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Something for Kitchen
Today would have been my friend Jeremy Kitchen’s 43rd birthday. He died back in March, due to complications from colon cancer. Kitchen was my best friend. Even when he was on the other side of the world, we texted each other almost every day. He was my emotional sounding board. My rubber duck. My rotten…
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The process of aging out
So I’ve been keeping an eye on the WordCamp US 2025 ticket sales report, mostly out of a morbid sense of curiosity. With a month left on the clock, just over 500 tickets have been sold. If you add the 130ish comped tickets for volunteers, speakers, and sponsors, we’re hovering at right around 650 attendees.…
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A spot of Homebrew
Starting a few days ago, whenever I’d run a Homebrew update, the whole process would end with this warning message: I started out by trying to uninstall HandBrake in Homebrew before using the new package name (handbrake-app) to reinstall it. That didn’t work tho. The warning persisted. Then, I tried using the zap flag during…
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No comments after business hours
TBH, managing your blog’s comments can sometimes feel like a second job. You want engagement, you love the discussion, but it can also be kind of a drag. For me, especially as I’ve started regularly posting here again, I wanted to maintain some of my off-hours peace without keeping comments off entirely. My solution? Setting…
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Pocket lint
Well, damn… Pocket is heading off into the sunset. For those of us who saved articles there, this stings. The internet’s a goddamn firehose, and Pocket was a decent enough bucket. So, what now? Panic? Freak out? Declare reading list bankruptcy? Nah. There are still ways to hoard your digital treasures. When a beloved service shutters,…
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A Wappalyzer of my very own
So, y’all know how it is sometimes… You go digging through GitHub repos looking to see if anyone’s already made a tool to do a specific thing that you need to get done. Something simple and fast that doesn’t do a bunch of extra stuff. Lately, I’ve been wanting a quick way to peek at…
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Automaddic
After spending close to twenty years clicking around the WordPress dashboard, I’m finding Automad’s whole “minimalist CMS” vibe deeply refreshing. I played with a demo of version 2, goofed around a bit with the extensions on offer, and not once did I have to dismiss a dashboard notification or suffer through a premium upsell offer.…
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A little housekeeping
If — by some minor miracle — you’re still following this site in your favorite RSS reader, you might’ve noticed that I’ve been a busy little beaver over the last several days. What’ve I been up to? Well… I migrated some archival content over from a couple of side projects that stalled out. gomi no…
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I don’t know if you can hear me
Even though it’s complicatedWe’ve got time to start again Teenage Fanclub, “Start Again”
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, 05.18.20
And it keeps coming and it keeps comingAnd it keeps coming ’til the day it stops LCD Soundsystem, Someone Great Sometimes, you get overwhelmed by life and let things fall by the wayside. You don’t mean to do it. It just sort of… happens. Eventually, you make it to the other side. But then you…