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  • My NaNoWriMo 2025 Results

    My NaNoWriMo 2025 Results

    December is here again! That can only mean my latest NaNoWriMo attempt is over. Now, before I go on, I’m fully aware that the official NaNoWriMo site is gone and everything, but I still follow the tradition in general regardless. I never really saw the NaNoWriMo event itself being tied so tightly to that organization. Read more

  • Why I’m Giving Up on a Second Brain

    Why I’m Giving Up on a Second Brain

    I never thought I’d type this, but here we are. It’s been a fun ride for the past few years, but I saw the writing on the wall a good while back when I felt compelled to restart my second brain in the first place. I really didn’t want to think it was over, and Read more

  • My Third Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo

    My Third Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo

    November has arrived once more, and it’s that time of year all over again. Just as I did last year and the year before, I am once again throwing my hat into the ring and working on NaNoWriMo. As usual, if I’m going to do this again, there are going to besome ground rules. A Read more

  • When Convenience Works Against Us

    When Convenience Works Against Us

    Here’s a hypothetical. Let’s say I developed an Android app for you to use. You can download it for free, and I give you two options on how you would rather have the app work: Great, now I’ll give you some time to sit back and decide if you would rather have option 1 or Read more

  • Cinnamon Desktop is Cozy Sometimes

    Cinnamon Desktop is Cozy Sometimes

    Despite my history using Linux over the past few years, and despite how I have to use a Mac at work, I typically default to not only Arch Linux, but Hyprland with my setup. In short, I had a taste of tiling windows a few years ago starting with Awesome WM. After a few years Read more

  • How Homelabbing is Saving Me Hundreds of Dollars a Year

    How Homelabbing is Saving Me Hundreds of Dollars a Year

    I’ve been a rather busy bee this past month and a half. I already alluded to the fact a while back, but I recently got Jellyfin running on an otherwise neglected Mac mini. I was able to set up a domain to redirect to it and everything, allowing me to replace both TIDAL and just Read more

  • Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection

    Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection

    I hinted at the possibility a good while back, but I’ve been rethinking how I enjoy my music over the past few months, and that’s also despite how I said this a good while back now. Why go through all this trouble [with TIDAL, Spotify, and others] when you could just host the music yourself Read more

  • A Few Fast, Easy Commands to Start Using Vimium C

    A Few Fast, Easy Commands to Start Using Vimium C

    I admit that it initially took me a while to really “get” Vim commands, to really appreciate them. That eventually changed, and I still use them in Obsidian to this day. But what if there was a way to get similar commands elsewhere, like in the browser? What if there was a way to control Read more

  • Digital Minimalism and Minimalism Can Contradict

    Digital Minimalism and Minimalism Can Contradict

    There’s this thing out there called “digital minimalism.” You may have heard of it. In short, it’s mostly the idea of digitally decluttering, using fewer apps and social media services on one’s phone or computer. In a perfect world, this leads to us being more productive with our technology overall because we have fewer things Read more

  • A Brief Tribute to the Apple A1048 Keyboard

    A Brief Tribute to the Apple A1048 Keyboard

    I am still a Linux user first and foremost, but I have most definitely ventured further and further down the rabbit hole of tinkering with vintage Apple computers. For those who have followed me long enough, you may know that I primarily grew up running Windows. I’d even say that’s part of why Windows XP Read more