 pages of wasted time. I enjoyed most of it. But the ending ruined every good feeling I had about this book. Why did I read it? Nothing changed at the end of the story. Nobody got a happy ending; not even a smidge of one. It feels like a...

Video: https://youtu.be/13yIfxczLpc?si=pWqw95Ux3LBUI3NuThis one really hit home.The part that really got me was “watching other people do the things I want to do.” That is so me.

There is a lot of hype around Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, and I’ve always wondered why. I knew from the summary that it was LitRPG, and those are hardly ever “mainstream.” I’ll be honest and say that I was never really won over by the hype or the concept of the books themselves, despite having a soft spot...

I use AI for some things. I’m putting that out there right from the start because it will get rid of those people who are so unreasonable that they can’t even be arsed to hear me out. I get most of the arguments against “Artificial Intelligence”. In fact, I agree with a lot of them. From the environmental and human...