It’s always been interesting to me how many of us are just fine with something for years, until something snaps, and we’re suddenly not. That’s where I landed with my mobile service from AT&T, one of the three national carriers…
I love those moments (increasingly rare as they are) when a technology decision I made is validated not just by the problem it solved, but by the experience of using that technology. Repeatedly, I’ve experienced that validation when the decision…
Over the past year I developed an unexpectedly consistent habit: I played solitaire almost every day. Not with a deck of cards, and not with the classic version that shipped with Windows decades ago, but with MobilityWare’s Solitaire+, the version accessible…
There are certain instruments that occupy a strange place in a musician’s mind. They’re not just tools; they’re aspirations. The kind of thing you read about long before you ever have the chance to touch one, and which slowly becomes…
After reading a couple of news items and a couple of blog posts this morning, I’ve suddenly become convinced that we’re at a critical time in human history with respect to the need for true human connection of a type…
I have enormous respect for Jeff Atwood. He’s a programmer extraordinaire, and the man behind Coding Horror, a blog I read for years back when Atwood was not yet a household name in certain circles. He’s since founded and moved…
I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, if I’m honest. I’ve never seen much value in daydreaming about all the changes I’m going to make when they rarely, if ever, stick. It often feels like setting oneself up for failure.…
For years, I’ve had Raspberry Pi boxes around for specific duties, like classic arcade game emulation, running Pi-hole (a DNS sinkhole), running NextCloudPi (a self-hosted cloud platform), and for running Home Assistant. But until about a year ago, I’d never…
Here’s a very niche article… Did you by any chance, as I did, pick-up a cheap NUC from Maxhub on Amazon to run Linux? And did you, as I did, discover that the Ethernet adapter doesn’t work? Well, this article…
For months now, I’ve been using Wavelog (a fork of the Cloudlog application) as my amateur radio logging software of choice. It wasn’t particularly easy or straightforward to get it running, but it is running now, inside of a Docker…