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I'm not Joshing you

I've long been fascinated with how many people there are out there with my name. Not my first name, but my full name. It's not even that there are too many to count. It's that while most don't physically look [...]

The Overly Confident Paste

At one point copy and paste was a technological marvel. Eventually it became a development pattern. Blindly copying snippets from around the web into text editors or riskier, directly into your terminal. Today the workflow has shifted from copying and [...]

Cleaned Out My Closet

The wife (Jen, That Girl) and I cleaned out my closet today. I tried on every single piece of clothing I own. It was a rewarding experience to share with her. It was also emotionally draining and time-consuming. And that's [...]

Hello, 2026

I don't have any resolutions for 2026. I'll touch on 2025, but I'm not here to dissect 2025. Rather, I'm working on living with a bit more intention instead of trackable goals. I'm sick of tracking things to the point [...]

Finally Embracing Flatpak

I know, I'm late as fuck to the party. The thing is, I'm not a fan of Flatpak, or Snap, or even Dockerizing things for the sake of using containers. I like to stick as close to the system's package [...]

Mining Conversational AI for Content Ideas

I've mentioned it before, I don't use AI to generate content for this blog. I'm also open about the fact that I very much use AI for a bunch of stuff, including finding typos and misspellings. From my perspective, usage [...]

Dumping ChatGPT for Claude

With the fast changing landscape of LLMs, our time with each new model and/or version is more of a fling than a forever relationship. Even though I've been using ChatGPT since its release, I've always dabbled with different tools as [...]

You don't need a /now page

Earlier this year I moved my blog from WordPress to Eleventy. During this process I had rediscovered /now pages. After consuming all of the confirmation bias out there that's trying to suck up to Derek Sivers (nothing personal, I think [...]

Creativity needs to be DRM-free

While I much prefer to play guitar and bass in my music, I do love me some soft synths. They afford you a ton of options on the cheap. Sure, they aren't as "warm" or whatever, but there's ways to [...]

Stop judging your mix by your phone's speakers

While I know my mixes aren't perfect, I do take pride in trying to make things sound good. And by good I mean, good enough for my ears. I'll pine for hours, tweaking small things, notching the EQ, and all [...]