Author: JFab
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Balatro
Balatro is a game that I had seen people talking about for a while in random articles or Bluesky posts but didn’t pay any attention to. I knew it had something to do with poker, and as someone who has never been interested in poker that was immediately something of a turnoff for me. A…
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Determining Which Service Kicked Off A Linux Process
I recently found myself needing to check the status of a service. I would traditionally do this via: While this has historically worked for the service in question, this time it gave me a message that there was no service found with that name. That being said, I knew for a fact that the application…
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Red Sift For Let’s Encrypt Certificate Expiration
Recently, Let’s Encrypt announced that they would no longer be sending out notification emails when certificates they’ve issued are about to expire: Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025. The short…
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Sublime Text Arbitrary Language Servers
When working with code, I tend to be a person who jumps around between various editors rather than being completely fixated on a single one, for better or for worse. Generally speaking, the following editors are in my normal rotation: Out of these, I don’t think I’d say that I have a favorite; each has…
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Micro.blog
Just under a year ago I wrote about my love/hate relationship with social media and microblogging in particular. Since that post, I’ve stayed away from Mastodon but was a fairly heavy (relatively speaking) Bluesky user. While I like Bluesky, there remain two problems endemic to social media platforms like it: My predominant reason for soldiering…
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Note Taking Journey
With the start of a new year, I’ve once again circled back on my note taking workflow. Notes are something that I consider extremely important. From random things I need to jot down and keep track of in my personal life to technical and meeting notes for work, I’ve had need of a personal knowledge…
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Goodreads 2024 In Books
With 2024 coming to a close, it’s time for the year-end wrap-ups that so many online services now send out. I’m always interested in comparing those year-over-year to see if I changed, improved (if relevant), etc., so here’s a look at my reading habits over 2024. The Goal As you may recall from last year,…
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MLS Cup 2024 Viewership
The 2024 MLS season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago on December 7th, with the LA Galaxy defeating the New York Red Bulls 2-1. Since then, some of spouted doom and gloom regarding the abysmal performance of the game on broadcast television, which reported a 47% drop in viewership compared to the previous Cup.…
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Fedora 41 Released
Back in my nascent days of using Linux as a desktop operating system, I was guilty of distro-hopping all the time. Every time something new released, I would want to try it out and learn the differences. Now that I’m older with less free time and about 18 years of using Linux under my belt,…
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Vampire Survivors+
As an Apple One subscriber, I periodically check out new games added to the Apple Arcade. Some of them, like NFL Retro Bowl 25 or A Slight Chance Of Sawblades end up being terrific games that I spend a lot of time with. Most of them, however, I end up uninstalling pretty quickly and firing…