moddedbear.com
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I’m Jeremy, a software developer and all around nerd. I write about programming, self hosting, music, games, life in general, and anything else that’s grabbed my attention lately. Mostly this is my place to share neat things I’ve discovered or learned. You may also see me go by moddedBear in some places.
Latest Posts
For some reason my family has phenomenally crappy luck with Macbooks. Our second one in three years just died, right as my wife was needing to put together some slides with it. The thing is completely and utterly unresponsive, suffering...
Let me tell you a story I go to check my email in Gmail’s web UI. I see a few new messages regarding feedback on a project I’m working on. I click through to read one of them and the first thing I’m greeted with is a message summary I...
I was featured on Hyde’s Over/Under series this week! Go read it and check out the rest of the series while you’re at it. Each week, Hyde interviews another blogger to get their opinions on five different topics and answer a few other...
Ocarina of Time is one of those games that gets talked about so much that I’ve sort of always felt like a fake gamer for never finishing it, even nearly 30 years after release. That changed last weekend and I would now like everyone to...
I wanted to quickly highlight a new blog discovery platform I’ve just learned about called Bubbles. It uses a community voting system similar to sites like Reddit, Hacker News, or Bear Blog. Signing up is super easy since you just log in...
You might’ve already heard a lot about it by now since it’s gotten quite popular the past few months, but I have some things to say about the XTEINK X4 and how it’s become one of my favorite gadgets. If this is the first time you’re...
Gonna be honest, I didn’t see this coming just a few months ago. Through some connections I recently had a freelance game development opportunity come up. I like an excuse to start a new project (while trying to ignore the ever growing...
A few months ago I added a widget to this website that lets anyone quickly and anonymously message me. I had very little idea how that would actually go at the time, but since then it’s become my favorite feature I’ve added here. I’ve...
You are a demon made of glass and pain. And yet, you must skate. Skate Story website I stay fairly up to date with games that are coming out, though it’s pretty rarely that I actually play them brand new. So when I say I bought Skate...
For the past five years or so, my home server has been a Dell office PC I found at a thrift store for $5 during my student days. It’s served me incredibly well over the years. Between hosting Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and (at one point)...
I added a widget to every page here that lets anyone in the world immediately send me a notification. Type a message, hit send, and it’ll pop up on my phone, watch, and computer near instantly. Is this a good idea? No. But it’s a funny...
I’ve seen an increase in talk about this relatively new Wayland compositor called Niri recently and I decided to test drive it for a while. The big thing that sets Niri apart is that it’s a scrollable tiling window manager. If you’ve...
Testing out Helix as my new text editor I first tried out Helix several years ago before I even gave Neovim a real shot. I’ve seen a few posts pop up about Helix this past week, so I had the idea to ditch Neovim and give it another go....
Around ten years ago, it used to be that most of the music I listened to was from my own personal file collection in lossless formats. Over time though as my music tastes changed and I leaned on streaming more and more, my collection...
It’s been a while, huh? Season 2 of week notes coming right up. Learning Typescript with a new project I started a new web-based fediverse-related programming project recently. It’s nothing too serious right now and is mostly an excuse...