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've seen a number of posts recently lamenting the nature or quality of posts showing up on Bear Blog's trending-posts feed. There are concerns about AI posts, Hacker News slop, etc. Here's a fix to try: use the most-recent feed instead....
After a couple months of CLI fervor, I’ve reached a state of relative calm. Despite my heavy reinvestment in Neovim and several other CLI tools, during which I tried to use them for damn near everything, I now find myself not really...
Pierce Freeman wrote a blog post, Go ahead, self-host Postgres, which sparked lively discussions on Hacker News and Lobste.rs. Pierce says: I'd argue self-hosting is the right choice for basically everyone, with the few exceptions at...
Alright, I finally did it. I pumped all my Obsidian journal entries into Day One. Here’s the post (or one of them, anyway) that spurred me into action. Obsidian is ideal on paper. Everything's in one place and stored as local, plain text...
My son and I saw this in the theater last night, and we had a blast! The Yautja (the Predator's species) is the protagonist in this movie, and there's some comic relief throughout, both of which rubbed some OG Predator fans the wrong...
I won't be, not after reading poor Dr. Paris's horror story. Here's the HN thread in case you're into that sort of thing. Yikes :(
I’m starting a ~6-hour flight across the States. I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks. I love a long flight! I love it in part because I don’t have to travel very often, so there’s a novelty factor. But I love it mostly because,...
I've been two-sentence journaling for a bit now, and I'm digging it. I first heard the idea from Alexander in his post, Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal (which is also where I discovered Thousand Year Old Vampire): What I...
I'm writing this on borrowed time. I'm out at the Oregon coast with extended family, tucked away in a corner on my laptop. "What are you doing," my wife is hollering from across the room. But I already missed the one-year anniversary of...
I saw Chris McLeod's post fly by and got the itch. Here's mine! Operating system: macOS. Also tried this year: Linux (Fedora) and ChromeOS. Notes: Obsidian. Also tried: Logseq at work. Great ideas. The execution just wasn't quite there...
Well I thought I might do this weekly, but my last one was a month ago! Time flies. Here’s today’s jumble. Though I bounced off of Linux, my terminal quest continues because I like it. For example, I’m still using Neovim for a lot of my...
Like Jack, I've been dabbling in Linux. At home, I've been setting up a Linux server to act as my primary desktop machine and homelab of sorts. It's an old machine I bought for $120, and it's flying with Fedora i3 Spin. Meanwhile, at...
If tack .atom onto the end of a GitHub releases URL, you now have an Atom feed for the project releases. For example: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases (webpage) https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases.atom (feed) I'm hoping...
Quick follow-on to my last post: A sweet perk of going all-in with the terminal and multiplexers is that you get a personalized tiling window manager anywhere, on any system. As long as there's a terminal and you can install your...
Well, I was finally settling into my terminal lifestyle with Tmux+Tmuxp managing my workspaces. And along came Zellij. While I'm generally happy with Tmux, there was some wonkiness with Neovim. More specifically, when I'd use the Navi...