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How to Restore Home Screen on iOS
I've been doing a lot of technical spring cleaning this year. My dotfiles have been getting a lot of love, and I've been breaking up with quite a few services. As part of this little journey, I've decided that I [...]
Replacing Notion with Markdown Files and git
I'm in the tin foil hat era and I've been doing a ton of breaking up recently. I'm getting fatigued on AI features I don't need let alone use. I'm even more sick of the fact that these features are [...]
The Dumb Home
For years, I've been chasing the illusion of the so-called "Smart Home". Thermostats and vacuums. Doorbells and cameras. Light bulbs and switches. Garage door openers and bird feeders. Stoves and grills. Sleep mats and of course, bathroom scales. Fucking bathroom [...]
WeeChat Using Wrong Nick After SASL Auth
Slack is great... for work. Discord is sufficient enough. Sadly, I've never really found any community servers I have enjoyed. It also doesn't help that age verification is now a thing. I've been of age for longer than I haven't [...]
How to Install dig on Debian
It's been over 3 months since I posted about finally embracing Flatpak. This now short-lived proclamation coincided with me moving back over to Debian. Fortunately, I went into this particular distro hop in the right head space and things have [...]
Switching from Neovim to Vim (Again)
Okay, so I already did this dance back in 2017. Looking back, my observations were somewhat shortsighted, but felt decent enough at the time. A year later, I contemplated the future of Vim once Bram Moolenaar dies. In 2023, we [...]
What Not to Pack
I like to travel intentionally light. I also like to make sure I bring enough of the right gadgets. Economical clothing and toiletry decisions aside, I tend to overpack technical items as well as downtime gadgets. Sadly, I have to [...]
I've Been Sleeping on YouTube Music
Every time I try to get further away from Google, they find a way to dig its claws in. This time it's with YouTube Music, a service I've always been reluctant to give much of a chance. I've been a [...]
Whitelisting AWS NAT Gateway IP Addresses
Yet again, I was deceived by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) console. Now it doesn't help that my notes never seem to marry up with the current state of the UI. This time the issue was with a small oversight [...]
Is that AI?
overly long exhale... I hate right now. It's not even because I'm going to officially be mid-40s tomorrow. It's because I feel like life in tech is a perverted version of Groundhog Day. But instead of living out the same [...]