A few different things all came together to write this post today.My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned in my RSS article, is as follows: “My setup for reading is FreshRSS instance on my...
WeekNotes Feb 2-14
Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and then started getting more weird BSODs in Windows itself. (Unironically Battlefield 2042 may be the best non...
A Spotify Alternative – Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.
Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Following up on my wildly successful post about Netflix/Stremio. This is my current music stack and how you get rid of paid music streaming services. Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Exporting your music First thing I did was download all my songs from my current streaming service that was Tidal at...
Incompetent It Technicians
I don’t claim to be the worlds greatest technician. I claim to be competent. Unfortunately the average technician I run into is incompetent. Wondering if other IT people reading this have the same experience or if it’s specific to where I live. My friend reached out to me about his computer, he said someone told him there might be a virus. He brings me the computer, it’s a...
I fucked up: Cleaning up your corner of the world
For years, I have been recommending Honey. I was under the impression they were tracking your web and purchasing behavior and selling it for advertising. Which, for me, was a fine tradeoff, as most people are already being tracked, and at least now they got something useful. Well, it turns out, as you’re probably already aware, they were stealing affiliate links, as well as providing the ability...
2025 Moving Forward
Yes another 2025 post to spam your feed with . I split this and the previous post up as it was too overwhelming as one giant post. Some things I would like to post more about: Self Hosting/My Homelab Interacting more with the Indie/Smol web community with things like response posts or trending post types Miyoo mini and retro handhelds in general Tracking books I read and games I play Video...
2024 Year In Review
It’s been a pretty good year for the blog, and I’ve implemented some stepping stones for a better year in 2025. In terms of writing I took on the 100 days to offload. I didn’t even get close, but I did end up writing way way more than last year. My writing grammar and spelling have improved significantly and they also got an extra buff from my wife proofreading everything. I...
Site Optimiziations
Tweaked some stuff yesterday and loading speeds seem to be improved significantly . Removed these plugins Gwolle Guestbook – No usage so was removedInsert pages -cant remember what this was forSimple Guesbook – was installed for testing forgot to removedSite kit by google – Wasn’t doing anything for me Ultimate Category Excluder – Rambles are included on the main...
Why is visual voicemail not the standard on Android in 2024?
Is there some technical reason that this isn’t built in a feature to android? Why is it either a cell providers POC app (usually with a addon to your bill) or just not there? Actually drives me mad.And if you know of an app or service that I have missed please let me know TIA.
This is day 29 of #100DaysToOffload
My Default Apps at the End of 2024
Following the rest of the blogosphere thanks to Robb Knight . I have also stolen Kev’s title please don’t sue me. I have a huge list of Techreccs as well with way more stuff than whats here. Please go check it out as I have spent an enormous amount of time putting it together.📨 Mail Client – Mailbird on Windows and Mailspring on Linux📮 Mail Server – Gmail and Infomaniak📝...