Back on a static site?! 🔗
It's been a minute, eh? I've finally had the motivation to spend the last few days migrating back to Eleventy. I'm now well hooked into the Vercel eco [...]
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Thoughts on monthly recaps 🔗
Here, on this blog, starting May 2021 and ending August 2022, I wrote as often as I could a recap of my months. I love this format, this publishing in [...]
Surround yourself 🔗
You can't live life alone. A community is essential. One of the most important steps to beating depression enough to function, which I would argue can [...]
Review: The Em Travel Backpack by Mokobara 🔗
This… story is at least two months old now, but I think it deserves to be on the internet for someone looking for reviews of this thing in India. I've [...]
A message to the main 🔗
Once every few weeks, I randomly type in 'tw' into my address bar and hit return. Takes me to Twitter.com. I don't know why I do this, because as far [...]
Fitbit/Google need to do better 🔗
Out of nowhere, a couple of weeks ago, without ever installing any firmware update (at least intentionally), my Fitbit Charge 5 started: reporting inc [...]
Name your useEffect functions 🔗
The title pretty much sums up the entire post, but I'll drop my two cents anyway: It makes it clear what the purpose of that effect is. This means you [...]
Perennial burnout 🔗
I chanced upon Garrit's toot today, which led me to Doug Belshaw's newsletter-blog. I do enjoy Doug's blog but fail to keep up for a variety of reason [...]
A desktop computer 🔗
I've made little noise about this subject, but I have. If you do not know, I had been itching to get a gaming computer. Using my family member's lapto [...]
ESLint as a learning resource 🔗
I've been doing some AWS/serverless stuff at work recently. If you've been following me long enough, you know I switched paths about 6 months ago. A c [...]
Keyboards 🔗
It never really clicked to me how personal a keyboard is. The way you push these buttons, the way you move your fingers, how much your fingers travel, [...]
I am…enjoying AirPods? 🔗
It's funny this pattern keeps emerging over and over in our lives — complain about something, lose any built-up joy and expectation of it, and then co [...]
Basic HTML struggles on the wild web 🔗
Two things that frustrate me as a web developer when I see them on the wild web: Being unable to toggle a tick box by clicking/tapping on its label. [...]
4 of 8 🔗
Since getting the Fitbit, I've been trying to walk 250 steps or more every hour. It pings me 10 minutes before an hour is to finish if I haven't alrea [...]
Response: "Note-taking apps: Bear and Joplin" 🔗
It's interesting to me Will was able to move from Bear to Joplin and generally enjoys it as much as he did Bear. I use and love Bear, and the closest [...]
New to Mastodon? These 10 minutes are very important 🔗
I've been on the fediverse/Mastodon since 2019 and have made some amazing friends. At the moment, I run SmallCamp, and help moderate Fosstodon along w [...]
Mastodon needs a new-ish algorithm 🔗
The timeline. The reverse chronological timeline has been failing for me recently. As has the notifications tab for mental health reasons. I think I w [...]
Techie posts are okay 🔗
I think my break is over. However, you will not find any personal posts (or personal side stories) from me anymore over here. Please follow my socials [...]
Taking an indefinite break 🔗
I'm taking an indefinite break on this blog. It has been a long time coming… wrote a little about it on Fosstodon, too, a while ago. It's a locked pos [...]
On blogging and blogging platforms 🔗
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I talked about not blogging as much in my June 2022 review. Internal monologue around that continues and I'm constantly finding myself [...]
One month with NextDNS 🔗
I lied — it's not been a whole month. Close enough, though. OK, anway, first, let's get some setup and numbers out of the way. Setup. I set up NextDNS [...]
August 2022 in review 🔗
8 months down, 4 to go. Like any other year, 2022 is zooming past. Somehow, still, more than ever. New workplace. I mentioned about starting a new con [...]
Signal messenger is unviable on iOS 🔗
This is not a surprise to veteran iOS users, or Signal enthusiasts. There is no way to backup your chats, not in a way that I can count as reliable an [...]
July 2022 in review 🔗
Ok, the year is flying by — please stop? rain. Not very appealing, is it? A lot of rains this month. Not enjoying them as much as an adult as I did ad [...]
AirPods – or any true wireless earbuds – is just not practical 🔗
In the metro cities and the airports of India — especially airports — I got real tired of seeing people sport their AirPods. I would think to myself e [...]