Digitally Adrift

Shifting Gears

Well I've completely switched away from using Hugo. Thanks to a post from I decided to check out by Kev Quirk and it's pretty much exactly what I've been trying to create with Hugo. Pureblog is PHP an...

blogging, tech stack

"New CLI Tool"

I had Google's Gemini 3 write a little CLI tool for writing and publishing posts and notes from the command line. It's nothing fancy. Basically some template files that get loaded up into NeoVim so I...

"Jan 18, 2026 07:35 PM"

Had a great afternoon/eveninf with the family. Got out to our local art museum and spent an hour coloring, crafting and reading. Then we went to the a nearby arboretum to see there new changes post Ch...

"Jan 15, 2026 11:32 PM"

Didn't realize this was Edgar Wright. There's hope for it.

"Jan 15, 2026 09:50 AM"

Well I stayed up way too late finishing the new Running Man. It was better than I expected. But it also seems like they were setting it up for a sequel which I'm not particularly excited about.

"Jan 14, 2026 10:40 PM"

Didn't realize this was Edgar Wright. There's hope for it.

"Jan 14, 2026 10:32 PM"

The new Running Man movie is out on Paramount+ now. Just clicked play. There's no way this is as good as Arnold's. Still need to read the book too.

"Working on my blog"

I like the way handles his blog. He posts stuff throughout the day that all show up a single chunks of his blog grouped by day. Each input has it's own permalink and then each day has a link (which he...

"Jan 14, 2026 09:35 PM"

Used Google's to spruce up the editor I use to write blogposts. I went for something that emulated the simplicity of the editor. It's about as simple as it gets. Just a mostly blank page with some sim...

"Jan 14, 2026 09:27 PM"

https://www.garbageday.email/p/where are the democrats More great work from the Garbage Day team.

"January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM"

New year, new posts? Hopefully. The blog has been down for the last 2 months because I broke it trying to modernize the editor I host to edit posts in the browser, merge that into my Hugo blog directo...

"September 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM"

Been getting through a good bit of reading lately. Mostly working my way through which I'm really enjoying. It has influences from the series around the structure of the world and it's hierarchy. The...

'books'

"August 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM"

I've spent a bit of time recently refactoring and modifying the codebase that I use as a web editor for this blog. Mainly using different LLM coding assistans to see how well they can handle making ch...

'ai', 'workflow'

"July 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM"

I added some simple analytics to this site finally. So now I can prove that I'm the only one reading it :). Mostly it was just wanting to check out self hosting . Following Jack over at makes me feel...

'setup', 'self-hosting'

"July 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM"

One thing that I just realized my new scribbling setup doesn't currently support is physical media. I don't often get a chance to sit down and listen to a record but I did get some good ones for Fathe...

'music'

"Is it still called scrobbling?"

I read by last year and have been trying to be more mindful of where algorithms are influencing my consumption. Music is probably the biggest portion of that consumption. For the last 10 years or so I...

'music', 'algorithms'

"July 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM"

Did some research into why physical writing is linked to so many memory and learning benefits. More of the brain is activated when physically writing. Including many of the "hubs" that are important f...

'writing', 'research', 'AI'

"June 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM"

I tried to get set up on my server to publish to this Hugo based blog. I was unable to get it working. I use Yunohost to handle a lot of the stuff I run there including LDAP. I think the auth redirect...

'new tech', 'testing'

"2025-05-13T13:29:36"

I've been knocking around an idea in my head for a while. I want to understand some of the things that are really impactful to humans but seem to be modern enough that I don't know how or why it's imp...

"2025-05-02T13:28:16"

Spent some time today cleaning up a lot of unused apps and domains on my vps. It was pretty easy with YunoHost through the dashboard. I moved some services around to other domains and simplified a lot...

'setup'