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Duel of the Defaults 2026 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: Lined paper and a trusty Pilot Precise V7 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app 🎞️ Photo Management: Apple Photos, Immich 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar synced with Fastmail 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud 📖 RSS: FreshRSS with NetNewsWire 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app 🌐 Browser: Vivaldi, Safari 💬…
Changing Mastodon servers Earlier this morning I decided it was time to change Mastodon servers, I didn't do this because my home server was shutting down, or I didn’t agree with the moderators, or hoster. I did it because I felt like I needed some separation between my blog feed and my social feed. Being online means different things to different folks. For most (in my circle anyways) it allows…
Subscriptions, End of 2024 Subscriptions have changed a good bit this year, I decided to become more frugal with my money "throwing" habits and landed on the list below: Costs are calculated as yearly My Subscriptions: 1Password = $36 Ente Photos = $60 404 Media = $100 Signal = $60 Mullvad VPN = $60 Unread RSS = $30 Ivory = $15 "Family": Apple Storage and Music = $240 Disney + Duo = $36 (…
The Defaults 2k24 This is an update from the original post and is based off of: Episode 097 Hemispheric Views This year I got rid of my Mac and moved to Linux and FOSS alternatives for most large services. 📮 Mail Server iCloud Custom Domains 📨 Mail Client Mail.app on iOS, Geary on *Nix 📝 Notes Apple Notes, Neovim on *Nix ✅ To-Do Good old pen and paper 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting Action button! 🖼️…
WeblogPoMoAMA 2 Gabz asked me this fantastic question for day two “what’s the first movie, ever watched that made a big impact on you, for good or bad?” My answer is surprisingly AVP Requiem I’m going to age myself by saying I was 9 years old when this movie came out… regardless this movie turned my brain onto Sci-Fi movies and I’ve not turned back since. From my recollection I was truly…
WeblogPoMoAMA When asking for AMA suggestions @annie quickly asked me what I was going to do with the generator I just bought. Well, it’s kind of a simple answer but at the same time is way more advanced than it needs to be. Maine. My wonderful home is the most wooded state in the country. Most times of year, this means beautiful foliage and perfect colors in autumn. In the winter time, this turns…
I almost forgot! #WeblogPoMo2024 First day hone was a blur. Second day even more so, I’m really hoping for some sanity to happen at some point (it won’t lol) Everything is good and baby is happy, this is what memories are made of!
Home #WeblogPoMo2024 HOMEWARD BOUND
Monday #WeblogPoMo2024 Thursday, Friday, Saturday, came and went without being given the papers for discharge. We aren’t angry in the slightest as quite frankly we don’t want to come back here, they’ve slated us for a Monday release and we can’t hope enough that it doesn’t come and go like these 3(4 counting Sunday) days We’ve had the best care team in the world, they’re rooting for us on every…
Well, actually #WeblogPoMo2024 Rebuttal post from Greg Higgins Before my time in the NICU With my son I would have totally agreed with this post, no if’s and’s or but’s. The second we were admitted my phone became a phone again. First it was long calls with the insurance company, my family, my work colleagues. And later it was filling out paperwork and ensuring that nothing was missed so I could…
Regressions #WeblogPoMo2024 Yesterday I spoke too soon about going home, Callum is doing great so no worries there but getting all of the moving parts “oiled and ready” means working with several supply companies to give us the technology and training we need to be home. At this point we feel like an expert but I don’t think I’ve signed this much paperwork ever. This includes buying a car, getting…
Home bound #WeblogPoMo2024 Looks like today is the day… we all get to go home after a month of hospital stay!
Gratitude #WeblogPoMo2024 Prologue… #WeblogPoMo has got me in a bind. I’m not totally sure what I want to write about but I’m here and that’s what matters. Gratitude, what is it? Why am I writing about it? If we look to our dictionaries gratitude is described as the “quality of being thankful” I seem to be writing about this because of the outpouring of support I’ve had these past 4 weeks. For…
Snowstorm Thoughts Ive been thinking about why I don’t blog and I don’t think the answer is as straightforward as I once thought it was. I look at the works of Pete, the guys from Hemispheric Views , Robb , Apple Annie , Adam , etc. and it seems like all of their blogposts are meticulous masterpieces.. Or hell they’re just good at throwing words on a page and running with it. I think I need to…
Subscriptions Taken from Otavio and Maique I decided I should write a little about my subscriptions (or lack thereof) Apps It's really quiet in here... if an app I love has a lifetime unlock option I purchase it plain and simple. Once upon a time I overwhelmed myself with application subs and now I refuse to do it unless I really really enjoy the application or service (none so far). Services /…
Moving It's been a while since I properly wrote a true blog post, but I think it’s time seeing as so much has changed since then. Off the top of my head: Victoria and I found out we were going to be parents We bought a house Let's start from the beginning. I found out about 16 weeks ago that I am going to be a dad, and let me tell you I was in disbelief. Victoria and I don't know the gender yet…
The Defaults Everyone else was doing it so I decided I needed to join the fun… Episode 097 Hemispheric Views 📮 Mail Server iCloud Custom Domains (Domains from PorkBun) 📨 Mail Client Mail.app iOS and MacOS 📝 Notes Apple Notes, BBEdit ✅ To-Do Reminders 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting Lockscreen button / Control Center 🖼️ Photos Management Photos.app (Photomator for editing) 📆 Calendar Apple Calendar…
It’s been a month I’ve gone a whole month without a blog post, this is something I told myself I wouldn’t do but here we are a hiatus that I must end. This past month has not only been eye opening but incredibly humbling. I got the pleasure of hiring a couple new system administrators and right away I could tell I was not a great teacher. After some “come to meeting” I decided to fully admit I am…
You're where you need to be. This is going to be a super quick blog post but I wanted to share something I tell my own self; You are right where you belong. You are wonderful You impact someones life more than you can ever know. Sometimes you just need to hear that, I know I do.
Mac backup solutions Since going back to macOS I've been waffling about my computer backup solution. Quite frankly, I never worried about this while using Linux, because my whole time on that platform was fraught with OS-ending errors and bugs that I seemingly caused myself. Dammit Linux, why do you let me uninstall dependencies!? In October of 2007, Apple released Time Machine for physical OSX…
Read it Later 2023 The second the holidays ended I was determined to change something in my life. Not because of any New Year’s resolution, but that I was incredibly unhappy with my setup in its current state. My setup until recently was locally-synced RSS viewed in NetNewsWire which was alright, not too fancy, but not complete cold turkey either. The real kicker was my “read it later” setup, or…
Back to the Mac I know this title has been used a bajillion times before, but I like to think that "back to the Mac" is kind of different for me. For all of you who don't know, I'm an IT Manager/purveyor of all things IT at my organization which means... you guessed it: I use Windows from day to day. While going through my server room I found a taken-apart Thinkpad T560, with no internal battery,…
Starting new Ive long though about what I would do if I were to start blogging. I was explaining to Pete that being born in the late 90's meant I didn't see the "glory days" of personal blogs but now I'm not so sure. Thanks to Adam a change has happened in my life. I ditched the bird site, went all in on Mastodon and joined the indie web all thanks to a service called omg.lol Id love to say this…