For many years, this website served as my personal blog, where I wrote about pretty much anything I cared about — a weird mix of everything from film photography to technology to cooking to whatever else came to mind. In 2019, I split-out my film photography interests into a separate website, originally intending to kill this site entirely. In the end, I left a handful of my most popular posts online, but otherwise abandoned the site.
In 2024, I decided to resurrect this site, reactivate a few bits of old content, and start creating new posts as well. This site will remain a rather esoteric mix of topics that interest me. Those include ham (amateur) radio, technology (especially computing and networking), and food and cooking in particular, but it might also venture into home improvement, media, music, or anything else that pops to mind.
Regardless of what you came here for, I hope you find some items of interest.
Latest posts
Here are my latest posts. For a full list, visit the Posts section.
- Solitaire, Streaks, and the Economics of Engagement
Over the past year I developed an unexpectedly consistent habit: I played solitaire almost every day. Not with a deck of cards, and not with the classic version that shipped with Windows decades ago, but… Read more: Solitaire, Streaks, and the Economics of Engagement - The Synth I Was Too Afraid to Use
There are certain instruments that occupy a strange place in a musician’s mind. They’re not just tools; they’re aspirations. The kind of thing you read about long before you ever have the chance to touch… Read more: The Synth I Was Too Afraid to Use - There’s Never Been a Stronger Need for Genuine, In-Person Human Connection
After reading a couple of news items and a couple of blog posts this morning, I’ve suddenly become convinced that we’re at a critical time in human history with respect to the need for true… Read more: There’s Never Been a Stronger Need for Genuine, In-Person Human Connection - Less vs. Fewer: This Shouldn’t Be Hard
I have enormous respect for Jeff Atwood. He’s a programmer extraordinaire, and the man behind Coding Horror, a blog I read for years back when Atwood was not yet a household name in certain circles.… Read more: Less vs. Fewer: This Shouldn’t Be Hard - Resolutions Are Easy; Reflection Is Useful
I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, if I’m honest. I’ve never seen much value in daydreaming about all the changes I’m going to make when they rarely, if ever, stick. It often feels like… Read more: Resolutions Are Easy; Reflection Is Useful - Linux on a New Computer for the First Time
For years, I’ve had Raspberry Pi boxes around for specific duties, like classic arcade game emulation, running Pi-hole (a DNS sinkhole), running NextCloudPi (a self-hosted cloud platform), and for running Home Assistant. But until about… Read more: Linux on a New Computer for the First Time - Getting Linux Going on the Maxhub MI20 Mini PC (NUC)
Here’s a very niche article… Did you by any chance, as I did, pick-up a cheap NUC from Maxhub on Amazon to run Linux? And did you, as I did, discover that the Ethernet adapter… Read more: Getting Linux Going on the Maxhub MI20 Mini PC (NUC) - Bridging Wavelog and CAT: Rolling My Own
For months now, I’ve been using Wavelog (a fork of the Cloudlog application) as my amateur radio logging software of choice. It wasn’t particularly easy or straightforward to get it running, but it is running… Read more: Bridging Wavelog and CAT: Rolling My Own