Sal's
Sal's
Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
Latest Posts
I liked Kev’s recent post, Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre. I too wrote about upgrading to fiber (as we Yanks spell it), but this is the part I want to talk about: I remember when I upgraded from a 56k MODEM, to ~2Mbps broadband...
I’m dictating this into iA Writer on my phone as I head home after walking my kids to school. Dropping my kids at school, let alone taking the extra ten minutes each way to walk them to school, often feels like a burden at first. “But I...
From Kottke: The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release...
Loved Amanda’s post, Make Email Fun Again! I completely agree. For a year or so, I used Fastmail only for my blogging-related emails. While my Gmail inbox was mostly an exhausting stream of garbage and low-value chores, a red badge on my...
My wife and I recently escaped to Tuscany together for ten days with no kids. Most parents of young-ish kids will appreciate this as a rare and profound opportunity. We stayed three nights in Florence, three nights in the countryside at...
No more analytics for me! After moving my blog, I thought I’d be using Cloudflare’s analytics, which are semi-built-in and purport to be privacy-first and lightweight. But when I went to set them up, I learned they’re not available for...
Bloggers have written many words about the pros and cons of writing anonymously. From Dave Rupert’s interview with Manu: If I were to do it all again, I would maybe try a pen name. Having my name associated to my blog has done well for...
I decided to move my blog away from Bear Blog. It's now built with 11ty and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. I still very much appreciate and admire Bear. It helped me get back into blogging for the nth time by offering a very low barrier to...
I think it worked! Here are the rough steps I took to move my blog: Clone the 11ty blog template and get it roughly into shape. Push the repo to Gitlab. Set up a Cloudflare Pages application and connect it to the Gitlab repo. Download...
Hey peeps. I'm moving my blog off of Bear soon. As I'll write about shortly in the new spot, Bear has been awesome, and I'm so grateful for it. I'm moving just because I'm wanting to get back to a statically generated site with a local...
Provoked by my blog move, I decided to give it a new design as well. The old design always felt a little bleh. As I’ve probably mentioned, I suck at design. I know when I like something, but I’m terrible at coming up with something cool...
I was going to title this post Obsidian Sync is worth it. But I don't know what four bucks a month means to you. I can't say what's worth what to other people. But I can say that Obsidian Sync is great! Here are some reasons: It's fast.I...
I was going to title this post Obsidian Sync is worth it. But I don't know what four bucks a month means to you. I can't say what's worth what to other people. But I can say that Obsidian Sync is great! Here are some reasons: It's fast....
I can't believe I didn't know this earlier! Do you have ceramic mugs and stuff that look kind of like this, with streaks caused by silverware and whatnot? I assumed the ceramic was getting scratched and slowly ruined, which bummed me out...
I can't believe I didn't know this earlier! Do you have ceramic dishes that look kind of like this, with streaks caused by silverware and whatnot? I assumed the ceramic was getting scratched and slowly ruined, which bummed me out because...