I lost the best friend I ever had, my great-grandma. Born in 1941, she was the definition of persistence. By the time she was just a few years older than me, she had already moved her whole family from Louisiana to California. She worked as a house cleaner and later for The Post Office. She raised my great aunt, my grandfather, and eventually my mom.
When my mom got pregnant with me, she moved again—this time to Las Vegas.…
Okay, I just wanted to write about this really cool little piece of tech magic I witnessed today. So I just went to Discount Tire to put some air in my tires. I happen to know for a fact that my tires are rated for exactly 42 PSI. At Discount Tire they have this little device that scans the tag in the door sill to read the car’s recommended tire pressure.…
AWS All assets site-wide have been moved to an AWS S3 bucket. This reduces the size of the repository and helps mitigate fragmentation with some assets previously being stored on Imgur.
Moving the whole site to AWS is still in consideration and may happen in the coming months. It will continue to be open-sourced for the remainder of its lifetime.
Supporting For anyone looking to support me as a writer and a developer, there is now a link on the misc tab to buymeacoffee.…
Figured I’d make a follow-up to my original post and go into more detail about my experience using LineageOS.
What’s on my Device I feel like MKBHD right now lmao. First things first I’d like to make clear what isn’t on my device. Closed-sourced and proprietary software. The very first qualification an app must meet to get my stamp of approval is being open-sourced. I want to be able to go through each line of code on my own and know that I’m not being tracked.…
Don’t take this post seriously, this is just me being goofy and having fun.
Some Background Recently, I embarked on a mini project. It started with my boss giving me her old OnePlus 8. Conveniently, the very next day the battery in my iPhone 11 Pro Max decided it wanted to see the world and pushed the screen off my phone. This meant that for the next two days, I got to become an Android user for the first time in almost 10 years.…