After about half a decade of daily driving Linux, I have come to understand why the command line is simply better. When I first started down the rabbit hole, I thought that the cli was kind of “hipsterish” and what “the cool kids” were doing - So much so that I put it on the back burner for the first year or so....

Recently, the founder of Telegram was detained in France and charged with complacency with regard to the various shady activities that go on on the platform. And, while we forgo talking about people on this blog, we will talk about the implications and ideas that surround his arrest - I don’t personally have an...

Although I don’t use social media, there are still many distractions to be had on the internet (oh the understatement!) So, during days of work, I choose to block them all with a custom script and the good ol’ /etc/hosts file. Between the hours of 4am to 4pm, I have a script that continually checks if the domains...

Update: I am back to using emacs, you can read why here At the beginning of this year, I aimed to simplify many of my processes so that I could focus on the things that I actually wanted to do with a computer - namely build things efficiently and quickly. This included a move from Arch to Fedora, bringing back cli...

It is no secret that I detest the smartphone culture in which we live, and I look forward to the day that I can ditch mine in the river. However, that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think that if we keep ourselves disciplined, we can use the glass slab for good, but it means being militant...

I Have been seeing various posts about the ‘GOTH’ stack for development - Go Tailwind & Templ and HTMX (with Postgres in many cases as the database). Hilariously, for about the last year, this is precisely the stack that I’ve been using on my main apps in production. Anything I have launched since January is using...

The only skill that is really needed in life is the ability to learn. Having the confidence that no matter what it is, you can put the time in and learn how to do whatever it is, know about any subject, work any job, or create anything. You can learn sales, or how to be resillient, or how to touch the soul, or how...

Taking my workstation along with me has never been easier and I am blessed to have the ability to use a perfectly ergonomic setup wherever I may be on Earth. This has taken much trial and error, but I feel as if I have come to an “endgame” of sorts with it, picking the best hardware and software that fit my needs,...

Laziness takes a back seat when you start to see the work that you are called to do as your vocation, your calling, and your way of praising The Almighty. For much of my adult life, I took no solace in the work that I was doing, no pride in that work - it was simply a way to make ends meet. But - when your work...

My system of getting things done has slowly evolved over the years to end up on the way that I now do things. I last wrote about this over three years ago, and while some of the principles are fairly the same, there have been updates in the system that I figured I would create a new article entirely. The Weekly...

If you do something once, you should be able to very easily do it again. The single thing that has greatly increased my ability to problem solve and move forward in projects is documentation. When I am working, I bounce between the code I am writing and the documentation I am simultaneously writing. I highly...

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...