My wife and I spend a lot of time together. We're not attached at the hip or anything, but we're really close, we get along, and we have plenty of things in common. Maybe it's cliche, but we really are best friends. So it's going to be weird when she leaves early tomorrow morning … | Continue reading
Today we went bowling with my wife's brother and his family for his birthday. I did not do well, but my wife had one of her best scores that she's ever had. Regardless, we had a great time. My daughter Sydney bowling My daughter Moxie bowling My wife bowling My brother-in-law and … | Continue reading
Yesterday morning, I woke up with my eye feeling weird. That is not the first time that happened. I have pretty severe allergies and I'll often wake up with crusty, itchy eyes. I chalked it up to that very thing. However, later in the morning when I went to brush my teeth, I noti … | Continue reading
Vincent has added a "Categories" feature to Scribbles, so I'll slowly be going through my posts and applying categories to them. So for example, if you're only interested in reading posts about Android, you can either go to a post in the Android category and click on the little " … | Continue reading
The weather in Virginia mostly cooperated this weekend, so we were able to get out and do some things. Saturday we went to lunch at one of our favorite local restaurants, Paladin Woolen Mill, and then we popped over to Misty Mountain Meadworks for a drink and a chat with some of … | Continue reading
Today, Robb Knight launched his RSS-to-Mastodon service, Echofeed. It allows you to share entries from virtually any RSS feed to Mastodon, Micro.blog, and several more services (with more to come). I've already started using it to send my starred posts from Feedbin to my Mastodon … | Continue reading
This weekend my 16-year-old daughter and I went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see Dev Patel's directorial debut "Monkey Man". You may know Dev Patel as an actor from the British TV series "Skins", or the 2008 Danny Boyle directed drama film "Slumdog Millionaire". Most recently, Pate … | Continue reading
I've seen some stories recently about Gen Z buying old digital cameras. And I know from my Gen Z teenagers that they are into buying cassette tapes now too. I feel like whatever retro tech millennials get into, Gen Z gets into whatever is one generation newer. I find it extremely … | Continue reading
One thing I haven't yet talked about on this blog is coffee. I love coffee. I'm far from a "coffee snob" or a "coffee scientist", as I like to call my more passionate coffee-drinking friends, but I sure do love a good cup of coffee. Here are some of my favorite brands and flavors … | Continue reading
I've been saying for years that "Spring Break" in the US should be later in spring. This past week and the forecast for the week ahead are proof of that. Not that anyone can predict the weather with 100% accuracy, but having Spring Break always hover around Easter rarely works ou … | Continue reading
I've tried many weather apps for Android over the years, and my current favorite is Weather Today. Weather Today is a modern, freemium weather app for Android, created by German developer Michael Kokoschka. It features a pleasant Material You design, and all the features you coul … | Continue reading
These are the funniest toots that I've bookmarked recently. Comments? Reply on Mastodon! ✉️ Reply by email | Continue reading
My mind is still reeling from the Key Bridge collapsing in Baltimore yesterday. The loss of life is tragic. Also, I know how important that road and that bridge were to the city. I lived down there for a long time and still have friends down there that would cross that bridge eve … | Continue reading
Hello! I have officially moved this blog from https://pika.page to https://scribbles.page. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons. I had been enjoying the fun features and tools over at https://omg.lol. I thought about hosting my blog there, but I didn't want a completely markd … | Continue reading
For the past several months I've been enjoying hosting both of my blogs at Pika.page. After hearing so many great things about Scribbles, and seeing how quickly they've been adding features, particularly ones like OMG.lol integration and analytics, I knew I had to try it out! So … | Continue reading
Here are some links to things I found fun, useful, or interesting recently. About Ideas Now Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 6443 personal websites. Intriguing Stuff How Daniel Raffel automates posting his bookmar … | Continue reading
If you follow me on Mastodon, you know that I've spent the last month or so looking for an all-in-one solution for notes, tasks, to-do lists, and reminders, with a preference for something open source. As I've moved away from using so many Google products, I transferred my notes … | Continue reading
I thought a good follow up to my Android Home Screen post might be another post about my current favorite Android apps. See my previous post here. First, a little bit about the device I'm using. I use a Google Pixel 8 Pro, running the latest stable build of Android 14. I've appli … | Continue reading
I've done something like this before on my Mastodon account, but recently I was inspired by Cliff Wade’s Android home screen post and the weekly screen share feature in David Pierce’s newsletter “The Installer”. So here's my current Android home screen with some details about wha … | Continue reading
After a low-key but fun weekend with the kids, Monday came around once more as it always does. This week, my work is much slower than it has been for the past few months, and I’m grateful for that. My team is small and burnout is real. I know it’s only a matter of time until thin … | Continue reading
I just realized I haven't posted here in 9 days. My goal was to post weekly but I guess I shouldn't force it. Not much going on lately, as this is a pretty boring time of year. I fixed a bathroom faucet last week. Today I replaced that faucet because it wasn't fixed. Go figure. I … | Continue reading
What a week this has been. Work has been very stressful. One of the guys on my team, the only other person on my shift, had to take the week off at the last minute to take care of some family matters. When you’re already working with a bare minimum crew, it’s really tough being d … | Continue reading
Tag team, back again…with another Link Drop. Archive Buttons Just paste a link and use any one of the five choices to archive a site and remove the paywall. Future Me Write a letter to your future self, from the past, but in the present! 🪄 The Big Mastodon Hashtag Search … | Continue reading
When I was in 6th or 7th grade (1993-1994) my parents bought a Packard Bell. If my memory serves me it was a Legend model with something close to the following specs: 66MHz 486 8MB RAM 500MB hard drive 3-1/2” floppy disk drive CD-ROM Windows 3.11 This was a huge deal to me becaus … | Continue reading
In this post I wanted to highlight a few Android apps I really like that may be less common. Image Toolbox This is not something I use frequently but it's something I always keep installed because it's very handy when you need it. Filter, resize, compare, crop, batch processing, … | Continue reading
Last year I bought the domain shrediverse.net hoping to start a Fediverse instance for musicians and music fans alike. However, there didn’t seem to be much interest. So after several months and less than 10 people joining, I shut it down. I think this niche is filled by the wond … | Continue reading
Happy Monday folks. I’m back with another weekend recap. My wife and I had our kids this weekend. Saturday, we took them out for lunch and to do one of their favorite things: thrifting. I learned two things: I like strawberry Dr Pepper, and CDs are now “old tech”. That’s right, m … | Continue reading
Some interesting and useful things I’ve found recently. TablesGenerator.com Create LaTeX tables online. https://www.tablesgenerator.com/ Hashtag.place Convert any Fediverse hashtag into an account to follow! https://hashtag.place Nearby Wiki Explore interesting places nearby list … | Continue reading
And how to share to Linkwarden from Android For a long time I've been looking for the holy grail of self-hosted bookmarking solutions. One that is easy to spin up and administer, has a nice web app, archives page content, and has a mobile app to share links to. There are a lot of … | Continue reading
Not a lot going on this weekend, but my wife and I did get some extra time with the kids Friday night and Saturday morning since they were stuck here due to the snow. After returning them to their other parents' houses on Saturday afternoon, we spent some time with the dogs and t … | Continue reading
As many people have done recently, I've moved away from using Google Chrome. I tried a few different browsers last year and found myself very happily using Mozilla Firefox as my main web browser (though if you need to stay on Chromium for whatever reason, I recommend Vivaldi). La … | Continue reading