After four years of running NextJS as my primary blog and development framework, I am making the hop to Hugo. For some time it has been on my mind to minimize my personal site, and while Next has served me very well, I have spent a lot of time around the smolweb and alternative protocols such as Gemini and Gopher...

When you look around, all you will likely “see” is material. Matter. The stuff of atoms and particles. Of quarks and bosons and neutrinos. But, this is not so. Our material “reality” breaks down quicker than most would be comfortable with when we study physics to any degree. Every atom is 99% empty space. So, too,...

The theory of everything has been solved since the arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth 2024 years ago. While modern science is focused on trying to find The Ultimate Truth (that is transcendent) we Christians have known for the last two millennia that the theory of everything is solved in Him, in God. The Truth, the...

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.― Arab proverb The older I get, the more I see that internal peace is found in wanting less. What I used to think “making it was”# I used to think that in order to “make it” I had to have six zeroes in the bank account, a home over...

It has been a few years since I looked at my GPG keys, and the security defaults have since shifted greatly! So, I decided it was time to update my password-store database with a new key that was more secure, while also affording me the opportunity to clean up a mess of 14 keys that I never use (most of which were...

The human being is the fabled “perpetual motion machine”. For he takes in food and water, and even when this is lacking - turns his love, his passion and his vision into world changing endeavor, art, and an unceasing praise of God. Yesterday, I didn’t want to get moving. I was happily lying on the couch reading a...

While we were away last month, I felt better than I had in probably a year’s time. It probably had something to do with the continual walking, being outside all the time, and eating food that wasn’t sprayed with glyphosate. But, one of the biggest differences was that every single bed we slept on was rock hard. A...

I have been looking for a way to get my notes synced across all devices to create a portable knowledge base. There are many closed source methods of doing so, but I wanted something that is future proof, open, and can be portable. While I know services like OneNote and Evernote exist, I want to have my data in my...

Over the past month, I have paired down substantially the things that I own. My closet now only holds the essential clothing, anything that was old, didn’t fit, or I didn’t enjoy wearing got donated. My office, once holding an 18u server rack loaded with networking equipment and computers is no longer a cluttered...

In this second installation of my Ultimate Zen Workstation Series, we will start from a fresh installation of Fedora Workstation 40 and configure everything in an optimal way so as to get us up and running. I have also written a script to do all of this for you, so consider this article as a README for that program....

Updated September 20, 2024 You can watch a broad overview of my system in this video: You can get my dotfiles here This will be the first post in an ongoing series on setting up the Ultimate Zen Workstation and as a reference point for me in the future to look back on if I have breaking changes/need to install on a...

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.― Albert Einstein If you want a life that is far less stressful, taking the meaningless things away will help you to find the inner peace you are seeking. In doing so, we start to see that the peace is not found in having “more” - it is in having...