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Career Change Ahead
Like many others I’ve been watching with apprehension as the tech and finance sectors have faced layoff after layoff. Last month my employer announced organization-wide restructuring which left my position in question. I’ve been laid off before, so I spent...
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (With Syncthing!)
In a previous post I contemplated the idea of replacing Nextcloud with Syncthing. Since then I’ve done exactly that. Syncthing is a great piece of software and this post is going to take a surface-level look at how I’ve settled...
The Ultimate Cure for Hiccups
Hiccups are annoying. If you’re a regular sufferer you may have heard all the old tricks: ask someone to scare you, drink from the far side of the glass, reach for some pickle juice. As Hobbes said: I think most...
Nextcloud 25 - Fix Broken File Browser on 32-bit OS
At time of writing it seems like the folks over at Nextcloud have unintentionally dropped support for 32-bit architecture. After performing the upgrade to Nextcloud 25 I realized the file browser no longer worked, as suggested by that open issue...
How To | Tame a Stock Ender3 V2 Printer
My first exposure to 3D printing was in High School. At that time, our shop had a Z Corp Z402 - an early 3D printing unit that was about the size of a vending machine. A rapid-prototyping machine, it would...
I Watched 1300 Movies in 2021...Here's my Top 1%
After my Nic Cage marathon wrapped in early 2021 I decided I wanted to set a watch goal for the entire year. Originally I set the goal at 365 movies by the end of the year. When I blew past...
I Made 2-Million-Scoville Pickles...
About a year ago I was gifted a local cache of spicy pickles. I was immediately in love with them and finished off the batch in record time. Over the past winter break I was reminded of them and started...
Building an Air Quality Monitor
I was YouTube hopping recently when I clicked on an interesting-sounding video from Tom Scott titled: This Is Your Brain on Stale Air (6 mins) Those familiar with Tom’s channel will probably say: “No duh! Every video is interesting!”, and...
Nicolas Cage Films RANKED
One year into COVID-quarantine has done wonders for my “to-watch” list. Since January 1st I’ve watched 233 films. Some of these are rewatches (there’s something nice about revisiting HARRY POTTER and THE LORD OF THE RINGS around the holidays), though...
Tesla & Stage Lighting
This is probably the most “character” models I’ve done in a long time. Moreso, it’s definitely the most DRAWING I’ve done in a long time. Full disclosure, this sketch had to go through a ton of plastic surgery in the...