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As we're building Nym , an open-source spiritual successor to Blogger & Wordpress, we'd like to revisit the ideas of our forebears whose ideas have paved the path for us to build the next generation of personal website & blogging software on.
Building a battery powered e-ink weather forecast display for our home. This was a fun Raspberry Pi project.
If you don’t know already, I’m the kind of photographer who loves a lot of grain in my photos. I like it so much that I’ve made several videos about
File this under highly speculative. I’m sure there is better research on this topic than this writing This past week, for no obvious reason,...
This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside.…
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In the summer of 2020, I took a 3 months sabbatical in order to finish an album. The experience deeply transformed how I make music – I now know I can make ...
How to vote back home while you're in Antarctica!
An update on my years-long habit, with a new tool.
I've spent 240 hours the past 6 months drawing, and I'm eager to go all-in. I'm planning to apply to Sheridan's animation undergrad program in February, and have been busy preparing a portfolio for it. Here's some of my recent work, and a lil music video featuring my progress over the months.
Sometimes it’s wrong to begin a phrase with the word “just”. I offer as evidence two such situations. I think there’s a common thread to be drawn.
Bidding farewell to classic experiments.
The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase.
In the aggressive pursuit of expanding ad revenue, Apple is gambling with one of its core values: great products.
Where the last two posts were primarily about software ( Navidrome and beets , respectively), this post will be more about hardware (and a bit of software to control it). Hopefully it’ll be useful to others with older sound hardware, especially those who are compelled (as I am) to avoid buying a “connected” device…
Today is November 6th, 2022, the day of the SAO Incident. Thousands of VRMMORPG gamers were trapped by a mad scientist inside a death game that could only be escaped through completion. If their …
In this episode, Jeremy Utley explains why good ideas are often preceded by not-so-good ideas.
You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …
True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
As part of my creative sabbatical, I have been posting a new software development video on my YouTube channel every Monday and Friday.It takes a long time to grow on YouTube, and I knew this going in but I have been pleasantly surprised with my growth in the first month. YouTube is about consistency over a long period…
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s been a year since our last blog post announcing the launch of the Rebble developer portal and in that time we’ve seen...
A simple mental model that can help you navigate your career.
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
I have frequently been critical of the advice given by baby boomers to “do what you love and the money will follow”. After the hard experience of my generation and the ones following it…
Being a trained pianist brings its own interesting challenge when it comes to your instrument… because it’s actually quite rare that the piano you play on is actually your instrument. Keyboard players are amongst the few musicians who rarely choose the instrument they play on. Whether at home, at
It's pretty much what you'd expect.
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.
