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Welcome to a brand new series of posts. This blog began as a continuation of my LiveJournal, and I am returning to my roots for this series called “This Week in Squirrels…” This blog went pretty quiet after Twitter really took off, but after the great “Eloning of X,” I never entirely took to Mastodon or BlueSky. Because of this, I miss blogging my thoughts. My goals are two-fold here. The first is to return regularly and share my thoughts and content, even if it’s just brief updates on what is going on in my life. The next goal is to get back into the habit of regularly deploying to my journal and build workflows for improved blogging. ...

This post is written in mourning. Today I lost one of the most colorful humans in my life. Steph was absolutely the most amazing, delightful, and powerful women I have had the opportunity to love. Since the early 2000’s with all those nights at nightclubs, to the nearly decade as partners, to her help with my transition, she has changed my life for the better over and over and over. ...

Another quick update for the website! While reading some articles about how to do cool stuff with sqlc I found yet another “Uses” page where the blogger shows off their list full of favorite tools and toys. Since I like to share cool tips and toys and tricks I thought i would make one too, now in the Uses Section of the sidebar. Mine isn’t as nice as this one, but I aspire to get it to that point eventually. Check it out if you want to know what cool stuff I am into these days.

I have updated my templates so that my RSS feeds are full text! There is absolutely no reason to drive you to this site if you can read it in the comfort of whatever reader makes you happy. Sorry it was not beforehand, it’s not the default for hugo.

What a dramatic title for this post! Let’s be honest. I didn’t use facebook that much to begin with. But this post is about life after Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and to a partial extent YouTube as well. I am letting go of Web 2.0. But Why? I am letting go of my “Web 2.0” social media and moving on to more decentralized things like my own hosted blog and Mastodon for several reasons. ...

Oh wow. I haven’t written in my blog since the pandemic hit. Yikes. A lot has happened since then. With social media having fallen apart for years I thought I would spend some time to build this blog back up. I am going to try to spend more time adding smaller things to it, and putting more notes up here instead of only in my Obsidian document. It’s going to be a rough next four years, might as well spend it contributing. ...