Welcome. This is my space for thoughts on technology, privacy, digital sovereignty, and whatever else crosses my mind.
It's also about anything that I find to be wonderful.
You're an American, and you're in Europe. You've been brought up on the inferior Fahrenheit scale (which makes no reasonable sense to any physicist), and you can't figure out what to wear. What do these numbers mean? Wha…
Continue reading →I'm probably on the spectrum (never officially diagnosed as far as I know), but I get sucked into projects rather easily. This means that other things around me become forgotten or go unnoticed for a while.
Continue reading →As part of the whole "Getting off of the American Tech Stack" thing, and eschewing iCloud as much as possible, I've run into a particular problem here in France.
Continue reading →I'm finally set up. It's been an incredible ride. I'll have to update my page on getting off of the American Tech Stack. I know that many others have been documenting their progress on their own blogs. I have set up full…
Continue reading →One of the things which I changed in my life is my schedule. I used to go to bed after dawn on most days. I liked the quiet time of the night. But then, I'd wake up around noon and felt like the entire day had gone by an…
Continue reading →Cory Doctorow has a wonderful piece out today called Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) in which he talks about RSS feeds. RSS, for those who don't know, is one of the best things ever created. I'll …
Continue reading →It's something I decided to do while waiting for my latest restic backup download to my local drive. Seeing as I was up at an ungodly hour (3:45 am), and having solved some issues with restic and automating the download,…
Continue reading →I've recently deleted everything off of Apple Podcasts. Keep in mind - I've used this app for years on a daily basis. It used to be reliably on my home screen - the first one, mind - at the bottom so I could reach it as …
Continue reading →One thing about revamping your entire system and going independent is that it forces you to finally consolidate everything under your own independent means. I forgot how much crap i had over at Google since twenty years …
Continue reading →If there's one thing that is more time consuming than anything when changing your domain, it's changing to your new email address on every single website and service where you had your old one.
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