ldstephens weblog
ldstephens weblog
ldstephens
A weblog by ldstephens. This is my little corner of the web where I share whatever’s on my mind: stories, random thoughts, and the occasional rant.
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March 30, 2026 Breezy and 71 this afternoon. Actually, it's shorts weather for the next several days. Got outside this afternoon and stacked about half the firewood that I split a week ago. Then reorganized the shed and put the...
March 27, 2026 I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and here's why: Firefox's "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" setting (under Privacy & Security) gives me fine-grained control over what gets wiped on quit....
March 26, 2026 I've had a Medium account since 2015 with several hundred posts, and still pulling around 500 views a week, all free and outside the Partner Program. I hadn't visited or posted in a very long time. Today, for no particular...
March 21, 2026 I've been busy working outside for the past three days. A friend and I started by cutting up the remaining log stack and splitting about half of it for firewood. Then Thursday and Friday we cleared the cart path through...
March 17, 2026 I came across a great piece by Ben Lovejoy on 9to5Mac that offered a new perspective on Apple's MacBook Neo. According to Ben maybe the MacBook Neo isn't necessarily about offering a cheaper Mac, but rather about...
March 12, 2026 I've noticed that I type faster and more accurately on my 11" iPad Magic Keyboard than on my MacBook Pro's full-size keyboard when I occasionally write blog posts on my 11" M2 iPad Air. My fingers are on the shorter side,...
March 11, 2026 Houdah Blog HoudahSpot was never designed to replace Finder. It was designed to do the one thing Finder search can’t do well: let you find files using precise, composable criteria.[…] When trying to wrangle a large number...
March 8, 2026 Most of the snow has finally melted. From January until just a couple of days ago we had several inches on the ground. Now it's mud season, but I can finally get outside and start dealing with the storm and snowplow damage....
March 6, 2026 Font Awesome Kickstarter campaigns live and die by momentum in the first 48 hours, and ours ran out of steam before most of our audience even knew it existed. Yes. We hit our initial goal, but if we can't email folks for...
March 1, 2026 The ldstephens.net site was migrated from WordPress using the 11ty Base Blog and the WordPress import plugin. While I initially used the base blog, I've since replaced it with my own custom 11ty build. With around 50...
February 26, 2026 I ask myself more questions. What can this new update do for me? Is there anything that the previous iteration can’t keep doing? No? Then what’s the point of upgrading? Does this app have some groundbreaking feature I...
February 25, 2026 Last October, I wrote about Carrot Weather's limited data sources. In that post, I mentioned my love for Carrot Weather, but noted that the available weather sources weren't accurate for central New Jersey, and that The...
February 22, 2026 I came across this piece by Greg Morris today and it's been rattling around in my head ever since. It's about something most of us don't think about until it's too late the fact that almost nothing in our digital lives...
February 21, 2026 Fun, fun, fun! For the first time in over a month, the snow has melted enough that I can actually see the yard. Now, we're getting another storm. A powerful nor'easter is heading toward New Jersey, and my town is right...
February 20, 2026 The security issues impact Live Server (CVE-2025-65715), Code Runner (CVE-2025-65716), Markdown Preview Enhanced (CVE-2025-65717), and Microsoft Live Preview (no identifier assigned).[…] Also, it is advisable to remove...