Over on The Linux Cast, I talk a lot about note-taking programs. It has become a bit of a meme, really. “Oh, there goes Matt again, talking about a note-taking app.” For years, Google Keep was my note-taking app of choice. Well, not choice, but the one I used because it was easy, free, and simple enough. But, I...

Let’s be clear, my handwriting has always been messy. My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Longstreth was so up in arms about my chicken scratch being unreadable, that she had a meeting with my mother. Needless to say, I spent the rest of that year learning how to make my writing a little neater. I went to elementary school...

You know, as a YouTuber, I get told countless things. One of the things that surprises many people is my age. People are shocked that I’m not like 25 years old. Maybe I act young. Or perhaps, I have a fat baby face. 🤣 But, I am, in fact, 40 years old. March 28, 1985. I’ve talked about it before, back near my...

I’ve talked before on my YouTube channel all about how I enjoy changing the color scheme and wallpaper of my Linux set up, and how that keeps me feeling like my workspace is new and fresh. It somehow makes me more productive, as I don’t feel trapped in the same environment day in and day out. The weird thing is, I...

A little while back, I discussed how hard it was to find a self-hosted, privacy respecting, comment system for your blog. In that post, I talked about how I had finally settled on Comentario. It was easy to set up, had many nice features, and worked really well. The comments came flooding in. And then two days ago,...

Another month gone. We’re damn near halfway through this year already. Time just moves too fast. This was a mixed month for me if we’re being honest. A lot of tech problems. A few expensive things I didn’t anticipate. Many things that just didn’t go my way this month. But I kept on tracking. I really do love doing...

I’m a YouTuber. It’s not something I expected to be. It’s not as if when I was growing up, I told people I wanted to grow up to be a video star. YouTube didn’t exist until I was 21 years old. The funny thing is, even saying I’m a YouTuber now seems so effin’ odd. I don’t feel like a YouTuber. I don’t consider myself...

I have too many computers, yet seemingly not enough. My mom’s laptop is dying. It’s not a surprise given she uses it about 20 hours a day, and it’s a few years old, but still, it sucks. Last year, when it was down for service, I bought an HP laptop that she could use while hers was out getting fixed. I knew that...

Tech nerds have too many cables. If you’re like me, you have boxes and totes and drawers full of every type of cable and cord imaginable. And my stuff is toned down from where it used to be because I threw out a lot of stuff during my last spring-clean. But I still have so many cables, it’s insane. The real issue...

So, remember that whole thing about me giving up TikTok? I did that. And I feel good about it. But, like junkies everywhere, I just replaced one drug with another. And it isn’t really that much of a surprise as to what took TikTok’s place: YouTube. Now, as a YouTuber, I’ve always spent a lot of time on Google’s...

I didn’t miss a single day. That’s impressive. At least I think so. I actually learned a lot during this process, so I thought that for the last blog of this series, I’d talk about some of those things. Not All Blogs Need to Be Long I was convinced that 500–1000 words a day was going to be the minimum. But I have...

I gush about this far too much. But RSS has changed the way I use the internet. It used to be, I’d find a blog or a website I liked and then forget about it about 30 seconds after leaving. Maybe I remember again a week or two later, but probably not. Once I started to use RSS, that all changed. When I find a site...