• I was looking at a video of the ocean about 30 minutes before I opened my little keyboard to type this sentence and the thought crossed my mind of joining the US Coast Guard. I’m not sure why this thought crossed my mind. I’m trying to entertain the thought a little. Maybe I just want…

  • Cloud storage services are rather expensive if you go above free tiers and object storage is rather cheap but uploading to object storage on its own is annoying and not convenient at all so I figured that I’d set up a Nextcloud instance to enjoy the cost savings of object storage with the convenience you’d…

  • Advice for my teenage self.

    What advice would you give to your teenage self? Overall, way too much time was spent worrying about what others thought of me and consequences. I think if I had taken more risks and stopped listening to the adults around me I would have had some more eventful teenage years. Though, I also would like…

  • Reading the news has been overwhelmingly frustrating lately as a transgender person because it feels like there really isn’t anyone to speak up for me or defend me but last night I opened my phone to a video of Governor Janet Mills of Maine saying that she will not comply with Trump’s “Keeping Men Out…

  • Everyone’s heard of OBS Studio and of course it has its upsides and downsides. It’s a great program for livestreaming and other circumstances where you would want customization to bring viewers in but OBS is kind of slow and lacks in performance. Searching around the Linux software center for my distro a while ago I…

  • I disclose that I hold around $150 in cryptocurrency but use it exclusively for payment and this article is of my personal opinion. I’ve read a lot of comments from people online that I think are annoying but one kind that I tend to see more often now than ever is the cryptobro. The cryptobro…

  • In the United States, the idea of something being “American” is not a uniform idea, rather a idea that differs from person to person and shaped by their political beliefs, social class, and environment, though not explicitly. The goal of this is to sort of detail the differences between Hannaford and Walmart and my perception…

  • This article is for people who forgot to check their SSL/TLS settings in Cloudflare when following Backblaze’s official documentation 🤣 In setting up this blog I opted to use Backblaze B2 and proxy it with Cloudflare. In setting up the friendly URL for B2, once I configured it with Cloudflare I encountered a Cloudflare “Web…

  • What does this site run on?

    So, I have a website, and your’re looking at it right now. But what exactly goes on under the hood? Well, that’s what I’ll be going over. Now, it actually isn’t running on the same thing it originally was in the beginning. The site began on a static Jekyll site built from a digital garden…

  • I figured after my first note hello-world I should make a little note here to document where I am at the start of this website. I’m 20, it’s February 2025 and I work in commercial cleaning right now and although it is work, it’s not really a thing I’m interested in doing long term. I’m…