My oldest daughter (14) has a night free and we’ve been using it to hang out. We’ve been far more strict about the movies we’ve allowed her to watch but at 14 I we’ve loosened the reigns almost entirely. Last we she picked Uncharted which is a fun action romp. This week I got to … | Continue reading
I’m sure to those that haven’t done it before building your own site seems like black magic. If you’re a beginner here is how another beginner built their own site along with the tutorials they used to build it. | Continue reading
After 2 weeks with the Tragically Hip I moved on to Brad Sucks. On his site he lists 4 original albums and one album of his greatest hits but on Apple Music there is a 5th album of remixes. I don’t think you’re missing anything in that 5th album titled Remixing my Brain as it’s [ … | Continue reading
I’m reorganizing my Obsidian notes a bit, specifically the notes that correspond with ideas to write/YouTube about and came across one from Barking Up the Wrong Tree about networking. The author is talking about “non-sleazy” network building and specifically highlights rekindling … | Continue reading
Lou reflects on his first retirement and how it wasn’t what he expected. I think many of us have a fantasy of what we’d do if we didn’t have to work because money wasn’t an issue anymore. While I’m sure I’d take some time totally off to reset myself I think I’d work in the […] | Continue reading
POSSE says to publish your thoughts on a property you control like your blog and then syndicate elsewhere. It’s what I do here, but I’m on social media so it’s not an extra thing I need to worry about doing or an extra place I need to interact when I publish my content to Mastodo … | Continue reading
I am tempted to use time away from the office to catch up on things that I should have done at the office if I weren’t so damn busy. – David While David is reflecting on his sabbatical, I think this roles into most jobs. I recently worked most of a weekend because stuff needed [… … | Continue reading
Rules help set constraints on our work and while I don’t advocate rigid adherence to rules, they’re there to make you think and help you decide if you’re making the right decision. Here are 10 good ones to get you started. I like number 7 as it helps reduce needless complexity. I … | Continue reading
I agree with Chris the more of the writer is in the blog the more I’m interested. Yes I want to hear about your golf weekend with kids, or your struggle with technology or your garden. Yes I do want to read your longer writing that more philosophical. I want to read interesting t … | Continue reading
This is brought to you by members, become one to keep the content coming. Full Maximum Capacity Time Usage Dami Lee is talking about slow reading here but I took exception to one comment in the beginning of the video which I linked to. She talks about reading books that had a big … | Continue reading
After talking about Pocket alternatives a few other options have been recommended. Including NextCloud bookmarks (which Marcel talked about in the link above) and then Glasp. Out of the gate I don’t see an extension for Firefox so I’m out on that point alone but there is somethin … | Continue reading
This one was hard to decide, hard enough I listen to only Tragically Hip albums for 2 weeks. The Tragically Hip seem like some Canadian institution. I remember when Gord Downie died a few years ago I was disappointed that I had never got to see them in concert. After all that tim … | Continue reading
While Marcel has been using Pocket for a long time recent instability had him check out other options. His list includes: To that list I’d add Linkwarden and even Obsidian Web Clipper. I’ll be recording a video on my experiences with Wallabag, Linkwarden and Obsidian Web Clipper … | Continue reading
I’ve used Thunderbird off and on for years, but with my move to Fedora fulltime just over a year ago Thunderbird is again my main email client. During that year I was asked to donate when I downloaded the client, and again today on their 20th Anniversary. I donated both times and … | Continue reading
Matt Stoller has an excellent takedown of the WSJ article that blames the Biden Administration for Spirit Airlines filing for bankruptcy. Specifically calling out the $3.8 million dollar retention bonus for CEO Ted Christie that was paid the week before the bankruptcy filing. The … | Continue reading
I admit I feel a bit surprised reading Jason’s takedown of the AppStore model on his preferred computing platform. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but it seems far more direct than I expected. A few highlights: Today’s computing world is also more dangerous than the one in which macOS was … | Continue reading
Josh found out that you may need the $20USD polishing cloth for your nano texture display because the one included with his computer that he ordered with the nano texture doesn’t work on the computer it came with. This is baffling to me. If Apple has a proper cloth for the displa … | Continue reading
Shop Talk 639 was a good episode, I specifically enjoyed the discussion of the usability of software for developers. This is everything from how the syntax highlighting works in your editor, to documentation. Laravel improved their DX recently by rolling out php.new after Theo ha … | Continue reading
While some people have standard names for their devices and others have complex mystical naming schemes I’m a pragmatic person when it comes to names. My current laptop is a Framework 13″ which had the swappable mainboard upgraded a few months back which makes this computer 2024- … | Continue reading
Like many Michael is doing a media cleanse and at the same time proves my oft-made point that you should own your content. Speaking of his not yet delete Twitter account: I’ve downloaded the complete archive, and I’m sad to say I’m about to create a bunch of 404 errors when my co … | Continue reading
I bit the bullet this week and updated my laptop from Fedora 40 – 41. Outside of needing to reinstall goodhosts for VVV to work, the update is flawless. I continue to be happy with my switch from macOS to Fedora and have even repurposed my Mac Studio to a media center PC on the [ … | Continue reading
Wulff Den did a video 6 months ago using a PC Handheld gaming system as his only computer for a week. This reminds me of people ditching their computer for an iPad Pro, yes it’s possible but there are lots of silly hoops you have to jump through to make it work as a “work” […] | Continue reading
As always this is brought to you by members and courses so to keep the site going consider joining. Capitalism Time After a long summer of not reading much I finally finished Saving Time by Jenny Odell and one big idea stuck out to me this week in light of my post on 5-Year timef … | Continue reading
I’ve been falling in love with the simplicity of terminal based apps lately and that started in part with Newsboat the terminal based RSS reader I’ve been using for a few months. I’ve already written a short post about setting up Newsboat with Nix Home Manager but wanted to take … | Continue reading
From Cory on social media. Find your space and don’t feel obligated to participate in any of it. This goes with some ideas I had recently on only posting on your own site to avoid angertainment. You’ll read so much about making your personal brand and the places you need to be to … | Continue reading
I love the look of both localghost and nicchan. I’d love to use nescss for one of my sites in the future. I love that the look of the web is trending fun again instead of the stale cookie cutter version we’ve had for a long time now. | Continue reading
Joanna’s post on 5-year timeframes hits at a poignant time for me. I started a new notebook this week and that means I’ve got a front section that looks at my intentions, which I’ve been dreading because I know I made almost no progress on them in the last year. If I’m honest, I … | Continue reading
I highlighted Molly’s list of sites to follow and today found another one I’ll try a few sites from. Check out the Beardy Guy blogroll. | Continue reading
Tracy has a great take on capitalism brain making us think that if we didn’t work 40 hours this week then we’re lazy. In many fields if you didn’t work 50 hours or more you’re clearly “unproductive”. Her second reminder is that errands and chores are work. When one parent at my h … | Continue reading
I really like Om’s word angertainment to describe what gets popular on social media. This goes not just for the “big tech” platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, but I see it happening on Mastodon as well. Not always merely from those accounts that are engagement farming, b … | Continue reading
Molly White has a long list of RSS feeds to recommend if you’re looking to read more online but don’t want to get pushed into whatever big tech algorithms think you should read. Thanks to Matt for pointing these out to me. | Continue reading
With the demise of Omnivore people have been looking for alternatives and I’ve heard great things about Obsidian Web clipper which is now out of beta. While it does work on mobile I don’t see a way to send stuff from an iOS app (like YouTube) to the web clipper without first goin … | Continue reading
Yes the Mac Mini M4 came out and it’s a beast but that power button is stupid. If you have a 3D printer you can fix it like this. This is super stupid you have to fix a power button though. | Continue reading
This week I listened to all the albums from Guns N’ Roses. My favourite album was Chinese Democracy released in 2008, which came out after my teenage listening years. The albums I remember from that era are Use Your Illusion I & II which contain my favourite song…Civil War. Every … | Continue reading
Lots of good stuff in this article about how Amazon contracts with companies like Intelcom in Canada to deliver packages then enforces massive delivery quotas on non-union workers. It seems that many think that Canada Post needs to be more competitive by doing similar things like … | Continue reading
Great video on upgrading an older ThinkPad to something highly usable today. Also props to this guy for keeping that older MacBook Pro running for so long. Goes to show you that with a bit of effort you can take “old” tech and make it very useful today. We don’t need to chase the … | Continue reading
This is brought to you by members, become one to get access to my courses and book notes. Revisiting Task Management This week a post I wrote on task management from 4 years ago came back across my radar and I’m in a position to comment on it. Do I still use TickTick? No I […] | Continue reading
I know I do a bit more than blogging here now, but WordPress does feel bloated so this post about moving to Pika does sound nice. In fact I did move to Statamic once and then came back to WordPress though I’m not sure why now with the drama going on and the ad crap […] | Continue reading
Maybe it’s books, DVDs, or dolls, we all often have something we collect. If you’re looking for a way to track those things without giving your information to some corporation check out koillection. | Continue reading
So AI has lead Python to be the top programming language but I wonder how long this will continue? It’s easy to spin up some Python AI thing from a blog post and put it on GitHub, only to never look at it again. My GitHub repositories are full of projects like that, they seemed [ … | Continue reading
Matt contends that professional tools need 3 things: This is why I stick with Neovim. It just works the way it’s supposed to work all the time and doesn’t update with new tools (like some AI shit) because the company thinks it needs to get AI into its tools. Finally, I can create … | Continue reading
I listened through the Tool discography this week and my favourite album is Ænima. Next week I’ll do Guns N’ Roses. | Continue reading
This is brought to you by members. To get access to my book notes and courses you should become one. Omnivore Alternatives Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs which the blog post plays as a positive thing, but you have till November 15th to export your information before they delete e … | Continue reading
Lou shared some blogging challenges for November. Could I write 9,000,000 or more words this month? | Continue reading
Godspeed looks like a task manager I’d like. But I daily drive Linux and while the web app is nice, I’m not a fan of web apps as the main interface for a tool. Right now I’m using nvim-orgmode again and not worrying about it on my phone instead opting for a notebook to record […] | Continue reading
Chris has just written about leaving WordPress due to it’s current governance structure. He ends with a plea to those still working in WordPress: I do, however, ask that you please consider the effects your actions have on others and be careful not to lead new victims to future a … | Continue reading
A few days ago I wrote about Chris going back to Hugo and had a list of site tools I’d look at then asked for suggestions. Well the only suggestion others made was 11ty which is a static site generator based on Node. | Continue reading
Wasn’t familiar with Makoism until today but flipping through the weekly posts I found lots of great other content to read so this is now in my RSS rotation. | Continue reading