OK maybe it's probably just me but, I often want to "Like" other peoples blog posts after I read them and find something I enjoyed. For me, it is a simple way of saying: "hey I read this" and also "hey I like your post"! In the indieweb/smol-web this …
I've had this holiday in my calendar for decades and rarely ever mention it but, today is the day! I'm not only celebrating, but living it as always! In celebration, I'm getting to work on one of my infinite self-hosting/indieweb projects that have been gathering dust while my attention …
I strongly resist participating in the panopticon economy but, I have wanted to set up some security cameras around my house for ages. I am simply unwilling to share my data with corps that will not only retain my data but also sell it to anyone willing to give them …
I climbed a mountain this morning! This is actually my second climb for the year but, today writing resulted! This was my usual local training hike, a mere 750ft-ish assent. I like it because it's usually not too busy in the mornings and only a few minutes from wherever else …
It's the end of they year and I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at my Indieweb journey for the year. I had some steady posting spurts on the site this year and while I would have liked more, I'm happy with what I did post …
I managed to get out on a couple of hikes in the fall to capture the fall colors! One unique opportunity for a photo shoot this year, was to use my drone to use to take a few images and video. This is only my second try at taking drone …
My Sweetie lost her long battle with cancer a week ago today. Honestly, loosing a loved pet has to be the next worst thing to loosing a child. The house feels empty without her and life doesn't move with the same rythem. Sweetie joined our family in midlife at the …
My morning routine has evolved in a lovely way. It's not complicated, and really centers around 3 essential things after I get out of bed. Yoga, this is compulsory because I've been a desk jockey all my life and my hips have had enough. If I don't do every morning …
I recently finished reading "This is for Everyone" by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (The inventor of the internet btw) and it left me with a lot to contemplate as to what the Web is to us. Like many of you I am a child of the computer and the web. My …
This year I have focused a good bit of my reading on the study of Artificial Intelligence, specifically AGI (G stands for general). I have had a few moments where I have questioned my quest for understanding, why do I want to know so much about it? Why care when …
I recently bought my dream laptop, it's a slick Framework 16 Laptop with an add-on GPU, near infinite RAM, superfast m.2 drive and running Ubuntu. I love it! I use it every day for work and gaming, it can handle anything with ease. Despite this dream machine, I still …
This month I decide to try something new and join in for the IndieWeb Movie Club , for Octobers movie is the 1995 classic, Hackers . It's funny to think that I have never seen the movie despite all the talk about it in hacker circles. I would have loved it when …
Looking back at my blog post for this year I have realized that I often I forget to post things to my blog! I get so busy with projects that I forget, this is a good example where I thought I posted this but, apparently not. I have a thing …
Once a year my brother and I meet up to climb mountains and enjoy local food & wine. We both enjoy the outdoors and surrounding ourselves in the natural world. Why mountains? Well you get natural beauty, the physical struggle of the climb and finally the big payoff with a goal …
I've had a busy month and I'm not done yet! By a stroke of luck I found myself having to travel to NYC on the exact same week as the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in Queens, NY, so I did the only thing I could possibly do, convert my …
I am so behind on blog posts but, thanks to a round of Covid, I'm not up for much so.. writing blog drafts! First up is a little app I wrote in an effort to build more of my own tools and apps. My use case I found myself constantly …
...And now for a new blog straight from HOPE 16 in Queens, NY! You would think that after a FULL day of talks, workshops and general hackery, I would be dead tired and fast asleep but alas, I can't sleep. No AGI is not keeping me awake, it's the Rave …
I find myself offline (sorta I of course have computers) after my aged phone fell out of my lap at the Dentist! The screen went black, and honestly it's time to upgrade anyway. I might try to fix the screen later but, just can't bother at the moment. The upside …
I became a reader in my pre-teens when I discovered D&D and The Hobbit. After that I read as much fantasy as I Could find and everything I could get ahold of from TSR (The Original creators of D&D). In between Conan and hobbits I worked in computer …
I came across an interesting blog post from Default.blog titled Yes, There Can Be a Completely Digital Counterculture! and the concept of a digital counterculture really rang true. She discusses a conversation about the the possible existence of an on online counterculture which exists outside the social walled gardens …
I'm not very good at organizing, especially in meat space. In the past year I've been spending some time to improve on this issue! The results are a nicely organized electronics work station (more later) and an ever improving digital organization system. I've tried everything from Evernote to OneNote for …
A couple of months back I started randomly experiencing thread locks when I started up Intellij which was resulting my IDE being totally unresponsive after loading. SEVERE - #c.i.o.a.WriteAction - Must not start write action from within read action in the other thread - deadlock is coming java.lang …
RaspberryPi is back for another maker win, this time creating my dream audio system.
Using Textual for displaying my RaspberryPi Weather data.
One doesn't simply escape Meta's walled gardens. But Insta users are trying again!
I was a long time user of SketchUp until I permanently ejected Windoze from my life, and Sketchup was hardest things to leave behind. It's just simple for modeling especially when your new at this stuff! Since there is no way I'm going back to the Doze. (And I'm pretty …
I finally dove into Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm really glad I waited! In the gaming world the much anticipated release of CD Projekt Red's met a harsh backlash upon release as it didn't meet the AAA expectations of the gaming world. This was kinda shocking since the studios last release …
Well after a little struggle sorting out Volume paths on Railway I've added the easy button for deploying UrPodder so hopefully most could use it. I picked Railway because they are affordable, always improving and super helpful when you ask for help. I moved there after Heroku canceled free options …
I love listening to podcasts. Most of the time I listen on my android using AntennaPod which I highly recommend if you have an Android device! One thing I love about this app is it's ability to sync your podcast activity using the gPodder api. Sadly gPodder.net has become …
I spent the better part of Sunday trying to get ssl working with a SpringBoot Java app. Talk about frustrating! I tried numerous guides after my own guess on how to get it working didn't pan out. The challenge centered around Spring Security and its methods of ssl support. Further …
I have been happily printing Gridfinity parts to organize my mess of a workshop and they are simply awesome! I got a little too impatient in getting things done and didn't give much thought to overnight temperatures dropping to near-freezing last night. Since my shop doesn't have permanent heat at …
I tend to go into Maker hibernation from Dec through February in part due to my workshop not having all that much heat and insulation. Things get to be too hard to do there when its below freezing so I hibernate. For me this means some heavy gaming and coding …
Rebuilding my site using Pelican and self hosting it on my RaspberryPi.
Tonight was the first General Meeting of the new Make Roanoke a new Makerspace that's working to get established in the Area. It was really fun to meet like-minded nerds that are as geeky as I am! There was surprisingly large turnout and the group overflowed the sizable meeting room …
Hey friends! I've been away for a while now, close to 3 months. But it wasn't you, it was me. Myself and my 40+ member team got laid off from a job that we all poured my heart and time into. I was crushed, so much so that and decided …
I've moved to Codeberg.org for my my online Git repos and left the Hub behind but, I was feeling a little nostalgic about the GH Profile pages. GH lets you add a custom README.md to your account to use as a profile page but, Codeberg doesn't currently have …
I’ve been on Github for a long time! It was fun in their early days and honestly still is a central location for sharing open-source code. Not sure if I would have ever considered leaving or canceling my paid subscription that I have had for years as well if …
I was tethered to this telco monster for so long , it’s personally shocking and outright embarrassing. How did it go on like this? Why did I ignore their abundant sleazy scandals, lame efforts of customer lock-in, their attacks on Net Neutrality or the constant FCC violations? Honestly, I was …
I was just watching the show that got me interested in security, Security Now and listening to Steve Gibson’s 2nd evaluation of the Lastpass breach is something along the lines of watching every horror movie condensed into a single terrifying movie! What a mess. The worst part is the …
For 2023 I have a few goals around my digital life which include ending my relationship with big tech. This project is inspired by my love for #indieweb and not being turned into a product. But I am further influenced by the big bird site meltdown. The latter was a …
If you can't fix the user, try fixing the computer! Just a little hack I threw into my system to keep my sanity and fix my sloppy touch typing. I have a habit of typing gti instead of git when executing git commands, it’s really a matter of my …
A year has passed since my last post, and wow has life changed! Looking back on my last post, it was the start of an 18-month journey to follow my dreams of living in the mountains and building my cabin in the woods. Today I’m reflecting on that moment …
I've been quarantined for over 6 months and I kinda snapped one day and booked a months stay in the mountains far from everything including broadband. OK sounds a little crazy when I put it that way but I have had Digital Nomad envy for years... probably before it was …
Expanding your language toolbox is a topic promoted all over the coder channels. I believe it’s common knowledge that it’s beneficial, but in my experience, many don’t bother. I encounter resistance frequently in the JVM world, so much so that I should say the Java world because …
Just following the programmer tradition...