photos & thoughts.
I'm trying to let necessity sort of guide where and how I learn things related to my homelab, otherwise I simply get overwhelmed trying to learn everything. There’s simply too much.
happy accident in gimp
All you hear as a noob when getting into Linux about Arch is that: 1) it’s not for beginners. And: 2) it’s not ‘stable’. After a number of years running Arch containers in “production” I couldn’t disagree more, on both points.
This visual language is everywhere. Look at your app icons on your phone and every container on every modern website. You’ll see smooth rounded corners on damn near every single one. Zero visual friction. Our entire modern world has been built on this conveyed convenience. Drive-Thru, 1 Tap to Apply. Click to Buy Now. Swipe Right to Fuck. All delivered via Infinite Scroll.
Fuji X100V - Pixel Sorted | Picture taken in May 2022 | Glitched in November 2025
I walled myself into the garden of Apple and Adobe products, opening wide for spoon feedings of early 2000s and 2010s billion dollar marketing campaigns.
This is a really cool way to rethink the traditional ‘blog’.
Spoiler: I say No, but I'm curious if I'm alone.
AVIF poses promise over WebP. But is it ready for prime time?
Since it’s too cloudy see the aurora this time, I’ll share a poem I wrote about the one I saw last year.
Images taken on 2025-11-08 - Shot on a Fuji X100V - Processed with Darktable
This gargantuan book about drugs, tennis, and entertainment has taunted me from our bookshelf ever since my wife and I moved in together 8 years ago...
I went on a journey trying to fix a GPU issue with Claude and now I’m making you read about it.
I’m starting a new blog, that turns out isn’t a blog. It’s a digital garden! What a concept. Hopefully turning it into a digital 'thought darkroom' is something I can find a bit more freedom with than my 'portfolio' website.
What's the point of using and learning linux if you're not gonna break things due to your own carelessness?
On May 31st, 1889, disaster struck the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania when a catastrophic flood took the lives of 2,208 people. Unprecedented rainfall in the days before compromised an inadequate dam, unleashing destruction upon Cambria county's largest city.
A couple of weeks ago my wife and I visited the Wharton Esherick house in Malvern, and this past Saturday visited the Experiencing Esherick exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum.
fall poem from last year 🍂
Image taken in May 2024 - 4x5 Cyanotype Contact Print - Digital B&W Conversion
Fallingwater was one of the most intriguing architectural wonders I have ever experienced in person.
From a hike a couple years back (not the Appalachian Trail)
Image taken on 2019-04 - Ilford HP5+ | Leica R6 or Canon A-1 | 35mm f/2.8