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Winter Solstice
Longer days are ahead! Happy Winter Solstice to all who celebrate 😁
December 16th, 2025
For anyone who loves the soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” this is a fascinating look at the making of a new vinyl record set. And yes, I bought a copy.
December 13th, 2025
A bit of a crisis of identity last night, and some rough dreams following, has me thinking a lot about how I’m approaching things these days. Thoughts of change swirling around in my brain all day and I started a list of areas where I want to make some
December 11th, 2025
Now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve signed up for another blogging service. This time it’s Pagecord. I’m a sucker for messing with blogging platforms and at $29 for the year I figure it’s a good investment in fun. What will I put here (going
I won't tell her...
I can't let a good anti-Microsoft/GitHub/whatever rant get in the way of facts: If you’re reading this post, you made it! I’m no longer dependent on Microsoft at all. I just push my commits to source.tube (either from obsidian-git, VSCodium, or GitSync) which
December 6th, 2025
Taking a break from tech news/coverage/punditry for a bit. Don’t know about anyone else but for me the tech world has mostly become boring…repetitive. There is nothing fun about the latest hot takes on AI, latest outrage over whatever company people don’t like, etc. That
December 5th, 2025
Wrote a post about corporations and “morals”. This Dropbox alternative seems pretty cool, especially since it can be self-hosted at no cost for the software: Seafile Another cool self-hostable app, this time for photos: PhotoPrism RogueAmoeba released SoundSource 6. I’ve been using this utility for years. It’s come
We shouldn’t expect “morals” from corporations
Ashe Dryden writes on Mastodon: Do not forget the people, companies, and organizations that abandoned their morals during these dark years. and links to this article on The Verge about Microsoft and their DEI efforts. She also linked to Jeff Johnson writing something similar about Apple on Mastodon: Apple’s
December 4th, 2025
There is a cool set of command line tools in this list from the makers of the Tower git client: 7 CLI Tools Every Developer Should Install It’s weird to me that someone would complain about X, or other people’s use of X, but then ultimately use X
December 3rd, 2025
My dad, Edward, when he was stationed at Okinawa during the Korean War. He passed away this day in 1973.
