Reed is a front-end developer and pop culture scholar. Their blog covers a variety of topics, from HTML to horror movies.
I’ve been wanting a household whiteboard for a while now. I’d actually like a few of them around the house for various things, but at least one for leaving notes or whatever. But everytime I looked up whiteboards, I asked myself the same question: Why are whiteboards so expensive? I mean, I kind of get it. I also don’t. With both Ami and I job hunting right now, we can’t justify spending $80 for a…
The other day, I tried to open the Shudder app on our Fire TV, only to be frustrated when it didn’t load. After searching the internet for any suggestions (as one does), I learned that our Fire TV’s operating system was old. Like, real old. Certain apps, including HBO Max, no longer support older OS versions. We bought the 55-inch television in December 2017, when it was on a mega holiday sale.…
I am posting this here mostly because inevitably I will forget this again, and in the future, when I once more scour the internet or tear through my old notes for an answer, perhaps I’ll come across my own blog post. 🤦🏻 Some background on why I wanted this Recently I completed a code exercise for a job interview. I’d created my own repository for it, and as I often do, opened my own pull…
Every year since 2021, I have participated in a movie challenge: between Aug 1 and Oct 31, watch 100 horror movies you’ve never seen before. Watch 100 horror movies. That you’ve never seen before. I am surprised that I’ve never blogged about this before! Sarah Stubbs started the challenge back in 2020, and has a useful list of guidelines for the challenge . The tl;dr for the rules is: You must…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
Last Saturday, I went to the farmers market for the first time this season, and as I was walking into our apartment building, I heard some folks in the lobby talking about an estate sale. I asked about it, and they told me where it was. I dropped off my groceries, told my wife I wanted to check it out “just to see”, and headed out. Dear reader, let me tell you. The living room held a lot of the…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
Last week, I bought a new iPad. My previous one was getting old, so old that it won't update to the next iOS version. I saved up a few months, and then picked up the iPad 10th gen. I didn't want to use it without a screen protector, because I get nervous that I'm going to drop and break it. One thing I disliked about my old screen protector was the clicky sound it made whenever I used my pen. It…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
This is 100% absolutely not new, but I haven’t blogged about this at all , or even updated the site to announce this! This year, WPCampus moved from one director to a Board of Directors model, allowing Rachel Cherry to step back from being responsible for the whole of the organization. She opened a call for nominations, and while I was interested, my imposter syndrome kicked in (again) and told me…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
It’s that time again! I’m bringing back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping…
I would like to bring back something from my old, regular blogging days of the mid-aughts: the Friday Random Ten. I don’t remember who started this tradition, but a bunch of us Philly bloggers would bring this around every Friday. The basic rules are: fire up your digital music player go to “all songs“ and shuffle play everything note the first 10 songs to show up, without skipping anything create…
Does it count meeting my blogging goal if my third post is about how I’m feeling with not quite meeting my blogging goal? I started feeling sick on New Year's Day, and tested positive for covid-19 the next morning. I’ve spent the entire year so far, sick. Sometimes, there is only so much to do while sick and still try to recover. As much as I want to get back to “normal”, my body reminded me of…
For all of October and half of November, I was on the road, driving the entirety of the historic Lincoln Highway ! My plan was to blog as I went, typing up my day when I stopped for the night. I soon learned that was an overly ambitious goal, and every night I was so full from my day that I could do nothing more than watch a movie or do a little journaling in my notebook. In Evanston WY, I was…
I’ve been knitting for over 15 years, but I’d never done any crochet before. Near the end of last year, I had a project that called for provisional cast-on, and one of the methods for doing so is creating a row of knitting from a crochet chain, which would then be unraveled when it came time to put those stitches back on a needle. It was fiddly at first, but I found myself having a lot of fun…
Over the past few months, I’ve accomplished things I never thought I would. I graduated Georgetown University with a master’s degree in Communication, Culture & Technology. I spoke at a professional conference in-person for the first time. I drove to San Francisco and then travelled the historic Lincoln Highway all the way to New York — by myself! While I have a website for my road trip that…