Personal Software
Building a simple sleep sound app for my son reminded me why software made for personal needs can be so satisfying.
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Cyclist, dad, tech guy in Ohio.
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Organic Software
Making the case for carefully crafted, privacy respecting software, and hoping Linux can become a home for developers who build it.
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Constraints Breed Innovation
Using Palm Pilots every day has me thinking about how tight hardware limits encouraged focused, fast, and useful software.
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An interactive dive into Memo Pad
Join me on an interactive look at the user experience of "Memos" on Palm OS!
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Crazy Stats Driven by Bots
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After moving to Cloudflare, a small blog’s surprisingly high visitor stats suggest heavy bot traffic and reinforce the benefits of going static.
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2026
November
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Ocarina of Time Remake
- Gaming
Revisiting Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, where stunning details bring childhood memories of Hyrule to life.
October
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Ascension - Book Review
- Books
A mysterious mountain in the Pacific Ocean. A team of scientists. A thriller that kept me reading for three days.
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Tearaway is an amazing cozy game!
- Gaming
Busted out the Vita today and started playing Tearaway, what an amazing game! The art style and music give such a welcoming atmosphere. The gameplay mechanics use the unique…
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Secret Project
- Technology
I'm working on something and it's too cool not to post about. If you get it, and it sounds interesting, let me know.
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BlackBerry Dev Alpha C
- Technology
I was digging through a drawer and remembered I had this guy from college, the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C! It's a cool little device that was handed out to developers during the early…
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Go update your PHP version now!
- Technology
If you're running a blog that is built on PHP (for example, Pure Blog), you need to update your PHP installation right now. Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP…
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Unleashing agents inside the workshop
- Technology
I recently learned of Ubuntu Workshops. In short, Workshops allow you to create an isolated development environment to safely work with AI agents. You get a configured (via YAML)…
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Building a Tool for Job Searchers
- Technology
The job search process can be chaotic, stressful and scary. It's easy to lose track of the progress you've made in a sea of rejection emails. As you progress through the stages, it…
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Trying Myna on Ubuntu 26.10
- Technology
A new, experimental feature in Ubuntu is Myna, a local speech-to-text engine. After giving it a shot, I can say it works really well, and feels native to the system. I've tried a…
