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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 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.

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

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

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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&

Is it a body ache or is it my medication?

I've been having this strange thought recently that maybe it's my medicine, mesalamine causing me to have side effects that are like a headache, a random ache in my bones, or some times just an uncomfortable feeling. I think it's maybe aging too? I

Six months of UC

This week marks 6 months since I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), and I wanted to share some thoughts on what has changed in my life because of this. The Diagnosis Last year, around September, I started to get stomach pain and sudden urges to run to the restroom.

Onions

I wanted to call this post something else, but today in the shower, I had an idea: there are so many layers of myself that I have discovered over the last few years, and yet so many more that I haven’t even begun to peel back. The reason I&

February and March roundups

The past two months have gone by so fast, I can't believe it. And it's all been in a very good kind of way of time passing. The kind where you're busy everyday and come Friday, you're surprised the week went by

Subtracting projects

Lately, I've been exploring the idea of simplifying my life by subtracting rather than adding. This journey began with the book Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! and was further inspired by Subtract by Leidy Klotz. In this post, I'll focus on subtracting projects I've started over

Cancel vs subscribe 2024

For the past few years, I've been doing this thing where at the beginning of every year, I take a hard look at my subscriptions and decide if I should consider canceling or continuing to subscribe, and in some rare case, start subscribing to new services. I want