Iowa's 2020 Hurricane
It’s been far too long, again, since I posted to this blog, but this time I have a legitimate excuse: we’ve been without power or internet, or much of anything, since about 11:45 AM on Monday, August...
Pandemic Pastime: Walking and Picking Up Trash
It’s been far too long since I posted to this blog; I guess I’ve been busy? Nah, not any more than usual, but during the COVID-19 pandemic I have doubled my efforts to get out and walk in the fresh...
→ Home Automation
During the COVID-19 pandemic I decided, while working endlessly from my home office, to resurect the hanging bird feeder outside my office window. I like having the birds visit, but I’ve noticed one...
Adding 'Remote Atom' to My DigitalOcean Server
Last evening and early this morning I completed the addition of a new (to me) package to Atom on my Mac Mini. The package is Remote Atom and I found the configuration to be a little confusing, but in...
Launching MacDown from a Terminal
Lately I find that I like to open Markdown documents in MacDown rather than Atom. This is espeically true of things like “README.md” documents that I intend to read, but not edit. This can be done...
Migrating the Wieting Site in Drupal 8
Migrating the Wieting Site in Drupal 8 Sorry for my extended absence here, I’ve been uber-busy with work, but have also been able to work a little (lots of long nights and weekends) on a...
→ Testing My ExternalURL Feature
Really just testing out this blog’s externalurl feature here. Click on the --> at the head of this post to see my “professional” post about building Grocy in Docker and Docksal.
My Photos Workflow
I recently returned from vacation in Norway with a few hundred photos and a handful of videos, taken mostly using my iPhone 8. I find that the Apple Photos app does a pretty nice job of cataloging...
Travel...MSP to CDG to OSL to KKN
This post is really part of my Norway photo blog which you can find elsewhere on this site. Note that the photos here are in reverse-chronological order with the exception of one “lead” post that...