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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 [...]

Streaming services playing art police

I've been doing a ton of genre-dipping with my current musical project, sorority hamster, as I try to figure out my voice. In doing so, I've ventured deep into the hyper niche of grindcore / cybergrind. By definition, grindcore songs [...]