Health
A Decade of No Sodas
A quick check-in on my decade-long streak of avoiding soft drinks.
Matthew McGarity
Productivity
A Concise Goal-Setting Framework
Sahil Bloom's system for framing the right number of achievable goals.
Ghost
Fuck It, Let's Go With Ghost
Details on yet another change-up in my website, this time involving the CMS platform Ghost.
Things
Things 3 Audit
My use of various tools to work around UI and CLI limitations with Things 3.
Eleventy
Adios, Jekyll...Howdy, Eleventy
Details on my switch from Jekyll to Eleventy for powering my static website.
Productivity
My Useful Apple Shortcuts
My collection of free productivity-focused Apple shortcuts.
Jekyll
Configuring Jekyll Tags
Details on how to overcome the lack of an obvious Jekyll feature.
Productivity
Gmail Filters for Product Management
How as a product manager I use Gmail filters to wrangle my inbound emails.
Jekyll
Sublime-Jekyll
An update on my journey towards a sustainable Jekyll publishing setup.
Photography
Independence
Jekyll
New Year, New Blog
My search for a blogging system that best balances price with frequency of use.
Meta Quest 2
Using Vivecraft to run Minecraft Java on a Meta Quest 2 VR headset
Recently, my son acquired his first VR headset (a Meta Quest 2). Between the MQ1 and MQ2, Meta made a design decision that made the latter less-independent on a computer connection to operate. However, if you want to run VR in things like Minecraft Java Edition, you have to jump
Time Capsule
Mysterious CD-R Disc
One of the jetpacks we were promised was the easy availability of CD-R drives during my college years. As the ability to cheaply preserve massive amounts dovetailed with the growing popularity of other consumer-friendly technology such as digital photography & music, it became beyond easy to accumulate a rich media
Time Capsule
12 Ounce Can of Red Bull
While playing soccer with my club team “The Mama’s Boys”, a curious car drove up to one of our pre-games. It was a speck of a vehicle, topped with a giant faux can of Red Bull. Out jumped a hottie who asked if we’d care to indulge in
Time Capsule
U.S. Treasury Savings Bond
Here’s the first of many surprises I’d forgotten interning within my time capsule. In the summer of 1992, as I headed to college after graduating high school, my brother’s godmother gifted me an United States Treasury savings bond. Specifically it was a Series EE note, designed to
Time Capsule
1997 U.S. Mint Proof Set
When I was a kid, my parents started doling out various family heirlooms to me and my brother. I don’t recall what they gave me, but I remember feeling screwed over because he inherited my dad’s coin collection. As a history buff, I love tangible connections to our