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Remember its Steam Next Fest so you can try out a crapton of games for free
This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload
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Framework Announcement
I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products. Framework announced three
Tech ramblings of the (HR, Day,Week,Month)
Tools that just work: an Ode to my 13 year old kindle
A few different things all came together to write this post today. My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned
Photography
WeekNotes Feb 2-14
Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and
Technology
A Spotify Alternative - Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.
Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Following up on my wildly successful post about Netflix/Stremio. This is my current music stack and how you get rid of paid music streaming services. Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Exporting your
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Incompetent It Technicians
I don’t claim to be the worlds greatest technician. I claim to be competent. Unfortunately the average technician I run into is incompetent. Wondering if other IT people reading this have the same experience or if it’s specific to where I live. My friend reached out to me
Site Update
I fucked up: Cleaning up your corner of the world
For years, I have been recommending Honey. I was under the impression they were tracking your web and purchasing behavior and selling it for advertising. Which, for me, was a fine tradeoff, as most people are already being tracked, and at least now they got something useful. Well, it turns
Site Update
2025 Moving Forward
Yes another 2025 post to spam your feed with . I split this and the previous post up as it was too overwhelming as one giant post. Some things I would like to post more about: * Self Hosting/My Homelab * Interacting more with the Indie/Smol web community with things like
Site Update
2024 Year In Review
It’s been a pretty good year for the blog, and I’ve implemented some stepping stones for a better year in 2025. In terms of writing I took on the 100 days to offload. I didn’t even get close, but I did end up writing way way more
Site Update
Site Optimiziations
Tweaked some stuff yesterday and loading speeds seem to be improved significantly . Removed these plugins Gwolle Guestbook – No usage so was removed Insert pages -cant remember what this was for Simple Guesbook – was installed for testing forgot to removed Site kit by google – Wasn’t doing anything for me Ultimate
Android
Why is visual voicemail not the standard on Android in 2024?
Is there some technical reason that this isn’t built in a feature to android? Why is it either a cell providers POC app (usually with a addon to your bill) or just not there? Actually drives me mad. And if you know of an app or service that I
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My Default Apps at the End of 2024
Following the rest of the blogosphere thanks to Robb Knight . I have also stolen Kev’s title please don’t sue me. I have a huge list of Techreccs as well with way more stuff than whats here. Please go check it out as I have spent an enormous amount