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Ten Games To Know Me 
 A while back, I remember a trend going around Mastodon to make a list of “Ten Games To Know Me”. It ended up being a really interesting exercise for me to think about, so I’ve taken my previous list, made a couple of swaps, and given it more words than it previously had. These aren’t “my favorite games” or “the games I think are…
I’ve been thinking lately about the desire to do things “by hand” and the dissonance between that feeling and being a “tech guy”. 
 It’s pretty inarguable that I like to “technologize” things. I try out new gadgets, have a relatively “smart” home (local-only operation via Home Assistant is a strict requirement, though), and frequently…
I’ve been spending a bunch of time working on finishing our basement, a project that has covered all sorts of fun DIY and home-renovation topics. This one deserves its own writeup - I’m proud of what I ended up with. 
 The Setup 
 We started with a messy concrete box and got to the point where we had a non-messy room inside the box - new subfloor, framed-in walls, a nice room…
First question for the new blog: is “Hello World” as a first post just “cliche”, or “cliche but also required”? I’m going with the latter. 
 Hi! 
 Hello! I’m Justin Koehler and this is the beginning of my personal blog. This post will mostly be about the whats and whys, and then I’ll see where things go from there in terms of less-meta…