2021 New Year's Resolutions

2021-01-01 5 min read

January 1st. The first day of the new year. Normally a cool, snowy (or icy) day where I live. And also, the day when people traditionally plan out or begin to implement their New Year’s resolutions.

My Thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions

I have an interesting relationship with New Year’s resolutions. I vaguely recall that, during my childhood, I somewhat embraced the idea of setting goals for myself: things that I would quit doing, start doing, improve, etc over the course of the next year. However, try as I might, rarely did a resolution stick. I would perhaps start out strong, but slowly, over the next few weeks and months, I would eventually give up, and settle back into my normal routine.

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2020 Year in Review

2020-12-31 7 min read

December 31st, 2020. In some ways, it’s hard to believe that I’ve already reached the end of this year. In others, it seemed like this year would never end. Although 2020 definitely didn’t end up looking anything like what I had planned, there have been so memorable moments. And so, as is my tradition, here’s a look back at the last 12 months of my life.

The first few months of the year looked pretty standard, for those that have read previous iterations of these posts. I kept busy with work throughout most of January and February, along with my usual volunteering at church, and hanging out with friends for birthday parties, SuperBowl parties, and various small-group-related activities.

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2020-12-12

Saturday mornings are for…

  1. workouts.
  2. coffee.
  3. upgrading DigitalOcean droplets.
  4. all of the above.

If you selected 4, all of the above, you are correct.

😁

Context: Originally posted to my Fosstodon (Mastodon) account

2020-12-05

Me: attempts to install app on MacBook Pro

Sorry, that app only works on the latest version of the OS.

Apparently I have to update Mac OS now. πŸ˜•

Sometimes I wish everything worked like Linux. It feels β€œsimpler” in many respects…

Context: Originally posted to my Fosstodon (Mastodon) account

2020-11-23

For some reason this THROUGHLY amused me. Probably because it’s so true… πŸ˜‚

Impending Zoom

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2020-11-23

Spent part of the afternoon rebuilding my little Z-Wave network with a new Zooz USB Stick and my Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’d been having issues with my old Z-Wave stick not being detected properly (ever since migrating to the RPi4), and after reading through the workaround/“fix” over the weekend, I decided to just upgrade to a better-supported adapter.

Now I can once again reliably control my lights (including Christmas lights) from my phone, as expected! πŸŽ‰

Context: Originally posted to my Fosstodon (Mastodon) account

2020-11-23

Listening to GregKH’s keynote from the recent Linux App Summit while I work this morning.

I’ve heard bits and pieces of this content before, but this is by far one of the most concise presentations of it in recent memory. The biggest takeaway? “Don’t break userspace - we want users to upgrade without worry”.

Definitely worth checking out, both for Linux fans, and even more importantly for software developers.

Context: Originally posted to my Fosstodon (Mastodon) account

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