While I made the change a few weeks ago, it seems fitting that my first post of 2021 should be about my swap to the Twenty Twenty-One WordPress theme. For anyone who isn’t aware, each year WordPress releases a new “official” theme for the platform. While theme-elitists out there may scoff at them in favor… Continue reading Twenty Twenty-One WordPress Theme
Books: Bird Box
Continuing with the theme of reading books that spawned movies I thought were terrible but had interesting concepts, I recently read Bird Box. I watched the film for Bird Box back in 2018 shortly after it was released on Netflix, and I wasn’t exactly fond of it. So much of the film just didn’t seem… Continue reading Books: Bird Box
2020 Apple Music Replay
At the end of each year I always look forward to my yearly music stats. I did a post back in 2018 with my Spotify Wrapped statistics, and Brandi and I did a podcast episode on our 2019 music stats. This year is a bit wonky since I used several different music services, but the… Continue reading 2020 Apple Music Replay
Star Lite Mk III
After spending some quality time with my Pinebook Pro, I decided that I wanted something slightly more powerful for my personal laptop. While most of my heavy-lifting in the world of computers is done with my MacBook Pro for work (which was recently upgraded to a device featuring the new M1 chips; look for more… Continue reading Star Lite Mk III
Adding SSH To GitHub
Between the Thanksgiving holiday and some shifting priorities when I got back to work, I hadn’t made any new commits to my GitHub account for about 10 days. This meant that I didn’t have any new posts to my recently-launched GitCommit site that makes a bit of a microblog from my commit messages. To be… Continue reading Adding SSH To GitHub
Books: The Silence
Nearly a year and a half ago, I went on a movie binge and watched The Silence. My consensus was that the movie itself was pretty poorly executed with nearly enough plot holes to make me overlook how interesting the overall premise of the story happened to be. I had written: Just like with Bird… Continue reading Books: The Silence
macOS Big Sur pip Installation Error
Given that I have technological FOMO while also being a technology masochist, I upgraded my 2018 MacBook Pro to macOS 11 “Big Sur” as soon as it was available. Common sense dictates that I should have waited a while to let others encounter and fix some of the kinks prior to upgrading myself, but what’s… Continue reading macOS Big Sur pip Installation Error
RememBear Password Manager
A few weeks ago I received an email offering to let me try the premium variant of the RememBear password manager for a year for free. I assume that I received this since I currently have an active TunnelBear subscription that I use for my VPN. I didn’t bother looking into things too closely, but… Continue reading RememBear Password Manager
Keychron K2 V2
I recently ran into a problem with my keyboard at home, a Logitech K350, AKA a Logitech Wave; the O key stopped reliably working. Sometimes it would work fine, sometimes it would work only when pressed with an excessive amount of force no touch-typist could reliably muster (at which point the key would clank down… Continue reading Keychron K2 V2
Apple Music: Back in the Saddle
For anyone who listens to the Same Shade of Difference podcast, you may have heard a brief discussion between Mark and I about how I had switched from Apple Music to Amazon Music. I’ve previously been a fan of Spotify, though I became increasingly irritated with the focus they started giving podcasts rather than music.… Continue reading Apple Music: Back in the Saddle