Brandon Davis
Brandon Davis
Brandon Davis
Hobby blog about technology, music, and crafts!
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https://hono.dev/ is a lot of fun to use, in large part due to the simplicity of the tooling. It feels a bit like writing one-file-per-page web applications in PHP or python and dropping them on a web server somewhere. I used to do this...
48 hours on the empire builder and 2 days in Whitefish.
I’ve been using claude code on and off since it launched a year ago. Since the Christmas holiday, it seems a ton of folks outside the software industry have discovered it as well. Despite its popularity, I’ve seen almost no discussion of...
I live in Minneapolis, where on Jan 7 Renee Good was killed by an ICE officer while trying to flee from another officer attempting to force her car door open. Moments before, she is seen on camera waving out her window for the ICE...
I celebrated the new year by having covid and coughing a lot. It caused us to cancel a lot of plans with friends and family and cut holiday travel short. 2025 was good to me, though. I married my wonderful partner of 10 years in June....
The IKEA Kapplake accent light works really well as a backlight. Compared with the picture above, it looks a bit softer and warmer in person. The entire light is a toggle button, so I’ve put them toward the top and right side so they’re...
I want the ability to easily share tagged links to this website, inspired by the blogrolls of yore (shoutout to sethmlarson). This is a static hugo site, though. I have no interest in creating a commit just to make new links appear....
Why is buying music so inconvenient? It’s kind of insane that setting up a piracy stack is somehow easier than regularly purchasing and downloading music in a way that supports the artist. Read this setup guide for example. Toward the...
What does winter feel like I sometimes hear about how winters are nothing like they used to be. Were they really worse in the 80s? Memory is foggy. Averages and trendlines can be hard to relate to subjective personal experience. The...
Long before we get to the point where a machine is a moral agent, we will have machines that are capable of suffering. - Ted Chiang I want to write out some thoughts to revisit later. It can be easy to get revisionist about what you...
At some point, every home server operator loses steam. After 6+ years running ~20 applications on a home server, I wish only for things to work properly and not waste my time. If you’re anything like me, docker compose is probably all...
Podcasts are nice. They show up in chronological order, download in the background, and work the same in every app. In a world of algorithmic walled garden social “platforms”, this is a small miracle. Why can’t more of the internet be...
Photos from RandyLand, Bicycle Heaven, and around town in Pittsburgh, PA. October 2025.
In June of ‘25 I shut off most of my social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I kept reddit under the happy delusion that I could learn to use it responsibly (lol) but I’ve made strides to curtail that as well. Since...
There are plenty of high-quality full length concerts available on youtube. It only recenlty occurred to me that I could just turn these into my own bootleg live albums. Step 1: Manifest file Make a new text file that follows this...