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As of the timestamp on this article, I am 38 years old. Of the few people that read this, some will think I’m old as dirt while others will think I’m way too young to be writing an article like this. Neither of these groups are fully correct but it’s my site and I get to choose what to put on it. When I was growing up I always wanted to be older. I am the youngest in my immediate…
While my go-to personal computer has been a Mac for a long time I’ve used Linux (mainly Ubuntu ) off and on since probably Hoary (5.04). I remember back then you could ask Canonical to send you CDs, and I’d order packs of them. There’s probably still a few around my parents’ house! Getting it to install was one of my early computer achievements, as I was only just getting…
My father’s name was Joe Basile. He was born in 1946 and passed away in 2014. Even though it’s been almost a decade now, I still miss him nearly every day. Since yesterday was Father’s Day, he’s been on my mind especially. So, I thought I’d take some time to write out some of my memories of him in no particular order. My dad wasn’t what you’d call a…
I had fun setting up and deploying this site, but throughout the process, I had this nagging voice in my head alternating between “No one will visit this.”, “Isn’t it vain to have a personal site?”, and “Why are you using a static site generator instead of writing it?” As an exercise and a form of self-soothing, I will attempt to answer these…