Whilst talking with friends a few weekends back, the topic of podcasts came up, as many people I know listen to multiple podcasts regularly and some with a iron-clad commitment. My commute to work each day sits around 33 minutes (each way), and I've cultivated a list of audio informatives and dramatives to apply daily …

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Back in August of last year, my contract was up, and my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S5) was pretty long in the tooth. My daily device is now a Xiaomi MI A1. It runs AndroidOne which basically means stock (Android 8.0 as of this writing). Ars did a review of it not too far back. Pros: Was inexpensive, shipped free/quick on …

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Back in July, I ran a D&D session which consisted of a tournament of various games (like Archery, Dueling, etc) for my regular group. I hyped it up as a big thing in the city (Suzail), and it was dubbed the 'Tri-Annual Tournament of Heroes' Of course, characters in the party are all level 7, and there's no way …

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Interesting, at least I think the basic free model works for what I need. I'm not even using it for any compilation or building; it's just committing changes made back to the GitLab repo, and that is doing it's own build/deploy as part of GitLab Pages. Forestry.io looks to support plenty of static site generators, and …

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I've been working on a project, and before it went live I figured at some point I'd have to start serving it securely. I does involve logins and permissions and data (like so many things do), so I realized that I would have to figure out how to do that. I've read a lot about the "Let's Encrypt" movement, and …

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