Meadowhawk Blog
Meadowhawk Blog
Meadowhawk
This is my little corner in the bitstreams where I plan to go on about all the fun stuff I do or have done. I use to post all of this on Instagram and twitter but, I want to move out of corporate socials as my primary. Honestly I'll probably look into adding ActivityPub and P2P distribution in the future in addition to my self-hosted server, to ensure it stays running. The URL wont change though!
Latest Posts
I strongly resist participating in the panopticon economy but, I have wanted to set up some security cameras around my house for ages. I am simply unwilling to share my data with corps that will not only retain my data but also sell it...
I climbed a mountain this morning! This is actually my second climb for the year but, today writing resulted! This was my usual local training hike, a mere 750ft-ish assent. I like it because it's usually not too busy in the mornings and...
It's the end of they year and I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at my Indieweb journey for the year. I had some steady posting spurts on the site this year and while I would have liked more, I'm happy with what I did...
I managed to get out on a couple of hikes in the fall to capture the fall colors! One unique opportunity for a photo shoot this year, was to use my drone to use to take a few images and video. This is only my second try at taking drone …
My Sweetie lost her long battle with cancer a week ago today. Honestly, loosing a loved pet has to be the next worst thing to loosing a child. The house feels empty without her and life doesn't move with the same rythem. Sweetie joined...
My morning routine has evolved in a lovely way. It's not complicated, and really centers around 3 essential things after I get out of bed. Yoga, this is compulsory because I've been a desk jockey all my life and my hips have had enough....
I recently finished reading "This is for Everyone" by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (The inventor of the internet btw) and it left me with a lot to contemplate as to what the Web is to us. Like many of you I am a child of the computer and the web....
This year I have focused a good bit of my reading on the study of Artificial Intelligence, specifically AGI (G stands for general). I have had a few moments where I have questioned my quest for understanding, why do I want to know so...
I recently bought my dream laptop, it's a slick Framework 16 Laptop with an add-on GPU, near infinite RAM, superfast m.2 drive and running Ubuntu. I love it! I use it every day for work and gaming, it can handle anything with ease....
This month I decide to try something new and join in for the IndieWeb Movie Club, for Octobers movie is the 1995 classic, Hackers. It's funny to think that I have never seen the movie despite all the talk about it in hacker circles. I...
This month I decide to try something new and join in for the IndieWeb Movie Club, for Octobers movie is the 1995 classic, Hackers. It's funny to think that I have never seen the movie despite all the talk about it in hacker circles. I...
Looking back at my blog post for this year I have realized that I often I forget to post things to my blog! I get so busy with projects that I forget, this is a good example where I thought I posted this but, apparently not. I have a...
Once a year my brother and I meet up to climb mountains and enjoy local food & wine. We both enjoy the outdoors and surrounding ourselves in the natural world. Why mountains? Well you get natural beauty, the physical struggle of the...
I've had a busy month and I'm not done yet! By a stroke of luck I found myself having to travel to NYC on the exact same week as the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in Queens, NY, so I did the only thing I could possibly do, convert my …
I am so behind on blog posts but, thanks to a round of Covid, I'm not up for much so.. writing blog drafts! First up is a little app I wrote in an effort to build more of my own tools and apps. My use case I found myself constantly …