My lack of blogging recently has bothered me. Part of it was that I was a little burnt out. I just had very little to talk about. But there was something else. Around that same time Umami decided to go to version 3.0. For those of you who don’t know, Umami is a Google Analytics alternative that is self hostable and...

Yes, this is late. It has been a busy few days. Work Wait. Work? Yeah, kinda. I got a call back a few days ago, and now have an interview scheduled for January. I received another call back today, but no interview with that one yet, they had some questions about the C/V. I’m honestly surprised about both of these...

I was so close, y’all. I promised myself that I would blog every day from mid-September to the end of the year. But I’ve failed. I wanted to write yesterday, but I had nothing to write about. Same with today. It’s not like I have no ideas, but nothing that I’m motivated to actually take up. I’ve learned a few things...

This is an awesome post. I may end up doing something similar to Alex, though I’m not sure my drivel on social media over the last twenty years is really all the effort. It’d still be a type of online digital journal, so it might be worth doing. Link: https://alexwlchan.net/2025/social-media-scrapbook/?ref=rss

Normally, it takes until about the middle of February for me to get sick of Winter. Usually, in mid-December we still see some 40 degree days. Almost never are we under 20 degrees. This year, we’ve seen -8 Degrees (these are all in Fahrenheit). More than once. It has been effin’ cold. And we have a ton of snow on...

Video: https://youtu.be/bcYJY7Ci9i8?si=vmNhbY8XkmErkgUfTaylor Bell Running the NYC MarathonI couldn’t walk a mile if you paid me to do so. But I found this video incredibly inspiring.

Another week gone past. The year is almost over. How’d that happen? Programming This week was focused on Checkbox. It is very slow going. I’ve spent basically the entire week on native language scheduling. First, I tried an existing crate that someone else developed that looks for date creation. I thought that would...

Video: https://youtu.be/2Pkwj5ksAi4?si=w1ejepeueVEjmCNUNo Bolts Left BehindI’ve been having a blast watching this series. I’m not much of a car guy, but I still get into these types of videos from time to time.

I use FreshRSS to manage all of my RSS feeds. It is wonderful. Maybe the best thing I use on a daily basis. I adore being able to use the internet in this way, for many reasons. I’ve talked about my eternal love of RSS before, so I don’t need to get all gushy over it here. But damn is it good. But I have a problem....

I’ve been working on making it so I can self host my own music library over the last few months. This has entailed buying some music from Bandcamp and pulling in some tracks from a seafaring friend. Do I feel guilty for sailing the seven seas? A little, but most of the stuff I’ve downloaded that way is stuff that...

With my recent unemployment, I’m returning to a blog post idea I had a few months ago. I wrote this idea down and just didn’t know how it fit, as it was during the time when I started to think more carefully about my health and getting older. Life happens, we all know this. Good things, bad things, and all the...

So, I’ve been working on my music collection and it is really coming along. I’ve downloaded a metric shit ton of music in the last month. My biggest problem remains, however. Metadata is crap. Even though now all of my files are meticulously named and organized, the so-called metadata search only works about 80% of...