Wake Up
I don’t really identify with music. I mean in the sense that I don’t use music to attach to specific meanings or feelings. Lyrics are like instruments in that I couldn’t tell you what the words are or what they meant any better than I could tell you what the guitar or drums are saying. Everything comes together in rhythm and melody in a way that I enjoy. Every now and then, though, a son...
Check in, check out
I enjoy those who do weekly or monthly life updates. I don’t plan (right now) on doing a similar cadence. Partly because I usually don’t consider my life that exciting—which, honestly, I’m enjoying things being boring right now. Family In my year-end recap, I mentioned my youngest was doing longer stretches splitting his time between homes. Little did I expect that less than two wee...
Open Tabs
I enjoyed Anh’s open tabs post and thought I’d do the same. Tabs open: none. Well, on the computer I’m writing this post, none. I try to keep things minimal. I have a couple other devices with maybe a dozen tabs open. Looking into Pages CMS for my Eleventy sites A couple posts from Brett Harned that might get integrated into a post of my own. Looking at automating the opening ...
The Dependables
The biggest problem I run into with my side projects is keeping dependencies up to date. I’ll not maintain a site for months and then when I come back to do a small update, I’ll discover something along the way that has been deprecated. It results in more time being spent on updating the dependency than it does to do the actual update I want to perform. This latest one, much like it ha...
Comments Were a Mistake
George Carlin said “People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people.” I enjoy what people have to say. I hate hearing what bots have to say. And the problem on many platforms is that it’s near impossible to tell the difference. I used to have comments enabled on this site but since the rise of Twitter, useful comments from actual people declined quickly and useles...
Subversive
“The most subversive thing you can do right now is blog.” That was a thought I had and considered just posting that line. As I tend to do, I analyze it. “Most? Really? There are most certainly other things that are more subversive. We’re just talking about blogging here.” I over-analyzed it. It’s true, though. I quickly talked myself out of the blog post idea. Then I saw...
The Best Tools
Growing up, my mom didn’t have much money. As such, pursuing hobbies meant making due with what she could afford. Hockey gear was second hand and a few seasons out of date. My bike was a rust gold 3-speed that was neither the racing or BMX bike that I desired. I had skis that were a cross between racing and traditional, and not really good at either, all the while wearing jogging pants and an...
Snook Dreams of the Web
A number of year ago, I watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Here is a man that has devoted his life to creating the best sushi in the world. I admire someone so dedicated to the task. Jiro sought out the best fish and the best rice and refined his process. New employees spend years working on just a single aspect of the sushi-making process. Maybe with some clichéd inevitability—and not unlike so ...