Cameras: 2025

Today, I sent in my Canon 6D to be traded-in. I was also looking for our Canon 5D mark 3 but we haven't been able to find it around the house. It has gone missing and we haven't seen it in a few weeks. Kristen and

Witchi-Tai-To

Whenever I come out of a sad or rough day/night, I wake up with this urge to listen to some music that I can only describe as "recovery music". The music makes me think of a situation where I was stuck in a state that felt unrecoverable

Public charges an optional contribution for trades

I've recently been trying to lower my Robinhood usage and try other trading platforms. Especially because I rely on the brokerage to mainly allow me to trade while most of the analysis I do is off the apps and in other places. So this naturally led me to

Ghost has raised prices and removed features for the Starter plan

I've been using Ghost for 2 years now, just renewed for my 3rd year. Unfortunately, I let my yearly subscription lapse and my blog was locked out for awhile. I came back to it today to renew and get my blog up and running again. When I went

A basic helix config

I've been using helix as a batteries included editor over neovim, the modal editing is similar to vim so I don't feel like it's learning something new. I just wanted to have some basic config that I wanted to share here: theme = "gruvbox_

Q

🔖Note to readers: this post contains a lot of personal opinions, if you're a reader who is not keen on metaphors, allegories, or analogies, please don't read this. This post has been brewing in my mind for days, the desire to write it has gotten strong

The Kaua'i ō'ō bird

Now extinct, the Kaua'i o'o bird was from the islands of Hawai'i specifically Kaua'i. I recently learned about it when someone posted an audio clip of the last known bird's call. The call was recorded by the ornithologist David Boynton

This morning’s teas

I’m starting to keep this blog as a journal more than larger posts It’s 48°F right now in Portland so a cup of tea sounds perfect.

15 years of usmanity.com

It was the last day of 2009, last day of the 2000s and I had just come back home from working at the warehouse. The whole past week I had been thinking so hard about my life and what I wanted to do next. I had been out of high

End of year review, 2024

In last year's post, I focused mainly on my health. This year, I wanted to write a holistic review of my year and talk about things in addition to my health like work, pets, home life, and other things. First, let's start with health. Health This

Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving

This year, Rosie is the newcomer to the family but she is settling is well. Samson and her love going on walks so this is a photo (after many attempts) we were able to get of them. My photography skills have definitely deteriorated so I will try to capture more

Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)

With iOS 18 and other recent Apple OS releases, Apple announced animated and formatted messages. At first, on iOS this looks like this: But I wanted to share some more interesting shortcuts that I discovered on macOS by accident, you can actually format your messages using traditional text formatting shortcuts:

simple pleasures

Showing photos to Heisenberg

I’m trying to notice the little moments in my daily life that are simple pleasures in grateful for. “Simple pleasures” comes from the Bobby Mcferrin album and I like it a lot. Yesterday, while I was heads down working, my cat Heisenberg came by and just sat in between

life

Who killed the squirrel?

I just sat down to write this because I couldn't stop thinking about what I experienced earlier today. I was talking on the phone with my sister so I was in the midst of conversation when I walked outside to the trash bins to throw away a bag

Updates

The Big Summer Update

I've been wanting to write this post for almost a month now. And as I waited, more and more things kept popping into my life. So, this weekend I wanted to sit down and write but yesterday I had an insane sinus headache that prevented me from doing

design

An alternative WezTerm icon

I recently read a post from Alex Plescan praising Wezterm, and it piqued my interest enough to try it. I followed most of Alex's guide on setting it up and then customizing it to look like my own a bit. Here's what my final setup looks

audiobook

Iron Flame, book review

After a few months of slowly making progress through the audiobook, this weekend I finished the Iron Flame audiobook. I enjoyed the first book in the series, Fourth Wing, so this was an easy one to get started with. Rebecca Yarros is a great writer, I felt like I couldn’

Rethinking about my data hub

This morning, I woke up with this persistent thought nagging at me it would be really cool to have a working data hub Again? What is the data hub? The data hub is an idea that I should store almost all of my digital data in a single place. But

samson

Samson with his favorite toys

Drake is going to disappear in a few generations

his music will not be listened to like that of many others. Kendrick will leave a mark. Hamilton is going to outlive Drake.

code

Fixing: Artifact could not be deployed. Please ensure the content does not contain any hard links, symlinks and total size is less than 10GB.

💡TLDR: use actions/upload-pages-artifact instead of actions/upload-artifact. If you're building a JS project using a static site generator like Eleventy (11ty) or Astro, you might encounter this really annoying issue where the artifact is showing as uploaded and is downloadable but the deployment never finishes because of

health

A slump slump

I had a headache today, it was accompanied by a sore jaw on one side of my mouth and some swollen lymph nodes. When I woke up this morning, it was mild but by mid morning it had gotten pretty bad. I decided to not work all day and lay

Yaptain

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A song my friends taught me

There are 100s of instrumental songs I have in my library and every single one has a different reason I've liked it but one song that I keep coming back to because of how simply beautiful and nostalgic it is, is called "Song My Friends Taught Me&