automation
Free stuff is good. I like free stuff, I like custom notifications, and I like needlessly complicating automating things. I especially love automation for alerts - it's cool to automate a tedious task that requires manual interaction like turning on a light, but triggering alerts as they occur
homelab
My server currently consists of a NAS. A few years ago, I upgraded from a QNAP TS-231, which was a solid little 2-bay starter NAS, to a much more capable Synology DS920+. On top of allowing for greater storage capacity and being a more powerful machine, one of the big
updates
I've owned a handful of domains over the years, most of which I've done absolutely nothing with. Some were for school, small personal projects, de-Googling, novelty, pranks, and a couple were literally for spite (I purchased several of the available options for domain to keep them
productivity
I’m lazy efficient and therefore don’t want to do more work than necessary, especially with any sort of repetitive tasks. I do a lot of searches from the address bar in Firefox, so I make good use out of Firefox’s built-in search tools. Most modern browsers offer
productivity
I wish I wasn’t as particular as I am, but not much to be done about that. If I want a thing, it will be thoroughly researched and I will obtain the perfect thing that suits my needs. And I don’t mean to say the perfect thing is
media
🧹This post is a mess. It's been a bit of a living document and has been added-to several times and should probably be re-done. I'll likely re-write this as a multi-part article at some point. Here is my current media setup. I fully realize that this
humour
Note from the writer: At the time of writing this, my son is about 19 months old. For the entirety of his life, I have voiced him in a terrible Russian accent. At the time of his birth, I had been listening to a Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” podcast
music
“Swayze,” as in Roadhouse actor Patrick Swayze, is one of the weirdest terms in hip-hop. Hip-hop is a genre very well known for slang: known and popular or otherwise. Like half of the English language’s slang terms come from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is obviously very strongly tied
music
Every now and then I’ll stumble across a Reddit thread along the lines of “What was the worst concert you’ve ever been to?” which will spark a memory of the travesty of a show that was the Rock The Bells Tour’s stop in Toronto in 2006. It
gaming
🤖I only really ever use IFTTT as a backup now. I was happily Zapier to check the Reddit and send it to PushBullet, but their integration no longer works. I'm currently using IFTTT again for now, but would prefer basically anything else. I'm also using the
archive
After graduating from college, I worked as a summer intern for a recording studio in Toronto called Euphonic Sound. They bundled in audio recording services along with some marketing, design and PR services for their artists. My main task was writing blog posts and conducting interviews for their podcast series.
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After graduating from college, I worked as a summer intern for a recording studio in Toronto called Euphonic Sound. They bundled in audio recording services along with some marketing, design and PR services for their artists. My main task was writing blog posts and conducting interviews for their podcast series.