A few months ago, I made the decision to switch from using Bitly for domain shortening to hosting my own URL shortener. The primary motivation behind this move was to save more than just a few dollars. After exploring various options available, I ultimately settled on YOURLs as my preferred choice.

i used to fill my time with food; for a fleeting moment it would apease my emotions now i find myself unsure what to do; it creates quiet the endless, anxious commotion how will i be a whole person when giving up part of me after so long? i want to learn to love myself, but it means no food that i trust to keep me emotionally strong.

Problem Most modern day nerds have no less that three browsers and browssing profiles installed on their machines. We use different browsers for different things. You might have Firefox for using evil Meta apps, a Chrome profile for Work, a separate Chrome profile for testing, Edge for Microsoft apps, and Safari for everything else.

As I detailed in my recent Hugo blog post, I wanted to have Github invoke an action that automatically deployed my site upon commit of new code. As I was looking around the internet for inspiration, I stumbled upon Render which hosts unlimited static sites for free and integrated with Github to automatically deploy.

Overview My blog has lived a number of places across the web including Tumblr, Squarespace, and WordPress. Earlier this year I made a decision to take it a completely new direction - Hugo + Git + an object storage bucket. Hugo is a CLI static site generator - all of my pages and posts are markdown files that Hugo marries with a theme, and outputs in static HTML which lends to small site size and incredible speed.

There are a lot of things going on here on Earth that are hard to process and deal with physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Seeing #LaunchAmerica happen is truly awe-inspiring, and brings hope. It should be a reminder that all but five humans are sharing a planet together at this moment. My thoughts are with the families and friends of George Floyd and others that have unnecessarily lost their lives at the hands of a brutal police force.

Last month I co-founded a new small business, SnarkPile! My business partner Dave and I both have the entrepreneurial spirit and always kicked around different business ideas. He called me one day and pitched an idea to bring #SassTags into the real world. I was hooked, and a few weeks later, we launched the site.

In August 2018 I made a decision to quite Facebook, primarly because I felt like it wasn’t adding anything positive to my life. It was an app that I was endlessly scrolling through, with little or no added value, and often times taking away value. The last straw was Facebook disabling the API that allowed me to post the #punoftheday via a 3rd party tool to schedule posts (I used Buffer).

I previously stored my recovery key for macOS FileVault with iCloud, but ran into issues one day and couldn’t get back into my computer. (Thank god for Backblaze!) Now I store it in 1Password, but I had a panic this morning when setting up encryption for some other disks - did I have the correct recovery key saved?

My father raped me. And it has taken me half my life to find the courage write those four words. At the age of 16 I had to endure something that I hope no other person, especially a child, has to experience. And most definitely not at the hands of a parent.