2022 posts

Merry (post) Christmas, all. It was a white Christmas this year, cold and a nic…

Very cold and windy today. Woke up with it around 8 degrees and it just went do…

Apparently, an update to VirtualBox after version 6.1.26 limited the IP's usabl…

An episode of Pawn Stars pushed me to pull out my old Nintendo Power magazines f…

This past weekend, I started playing with GitHub Pages for the first time. It …

After being unsure for a while of what to look for in the Certbot / Letsencrypt…

For some time, I've been wanting to set up a backup for my Github repos. Techn…

I have had the idea for some time that the web ought to have a declarative form…

Porkbun has moved to Cloudflare for providing their DNS service. That is fine w…

I Ohio Voted. I'm an independent. In the past I have voted third party when I …

My car exhaust was rattling and making noise for quite some time. I finally fix…

Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato's sites, Rockin H…

I would like to see electric cars adopt hybrid energy storage / generation syst…

The weather has been really nice lately, highs in the 70s. It was getting prett…

After hours of playing and learning some details of vimscript, I have improved …

At some point recently, git init on my Mac has started to default to the branch…

I finally failed to get my first Wordle word a couple weeks back. I had missed …

Seems like Facebook rescinded their choice to have dark mode on Messenger Lite. …

My dad and I did some work on my chimney this weekend to help it last longer. I…

I have been loving that so many apps and sites have been moving to supporting d…

During my sick time at home, I discovered that Cosmic Osmo, Manhole, and Spelunx…

I'm still sick, but I tested negative for Covid a second time. I most likely ju…

I'm sick. Thursday night into yesterday, I had a sore throat and stayed home fr…

[update]er, not?[/update] Yay, Facebook Messenger Lite (on Android) has finally …

I went to the Blossom Cleveland Orchestra concert last night with my dad. It wa…

I've finally broken my streak in Wordle, at 195. Not because I didn't get the w…

I went to my first Cleveland Orchestra concert at Blossom since the pandemic. T…

I saw an article about cities doing various things to reduce heat, including li…

I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I'm still wor…

In April when I had said I'd seen every Columbo episode, I was apparently wrong …

I was reminded that one shouldn't proxy non-web servers through Cloudflare (at l…

A parking garage would be built catering to vanlife visitors. It would have am…

I took an at home Covid test today, which showed negative. The at home ones are…

I got bit by another tick, this one in my hair. I scratched my head and felt it…

I have hit 100 consecutive wins in Wordle, winning every game I've played. I've…

Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on…

I got bit by a tick again. Seems to be an annual occurrence now after not havin…

Porkbun DNS seems to be down and has been so for the last several hours at least…

I have now seen every Columbo episode, both the regular series and TV movies. I…

Another year of struggle with doing income taxes is past. It is always stressf…

I lost my first Quordle yesterday, after winning 17 straight. Quordle is a game…

I have made my first (I believe) April fools feature for my website. On April …

I thought we were to the end of winter and done with snow, but no, not quite: An…

Слава Україні (Slava Ukraini) ✊🏻 🇺🇦. All the best to Ukr…

I dogsat my parents' dog, Jack, the past week. I took him on a hike every day. …

Such nice weather this weekend. 60s felt really good after the months of cold a…

I went on another hike on the Dogwood. This time it was very icy and many branc…

When I registered my domain "tobymackenzie.com" in 2009, Dreamhost of…

I went on a hike around the Dogwood trail this morning. It was cold, blustery, …

After about a week and five days without my car (Subaru Impreza), I got it back…