Archive: 2023.

It’s been a little while since I needlessly tweaked my blog, just to add a feature nobody asked for, but I got bit by the “why the hell not?” bug and decided to cross-publish all of my posts in plaintext format in addition to HTML.

You ever have an interesting problem drop in your lap that you just can’t let go of?

For the last 3 years or so, I’ve been volunteering to support the Computer Science curriculum at my neighborhood high school.

Merry Christmas, all!

Earlier this week, I wrote about digitizing and purging the extra shit I’ve accumulated over the years, but the reality is that some things just can’t be easily minimized—not that I’d want them to be… minimalism sounds exhausting.

I’ve always struggled with work-life balance.

My wife and I have been talking about moving a lot lately.

Finishing the reboot a bit later than I anticipated. Apparently sticking to a newly self-imposed schedule is hard when the rest of your life is decidedly unhappy with recurring weekend plans.

Whelp, this weekly post is off to a great start. As you may have noticed (or probably not, because who’s really reading this anyway?), I missed last week’s edition of The Sunday Reboot (also known as the very second Sunday Reboot).

I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of weekly roundups. They’ve always felt like a great distillation of thoughts and intentions for the coming (or closing) week, and while I’ve enjoyed reading them from other writers, I’ve been hesitant to start my own through some irrational avoidance of “copying” someone...

I have a confession to make: I fucking love automation.

Alright, so I’ve re-kicked off this #100DaysToOffload challenge, and despite the fact that it’s only been like 2 days, I’ve remembered just how tedious counting the posts can be. I mean, I’ve gotta open my last post, copy the challenge footer, paste it in the new post, increment the counter…...

This blog has undergone an insane amount of change in the 15 years that I’ve operated it.

Inspired first by Andreas, and then Dustin, and finally Kev, I thought I would kick off my #100DaysToOffload series by jumping on a bandwagon. I’ve always like cataloging the things I use, but keeping that list up to date is something I’m less consistent with (besides my reading list, that...

About 20 months ago, I decided to give the 100 Days to Offload challenge a try, and after… oh… about 30% of the way through, I fizzled out.

I’ve written before about my undying love of typewriters. The *clickety-clack* of the keys, the smell of the ink, the feeling of the machine under your hands… I even love the inevitable ink smudges you get on your fingers from pulling the paper off the drum too fast.

I know that I’ve written about this subject before, but can I just say that I love “obsolete” technology?

I’m a little obsessive about backwards compatibility on the web, and one thing that can be particularly sticky are image formats. While I know that GIF is the most widely supported format across both space and time, I wanted to better understand what is actually available across the wide-spectrum of...

I wrote this personal README a few years ago, and while I haven’t dusted it off recently, it’s still an accurate explanation of both how I work and what a personal README even is. Feel free to borrow, steal, or otherwise take inspiration from it if it’s something you would...

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for myself.

In this blog post series, we’re diving into Mayhem’s top common weaknesses enumeration (CWE) finds. A Common Weakness Enumeration, or CWE for short, is a list of software and hardware patterns that can lead to vulnerabilities and other weaknesses. One such CWE that is both fairly common and possibly unexpected is the reachable...

ChatGPT is all the rage lately. Personally, I haven’t played with it too much, mostly thanks to my inner-hipster, but after getting into the Notion AI beta program, I’ve been having a lot more fun with it than I probably should.

It’s 2023 now, and one of my themes for the year is simplification. I’ve let life get too chaotic, so I’m making some moves to reduce my cognitive load, one of which is reducing the amount of digital infrastructure I rely on and manage. So, it is with a heavy...

If you follow a lot of personal blogs, I’m sure you are drowning in year-end roundups, retrospectives, and resolutions; I’m sorry to say, this one isn’t going to be much different. It’s such a clichéd post that, looking back on last year’s retrospective, I said almost exactly the same thing....