I saw Chris's post, The Grand Blog Reunification, where he explains that his cloud sync was silently failing and he wiped his computer without realizing he didn't have a backup. Oops. Not wanting to repeat that type of issue, I decided to revisit my own backup strategy. Back in 2022, I wrote about how I used my NAS...

We work under a year to year award, so the end of every fiscal year comes with a little cloud over it. Well, we might not actually get it this year. That cloud has been sitting on me lately and I'm having a very strong sense of deja vu. It's the same feeling I had during my previous periods of job uncertainty, and...

I forget how I started making this for breakfast, but I first wrote about it all the way back in 2012. It's still pretty much the same recipe, but it has evolved a little. I prefer lots of veggies in my omelets, so that's how I do it. When I get omelets from a restaurant, they seem very light on the veggies to me....

I'm a big Home Assistant fan and power user. It's the home automation platform of choice in our house and I've added many devices and automations, sometimes to the chagrin of Rachelle. We also have five cats so it only makes sense to use some automations to help manage all the cat chores. Top row: Lily and Mac....

I do not do any Phoneblogging. Zero. None. Zilch. The closest I get is reading my RSS reader and saving posts to a blog ideas list. As I get older, I just don't want to mess with my phone for in-depth things, and blogging, for me, qualifies as something in depth. I scroll Mastodon, I scroll my RSS reader, I get Home...

If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found 1,800 poems written on paper and stored in a drawer. Words written on paper take an intentional decision to destroy them whereas words written online usually...

Hello again. It's your boy Mike here, blogging about blogging (glances at Wouter). Today, I'd like to explore the topic of making my blog posts more durable. I recently completed importing a backup of some of my old blog posts. These posts were from 2012 - 2019 and required a fair bit of editing because I was using...

I cannot understand Mozilla. We took time off of X, but we’re back. The internet is changing again, so we’re here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet. @firefox · Jul 20, 2026 They either do not know who their user base is, or they know but those are not the users they want. I care about the...

A smart thermostat was one of the first connected devices I purchased when I started building our smart home. I wanted automatic presence detection so the thermostat could set an away mode when we leave and "we're home" mode without us having to do anything. Never mind the fact that Rachelle and I both work from...

Let me start by saying happy belated anniversary to Absurd Pirate and Mrs. Pirate! I enjoyed reading their post, What I Learned About Relationships After Being With My Wife For 8 Years, which got me thinking about my own relationship advice. I'm in my 50s, and I'm on my 3rd marriage, so I've had a few bites at the...

A few weeks ago, the Canadian wildfire haze reached Central Virginia, where I live, and we noticed it as a haziness in the air. Well, I have an AirGradient Open Air (model O-1PST) outdoor sensor and two AirGradient ONE units (model I-9PSL) indoor sensors. I'm a data-driven person, and I was instantly curious how...

That's the reason I've always felt that private journaling isn't for me. Is it an attention-seeking look-at-me kinda thing? I honestly don't think so. For me, writing in public adds more reflection to the words. I can sit for a good while in front of a blank screen, not writing a single letter, just contemplating...