The wife (Jen, That Girl) and I cleaned out my closet today. I tried on every single piece of clothing I own. It was a rewarding experience to share with her. It was also emotionally draining and time-consuming. And that's why I'm writing about it. I...

I don't have any resolutions for 2026. I'll touch on 2025, but I'm not here to dissect 2025. Rather, I'm working on living with a bit more intention instead of trackable goals. I'm sick of tracking things to the point of mental and bodily fatigue. In...

I know, I'm late as fuck to the party. The thing is, I'm not a fan of Flatpak, or Snap, or even Dockerizing things for the sake of using containers. I like to stick as close to the system's package manager as possible. This is why I like Arch Linux a...

I've mentioned it before, I don't use AI to generate content for this blog. I'm also open about the fact that I very much use AI for a bunch of stuff, including finding typos and misspellings. From my perspective, usage of that nature is no different...

With the fast changing landscape of LLMs, our time with each new model and/or version is more of a fling than a forever relationship. Even though I've been using ChatGPT since its release, I've always dabbled with different tools as they've become av...

Earlier this year I moved my blog from WordPress to Eleventy. During this process I had rediscovered /now pages. After consuming all of the confirmation bias out there that's trying to suck up to Derek Sivers (nothing personal, I think you're great),...

While I much prefer to play guitar and bass in my music, I do love me some soft synths. They afford you a ton of options on the cheap. Sure, they aren't as "warm" or whatever, but there's ways to work around that. Sadly though, software can be a pain...

While I know my mixes aren't perfect, I do take pride in trying to make things sound good. And by good I mean, good enough for my ears. I'll pine for hours, tweaking small things, notching the EQ, and all that. Dumping multiple mixes along the way. I...

I've been doing a ton of genre-dipping with my current musical project, sorority hamster, as I try to figure out my voice. In doing so, I've ventured deep into the hyper niche of grindcore / cybergrind. By definition, grindcore songs are short. Like,...

This so-called "AI Era" is a fucking mess. The web is full of low-quality slop articles and made up imagery. Self-hosting is more of an exercise in DDoS mitigation than anything else. What a time to be alive. All you do is take, take, take Due to the...