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Checkpoints Today marks a key addition to nashp.com. For the past few weeks, I’ve been building checkpoints: a version history, recovery system, and public log of everything being built. And it all happens automatically in the background. The foundation of the site is much stronger now because of this system. Git for local version history. GitHub for online backup. /log for daily activity. Here’s…
What I’m Playing Fields of Minstria Dome Keeper Sektori Kingdom Come: Deliverance Splatoon Raiders These are the games I’ve been playing lately. If you look around the site, you’ll see this shown in a few places. I’ve been spending some time trying to nail down this process. The goal is to have it automatically update the list, no matter what device I’m playing on (Thor, Switch 2, Steam Machine,…
Rose’s First Day of Big School Emotional morning for us.
Stationary Day I needed refills on two of my most used items. Field Notes and Analog Cards . Can’t recommend them enough. I also grabbed the Analog Card organizer while I was there.
Growing Pains Even though I don’t want my packing gear to change , everything else needs to. I can feel myself bumping up against the walls and ceilings of my current workflows. Apps. Services. Laptop. Work Hours. Home office. They all might need to evolve with me in this current season of growth. Nothing is changing yet, but I’ve started brainstorming on what the next chapter could look like.
My Everyday Carry I was recently sent a few bags to review, and using them has made me appreciate how dialed in my setup really is. Something as simple as changing backpacks or pouches has thrown me off balance more than I expected. The GoRuck GR1 as my backpack, the Evergoods CAP2 for everyday carry, and the Evergoods CAP1 as my Dopp kit have become extensions of my body as I travel through the…
Balancing Act Spread thin. Multilayered. But it feels right. I’m enjoying the chaos right now. Just making sure I don’t lose track of any plate that’s spinning. Work life. Other work life. Home life. Health life. Hospital. Meetings. Write. Home. Gym . Rose starts big school in a few days. Work. Home. Game ? Sleep. The twins don’t sleep. Go to work. Write. Home. Run two miles. Work. Sleep. The…
Basketball Session (08.03.26)
Basketball Session (07.30.26) Tough shooting night.
Game Log: Crimson Desert Finally sat down with Crimson Desert on the Steam Machine. Started with mods. Discovered one would make the game feel personal. Character creator. Bald. Beard. Didn’t happen. Moved on. Spent more time in the graphics settings than the game itself. Didn’t mind. Was testing the machine. One setting. Walk around. Another setting. Walk around. Eventually left the menus. Trees.…
Working For Apex Building Apex Power’s website officially turned into a full-time contract position for me. Now I’m providing tech support for a hospital and an industrial power company. Basically, building in public also became my resume.
Archives Updated I recently updated the archives . It’s much cleaner and easier to use now. This is where you can dig through the crates to find my older work. I still have so many more older posts that I’ll be adding soon.
The Magazine Spent today testing the limits on what type of data I can extract from my last 30 days. I’m sure I’ll expand on this, but not bad for a first draft. Now the homepage starts with a magazine. Codex: Nash and I transformed the homepage archive into a living monthly magazine. It uses the previous 30 days of writing to highlight recent stories, trending subjects, publishing activity,…
Little Book, Big Adventure Earlier this month I came across a service called Chatbooks and their Monthly Minis . I discovered it just as the twins were about to turn one. Perfect timing. Monthly Minis are designed to turn your favorite photos from each month into a small photo book, but I had a different idea. Instead of making one for a calendar month, I made one for the twins’ first month with…
Basketball Session (07.27.26) Notes: Ran two miles before playing Focused on catch and shoot Still want to find more ways to have bursts of speed
I Built a Site for Apex Power I spent Sunday building Apex Power’s website . The first step was moving the domain from GoDaddy to Hover without interrupting the company’s Microsoft 365 email. Next, I built them a website using the skills I’ve been picking up from projects like /games and /music . I also created a GitHub Organization for client projects instead of keeping everything under my…
Twins Turn One Roman & Elijah turned one a few days ago (on the 25th). We had a nice party at home. About 20 people celebrated with us. BBQ and cake. The twins still have no idea what a birthday party is. They just enjoyed the company.
Progress Report Today’s project was thinning out the site’s code. It’s now 6,996 lines, down 25.23% from 9,357. A lot of duplicate code and bugs were cleaned up, making the site more stable, more streamlined, and much faster. You’ll also notice a Vault around the site (Locked posts that can’t be viewed without a password). The process is as simple as tagging a post with “ Vault”. Happy with the…
A Brand New Music Experience After releasing My Gaming Journey the other day, I knew the immediate next step: take what I learned there and rebuild my music page. Over two decades of music now live on a single page in a new, unique package. This time, the music isn’t embedded from Bandcamp. It’s built directly into the site, allowing for much more customization and, for the first time ever, a…
Introducing My Gaming Journey Introducing My Gaming Journey (or /games for short). It’s hard to believe what a little CSV file could do. Combine it with Codex and the website completely transforms. I have all these little unique details that I love about video games, but I never had the right home to put them. Until now. Any change to the CSV file updates the site as well. Here’s Codex to tell you…
The Power of Codex I mention it a lot, so this isn’t breaking news, but what we’re capable of doing with ChatGPT (and more specifically, Codex) is simply mind-blowing. It all comes down to the person giving the instructions. You have to know what to ask for. You have to have the vision and imagination to turn an idea into something real. I’m writing this while working on something big with it. I’m…
Basketball Session (07.20.26)
Turning YouTube Noise into an Overcast Library I had a 3,000-video problem on YouTube. My Watch Later playlist kept filling up, but I didn’t have a good way to work through it. I love YouTube for discovering new things, and I often let videos play in the background. That’s when the wheels started turning: for what I wanted, I didn’t always need the video portion. Whether something was informative…
Basketball Session (07.16.26) At 40, I’m thankful that I can still play basketball at a high level. 1 I’ll start bringing in more basketball sessions to the blog (new and old). ↩︎
Moving Parts With my devices, there are always moving parts. Things are always coming and going. That’s the intersection of being an enthusiast and a minimalist. I want the latest, but I don’t want the clutter. When something arrives, something else has to leave. I just sold the M4 Mac mini , and I miss it already. But we still own the M2 MacBook Air. It gets the job done for 99% of what we need a…
Why It’s Important to Make Things Been thinking about this video for weeks.
Jazz in the background Working on some training modules tonight with this on in the background. A one-hour jazz session. Enjoy.
Photo Collage I used ChatGPT to make a collage of photos for an Instagram story. Then I told it to also make it in landscape (for this blog). Created both in a matter of seconds. This is something I used to spend half an hour inside of an app to get it right. Just another job I’ve given ChatGPT to make my life easier.
Steam Machine Arrived The location fit exactly how I expected. The soundbar is working great. The setup was seamless. The decision is made. Reddit sales are in progress.
Mastering the Field Notes Nothing too fancy. Just getting better at spacing and visualization. I’m always aiming to make even the most mundane things have ownership on the page.