Well, not to be left out of the great buy me a coffee debate, I thought I'd add my two cents. The original, at HakkerBlog, No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee, is a pretty cynical take on the topic of asking for contributions. I hardly think that someone posting their buy me a coffee link on their blog qualifies as...

Ok you guys, I did it. I finally have webmentions working on my website. It's something I've always wanted to do but it seemed too complicated with my setup. I use a static site generator (SSG), 11ty, to build my site. Bloggers who use SSGs often host their sites on something like Github pages, Netlify or something...

I've seen a few people talking about KeePass and Syncthing and hosting their own passwords, so I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to provide a simple overview of my own setup. I've been using some combination of KeePass and Syncthing since 2021. Syncthing # My Syncthing topology is a simple star topology. I...

I've seen a few people talking about KeePass and Syncthing and hosting their own passwords, so I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to provide a simple overview of my own setup. I've been using some combination of KeePass and Syncthing since 2021. Syncthing # My Syncthing topology is a simple star topology. I...

Rachelle and I voted early yesterday morning. The only thing on the ballot was redrawing the Virginia congressional voting map. Yes means you're in favor of redistricting, and No means you're not. I voted Yes. I'm not in favor of gerrymandering as a principle, but that's not really the question. The real question...

Today was such a beautiful day in Richmond, and I decided to enjoy it by taking a tour around the city on my ebike. Since I'm in the market for a new bike shop, I rode out to Kul Wheels as they're an official bike shop of my bike brand, Aventon. Bonus points because they're right on the Virginia Capital Trail. There...

This post is in response to On AI-enhanced Writing. Pablo goes into a point by point critique of Arun Venkatesan's post, Ai-enhanced writing process [sic]. I know I have a minority opinion on this, but why not judge the thing that's produced instead of judging how it was produced? Only Arun can judge if what they've...

I was selected to be a juror on a cold case rape from August of 1992. The victim had just graduated college and was staying with her mom over the summer while she waited for her own apartment to be made ready. The prosecution alleged Maurice L. Muhammad entered through a first floor bedroom window around 2 a.m. on...

Welp, it finally happened. I was called for Jury Duty. I think I must be a weirdo because I was curious and, honestly, looking forward to the opportunity to experience it. TL;DR # If I could send past me an email, this is what I'd want to know. When you first call in, you get an older recording and it's slightly out...

I last wrote about my smart home setup all the way back in 2023, so I've taken the time to fully update my setup. This time around, I've decided to do it as a slash page and I'll just update the page as needed. Link -> /smarthome/ Reply via email · Discuss on Mastodon · Discuss on Bluesky

Good grief, I'm thinking and talking about AI too much. Sorry about that. I, too, am exhausted by it and after this, I will try my very best to stfu about it in public channels. In response to Re: No AI Badges, I learned that people are creating an /ai slash page for their sites (source: The /ai 'manifesto'). I...

I really love when people use old school image badges on their websites. It's a real throwback to the old web. So my interest was piqued when I saw Andy's post about some icons they created. No AI Badges — Want to show visitors to your site that your content is human made and doesn't use AI? Grab my badge pack for...