On Humanity and AI
I found Pope Leo's encyclical on AI inspiring.
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Week 25 2025
Still Reading The Wheel of time The Shadow Rising The wheel of Time book 4 I’m about 30% of the way through the book and enjoying it. I haven’t had as much time to sit down and read over the course of the past week but I’m hoping to make up for that over the weekend. I love The Wheel of Time books. I’ve been hooked ever since reading the first paragraph of The Eye of the World , which is book one.…
Update Week 24 2025
I don’t ever do weekly updates, I don’t know why I’m starting now. This is the first and could be the last, we shall see. Reading I gave up on The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, after reading the first hundred pages or so. It’s a huge book and I just wasn’t grabbed by it. I very rarely put books down instead of finishing them, in this case being over 1000 pages I didn’t want to commit any more…
Immich Database Backups
Recently, I wrote about the technology I’ve been using . Today I want to talk a little about how I’m backing up my immich database. Immich has a setting that will allow you to create an automatic database dump that’s pretty easy to find within the settings menu: You can see from the screenshot that I’m creating a database dump every night at 2am, I then retain that dump for 14 days. It’s nice that…
Adventures in Python Packaging and AI
Several years ago, I wrote a short Python script that outputs a list of the second Tuesday’s of each month. The second Tuesday of the month being Microsoft “Patch Tuesday”. The purpose of the script was just to provide a simple and quick way to determine when new OS patches would become available. That script had remained largely untouched since I wrote it back in 2020. More on this later...…
First motorcycle ride of the year
It was a whopping 40ºF (4ºC) yesterday here in Columbus Ohio. My daughter had taken my car to school and my wife had her car out for the morning so I was stuck home without a car for lunch. Sometimes on Friday’s I meet up with few friends for lunch and with the sun shining I wasn’t going to let the lack of a reasonable mode of transportation stop me from getting away from work for an hour or so to…
My Vim Configuration
I've been putting together a vimrc file that I can use while writing for a good long while now. I like having the spacebar set as my leader key instead of the default \ which in my opinion is kind of a pain in the ass to reach. I know a lot of people like to use the , for leader but I've never been able to get used to it. I use a few plugins for fuzzy finding and markdown support, and I use…
Tech I’m using lately
Storage Hardware I had been using an old ass work station with Ubuntu installed as a makeshift home NAS for a while. Sometime in the fall of last year it died and I found myself needing to replace it. I purchased a UGREEN DXP4800+ late last year on sale. It’s a fairly powerful little NAS for the price. Currently, I’m running with 3 6TB NAS rated disks. One disk for parity and two for the merged…
Luke’s Grilling Tips Part 1
Luke’s Grilling Tips Part 1 Cook it on one side. Wait a few minutes. Cook it on the other side.
Black Wave
I just finished a great book by Kim Ghattas called Black Wave The book begins just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution and works through most of the countries in the Middle Eastern region, concluding with the horrific murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi which was carried out inside the Saudi Embassy in Turkey. One of the great things about this book is, while it has plenty of heroes and villains,…