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  • Reconfiguring Vim

    As I’ve talked about plenty of times before, I tend to use a lot of different text editors when writing code. Lately, I’ve been using VS Code for most of my development needs, mixed with IntelliJ IDEA when I need to write Groovy code since I haven’t found literally any way to get half-decent Groovy…


  • Why Microsoft Teams Is So Annoying To Use

    In a move undoubtedly designed to quell any further antitrust complaints without actually making much of a significant impact, Microsoft recently announced that they were unbundling Teams from Office 365. New Office 365 subscriptions will not include Teams, though it will remain bundled for any existing customers… which is a lot of them. My first…


  • Spotify Needs The Unix Philosophy

    For years, I was a die-hard Spotify user. I would use it every day, streamed it from my Echo, and had the account tied into everything. When I needed a gift for someone else, I would give them a Spotify gift card so that they could have Premium for a year. Spotify had pretty good…


  • Jetpack Boost Cache Site Pages

    Like a lot of people who run sites on WordPress, I use Jetpack with my site to provide benefits like CDN and security. Having used WordPress sites without it before, I can say pretty confidently that not having a CDN can be an absolute nightmare when it comes to performance, especially when using a lower…


  • Proton VPN With TP-Link AX3000

    I’ve been using a TP-Link Archer AX3000 router to power my home network for a couple of years now. I’ve been extremely pleased with the device, and it’s honestly exceeded all of my (admittedly low) expectations as far as consumer networking gear goes. That being said, once I got everything configured shortly after procuring the…


  • Helix Editor

    Because I’m some kind of masochist, I frequently swap between editors when writing code. For the most part, that means swapping between established editors that I know and already have configured on my system because I feel like using a graphical editor today versus a terminal-based editor yesterday, etc. On rare occasions, though, I find…


  • IM Apps And Privacy

    Next month, my SO is heading on a cruise. I’m, unfortunately, going to be sitting at home wishing that I was on a cruise to the Caribbean rather than going. Since we’ll be apart for the duration, we’re obviously interested in having some means by which to communicate with one another while she’s on the…


  • The Beauty Of The Apple Ecosystem

    I’ve been a card-carrying member of Team Apple™ for about 5 years now. In late 2019, I started a new job that offered me a choice of what device I’d like for my work. Having been frustrated with Windows clients and servers for a decade as an Active Directory systems administrator in a very large…


  • Speed Across Programming Languages

    Earlier today I was debating what programming language to use for a small, number-intensive project. I tend to use a variety of languages based around what the project is for and what constraints are in play. For example, most of my “freeform” work is usually in Python just because I like it the best. In…


  • Trying To Leave Microblogging

    On the whole, I tend to be fairly negative about social media. The only social media I’ve had without fail over the past decade is LinkedIn, and that’s only continued to exist because I treat it more as an online resume than a social network; I’ve never actually posted to my timeline on LinkedIn, and…