Ever since starting my own music collection I have wanted to try streaming it with Navidrome, however hosting it on a VPS was tricky for a couple of reasons. First, the bandwidth would be a lot higher because I would be streaming high bitrate tunes quite often (I listen to music for hours a day). Second, I would...

Grey is defined as the following by The American Heritage Dictionary: adjective Of or relating to an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. adjective Dull or dark. adjective Lacking in cheer; gloomy The Wikipedia article for grey has the following to say about the colour: In...

One of the biggest problems about pkm solutions is syncing. As such, it’s usually one of the few things that you get charged for when going with something like Obsidian. Silverbullet is a simple way to self host a pkm setup. A single docker container does the interface, database, and syncing service. Throw in vim...

An economic chasm exists between the young and old for particular key life pillars: housing, education, and the cost of raising children. However, in other areas, particularly in areas touched by technology, things have never been easier. Two generations ago, the concept of someone earning an average income being...

If you drive, I want you to think back to the very first moments you got behind the wheel. Every turn, every traffic light, every approaching car, was a challenge that required your full attention. Now, you split your attention between the road and the radio effortlessly, often forgetting the time you spent driving...

What do you do if you are a huge fan of Obsidian, but want to use a text editor instead of the application interface? By operating in the terminal you will lose some of the quality of life features, particularly autocomplete for references and tags that Obsidian brings to the table. markdown-oxide is a plugin that...

Flip through any newspaper and there will be a clear divide between pieces that clearly took substantial amounts of effort, and other pieces that were written just to fill the page. Gone is the era of “All the news that’s fit to print”. Gone are the space constraints. Gone is the cost to produce a physical product....

About two years ago, I wrote these words about using neovim: I can feel my stress levels rise as I try to remember how to do something simple like delete a letter. Using it feels unnecessarily complicated, and it is frustrating to have to do things so much slower than I am used to. Over the last week, I have felt...

There are few things more certain in life than hearing the familiar “Good morning!” from Tim Cook at the beginning of an Apple event. Going into today, rumours were pretty set on announcements for the Apple Watch, and the launch of a thinner iPhone Air. That’s what we ended up getting, but reading between the lines...

When I visited home over the summer holidays, a family member mentioned that they didn’t really like the MacBook they purchased a few years ago. Having used Windows at work for decades, they just wanted the same experience on their personal device. I had brought my laptop home that originally came with Windows, but...

A little while back, I was in a meeting with a coworker when they asked me if a particular data problem could be solved by a script. The problem met all the criteria, it was definable, not too complex, and would scale linearly. “Absolutely” I replied. Next, a question that I didn’t quite expect but appreciated. “Do...

A post by Kev Quirk peaked my interest into what a great notetaking and todo system would look like. I’m currently using vikunja for tasks and mkdocs for notes, however, there are still things with the overall flow that I am missing. For example, there is no ability to create a task within a note. This might be...