2025 posts

The end of last week proved to be somewhat troublesome for me, with extra work a…

I was annoyed by a problem that cropped up in the latest version of MacVim when…

I propose that, for any word that ends with the suffix "day", the suf…

I finally made a theme switcher for my website. Ever since I saw the CSS Zen G…

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was good, good food and lots of peo…

I don't use npm often. When I do, I tend to be reminded of annoyances in using …

My brother's dog, Duncan, got skunked recently while I was walking him. They w…

MacOS 15.7.2 seems to have fixed my issue with very slow Touch ID on awakening. …

I've been using Symfony for all of my site pages except the blog, which is run …

Since updating my server earlier in the year, and thus moving to PHP 8, I would…

He who lives by the sword shall see violence as the solution to all ills.

A few years back, to make my site more festive for Hallowe'en, I made a script …

I tried installing my dotfiles on an unmodified Ubuntu install. My vimrc threw…

Earlier in my career, I looked to the HTML5 boilerplate for ideas on how to set…

Pure or complete freedom is an impossible theoretical. There will always be co…

Since MacOS 15.7.1, the touch ID (fingerprint reader) often takes a while to bec…

I have deleted my LinkedIn account of 16 years. I hadn't even touched it in se…

R.I.P Uncle Tom. He passed away today after a couple years in a nursing home. …

I went to the baseball (Guardians) game with the family last night. My parents …

I finally moved from Sequel Pro to Sequel Ace. Sequel Pro hasn't been updated …

I had a stressful end of workday yesterday. I accidentally deleted the database…

I went to a Guardians game last night with my brother, sort of. It got rain del…

Recently, I gave in and set up my work email on my phone. I had gone the first …

Yesterday evening I went to Blossom to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform Carmi…

I got a new phone, the Minimal Phone. It is an e-paper phone with physical key…

Lockers would be installed outside of a library facility, accessible after hour…

I think I have finally worked through and fixed the issues caused by Mac OS 15.…

I bought a Bangle.js 2 smartwatch from Adafruit. I haven't ever owned or playe…

Looks like my Macbook Air (2020 Intel) will not be supported for the next major …

I have read the last novel in the Expanse series, Leviathan Falls. It was good,…

My main email app (Fastmail) on my phone logged me out without me noticing for t…

Yesterday evening, I lit a candle while watching an episode of Columbo. It's o…

After running into some problems with some rsync scripts recently, I discovered…

For this year's April Fools Day, I decided I wanted to replace some text in the…

This year, my larger redbud tree has only a few blooms on it and seemingly has g…

In writing a script for the ZSH shell, I wanted to extract some bits from a str…

Finally got the One UI 7 / Android 15 update on my phone (Samsung S24) today. 1…

I like the interactive mode of the bc command line calculator because it is ubi…

Doing my federal (US) taxes this year, I was finding myself unable to create an …

My server was on Ubuntu 20.04, but due to the end-of-life of that LTS version n…

My cousin expressed interest in learning Magento and React JS. I know neither,…

Last Monday, my car's (Subaru Impreza) low oil light came on while I was drivin…

In January, I made another of my cinnamon roll cheesecake's. I was in a rush an…

I'm late to posting this, but I hope y'all had a merry Christmas and new year. …

RIP Indy the dog. He was a mostly good dog. He was my former roommate and fri…