I am at the beginning of my watch collecting journey which gives it the vitality of any new hobby when everything is exciting and new. Thinking about watches made me analyze my personal watch history dating all the way back to when I was just a kid.I first started wearing a wrist watch when I was 8, I remember it...

About two months ago I wrote about how after 11 years I switched from wearing my Apple Watch daily to simple analog watches, primarily Timex Weekender and Timex Expedition Scout. Since then I've been reading articles and watching plenty of videos about mechanical watches, building a virtual collection of watches I'd...

My oldest recently turned five. Her birthday was actually during our recent trip to Europe so we had only small, family oriented celebration with my best friend preparing a delicious strawberry cake for her which we all loved (cooking and baking are his great talents). Now that we are back in PNW it was time to...

Last week I finished my third Emily St. John Mandel novel in a row, The Glass Hotel, and it has been a fascinating journey. Mandel has built a marvelous multiverse across Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility: each book has its own preoccupations and protagonists, but characters recur from one...

My custom POSSE toolkit for Ghost CMS has been pretty stable over last couple months with previous release v1.2.1 on May 2nd. Over those couple months I have accumulated couple useful quality-of-life and security fixes, resulting in a v1.3.0 release I made today. The changes include:Automatic fixing of dead links -...

Udenstue is a Danish term for a sunroom. The word itself has fairly simple origin in Danish language and comes from: ude (outside, outdoors) and stue (room) and is typically a glazed room built onto a house, with walls roof largely of glass used as an extension of the living space. It makes perfect sense since...

I have three kids, currently approaching 5/3/3, who I truly love spending my days with. The most amazing thing to me is how much they show me a young fresh perspective on everything. At this age everything is new and exciting for them, and the best part is they invite me to participate in that feeling of...

A Short Hike is a delightful indie game released back in 2019 in which you play as Claire, a little bird-person who came with her family on vacation to the fictional Hawk Peak Provincial Park, located on a small island. You get dropped into the environment without any instructions other than the information that...

I just finished my second book by Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, and I must admit I’m fascinated by the author’s ability to create thrilling stories that are essentially slow-paced. This is the second book in my recent memory (Station Eleven being the other one) where seemingly easy passages provoked...

I have been wearing smartwatches for over ten years now, pretty much ever since Apple released the first Apple Watch. I went through several of the basic models, eventually landing on the Apple Watch Ultra and up until recently wearing the Ultra 2 daily. I really liked their design and the interchangeable bands,...

I wrote before about my (mis)adventures in photo backup along with some technical musings about bit rot which can lead to corruption of old files across backups. Ever since I wrote those posts I have been working on a solution custom built for my use case: an Apple Photomator and Apple Photos user who wants an easy...

Following up on my two previous posts about book recommendations. I now finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The book didn't disappoint. I watched the HBO series back in 2021 when it came out and it remains, in my opinion, the best TV shows I have ever watched. The book which was the source...