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 tend to go into Maker hibernation from Dec through February in part due to my workshop not having all that much heat and insulation. Things get to be too hard to do there when its below freezing so I hibernate. For me this means some...
Rebuilding my site using Pelican and self hosting it on my RaspberryPi.
Tonight was the first General Meeting of the new Make Roanoke a new Makerspace that's working to get established in the Area. It was really fun to meet like-minded nerds that are as geeky as I am! There was surprisingly large turnout and...
Hey friends! I've been away for a while now, close to 3 months. But it wasn't you, it was me. Myself and my 40+ member team got laid off from a job that we all poured my heart and time into. I was crushed, so much so that and decided …
I've moved to Codeberg.org for my my online Git repos and left the Hub behind but, I was feeling a little nostalgic about the GH Profile pages. GH lets you add a custom README.md to your account to use as a profile page but, Codeberg...
I’ve been on Github for a long time! It was fun in their early days and honestly still is a central location for sharing open-source code. Not sure if I would have ever considered leaving or canceling my paid subscription that I have had...
I was tethered to this telco monster for so long , it’s personally shocking and outright embarrassing. How did it go on like this? Why did I ignore their abundant sleazy scandals, lame efforts of customer lock-in, their attacks on Net...
I was just watching the show that got me interested in security, Security Now and listening to Steve Gibson’s 2nd evaluation of the Lastpass breach is something along the lines of watching every horror movie condensed into a single...
For 2023 I have a few goals around my digital life which include ending my relationship with big tech. This project is inspired by my love for #indieweb and not being turned into a product. But I am further influenced by the big bird...
If you can't fix the user, try fixing the computer! Just a little hack I threw into my system to keep my sanity and fix my sloppy touch typing. I have a habit of typing gti instead of git when executing git commands, it’s really a matter...
A year has passed since my last post, and wow has life changed! Looking back on my last post, it was the start of an 18-month journey to follow my dreams of living in the mountains and building my cabin in the woods. Today I’m reflecting...
I've been quarantined for over 6 months and I kinda snapped one day and booked a months stay in the mountains far from everything including broadband. OK sounds a little crazy when I put it that way but I have had Digital Nomad envy for...
Expanding your language toolbox is a topic promoted all over the coder channels. I believe it’s common knowledge that it’s beneficial, but in my experience, many don’t bother. I encounter resistance frequently in the JVM world, so much...
Just following the programmer tradition...