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Sudden Burst Transmission
Okay, so I might have fallen off the once a week blog post thing. Whomp. Hopefully I can get the average back there by the end of the year. Things have been overwhelming lately in a lot of ways. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Video Games, Writing
Tagged 2024 goals, 2024 sci fi novel project, bike, fathers day, finances, job, jobhunt, medical, money, music, streaming, technology, twitch, writing
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Open Loops
Whoops, it’s been a minute. Life happens, you know? I’ve been doing some thinking and I think I’m bogged down recently by having too many open loops. I’m borrowing the term from Getting Things Done, which basically means “things I … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Infosec, Learning, Personal, Writing
Tagged accountability, anarchism, anxiety, brain, cars, computers, dayjob, depression, editing, feelings, ianlearnsinfosec, infosec, jobhunt, organization, school, shivering deeps, stress, technology, writing
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Summer Projects
In theory, this list could be pretty much infinite, because I’m me and I always want to do more than I can. But I thought it’d be good to put some of my project ideas out into the world. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Art, Infosec, Learning, Notes, Personal, Technology, Writing
Tagged accountability, art, computers, drawing, fixingthings, gradschool, ianlearnsinfosec, japanese, jobs, librarianship, programming, python, retrocomputing, self improvement, shiveringdeeps, technology, writing, zines
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It’s March, I’ve Got Goals
It’s March! WHO LET THIS HAPPEN??? Slightly more seriously, I thought it would be good to set myself some goals for this month. After all, I have a whole “Month To-do” section in my bullet journal and everything! Therefore, it … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged accountability, biking, books, dungeonsanddragons, jobhunt, learning, monthgoals, personal, programming, technology
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Thinking Out Loud: Patreon Alternative Edition
This post is mostly just me thinking about loud about how building a Patreon alternative would worth. BUCKLE UP, BUDDIES. Patreon has issues for a lot of people because it’s really geared for large creators, especially Youtubers. This is fine! … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged money, patreon, programming, technology, thinking out loud
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Updates: Miscellaneous
Hey everyone, it’s been a minute! Life continues to proceed at a pace of about one second per second, with the usual margin of error accounting for the variability of reality. So, without any regard to order, life updates from … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Technology, Video Games
Tagged books, cell phones, lizards, technology, video games, writing
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Oh No Phones
Well, this sucks. My reliable Blackberry KeyONE had a new issue within the last few days, where it shut down and then got started in a reboot loop. It would barely boot, get to the Blackberry logo, and then reboot, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Technology
Tagged dumbphones, phones, repair, shit breaking, smartphones, technology
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Emacs Resources
The other day (by which I mean like three weeks ago), I asked for advice on learning emacs over on Mastodon. I got a bunch of really nice results, and wanted to put them all in one place both so … Continue reading
“404 Page Not Found” by Kate Wagner
Kate Wagner put together an absolutely amazing essay on the state of the web today and how it got that way. It’s achingly sad in a lot of ways, pointing out how much of the internet we’ve just straight up … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Stuff, Technology
Tagged computers, internet, sharing stuff, technology
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Links Roundup!
Hey all, a small links roundup for you of interesting things from around the internet. Open Code != Working Open An in-depth post about how a project being open source doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be run in a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Technology
Tagged computers, hiking, links, news, opensource, technology
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