2024-04-05: The worst part about going to Japan is having to leave. It will always be my favorite country and I …
2024-04-03: Even though I am not afraid of heights, my little brain was telling me to walk softly.
2024-04-01: I’m not sure how else to say this but a spa/hot tub/bath filled with herbs and tea is amazing. I am …
2024-04-01: Beach!
2024-03-31: Can’t wait to get inside!
2024-03-30: Beautiful park near my hotel in Tokyo.
2024-03-18: I am going to Japan next week and will be posting most of my pictures on https://zachstravels.com so …
2024-03-13: I can never sleep when I need to and am always tired when I can’t. What punishment!
2024-03-10: I was talking to a coworker the other day and mentioned the digital camera I had that used 3.5 inch …
2024-03-03: Took my boys to the game store to play the prerelease of the new Star Wars TGC. They had lots of fun …
2024-02-23: I track the books I read on my blog and have loose goals of how many books I want to read a year, …
2024-02-09: NixOS Grafana Tailscale Auth It took me a while to figure out how to configure an auth proxy on Grafana in a NixOS config, turns …
2024-01-01: Year in books for 2023 Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.
2023-12-28: Had a goal to read 24 books this year, going to fall four short as I have not read anything …
2023-12-05: Finished reading: No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor 📚 Halfway through the series, still enjoying …
2023-11-26: Finished reading: A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor 📚
2023-11-20: Finished reading: A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 📚 Book #3 was action packed, I was surprised to …
2023-11-14: Linux Finerprint Reader and Lid State I recently setup fprintd on my laptop so that I could use the fingerprint reader for login and …
2023-11-05: My daughter’s soccer season ended today, the team came in first place in their division. My …
2023-11-03: Finished reading: A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor 📚 The Chronicles of St Mary’s Book 2 …
2023-10-24: Finished reading: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 📚 A friend recommended this …
2023-10-14: Finished reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚 The topic was interesting, but I assumed the …
2023-10-07: Finished reading: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson 📚 Great way to end the Kickstarter set. The …
2023-10-06: Oh, no! YouTube TV has multiview for news now. Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and BBC News. This is not going to …
2023-09-26: Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚 I’m not sure how I feel about this book. …
2023-09-12: Finished reading: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson I really enjoyed this story …
2023-08-22: Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson 📚 …
2023-06-14: Finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson 📚 Short and Fun. Tyson …
2023-06-12: Finished reading: Waking Up to What You Do by Diane Eshin Rizzetto 📚 So when we witness some of the …
2023-06-05: If its not clear by my posts, I have not done a single technical thing after work hours as of late. …
2023-06-04: Finished reading: On the Origin of Time by Thomas Hertog 📚 This was light on actual science and …
2023-06-03: Finished reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚 This neat book tied together a lot of the history I …
2023-06-02: Finished reading: Ordinary Wonder by Charlotte Joko Beck 📚 We have to work with the truth or we …
2023-05-26: Finished reading: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
2023-05-20: I finally found a use case for ChatGPT. Ask it a question that I am interested in. After it gives …
2023-05-19: I am not sure what people are upset about in San Diego. This is on brand for the Padres. Even with a …
2023-05-13: Finished reading: The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson 📚 Great ending to this part …
2023-04-28: Finished reading: Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy 📚
2023-04-22: Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚 I was not sure in the first few …
2023-04-18: Finished reading: The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson 📚 It took a long while …
2023-03-19: I have an iPad that I use as my computer away from home, but it’s not really what I want. I have …
2023-02-15: Finally took the time to fix my micro.blog theme to actually support parameters, and other microblog …
2022-11-05: My daughter scored her first ever goal in the first half of her last game of the season and a clean …
2022-10-09: Commercial during Wildcard games on ESPN “Did you know Google makes a phone?” Yikes. That says a lot …
2022-08-19: Pro tip: Make sure you are not scaling a picture of your family on your desktop background. Avoid …
2022-08-14: Padres lost, but we had a good time.
2022-08-14: The thermometer says 77 but I am sweating bullets cutting the grass. East Coast humidity is awful.
2022-08-13: Had a great vacation in the Dominica Republic. We really enjoyed getting away as a family and …
2022-08-04: It seems like Microsoft is killing it with the Surface lineup. I am on vacation and I have seen more …
2022-07-16: Doing a complete reinstall of Nixos is so easy. Configure drives, run two commands and I am off to …
2022-07-15: Nothing wrong with this…😥🤑🙄. Health care should not be a cash cow. People are literally dying while …
2022-07-12: Finished reading: Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey 📚 I am sad that we will not see this play out …
2022-06-29: Who doesn’t throw plates at the wall in a dining room and clear tables. I know I did that all the …
2022-06-28: I am starting to worry that if the Padres make it to the World Series this year it’s going to be a …
2022-06-12: A local book store sent me a package. It went from Washington DC (20 miles away) to Memphis TN. Not …
2022-06-07: I assume Apple did not announce anything to let me run Emacs natively on an iPad.
2022-06-01: Can someone tell me if a law was broken leaking the draft Supreme Court ruling? I have not seen that …
2022-05-31: Recently found out about Libro.fm. I have hundreds of audiobooks on Audible, but I am canceling my …
2022-05-30: I would really love a micropub plugin for obsidian.
2022-05-30: Finished reading: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚 I had never head of …
2022-04-10: Nix & Emacs Last week I posted about now I moved to Nix and the ways that it is different from the typical Linux …
2022-04-05: Nix I have been using Linux since 2001, most of the time using Red Hat Linux and Fedora. With a short …
2021-09-16: I should really uninstall Slack from my phone when I go on vacation.
2021-03-07: Had to bust out the old DVD drive for my computer tonight. Good thing I kept it around. Tomorrow …
2021-03-06: Currently reading: The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Erikson, Steven 📚
2021-02-13: The end of an era. One of my children has finally beat me in a Mario Kart circuit.
2021-02-08: 1 Year Old
2021-02-02: Finally got around to testing the Dig Uno and WLED. Next step is replace the lights on the back …
2020-11-11: Never posted any pics of the new pup. 🐶
2020-11-09: Going to get this custom theme to work at some point…only an hour in.
2020-09-17: Just got around to watching the last two episodes of Clone Wars. There can be no doubt that Asoka is …
2020-09-11: Tried to use neovim for 3 months, can’t do it, going back to Emacs.
2020-08-19: Arguing about a professional baseball player hitting a home run on a 3-0 pitch when the team has a …
2019-07-01: Assateague Island
2019-07-01: I’ve been without internet all weekend, but got home tonight in time to catch the IndieWeb Summit …
2019-06-26: Checked in at Hersheypark
2019-06-23: I did not grow up in a region that had fireflies. Now every year they come out in the early summer …
2019-06-14: Baseball In Baltimore Baseball game with the boys.
2019-06-14: Checked in at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for Toronto Blue Jays vs Baltimore Orioles. Baseball with …
2019-06-13: Checked in at &pizza
2019-05-21: Currently reading: The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy 📚
2019-05-15: Currently reading: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 📚
2019-04-28: Padres Game In DC
2019-04-28: Baseball time
2019-04-20: Currently reading: Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential …
2019-04-09: Spring
2019-04-02: That was the best opening series in such a long time for the #Padres. This is going to be a fun …
2019-03-28: Fine Woodworking, the one magazine I still get a physical copy mailed to me every month is not on …
2019-03-26: I really enjoed that book about Tony Gywnn. I put off reading it for a long time, but I am so happy …
2019-03-26: Currently reading: Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey 📚
2019-03-18: Currently reading: Tony Gwynn 📚
2018-08-31: Currently reading: Patriot Games by Tom Clancy 📚
2018-08-31: Finished reading: Without Remorse by Tom Clancy 📚
2018-08-30: Currently reading: Without Remorse by Tom Clancy 📚
2018-08-21: First shock of being a home owner today. Trimming 40 foot oak trees is not cheap.
2018-08-05: Bushkill Falls We stopped at Bushkill Falls on our way home from vacation today. It was very beautiful, even if I …
2018-07-17: It would be nice to have the ability to move feeds from one category to another. Currently as far as …
2018-07-16: Yeah. I went looking and noticed your pull request and merge after I asked. I already had it just …
2018-07-16: This the code you spoke about in this episode for visibility in Known available? I have also been …
2018-07-14: SBS 2009-03-14 2011-07-07 2011-11-11 2015-09-06 2017-05-15 2017-08-23 2017-09-04 2018-07-12
2018-07-13: Scottie B. Scotson. We got this guy when he was three and it’s been a great 10 years. We are going to miss him .
2018-06-30: Smoking for 8 hours
2018-06-20: Today (the last day of school) I found out that my kids can drink chocolate milk for free if they …
2018-06-13: Really love the work that @cleverdevil is doing on Known, in fact I like it so much that I am using …
2018-05-19: If you want to use emacsclient with the flatpak use “flatpak run –command=emacsclient org.gnu.emacs” …
2018-05-11: With all the talk about tanking in professional sports in the US I think it's time to take a hit …
2018-05-10: As of today I have been married to Beth, my wonderful wife, for a decade.
2018-05-10: I have started working on a GTK IndieWeb reader that would support posting to Micro.blog and could …
2018-04-21: Breakfast
2018-04-16: Looking into adding dbus HostCommand support via init file or some other means.
2018-04-15: @gnomealex I will definitely look into that. I don't like the idea of having my own copies of things …
2018-04-14: The fact that it’s 2018 and I am seeing more spam on IRC than I have ever before seems crazy to me.
2018-04-14: Finally a nice night to sit out and enjoy the weather.
2018-04-14: Using org-pdfview from repos adds pdftools from the same repo and that brakes the local system …
2018-04-14: Need to add org-pdfview to pdftools
2018-04-14: I put my emacs flatpak in a repo on my site. I will put a stripped down version on flathub at some …
2018-04-07: Thinking about making an IndieWeb Reader for Linux. Its been a while since I played with GTK.
2018-03-22: Not spring weather
2018-03-22: @ChrisAldrich Yeah, I am still going to write it. I am just not going to spend much time thinking …
2018-03-21: Is there any interest in a @WithKnown exercise plugin? https://indieweb.org/exercise
2018-03-20: It is indeed based on Jonathan's Food plugin, but I did forget to put a link to his plugin in the …
2018-03-16: I put my new reading plugin for Known on github. Track your book reading IndieWeb style. I still …
2018-03-14: It’s hurts that I have spent my career as a DBA and yet I spent an hour trying to get Aperture …
2018-03-13: Patapsco State Park
2017-08-25: 4 Years after hearing @mojavelinux talk about asciidoc at FUDCon Lawrence @Fedora docs has finally …
2017-08-25: Great work by @bexelbie and everyone who helped. The new @Fedora docs website is live. …
2017-07-26: Funny, well done Washington Post. …
2017-07-25: I should not have purchased that fountain pen, it is so nice to write with… hide my wallet.
2017-07-19: .@matrixdotorg is moving forward but needs community help. Every dollar counts. …
2017-07-11: If you use or like the idea of @matrixdotorg think about supporting the project on Patreon.
2017-07-11: Got my new shipment of pens today. So happy JetPens exists. Having lived in Japan during high school …
2017-07-03: @matrixdotorg the log is kinda large, any other way I can send it to get an extra set of eyes?
2017-07-02: Went on vacation and my @matrixdotorg synapse service is using #ALLTHERAMS upgraded digitalocean …
2017-06-29: Gone Fishin
2017-06-29: Just watched the rocket launch at Wallops. Very cool to see in person.
2017-06-24: Parks and Recreation may have predicted the Cubs winning the 2016 WS but all of the Windows Phones …
2017-06-09: Good way to start the day
2017-06-01: Working Outside
2017-05-30: Memorial Day project
2017-05-25: If you are complaining about the quality of documentation for an open source project, maybe try and …