Refreshing my coding … to beyond where I was.
When I was out of my first tech job, because they were bought, I took a python course. This is the spring of 2016. After that, I became basically the ‘Python...
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Active and Passive cooling options in Windows are hidden behind a registry flag, because Windows hates its users.
It’s been a minute! … I found something frustrating about windows, and NixOS, so figured I’d make a post.
… Nextcloud on Windows can be annoying with spaces in the front of your files sometimes. But you can fix it!
So I have a 1TB Nextcloud instance. This is what I use to store all my personal files, and back up purchases. However, sometimes I download files, and it’s a...
I bought a minibook X as a laptop. It’s tiny. I love it.
There’s a thing my friends have noticed about me: I buy laptops. It’s the thing I do, more than anything else, that makes me subject to capitalism. (Well … t...
Oh no! Once again a file is not the right format.
Long time no talk! I’ve been good, honestly. Took a long amount of time offline and I don’t hate coding anymore, which is /pretty great/!! Still on sabbatica...
Sabbatical
After a grandparent of mine died near the end of last year, I decided to take a step back from work for a good period (6m-1y, though we’ll see what I can tak...
Updating Beautiful Jekyll
This website is made with a Jekyll offshoot called ‘Beautiful Jekyll’. This is because I really wanted a static site for security, but didn’t like how my web...
Realtime audio on Linux? It’s actually not that bad if you know the secret invocations!
So I wrote a post like this about my framework laptop. We are now a year and a half into the future, and I’ve bought windows for that laptop. I couldn’t deal...
Assorted thoughts on Windows ARM, starring the Lenovo 10W
Hi. I’m mostly writing this because I just bought a laptop that I don’t think anyone else has ever used, because as far as I can tell it has 0 (0) reviews on...
Desktop Linux will never be usable as a stress-free daily driver
I have too many laptops. One of them is a Framework, which I bought solely to use Linux, because I have the freedom to use something else when it’s annoying....
The tech you use doesn’t really matter
I’ve been working in tech for a long while now. Over ten years! (That’s seventy in dog years!) And one thing I’ve noticed is that, especially when you immedi...
Setting up REAPER on Linux - why, how, and assorted thoughts.
So I bought a Framework Laptop.
jq to sort tags into CSV within AWS output.
jq is a command-line processing language for json! AWS has a bunch of CLI commands you can run that output in … pseudo-JSON! How do you sort that? Well … the...
Back into devops, I guess.
So. I quit my job, and did the things I said I’d do. But then I also … just kept interviewing, instead of taking a longer break. Which in retrospect seems li...
New beginnings and what’s next
I officially quit my job. (Over these next two weeks, I’m transferring knowledge to people and preparing for the time after.) I scheduled my last day to be D...
On COVID
It’s interesting, how things always seem to be for a purpose to humans; how things seem to coalesce to a specific plan at a specific time. We always read int...
A new game!
I wrote a new - new game, for Narrascope’s Game Jam (a Narrative Fiction weeklong meeting of people who write and consume it). It’s 15,000 words, and has sta...
On the game of submitting writing
I’ve been starting to write medium posts about things, and start to submit posts again. After I graduated college the first time I wanted to be a writer, but...
A new game!
I’ve made a new game. 3k words, 2-3 days’ work. probably 10 minutes per playthrough, but I said what I needed to say. Let me know what you think! Game Link
It’s raining recently, so just a picture of it all. :)
Just a picture I took of the rain, on this beautiful Chicago fall. Respect the rain, and the feeling it makes when it goes through you. <3