Fuck UnitedHealthcare
A summarization of the pain I went through just to get a single medication covered by an American insurance company.
Latest
Bear vs. Apple Notes
My annual re-evaluation of tech stack, this time my Bear subscription before it re-upped.
My 2024 Media Diet
What I watched, read, and listened to last year.
Don’t Pay Automattic $40 to Migrate Your WordPress.com Site
More and more people are asking how to move on from WordPress. Here's how I cheaply & easily accomplished this using Ghost.
The Inconsistency of Command-K
How my day job is made a PITA by having to remember what Command-K does in each different application I use.
Progress
Words that resonated with me as I've been feeling stuck lately.
Crossing the Brimley/Cocoon Line
How to look one's age in the modern age.
Using Things 3 to Track Reading and Watch Lists
A walkthru of the Things 3 setup which helps me track which movies, shows, books, and more I want to knock out as part of my media diet!
Noyce "Nick" McGarity (1943-2023)
The full obituary for my father Nick, who passed away last summer after a long, epic life!
Richard Serra (1938-2024)
My remembrance of the late artist Richard Serra, including some of my own photos of his work.
Oak Hardwood Flooring from Bruce Hall's "Bowling Alley"
More about Bruce Hall's "Bowling Alley" and my own personal slice.
Tin of Spam
No good time capsule would be complete without a small portion of potted meat.
Graduation Tassels
Where we find out which lasts longer: synthetic fabric or my college education?
Displaying Secondary Tags in Ghost's Source Theme
Some quick changes to ensure you can see all tags for each of my posts.
Exporting Photos for Select Day One Entries
The other day on the Day One sub-Reddit, someone asked how to bulk-export just photos from Day One: Download a bulk of photos from a journal to my phone by u/GlitteringFee1047 in dayoneapp Being the helpful kind of person I am, I jumped to find a solution — then promptly
Flyer from Corey Mickels’ funeral (1978-1997)
A little about my former next-door neighbor and his tragic loss.
Health
A Decade of No Sodas
A quick check-in on my decade-long streak of avoiding soft drinks.
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