WordPressure
I've been interested in moving away from WordPress, and 7.0's AI integrations might be the kick in the pants I need. Where to go, though? And how to do it without having to deploy my development skills?
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Elgato Wave Link and OBS
Elgato's Wave Link 3.0 effortlessly solves my audio input issues when recording with OBS.
Software
Blogging with External Tools
This is just a test, really, of using Ulysses to publish blog posts. If you see this, it worked!
Software
Some of the Also-Rans
A quick mention of some additional Discord-likes for those who are interested in kicking tires, fleeing the oppressor, or just need something to read with breakfast.
Software
The Discord Saga: A Modern Day Trash Fire
Enshittification continues. Concerned about Discord's age verification plans? What are our alternatives, and how viable are they?
Editorial, Software
I Lied: NOW It’s Getting Ridiculous
I just want audio control with my hardware!
Uncategorized, Hardware, Software
Now It's Getting Ridiculous
Another hardware device enters the house because I didn't prune my wish list. I'd like to get this device into my setup, but I have to fight with the designer's preconceived notions on how they think it should be used in order to do so.
Hardware, Software
Whether to Stick It or Get Stuck To
It burned twice as bright for 1/4 as long and while it showed promise, it was just too expensive in too many ways compared to selling my soul to the Evil Empire.
Editorial, Software
Grab Bag for Wednesday, October 15th
Random garbage from me to you: 3D printing, Home Assistant, Streamdeck setups, and a pretty good Star Trek game demo.
Gaming, Hardware, Software, 3D Printing
My Music - Late Breaking Addendum
From Crates to MediaMonkey, and from smart-ass VPN to popular workhorse Plex.
Software, Music
Private Music Streaming
I think I've managed to cobble together a solution which will let me run my own streaming service. I just need to get off my own home wifi to try it out.
Software, Music
Desktop Media Players - What Will I Use?
My takeaway from trialing several desktop media players, and ultimately, which one I'm going to use.
Software, Music
Desktop Music Players - AIMP
I guess if you have media you need to play, AIMP will work, but it's one step above Windows Media Player and only just.
Software, Music
Desktop Music Players - MusicBee
MusicBee is simple yet offers a decent array of tools for organizing your media library.
Software, Music
Desktop Music Players - MediaMonkey
Looking at MediaMonkey, a powerful tool for managing very large media libraries, and a pretty good player to boot.
Software, Music
Desktop Music Players - Helium 17
Helium is a clean looking media player seemingly geared towards file maintenance, but doesn't look to offer as many bells and whistles as some of the other players.
Software, Music
Desktop Music Players - Crates
I'm test driving a bunch of desktop music players. In today's episode: Crates, a music player-slash-organizer that also lets you source plays from online services, all in one place.
Software, Music
Emergency Utility
I had a dream about solving an issue and when I woke up and tried the solution in the real world, it worked perfectly.
Software
Grab Bag for Week Ending July 13, 2025
Printing praise, living that beach life on Arrakis, project confessions, resurrecting two legends, and complaining about Star Citizen (again) in this installment of the Grab Bag.
Star Citizen, Hardware, Software, Dune Awakening
Non-Disaster Recovery
Reinstalling Windows apps after a system refresh used to be painful, but I found a modern work-around.
Software
Still Makin' Them Pants
Well, it's working, so here's my rundown of how. Was it worth it? I won't be able to answer that until the whole Vault is ready to use in the wild.
Software, Ttrpg
Obsidian for TTRPG - Forms and Templates
Why choose a simple solution when an all-day trial-and-error solution will do 100x worse!
Software, Ttrpg
Phase Two - Aggregators of Social Media
I've been trying a few social media aggregation apps, and they all fall short by offering a view-only window of our own accounts. Is this valuable to anyone?
Editorial, Software
Appwrite - Alright
I think I've found my preferred back-end platform for auth, data, and file storage. So far, everything has been smooth and easy, with the exception of registration validation.
Development, Software
Using Astro for Display
I stumbled across a front-end content display platform called Astro, which might serve as another brick in my long-term goal of writing a custom blog platform.
Development, Software
Revisiting Revisiting Webrings
Here it comes again: More thoughts on webrings since external forces keep putting the subject in front of me...now with potential options for making it happen.
Development, Software
Blogging with Rich Text
I forgot that I'd need to be able to easily create HTML-able rich text for a blogging platform, so after some research I settled on Lexical.
Development, Software
Talkin' It Through - Supabase or Appwrite
Talking to the duck about the possibility of choosing Supabase or Appwrite for this custom blog project that I am totally only considering at this point. Totally.
Development, Software
From Node to Deno
I'm porting my Node application to Deno and while I'm finding it pretty easy going and occasionally beneficial, I'm still not 100% sold on some of their design decisions.
Development, Editorial, Software
Style-sheets Versus Styled Components
I had a panic attack about styled components versus plain CSS, but after writing about it, I'm not sure it was warranted.
Development, Software
WS + API: Actions Speak Louder Than Code
Here's an example of using the web socket server to handle messages and store the results in Redis. Since I wrote this, modifications have been considered, but that's a post for another day.
Development, Software
Interlude: Redis & Redis-OM
Before we move to the next part of the WS + API Server series, I wanted to talk a bit about Redis and Redis-OM.
Development, Software
WS + API: Getting the Message
Now we're getting somewhere: dynamically handling messages from the client.
Development, Software
WS + API: Web Socket Handler
WS + API: Web Socket Handler
Development, Software
Web Rings Revisited
Thinking about web rings, and what we'd need to do in order to bring back a smaller, more intimate World Wide Web.
Development, Editorial, Software
Interlude: Protocols
Before we continue with code, I wanted to stop off and talk at a very high level about HTTP and WS, and what each protocol means to me from a purpose standpoint.
Development, Software
WS + API: Enter the Index.ts
Ever server needs a starting point, although this one doesn't do much on its own.
Development, Software
WS + API: Getting Started
WS + API: Getting Started
Development, Software
One Server To Rule Th...Most of Them
I've got nothing else to talk about right now, so how about a series of posts about this web socket and API endpoint server I'm rewriting for the nth time?
Development, Software