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Finishing Peaky Blinders
About a week ago from the time of this writing (and publication will be later), I finally finished watching the television series Peaky Blinders. It may be surprising that someone who has a website that’s a play on the show’s title hadn’t actually finished watching it, but that’s my typical TV viewing pattern. I’ll get…
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Apple Music Monthly Replay
The end of each year has become a deluge of metrics from all of our favorite services, with everything from Spotify (which is the first one to do it that I’m aware of) to WakaTime telling us all about what we watched, listened, and worked on through the previous year. Not content to wait until…
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Only Run Puppet Resources If Service Exists
I recently ran into a bit of a struggle configuring some infrastructure with Puppet. I created a module that manages .jar files on several servers, and I was in the process of expanding the amount of items that particular module applied to. My problem stemmed from the fact that I had a large number of…
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Git Pull Unable To Fast-Forward
git is a tool that’s likely a key part of any developer’s toolbox in 2024, but it’s also a very opaque tool. Many developers, myself included, know the basic commands they need to run for making commits, rebasing them, stashing changes, managing branches, etc. However, I know that I often have a poor grasp of…
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Bluesky Access Methods
Since I did a post on Mastodon access methods, I figured it only made sense to do a similar post for Bluesky. Bluesky hasn’t been around nearly as long as Mastodon, and as a result it’s far more limited with respect to 3rd party client options. However, as it recently dropped its invite-only status, user…
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Protoniversary
Hot on the heels of my swap to Proton Pass, I hit my Proton Anniversary a few days later. I received this lovely email in my inbox: Every year that someone is a Proton subscriber, they receive a storage bonus. As a Proton Unlimited subscriber, this means that I get a bonus 10 GB of…
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Proton Pass
I’ve been a fan of Proton Mail since shortly after the service started (back when it was called “Protonmail”). In fact, it was the topic of choice for the very first episode of the (long since defunct) Unusually Pink Podcast. In the intervening years, “Protonmail” has evolved into the Proton family of services, all with…
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
For the majority of my life, I’ve been a fairly die-hard gamer. From Street Fighter to Quake to Counter-Strike to StarCraft to World of Warcraft to League of Legends, I’ve played a lot of games, mostly in the arena of competitive games that I could basically play forever. Games I could play endlessly have been…
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You Should Seriously Consider Switching To Firefox
It’s 2024, and every time I see someone sharing their screen during a call at work, they’re using Chrome as their web browser. Whether it’s someone in marketing, sales, engineering, development, or anything else in between, pretty much everyone is using Chrome. It’s actually a noteworthy event for me when I see someone using another…
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Geeky Blinders At The Bleeding Edge Of The Apple Vision Pro
Some exciting news today in the world of the Geeky Blinders as member Nelson and (hopefully soon to be member) Mark were tapped for input on a ZDNET article about people planning to pre-order the Apple Vision Pro! Here are a few of their quotes: Nelson Karrick, a network engineer, said, “The technology [Apple is]…