I really think I’ve gotten better at writing since school. Granted I’ve been a writer professionally for nearly 20 years at this point. But, one thing I’ve struggled with is the changing tone of the writing I do. It’s hard for a writer to write in a professional tone and then do a blog post in a conversational tone....

I’ve changed the naming scheme a little. I stole the idea from Justin Vollmer. Yoink. Programming I have started yet another project. I’m calling it Checkbox, and it’s a todo list application that will one day replace TickTick for me. It is written in Rust (btw) and GTK4. I’m learning Rust rabidly, but I still suck...

So, I use Hugo for this site. And I used 11ty for TLC for a long while before moving that to Hugo as well. I’m pretty good with Hugo but I will admit that they can be complicated to set up. But in his response to the article that Jan wrote, Kev says this: Yes, setting up a static site is definitely more involved...

My favorite television show of all time is The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin is awesome, and most of his stuff is just good. The West Wing is my favorite for many reasons, but I loved it because it dealt with human problems in at least somewhat realistic ways. The good guys didn’t always win. So much of TV drama ignores...

Happy Thanksgiving! It is important to say thanks. So, I’m just going to say thank you. Thank you to my family for putting up with me. Thank you to my buddies who have been with me through it all. Thanks to all of those people who have supported me throughout the years. And finally, thank you for reading this.

First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. Second, yes, this post is being written on turkey day, despite being time stamped the day before. I’m not cheating, I’m adapting. Or so I tell myself. I spent most of today cooking for family. We did Thanksgiving meal really odd this year. We had so many things...

Free at last? Work My last day was Friday. Well, technically it was my last day of work. I decided last Monday that I wanted Turkey Week off, so I put in a series of 14 hour days so that I could get my work done. And I am done. The entire company gets December off, which is why we always work so hard in November, so...

This is my 200th post in 2025. There’s still over a month to go in this year, so I’ll have more. When I started this blog, it was going to be nothing but books. I wanted a place where I could talk about books I’ve read, what I was going to read, and other book related things. If you go all the way back, which you...

For years, I’ve just used the Kindle app to read on my Android or iPhone. It was easy, and send to Kindle is awesome. The UI, while cluttered with Amazon nonsense, was pleasing enough to get along with. But I now host all of my own eBooks, and I am trying to divorce myself from Amazon as much as I can. The issue...

So, I used to read a lot more. The last two years I’ve slowed down some, mostly because of some truly epic reading slumps. I’m kind of back on track right now, but I still have days where I just don’t want to read a book. Sometimes I want to read some fanfiction or just watch a movie. This got me thinking about the...

Video: https://youtu.be/Ugr024DMMeQ?si=2svpbBavB003C1tzInstalling Gentoo on an Old ThinkPad by Bad AcronymI had more fun watching this than I should have.

So now that I’m actually self hosting my own music collection (which I’ll write more about soon), something I’ve noticed is that music sounds better now. It isn’t actually better, though. I always listened to lossless when I could and close to it when I couldn’t. Besides, I’m no audiophile. But it does sound better...