saturn town
saturn town
Hermit
i am hermit. i am an artist and data engineer. i enjoy woodworking, collecting typewriters & telephones, cooking, vintage web design & computing, and watching & playing hockey.
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i didn’t expect anything from this month, yet it surprised in so many ways. more than i’d like to share, but i just wanted to document for myself the joy i experienced. things are going so well for me.
this year is about opening myself up to new experiences. i can’t believe it’s nearly half-over. what started out as a chaotic and challenging year has become one of the best of my life.
i woke up feeling fine today. it’s friday, and though the world is being sold, and though the anchor never rises, my ship still floats. the moon was exceptionally bright this morning as it rose over the mountain behind me. i’m feeling...
this time last year, i wrote a post concerning some lofty goals (more ideas; a “this year i may” list). much of them i did not partake in. this year turned out to be one of, if not the most difficult years of my life; and this past...
balatro is a digital card game in which you try to play the best1 poker hand. it’s captured my attention lately, though i am a bit late to the party. the central mechanic is that each poker hand has a set number of chips and multiplier....
i’ve realized that the posts on my site are taking too much focus. and i have interest in creating and populating other pages. over the coming weeks i’ll be tinkering with redesign to reverse that: the blog nature of my site should take...
i’m in the middle of a 6-day stint of no work. three days PTO, two days weekend, and one day national holiday. any plans? no, not really. indulge in some vices and partake in my hobbies. it’s time off, but it won’t soothe the burnout.
i have an old rotary telephone, and another old touchtone phone. i don’t pay for traditional phone line, so i use a voip converter box (from grandstream) to enable me to use these devices. my voip provider, voip.ms, offers an API that...
i wish to peek behind the veil for a little bit. this is the operator speaking - not hermit.
one of my near-term goals is to migrate from Github to something self-hosted, or at least less microsoft-flavored. self-hosting gitea or using gitlab are the top contenders.