Ever do something sorta as a joke and then the lines start to blur a bit? That's where I'm at right now. After watching the DEVO documentary a while back, I was really fired up to make some new music. I have a handful of projects in varying degrees o...

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The customer is always right. But what if the customer was lied to? If a sales person over promises, and the product under delivers, the customer won't be happy. This often leads to a cancellation and refund request. But what if the customer didn't d...

I've been playing Diablo IV since launch, having partaken in every season since the first. That was until season 9, when I opted to continue my lovely Torment 4 Necromantress in the Eternal Realm rather than chase this season's "collect a bunch of th...

Back in June I wrote about the AI coding tools that I was using to be productive. Fast forward through Q3, a lot has changed in the market. Newer tools and shinier LLMs, sometimes both in the same week. I'm still using these tools very regularly. Su...

With baseball season nearly over (for our beloved Angels at least), spooky season is nearly upon us. Loving seasonal holiday content, we typically will binge episodes of our favorite TV shows, and will watch some scary movies during October and on Ha...

My mission to gain more technical independence has me questioning any and all third-party services I use. While I do value having visibility into my websites traffic, relying on Google for anything has been top of my mind during this process. For my...

I have fond memories of Sea-Monkeys as a kid. I had them, but I don't remember any success with them. Maybe it was a bad batch, maybe I over fed them, who freakin' knows at this point. Fast forward to last year, I decided that I wanted to try my hand...

After switching from WordPress to Eleventy (11ty) earlier this year, I'm still playing catch up on a few things. One such thing, is getting category and tag pages setup again. With Jekyll, I had setup a series of individual pages, one for each catego...

I remember it like it was yesterday. My daughter and I, on our usual Saturday grocery store run. We're at HEB Plus! on the eve of the end of the world. We were fully aware of COVID-19, but trying to not freak out about things. I bet everybody thought...