Automation for Automation's Sake.
I have a confession to make: I fucking love automation.
Blog.
Over-Engineering a #100DaysToOffload Counter in Jekyll.
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…...
Jekyll Is Good Enough.
This blog has undergone an insane amount of change in the 15 years that I’ve operated it.
Default Apps.
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...
100 Days to Offload: Part Deux.
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.
Screen Time Is for Chumps.
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.
Happy Halloween from 1998.
I know that I’ve written about this subject before, but can I just say that I love “obsolete” technology?
Will It Render?
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...
README.ZACH.
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...
Self-Care Happens Offline.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for myself.
Common CWE Finds: Reachable Assertion.
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...
Artificial Poetry.
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.
Goodbye, Gopher.
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...
YA'22R (Yet Another 2022 Retrospective).
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....
There's No Reason to Pirate Music Anymore.
I still remember the first CD I ever bought myself: 311’s self-titled album, purchased in the 4th grade with my own hard-earned birthday money at the recommendation of a friend who I’m pretty sure based his entire musical taste on the presence Parental Advisory sticker.