Alex White's Blog
Alex White's Blog
Alex White
I'm a tech guy located in Central Ohio in the United States. I've worked in IT, software engineering, product design and currently work as a engineering manager.
Latest Posts
David talked about their reluctance to share their blog with others in the real world. I have much the same reluctance, I definitely don't want a coworker on my blog, or even one of my IRL friends. I do occasionally share links to my...
I've been wanting to get out and take more photos, so here's day 1 of a personal challenge to do so! These were taken while on my lunch break. There's a beautiful trail next to the coworking place. If you want full resolution versions of...
Before my daughter was born, I hosted a retro gaming night. I had recently acquired a PS2 and 32" Sony CRT and was looking forward to a night of fighting bots in Medal of Honor and chasing each other with RC helicopters in 007 Nightfire....
In my previous post I talked about my frustration that the used Thinkpad I bought was crashing when unplugged in Linux. My conclusion at the end of the post was that I would return to Mac OS. Well that lasted about 1 day. I'm back to...
On Wednesday I picked up a new (to me) Thinkpad P14s Gen 4. I was excited to finally get off my System76 Pang12, a computer that works, but has a long list of hardware and reliability issues. Thinkpad in hand, I installed Ubuntu 25.10...
I relate a lot to Herman's recent post, in more ways then one. His thoughts on travel are very similar to mine, and the fact that he's writing from Kyoto is even better. You see, I spent a semester studying in Japan 14 years ago (good...
Thought it would be fun to do a simple everyday carry post! Here's what I typically have in my backpack. Pictured SnowSky Echo This is a very recent addition and replaced the iPod Classic I was carrying. I'll be honest, I really like...
I stumbled across Matt's work via a post on Tildes. His "manifesto for small software" describes how he has targeted building applications that could fit on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Most of his apps are either Mac OS or iOS, which honestly...
Over the winter I was super into Palm Pilots, I even picked up a few new ones and swapped the batteries. My current collection includes a Tungsten E, Tungsten T3, Tungsten C and a Handspring Visor. I was daily driving the C for quite...
I find beautiful, well-designed, native applications to be a source of inspiration when using my computer. I've posted on Mastodon about the native Mac applications that were hard to leave when switching to Linux. Now that I've fully...
Testing a custom hook that auto posts to Mastodon from Pure Blog.
A couple of years ago I started my journey into cycling with a Vaast A/1 gravel bike. It features a magnesium frame, which touts being nearly as light as carbon for a fraction of the cost. I’ve put nearly 2,000 miles on that bike between...
Awhile back I built mdServer, a markdown based blogging engine. It was fun to build, but I’ve found I want to focus on other projects (and writing). With that, I’ve decided to move to Pure Blog, the excellent blogging platform created by...
Pablo posted a very well put together reaction to another post regarding the use of LLMs in the writing process. Pablo did an excellent job of conveying the thoughts I've had around this subject. I've often felt "if you didn't bother...
For the past couple of weeks I've been considering buying a new laptop. My daily driver has been a MacBook Pro with a M1 Pro and 16GiB of memory. It's a good machine, but the RAM is limiting and I've been wanting to fully move to Linux....