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Apr 22, 2025: Currently reading: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey 📚
Apr 19, 2025: Finished reading: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson 📚
Mar 12, 2025: 12 months later... Reflecting on a tumultuous year marked by personal loss and global challenges, I find solace in family and new beginnings while also cherishing …
Jan 9, 2025: Currently reading: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson 📚
Dec 30, 2024: Finished reading: Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White 📚
Dec 5, 2024: Finished reading: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin 📚
Oct 24, 2024: Finished reading: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin 📚
Oct 22, 2024: Finished reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
Jul 7, 2024: Currently reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
May 30, 2024: Finished Reading: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede 📚
May 5, 2024: Currently reading: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede 📚
Mar 21, 2024: Relationships with a parent can be complicated. A reflection on the complicated relationship I had with my mother, expressing both admiration and regret while acknowledging our shared human …
Feb 26, 2024: Currently reading: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 📚
Feb 11, 2024: Got my first mechanical keyboard! A low end Keychron (the Amazon exclusive one) with brown switches. Couldn’t resist the price and didnt want to go huge on something I may not be able …
Feb 8, 2024: Not proud at all of the time it took me to do this but... …I finally deleted my Twitter account. I can’t offer up any valid excuses really. All I was using it for these days were the few …
Dec 30, 2023: After 4 years… it finally got me. Mild symptoms at the moment but, I definitely feel ill. Bummed to finally catch it, but not surprised either with the numbers climbing as much as they …
May 2, 2023: Not too bad 📱 13 Pro macro lens!
Feb 1, 2023: Laurel Creek, Deep Gap, North Carolina, 12/2022
Mar 6, 2022: Been a while... I’ve intentionally stepped back from participating in social media for a variety of reasons, most of them boring and, by today’s …
Feb 7, 2021: Finally got around to introducing a Magic Keyboard into the mix for my iPad Pro. I had a Brydge keyboard before and, honestly, the difference between the two products is night and day. The MK is superior in almost every way. I do …
Jan 24, 2021: And just like that! We suddenly have 7 active egg layers! The coop also gets a roost upgrade. 🐓 The last few weeks have been kinda crazy in the egg laying department. We went from three eggs consistently a day to five to six on the regular. The …
Jan 1, 2021: Three eggs a day and an extended run for the hens! 🐓 This last week our third hen started laying eggs on the semi-daily. They all take a day off periodically but, for the most part, they are producing 3 …
Nov 23, 2020: One of our ladies started laying eggs at the end of last week! 🐓 Thanks Latte! 😊
Oct 27, 2020: The flock gets smaller (but then grows!)... 🐓 It’s been a while since I updated this space. The new job I started in July really took a lot out of me as far as changes to every day life and …
Aug 30, 2020: The chicks are all grownz up! 🐓 Our feather babies are making all kinds of crazy new croaky sounds as they’ve grown significantly in August. They are burning through food and …
Aug 17, 2020: Hey there Atlantic... 🌊 … it’s been a minute. I’ve never been a “beach person”. I get too bored, fidgety, and eventually insufferable. I am an ocean person though and …
Aug 3, 2020: 🐔 Pals, weathering the storm... The chicks have grown so damn much! We were a little worried about how they would handle their first Carolina hurricane. So far they seem to be doing …
Jul 7, 2020: Coop Update 6 🐓: The Coop Ramp and a Roof on the Run Just a quick update on our coop and run situation. This happened days ago, but I installed a ramp up to the coop. Now we just open the sliding side …
Jun 27, 2020: Coop Update 5 🐓: The walls of the run are complete! We put in some serious time this week getting the walls of the run built, screened in with hardware cloth, and installing the predator apron. A few …
Jun 21, 2020: Coop Update 4 🐓: It's complete! Been falling down the last few days on updates for this project but, I am happy to report that the coop itself is complete and we couldn’t be …
Jun 14, 2020: Coop Update 3: Raise the roof! 🐓 I mentioned in my last post that today was the day the roof needed to be added to the coop due to the next five days of rain in the forecast. Well, we …
Jun 13, 2020: Coop Build Update 2 🐓 We made great headway on the coop yesterday and today. The floor is up and we’ve added the back and side walls, all painted. All that’s left is the …
Jun 11, 2020: Chicken Coop Update 🐓 Things have been progressing nicely here with our newly feathered children. The chicks are heading into a delightfully awkward phase, with new …
Jun 4, 2020: Chicken Update! 🐓 Added two new chicks to the flock today! We were apprehensive at first, but the newbies fell nicely into the fold in a matter of minutes, as if they …
May 30, 2020: For years we’ve wanted chickens and today we took the plunge! 🐥🐔 We got the first allotment of 4 chicks today! We’ll get another 4 next weekend and another 4 the next. So 12 total with the hope to end up with 10 to …
May 12, 2020: Created some tomato cages yesterday evening! 🌱 Despite the cold snap a few days ago, our tomatoes persisted and started flowering this week! To prepare for the oncoming growth, and to satisfy my …
Apr 22, 2020: We built some new raised garden beds and created some new growing areas in the front yard! 🌱 Quarantine has suited us as well as a dire circumstance could - for the most part anyways - providing some much needed inspiration (and, let’s face …
Feb 23, 2020: 📸 Happy new moon y’all! 🌚🔥
Jan 28, 2020: Sweet baby jesus... the process for manually updating software on a HomePod continues to be a confusing nightmare! Hands down - We love our HomePod. I alone use it for hours on the daily. But whenever an update drops for it, I have to do the following: Tap through …
Jan 26, 2020: Added an aftermarket Sony head unit to our 2014 Prius C yesterday. It went surprisingly well! Doing anything outside of my own oil changes to our Prius has always been intimidating to me. It’s our only vehicle …
Jan 10, 2020: 📸 Every neighborhood has that creepy old house… 🏚👻
Dec 8, 2019: Took a nice late autumn stroll to see the annual Duke Park luminaries all lit, warm and flickering, lighting our way home. 🕯🏠🌚
Nov 24, 2019: 📸 Had the distinct pleasure of seeing one of our favorite bands, Sylvan Esso, this past Friday... They are so damn giving and talented. I’m grateful and proud to call them neighbors (not next door, but Durham’s where they call home)! They sold out …
Nov 1, 2019: Holy crap… I am so happy about this… it’s nice to still geek out in my mid 40’s! 😁
Oct 22, 2019: I know they are not listening but... FFS Instagram …if an account is public, and I go to said public account on the web, don’t put up your lame “sign up/sign in” modal in front of my viewing …
Oct 21, 2019: 📸 Fortunate to have caught Bon Iver live this week... It was our third time seeing him over the years and, man, what an amazing show! I really love how Vernon has evolved his sound over the years. There’s …
Oct 14, 2019: Had the pleasure of finally being able to attend the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival this year… After over a decade of being asked by my brother in law to come out to San Francisco to HSB, we finally made it out. It was definitely a memorable …
Sep 13, 2019: 📸Just hanging here... …with my god-given Gollum feet… watching the bats feast in this (finally) cooler weather. Hope y’all are doing your own lovely version …
Sep 10, 2019: 📸 That church I was talking about a post or two earlier? Well...
Sep 7, 2019: If she doesn’t need my help, one of my all time favorite things to do with my best friend is line up music for her while she prepares anything in the …
Sep 5, 2019: 📸 On the way home, before the hurricane rains blew in, I noticed a longstanding church I walk by every day was getting torn down 😕. Took a peek inside and definitely got some #StrangerThings Upside Down vibes in there.
Sep 3, 2019: 🎵 Been enjoying the recent Shredders release immensely today It’s a no-brainer if you like the hip-hop collective Doomtree, as it’s basically the entire group sans Dessa and Cecil Otter. Immensely fun whilst …
Aug 18, 2019: 📸 Starting her 44th trip around the sun with 🥧! So damn grateful you were born sweetheart! Love you so much. #pieforbreakfast #thisis44
Aug 15, 2019: 📸 Damn Maine! This evening hour light…. Our departure tomorrow is early, and even though our time here was short, it’s hard not to feel the echoes of …
Aug 14, 2019: 📸 Just took a solar bag shower outdoors letting my pasty white farmer-tan skin battle it out with the last few hours of coastal Maine sunlight. It felt almost as glorious as this place we …
Jul 27, 2019: 📸 The light in our home... for better or worse... 🏡❤️
Jul 27, 2019: 📸 Our piggies combined....
Jul 24, 2019: 📸 Thoroughly enjoyed this break from the heat (and the 🇪🇨 hammock we got on our 20th).
Jul 19, 2019: 🔗 “Let’s Talk About Peeing In Space” Probably one of the most entertaining and informative Twitter threads I’ve ever read. So, so, good.. twitter.com
Jul 14, 2019: 🔗 “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html
Jul 8, 2019: Been working at a new co-working environment... …and it’s been interesting seeing the differences between the spaces that I’ve worked at in the past versus this space now. One of the the key …
Jun 27, 2019: It’s official. We all got spoiled by the stability of the iOS12 public beta. While not hot garbage (for me anyways), iPadOS 13 and iOS 13 are about as …
Jun 17, 2019: 📸 I love it when I am out walking and shots just magically come together. Durham is always filled with these kinds of encounters. And when the afternoon storms are rolling in like they are here? I turn down whatever is …
Jun 7, 2019: Been a while since we properly 🚀 ‘ed it…. (that’s when we inhabit a couch, each of us at the opposite end, and we talk about everything going …
Jun 7, 2019: Saying goodbye to an old friend... I recently sent my trustworthy iPad Air 2 to greener pastures and snagged the most recent iPad Pro 11in with the latest corresponding Brydge keyboard. …
May 29, 2019: Those evenings… storms coming in… right before you decide to cut the back deck lights on.
May 29, 2019: Finished off the back deck repair job we started a few weeks ago! Had some tricky cuts to make at the very end but, all in all? We think it came out great! It’s finally up to code, safe, and structurally very …
May 6, 2019: TFW, as a freelancer, the IRS sends you something in snail mail. And it is just them letting you know that they are updating your physical mailing address. :)
Apr 29, 2019: Rewatching last night’s GOT episode on an iPadAir2 and my goodness.... The difference in clarity, rendered blacks, and just the all out general experience is completely different from watching it on our 1080p Samsung TV …
Apr 28, 2019: We all have latent ambition on the daily. Every once and a while though, that bites you back.😬 this deck is gonna involve way more TLC than we …
Apr 26, 2019: Just raised the keyboard tray of my home made standing desk an inch and dear lord... My shoulders, wrists, and forearms immediately relaxed. I’m such a preoccupied idiot when it comes to this stuff. I’m in my 40’s …
Apr 15, 2019: 📸 Found this photo in an old archive folder from a long gone MacBook Pro… It was taken right around when we moved to Durham, NC. My first piece of writing was just accepted to be published. That was also the first time my …
Apr 3, 2019: Chain link sunset 🌅
Mar 30, 2019: Spent the afternoon inoculating logs! 🍄🍄🍄
Mar 29, 2019: 🎵 This new Billie Eilish album... whew... Such a great mix of synth pop and creepiness that stops just short of detracting from the over all amazing creativity at play here. It’s brilliant …
Mar 27, 2019: Initial Second Gen AirPods Impressions... Loving them so far! Just as I loved the first gen AirPods. The new “Hey Siri” integration is a way more subtle improvement than I was expecting. We …
Mar 14, 2019: Been trying to get more afternoon naps in lately… 😑😐😴
Mar 14, 2019: Took advantage of this week’s one day eero sale and dear lord... Our home wireless speed increased by what appears to be 100%!! We upgraded from most recent Airport Extreme (tall white tower version) and, I don’t …
Mar 12, 2019: Spring has sprung! 🎪
Mar 11, 2019: Love it when the trees explode this time of year! 🌸🌳🌼 Almost tricks me into believing that next week won’t be back down in the 30’s again. 😄🥶
Mar 10, 2019: 📸 Another year, another Nevermore Film Festival here in Durham! 👻💀☠️ I’ve been attending this horror film festival for well over a decade and it’s been a pleasure supporting it over the years at the beautiful Carolina …
Mar 3, 2019: It is POURING here tonight 🌧⛈ One of the things that freaks me out about our new-ish home is the fact that it needs a sump pump in the crawl space underneath for when it pours and …
Feb 26, 2019: 📸 Got some thoroughly needed time away in the woods with this one. 🌳🌿🍃🍂🍁🌲 These little breaks away from Durham have been so, so good for us and our individual wellbeing. We’ve been trying to make more space for times like …
Feb 12, 2019: It never ceases to amaze me... I witness, in my day to day, a lot of people who dismiss podcasts as a nonsensical medium that, more than ever, is filled with amateurish drivel, not …
Feb 10, 2019: Tips: *Re-REvisiting* My Workflow (again) for Launching .scriv Files in Marked and Scrivener Simultaneously Hey y’all, a friendly Tweep ( @ckrueger99 ) on my feed let me know that this age-old Alfred workflow has, once again, stopped working. I’m …
Feb 8, 2019: Was out for a walk this afternoon... When I stepped out the door it was in the low 70’s. When I got back to the house 2 hours later, it was in the high 50’s. CRAAAAAAAZY temperature …
Jan 4, 2019: On Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse I never do this but, I’ve been checking daily to see if/when #spiderverse went on pre-sale (iTunes). Finally noticed it today. So many things are …
Dec 19, 2018: 📸Back home after a LONG road trip... … filled with hours of unexpected construction delays from my homeland (New England, NH & VT). Decompression and reflection necessitates …
Dec 16, 2018: 📸 Da BubbinSpoonful keeps getting biggoh!!🐶 My brother’s doggo, Ginger, is officially full grown. I am glad I can still hold her!
Dec 14, 2018: 📸Its nice to have a reminder of how beautiful the winters can be up north. It’s one thing where my memory has intentionally run short after moving south. 😌
Dec 5, 2018: 📸That’s some beautiful evening-walk-home light you got going on there Durham ❤️🐂🍁🍂
Nov 21, 2018: Been making slow but sure progress on theme tweaks for this site. I decided to go with a “dark-mode” motif (yeah, I know, it’s trendy) and prefer it a lot more to the eye-shredding brightness of the …
Nov 18, 2018: Does anyone know off hand if it’s possible to auto format posts that come in from OwnYourGram.com? I often find myself editing each of them …
Nov 18, 2018: 📸What a gift to be amongst friends watching friends playing the sweetest music for friends. ❤️
Nov 13, 2018: 📸To date, I have no earthly idea about how my head is wired. But, walking quickly by this razor thin alleyway, all I could see was this child’s lost playground ball.
Nov 2, 2018: 📸Product placement in everyday life is key! #vote #justvote
Nov 2, 2018: 📸Looking mighty fire-y Durham. 🍁🍂🍁 🔥 🍁🍂🍁
Oct 30, 2018: If your iCloud.com (or, in my case, me.com) email isn’t sending... …and is stuck in outbox purgatory, you are not alone. I reached out to Apple support this evening and they confirmed there is a current outage …
Oct 29, 2018: TFW people complain about skim milk not making it into their pumpkin spice latte... …while a single, seemingly innocuous cut on my finger tip, reduces my daily productivity by 40%… ish. 😅😬😐
Oct 18, 2018: Time to take the garbage out! Get on out y’all! #VOTE
Oct 17, 2018: I got one of those Flint and Tinder 10 Year Hoodies forever ago.. I knew they’d been bought out and didn’t even have the color that I originally purchased my hoodie in BUT… the company that owns …
Oct 14, 2018: 🎵🎶 Been digging the hell out of the latest full length “16/17” from Ryan Playground... If you like quirky, densely layered electronic pop music, I bet you’ll dig this. It’s been on repeat for me ever since it dropped. Very ear wormy - …
Oct 13, 2018: 📸Let Autumn begin! First fire of the season. 😌🍁🍂
Oct 12, 2018: 📸The weather finally turned here in Durham.🍁❤️🍂 Finally…
Oct 5, 2018: 📸The amount of lot scraping that’s been going on in the neighborhoods I walk through has been really depressing.
Sep 24, 2018: 📸 Back porch autumnal vibes. 🍂🍁
Sep 23, 2018: New to the iPhone X here. 📱 Got the Xs this last Friday and there are a couple of things that surprised me. One is the speed. Coming from a piano-black 7 Plus, a phone I didn’t …
Sep 12, 2018: 📸20 years... Today. Today I’ve been married to @allthatmel for 2 decades (in December we’ll have been together in a relationship for 26). I could wax poetic …
Sep 11, 2018: 📸Beautiful streetart on the steps out of where we are are staying in Otavalo, Ecuador. Such a wonderful find! Can’t imagine the time all of this took! 👏🏼 Melinda and I savored every. Single. Step.
Sep 9, 2018: 📸First night in Otavalo is going quite all right. It can get down in the low 40’s here but, this legit fireplace in our room chases all that coolness away with a hefty dose of cozy. 🔥🧑🏼🔥 So, so …
Sep 2, 2018: If I had a dime for how many times I thought “I’d use the hell out of Home app if I had it on the Mac!”... I tell ya! I’ve had it since downloading the first public beta of Mojave and you know what? I was dead wrong. I think, at best, I’ve used …
Aug 27, 2018: 📸 The cyclic nature of our gifts... Not gonna lie. It was a hard day today. But rather than focus on the amazingly slow grist mill that is my chosen way of paying the bills, I’d …
Aug 25, 2018: 📸 Throw Back Saturday Before the tower, before the iconic Matthew Curran fish mural, before the explosion, Mel and I were lucky enough to live on this block and experience …
Aug 23, 2018: 📸 Beautiful Evening Tonight! Music playing (always). Chill neighbors on one side. No neighbors on the other (house has been for sale for over a month). Cool enough in late August …
Aug 23, 2018: 📸 Mentioning that I can’t wait until autumn... might *just* be the understatement of the year...
Aug 19, 2018: 📸 Postcards from my ride from the JMT to Lone Pine, California.
Aug 19, 2018: 📸 Ah JMT... I have never been so physically humbled by a landscape while being so constantly in awe. Thanks for the lessons, the insights into my limits (both physical and mental), and for putting me with the two best god damn friends I could ever …
Aug 5, 2018: Question: how do you fit 10 days of 3 squares and toiletries into a 🐻 vault? Answer: Bear’ey... ahem... VERY carefully. 🤗 For real though… I am SO fecking glad that game of Tetris is done. #mountwhitney #dadjokesfromkidlessdudes #iamsosorry
Aug 3, 2018: If you can get past #allthathandsomeness you might notice that the incomparable @justincookphoto has lately been deep-diving into his archives and sharing some of his past work on his Insta. I’ll always snark but… seriously, it’s incredible work and you are genuinely missing out if you don’t make the time to take it in. …
Jul 31, 2018: 🔗 The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature https://www.wired.com/story/the-peculiar-math-that-could-underlie-the-laws-of-nature/
Jul 25, 2018: 📸 Thanks to some wonderful people/family in my life, this is my office for the next few days...
Jul 22, 2018: Time to give these world traveling companions some much belated and needed TLC. 😌
Jul 16, 2018: We spiral out just as we spiraled in.
Jul 15, 2018: Thoughts from a lazy Sunday
Jul 12, 2018: Morning ☕️: Ever since going out on my own and starting my own company it never fails... A client contract comes to an end, and that ball of ice drops in my stomach. Will they extend my contract another year? What does that contract look …
Jul 4, 2018: Looking for excellent “no-kill” mouse traps? 🐀 ❤️ 🐁 We’ve had incredible luck with these: Catcha 2 Piece Humane Smart Mouse Trap. We recently moved into an old house and we love it here. However, old …
Jul 2, 2018: So. Let me tell you about this guy. It's been a week and, when I close my eyes, I can still hear the sound of tires rolling over 1000's of miles of pavement. Months ago, Justin …
Jul 1, 2018: Late to the party here but… If you’re in Raleigh NC, the #YouAreHere exhibit at the NCMA is absolutely worth the hour or two investment.
Jul 1, 2018: Late to the party here but, the #YouAreHere exhibit at the NCMA is absolutely worth the hour or two investment.
Jun 29, 2018: Evidence of a Road-trip Excursion Exhibit 2: Lavina, MT
Jun 29, 2018: Evidence of a Road-trip Excursion Exhibit 1
Jun 28, 2018: Am I the only one that is driven batty by the fact that there still isn’t a “delete” option in the slide-in notifications for Mail on MacOS? That …
Jun 27, 2018: Brief stop in Lavina, MT… 🇺🇸💀
Jun 27, 2018: Installed the first public beta of Mojave on my 2016 MBP last night. I know, I know… not a wise move for one of your main computers. I have …
Jun 25, 2018: By far my FAVORITE part of coming home... 😏😕
Jun 24, 2018: Don’t mind us, just passin’ through.
Jun 24, 2018: Making our way back to you babes… (also Billings, MT ✈️ ) 🚗
Jun 24, 2018: Some B&W’s from time spent in Glacier. Winding down a road trip is always bittersweet. Especially one like this.
Jun 20, 2018: Yeah… so… this happened. #montana 🐂🐄
Jun 18, 2018: Hands down, the most beautiful thing @justincookphoto and I have seen on this trip was #mountrushmore. #zerovisibility #SoBlessed
Jun 17, 2018: #HappyFathersDay to a man who’s always had my back and always nurtured my creativity from day one. Wish I could say I inherited all this handsome (and …
Jun 15, 2018: Some B&Ws from a thoroughly awesome day one on the road.
Jun 15, 2018: NBD… just @justincookphoto making America great again… or something. #MAGA #YepThatIsAnOldSchoolCoinPurseInHisRightHand (taken at the …
Jun 12, 2018: Meeting of the minds before the storm
Jun 12, 2018: I don’t need a reason to love my city/community… But seeing these reminders every once and a while is pretty damn nice.
Jun 12, 2018: Here’s an early morning smile for y’all! 😊 『Hit Like A Girl Contest 2018』Good Times Bad Times - LED ZEPPELIN / Cover by Yoyoka , 8 year old drummer …
Jun 11, 2018: About to embark on a week and half trip into the badlands (not the show - which is awesome - the US national park)... We’ve got some great sights lined up, but I figured I’d hit up my micro.blog community for some insider tips that my traveling partner and I can’t …
Jun 9, 2018: Aw Sense8... I am so sad to see this adventure come to a close. But man, I’ll always be forever grateful that we even got an ending.
Jun 8, 2018: The Move To Micro.blog A few months ago I was alerted to the fact that hosting for this site was going to need to be renewed and, well, it got me thinking about changes. …
Jun 5, 2018: Apple Maps Now Supports Transit in North Carolina - Mac Rumors I’m sure this has nothing to do with a former Duke grad bringing his company to the …
Jun 4, 2018: It’s not just the morning light in our new home that is amazing... The evening light is pretty amazing too!
Jun 3, 2018: Mel literally sweated out the details getting this herb garden in place on the front lawn before the afternoon rain came… She got it all in …
Jun 2, 2018: Good Morning My Friends! 🌞☕️Taken with the recently dropped #Obscura2 📷📲
May 30, 2018: Been playing with #AirPlay2 tonight in earnest in the casa (AppleTV connected to a home theater receiver and a HomePod in the kitchen setup)… …
May 29, 2018: Looks like The Bachelorette is back on? (Cracks knuckles and dives into Twitterrific’s muffles)
May 24, 2018: Obscura 2 is out! A picture taken with @BenRiceM‘s first version of @ObscuraApp earned me $600 in gallery sales (one copy is said to be hung in the office of a local …
May 23, 2018: Nothing distills the aging process more than watching your parents go through a major surgical procedure. My mother, who is in her early 70’s, is receiving spinal surgery, and I am amazed at how resilient our bodies are. We never know the hand we are dealt …
May 21, 2018: Welcome, officially, to version 5.0 Whoa… this is quit the difference isn’t it? Well, you’re certainly not wrong, I’ve moved this site of to an entirely new …
Apr 28, 2018: I *really* should venture under the house and reroute the cable coax to the entertainment room... But man, I am stalling big time today. 😅 #homeupkeep #thestruggleisreal 🏠
Feb 28, 2018: How many of you have moved your sites to micro.blog? It’s certainly enticing. I’m just curious how many have actually bit the bullet and made that change. @manton are there any official number you can …
Feb 28, 2018: Nest Update: #TurnsOut it was a bad breaker. Swapped it out for a new one and boom! Fixed. Learning about this old house we bought (and love) has been quite the …
Feb 26, 2018: Slowing down, Volume 2: Walking. In 2014 my wife and I walked over 600 miles over one of the northern routes of the Camino de' Santiago in northern Spain. Aside from being a life …
Feb 26, 2018: And the hits keep coming! Nothing starts your week off better than your Nest thermostat not receiving power from your HVAC unit (over the weekend) and that unseasonably warm …
Feb 10, 2018: About the highest compliment I can give #HomePod... …is that I am manufacturing reasons to hang out in its general vicinity, just to re-listen to music that I’ve owned for years. It genuinely …
Feb 9, 2018: Even with the hype, this thing sounds AMAZING!! I pony’ed up a for “smart” speaker that (hopefully) sounded incredible. Playing all kinds of music …
Jan 30, 2018: The more I read these #HomePod reviews, the more I feel like I’ve slipped into an alternate geek reality. Everything that is on the tin (superior audio first - with Siri) reflects exactly what I’m looking for in a networked wireless speaker for my home. …
Jan 29, 2018: Oddly Relaxing Videos... Hey y’all. Every once and a while I just need to zone out and watch something innocuous that isn’t over stimulating or representative of my country’s …
Jan 22, 2018: The sheer amount of AirPods owners in my city (Durham, NC) is really surprising. Tons of diversity in ownership too. Kids to elderly. Every ethnicity. Apple really crushed that one out of the park.
Jan 16, 2018: On today, my 42nd birthday, I’ll gladly take “Portrait of a Young Man” as their auto-churned output for my likeness. 😊
Jan 14, 2018: Seriously. Every single time I use Coda to fix an issue with a client site or my own projects - on my iPad - it just feels like magic. Like I am doing …
Jan 12, 2018: Anyone notice this one change in the recent public iOS betas? Siri is less cheeky with some her answers lately. For instance, I’d say 50% of the time …
Jan 12, 2018: Slowing down, Volume 1: Morning Coffee I’ve been a coffee drinker from my late teens to 7AM this morning. I used to drink pots and pots of coffee in a work day, but in recent years I …
Jan 6, 2018: My city. ❤️ 🐂 #DurhamNC #RESIST
Jan 5, 2018: Man, I know they have their reasons but, I’d be over the moon if iOS allowed access to my TextExpander snippets without having to switch …
Jan 4, 2018: 2018 and the art of slowing down. It’s time to change things up a bit. There is more to life than it’s speed.
Jan 4, 2018: 2018 and the art of slowing down. This year I’ve decided to deliberately slow certain tasks in my life down a bit. All too often I’ve sought the quickest way to accomplish a task and I …
May 23, 2017: This Site: Adding JSON Feed support... Quick site update for you all! Last week ushered in a new feed format called JSON Feed. Similar to RSS or Atom syndication, JSON Feed simply creates a …
Apr 6, 2017: Leverage Your AT&T Unlimited Plus Account to Get HBO Free Without Paying for Their Video Services. So this week, AT&T announced that they were giving their “Unlimited Plus” accounts access to free HBO streaming. At first I thought …
Mar 30, 2017: Influential Videos: Volume 1 Hey everyone! Happy Thursday! As I mentioned somewhat recently, I’ve been angling to make this space a wee bit more diverse topic-wise: creating a …
Mar 14, 2017: Apps Used Daily: Pedometer++ When you sit in front of a computer like I do for the better part of a typical 8 hour day, you need an activity to clear your head at the end of all …
Jan 15, 2017: Tips: *Revisiting* My Workflow (again) for Launching .scriv Files in Marked and Scrivener Simultaneously Back in May, 2014, I created an Alfred workflow that allowed for you to target a specific directory that houses your project files in Scrivener, …
Jan 2, 2017: Heading into 2017… This poor site. My work and personal life in 2016 really sucked the oxygen out of this space, leaving it quite neglected. I at one time even …
Sep 8, 2016: Automation: Getting Your Words From Scrivener (iOS) into WordPress Like many out there, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of Scrivener for iOS. The portability, the familiarity with the desktop client, the functionality …
Jun 14, 2016: Product Review: Oristand At the beginning of this year I made a decision that I was going to make more of an effort to stand while I worked. Being in the web development field …
Mar 16, 2016: Quick Tip: Creating an AlphaNumeric Passcode in iOS Regardless of where you fall on the ensuing encryption wars, it’s good sense to have a robust passcode on your phone these days. And with the advent …
Feb 17, 2016: Tips: Creating a Custom, Highly Curated RSS Feed for Sharing Content. Is RSS dead? Many folks “in the know” claim that it is and yet, it’s still hanging around, for better or worse. Me? I use it sparingly. It’s still …
Dec 20, 2015: Mini App Review: 1 Gallon a Day. One of the things I’ve always chided myself about over the years is the fact that I don’t drink enough water. Worse still, when I do drink anything, …
Nov 15, 2015: Taking My Business on the Camino (Part Three - How it all turned out) In part one of this series I wrote about the impetus of this journey, the hardware I was going to use, and how I planned to accomplish keeping my …
Aug 31, 2015: Taking My Business on the Camino (Part Two - Software) In part one of this series I went over the tale of how my wife and I decided on hiking the Camino de Santiago this fall. For me (and I imagine many of …
Aug 31, 2015: Camino De Santiago When I asked my wife what she wanted to do when she graduated massage school in August, I half expected her to say “let’s rent a cabin for …
Jul 3, 2015: Software: Permute Review Hey everyone, sorry this blog has gone a little dormant in the last two months. Truth is, I’ve been busy with work [footnote]not complaining one …
May 5, 2015: Tips: Getting Your Markdown in Scrivener to Display Quicker in Marked... Hey everyone! Just a quick and easy tip for all of you folks who use Marked as your Markdown previewer when writing in Scrivener. One of the …
Mar 16, 2015: Software: Sip Review. If you are a web developer/designer you know that there is no shortage of color pickers out there. I’ve toyed with dozens of them over the years …
Jan 23, 2015: Going Paperless: Scanning Receipts and Business Cards Back in 2013, I wrote a post about digitizing your life and getting rid of the dead-tree paper taking up space in your day-to-day. I’m happy to …
Jan 12, 2015: New Year? New Coat of Paint. I am happy to introduce version 4.0 of thaddeushunt.com! I don’t know if doing a theme redux is an annual thing for me honestly. This year …
Dec 8, 2014: Software: Typed Review Anyone who has been to my site a few times knows my affinity for Markdown and the many editors that support it. This last week the folks at Realmac …
Nov 6, 2014: To the 6 Plus and Back Again… By now you’ve all read the countless reviews of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Hell, you have probably even read reviews from people “one month in” to using …
Oct 6, 2014: "I will see you again in 25 years..." www.youtube.com/watch Twin Peaks was by far the most formative TV show I have ever watched. So damn much of my young imagination was nurtured and …
Sep 13, 2014: Tips: Planning a New Website With Scapple and Scrivener Planning the content layout of a new website is a daunting task to say the least. You always want your content to be easy to find, logically laid out, …
Aug 6, 2014: Interesting Ideas: AirType I have a hard time shooting these concepts down because I actually do think this where the future of interface is going. When the soft keyboard …
Jul 21, 2014: Writing: Marked and Scrivener Revisited… Hey all! This will be a short one. A few posts ago I had a write up about an Alfred workflow I wrote that opened your Scrivener .proj files in both …
Jun 24, 2014: The Web: Easy Popover Footnotes in WordPress I am an avid reader of The Magazine 1, and one of the first things you will notice when reading any issue is the clever handling of footnotes in their …
May 14, 2014: Tips: An Alfred Workflow for Launching .scriv Files in Marked and Scrivener Simultaneously (UPDATE Jan. 2017: A kind visitor recently let me know that the original workflow I created years ago, had stopped functioning properly. I've since …
Apr 20, 2014: Writing: My Writing System Revisited If you’ve been coming to this site for a while, you may have noticed one of myearlier posts about a writing system I was using at the time. Well, two …
Mar 5, 2014: Writing and Tips: Creating a Custom Project Template in Scrivener One of the most requested posts I’ve seen in the comments section of this site has been for me to do a write-up on how to create a custom …
Feb 4, 2014: Software: Thoughts on Facebook's "Paper" Full disclosure: I am not a Facebook fan. At all. I pretty much have an account for the few dear friends that continue to use the service to contact …
Dec 13, 2013: Writing and the Web: The Editorially Review UPDATE 02/13/14: I am absolutely bummed to hear that these super-talented developers are closing the doors on this exceptional project on May 30th, …
Nov 12, 2013: Interesting Ideas: "Knock to Unlock" software... www.youtube.com/watch I've been using this for a little over a week now and while it does have some issues with the LE Bluetooth connection to my …
Oct 29, 2013: Software: My Favorite OS X Text Editors to Date For years now I’ve been… well… collecting text editors. The reasoning behind this “hobby” can be boiled down to the fact that I am a …
Sep 27, 2013: Tips: Setting up Scrivener to Compile MultiMarkdown Back in August I wrote a post about using Literature and Latte’s “Scrivener as a complete Blogging System". What I wasn’t expecting was how that …
Sep 4, 2013: Tips: Stretching an iPhone 5 Battery Through a 6 Day Hike in Yosemite National Park This will be a quick one folks! I just wanted to share how I made a stock iPhone 5 battery stretch 6 days on one full charge while using it only as a …
Aug 4, 2013: Writing: Scrivener as a complete Blogging System About a month after I used Scrivener to finally finish a novel I started years ago, I got the idea of trying to use it as not only a staging area for …
Jul 7, 2013: Software: How and Why I Use Vesper… UPDATE: On February 27th 2015, Vesper is officially universal! More info here. When Q-Branch dropped its note taking app “Vesper” weeks …
Jun 22, 2013: Writing: a System I Used to Write a 508 Page Novel... This last spring I finally finished the first draft on a NaNoWriMo novel I started back in November, 2011. Spanning several years, computers and …
Jun 16, 2013: Found Links: Long Exposure Pics of Fireflies in the Forest... It’s Fathers Day! How about a little bit of fireworks! Or, rather, mother nature’s fireworks? I was lurking around 500px.com when I cam …
Jun 11, 2013: Soapbox: The Value of Co-Working Spaces... When my wife and I moved into a 500 square foot studio six months ago it didn't take long before we realized that, as much as we loved the vast …
Jun 1, 2013: Interesting Ideas: Pocket Tripod - 360° wallet-sized iPhone stand Hey all, I stumbled upon this Kickstarter this morning and had to share it with you. For years I’ve been looking for a versatile stand for my …
May 25, 2013: Tips: Creating a KeyBoard Shortcut for "Private Browsing" mode in Safari... For a variety of reasons I often find myself going into "Private Browsing" mode when using Apple's Safari browser on my Mac. Maybe I am on a public …
May 10, 2013: FILM: Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" I have an intense amount of love for Alfonso Cuarón’s film, “Children of Men”. The single-shot opening scene alone is so intense, so …
Apr 30, 2013: Software: A Wonderful Passbook Experience… A great idea... When Apple announced Passbook with iOS6 I, like quite a few iOS enthusiasts, was very intrigued. The idea of going to a concert and, …
Apr 18, 2013: Software: Literature & Latte's "Scapple" Scapple is a mind-mapping desktop client created by the geniuses at Literature and Latte, the same folks who are the masterminds behind my go-to, long …
Apr 10, 2013: Paperless: Digitizing Your Life and Going Paperless… Last August, my wife and I decided to downsize our home situation moving from a 1500 square foot home, into a 500 square foot studio apartment. That’s …
Mar 28, 2013: The Web: The Current State of RSS As many of you might’ve heard in the last few weeks: Google’s “Google Reader” service is going bye-bye. . But that …
Mar 12, 2013: Interesting Ideas: "Automatic - Your Smart Driving Assistant" "Your Car and Smartphone, Connected Just plug the Automatic Link into your car's data port. Your car and smart phone will automatically connect …
Mar 7, 2013: Hardware: ōlloclip Review I really love to photograph the world around me. It’s yet another way to tell the stories that I constantly see floating around in my …
Feb 25, 2013: The Web: App.net Goes Freemium... I’ve been curious about App.net since it’s inception. When it was announced it made quite the splash! Ok So What Is It? For those who …
Feb 17, 2013: Links: "Angles - Photographic diary of Sébastian Dahl." "This mosaic contains all the pictures of all the cars who drove me from Oslo to Beirut 112 cars, trucks and scooters in total. It’s been an …
Feb 14, 2013: Tips: Rotating Video Files in OSX UPDATE 01/22/2015: Hey guys, over the last year or so I’ve had comments (below) on this post where people have had issues with rotating their …
Feb 8, 2013: Links: "That Time I Wrote 25,000 Words in 19 Hours" "Soon enough, the words began to crawl out, slowly, timidly. I felt how bad and clunky it all sounded, not to mention the atrocious grammar. All my …
Feb 3, 2013: Hardware: What's in my bag? I’ve been reading a tech site called The Verge for about a year now (or since they launched at any rate) and one of my favorite features that …
Jan 21, 2013: Soapbox: Independent Theaters Ok, so, I haven’t done a “Soapbox” post in a bit, but recently, I felt compelled to do so. The topic: I have absolutely no data to …
Jan 6, 2013: This Site: A Small Orange to the Rescue! A quick tale on the recent and drastic changes to this site. It was the early evening of New Years Eve and I wanted to throw up a quick post saying …
Dec 30, 2012: Software: iOS "Do Not Disturb" Mode So, half of the holiday season has come and gone (I hope it all went well for everyone!) and, with the constant barrage of digital ways to stay in …
Dec 13, 2012: Film: Shane Curruth’s "Upstream Color" I am a HUGE fan of Shane Curruth’s “PRIMER” and his next, “Upstream Color”, looks to be just as intriguing. Two teaser …
Dec 9, 2012: Software: Mou App Review On it's site, mouapp.com, the text editor "Mou" is aptly described as "The missing Markdown editor for web developers". And, for me anyways, it truly …
Nov 20, 2012: Tip: Getting Rid of Multiple Entries in OSX's "Open With" Menu… Hey all, just quick tip before the holidays! The other day I found myself looking once again for a tip to remedy this situation: The issue, in a …
Nov 13, 2012: Software: All About Digital Memory I'm constantly amazed by how much my brain is bombarded by information (let alone raw stimuli) every second of everyday. If I'm honest, most of it is …
Oct 22, 2012: Hardware: Thoughts on the iPad Mini…. As I'm sure many of you noticed today, Apple released the much anticipated and, as it turns out, thoroughly leaked, iPad Mini. And there was much …
Oct 7, 2012: Software: Drafts If you haven’t guessed by now, you’re probably new to this site, and if so, welcome! If not, you’ll undoubtedly know that I am an …
Sep 18, 2012: Tips: Deleting Your Entire Music Library Off Of Your iOS Device Sans iTunes I was fortunate to be part of the groggy masses that woke up at 3AM Eastern last Friday to secure the delivery of a new iPhone 5 this Friday. Yes, I …
Aug 6, 2012: Film: Skyfall Meant to write about this when the trailer dropped last week but MAN... having been brought up on James Bond in the Roger Moore era? Boy I am super …
Aug 2, 2012: Software: Day One Journal Gets A BIG Update! Hey all! As you you've already read here on this site I am a HUGE Day One journaling fan! Well, they've just come out with a new version of their all …
Jul 17, 2012: Soapbox: On being a Locavore... One of the things I have tried my best to sustain in my day to day life, is the act of buying things that are created as locally as possible. This …
Jul 3, 2012: Hardware: Review of Logitech's K750 and K760 Wireless Solar Keyboards For the last few years, I have been using my ever-faithful Apple bluetooth keyboard for my wireless keyboard needs (Laptop, iPad, iPhone, Mac Mini, …
Jun 27, 2012: Film: Rian Johnson's latest film - Looper I am a HUGE fan of Rian Johnson. From his films, "Brick", "The Brothers Bloom", to even his episodes of "Breaking Bad"... for folks like me, he is a …
Jun 26, 2012: Design: WTHR - A Simpler, More Beautiful Weather App Hey guys, This popped up on the ole radar this week and I thought I would share. If you know the intricate inner workings of my mind (poor, poor …
Jun 20, 2012: Film: Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" One of my all time top five favorite films is Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood". There isn't one single frame that I can find fault with in …
Jun 6, 2012: Interesting Ideas: ClamBook Android and iPhone Laptop Dock Now here is a pretty interesting alternative to my writing setup. I'm definitely curious to see the implementation of it and how it works with the …
Jun 5, 2012: Writing: 750words.com What is it?: 750words.com is a site dedicated to writing, yep, you guessed it, seven hundred and fifty words a day. The concept behind it all comes …
May 23, 2012: Interesting Ideas: The LEAP Saw this making the rounds today. Pretty interesting tech going on here! In a bunch of ways this is where I am hoping personal computing is going: …
May 17, 2012: Software: Day One Journal I've always been a huge fan of journaling. It's you taking time out of your schedule, stepping out of the constant stream of everything that barrages …
May 6, 2012: Writing: My Writing Setup Part 2 - Hardware I touched upon this in a previous post but, as that post was focused on the software I used, I thought I'd expound a little more on my writing setup …
May 6, 2012: The Web: ThisIsMyJam.com In the hopes of mixing things up in this space, I plan on putting up some "What I Like" posts that will talk about anything and everything that I am …
Apr 26, 2012: Writing: My Current Workflow... As you could probably surmise from the length of my last post, I'm not only into techie geeky stuff, I also love to write. Since I was a boy I've …