While I've been no stranger to using AI to help me with my coding tasks, recently I've really leaned into generative AI development. I'm not talking about chatting through a problem with ChatGPT, or playing the copy paste game to debug something. I'm...

I was recently asked if I knew how to increase WordPress' media upload size. Truthfully, it had been a minute, but I always have some ideas at the ready. What really blew my mind? The person had already asked their developer. Their developer's expert...

It's the end of an era, yet again. I've finally decided to retire the VPS Showdown posts on this blog once and for all. As I've been trying to focus on blog more on prose and less on straight up technical stuff, the VPS Showdown posts just don't quit...

I'm doing way too much these days. Work, side hustles, family stuff... SQUIRREL! The squirrel of the moment is a new project that I'm still in the initial build out phase of. Once it's done things will most likely level back out. Thing is though, the...

I'm a long time Dropbox user. While I've explored alternatives over the years, for me, nothing really comes close to the speed and convenience that Dropbox provides. Dropbox is sufficiently cross-platform, sans a few quirks I've observed with interac...

I solicit and am solicited for feedback regularly. Before I knew any better, I would get defensive about things. I also could take the feedback as the gospel and action on things without much tangible evidence to back it up. Feedback needs to be take...

As we head into Q2, I sit here and write this post while wearing a hoodie, contemplating turning on the heat. What was supposed to be spring, has taken an odd turn back into the remnants of winter here in Texas. The first notable observation this mon...

I've been asked to serve as a reference on numerous occasions throughout my career. I'm only ever been reached out to twice. I bring this up, because I noticed recently somebody that I used to work with, had a career pivot. They went from Manual Qual...

On multiple occasions, I've needed to look up an Amplitude API key, and for the life of me, struggled to find it. I feel dumb every time. I've even argued with Chat GPT on the matter, as the LLM tried to tell me the wrong place to find the key. It do...

I do a pretty good job of keeping my Arch Linux installation up to date. What I don't do a great job of is reading all of the important news and messages that scroll on by when I do." Generally, this isn't a problem, but it did bite me recently. Afte...