Andrew Bridges - Show Notes

New camera (who dis?)

I replaced my Rebel T5 with a 6D.

"What you been doing today?"

"Oh, standing in a field"

This is Whiskers.

...and he's a sleepy boy.

I don't have an iPhone

don't have one — don't want one

Notes: Week of April 11

some thoughts on lumber prices, technical debt, and scheduling a COVID vaccine

Notes: Week of April 4

some thoughts on inflation, a new side project, and municipal finance

Notes: Week of March 21

A short list of things that caught my attention this week: espanso I've used a service called TextExpander for years. It's a simple, but powerful tool for text replacement that works as you type. Example: When I type ;date, TextExpander automatically replaces it with today's date in the format YYYYMMDD.

diskprices.com

Someone shared this website on Reddit. It's a handy way to compare storage options available on Amazon. I chose to buy a 14TB Seagate Exos today based on the data. It is the least expensive 14TB drive at the time of writing, and it includes a 5-year warranty. Nice.

My Backup Framework

The 3-2-1 rule for backup means that you should have three copies of your data, the original data plus 2 backups. One of those backups should be off-site. The idea is to protect yourself from a single point of failure. If one or two of those copies disappears, no problem.

The View from Here

a herd of elk in the backyard

Privacy First

I respect your privacy, and so does this site.

Self-hosting Ghost CMS with NGINX using Docker

a note reminding myself how I host this blog

Notes: Week of July 26

Here is a short list of things that caught my attention this week :) 10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS (YouTube) CSS is off-putting. So off-putting that it pushed me away from front end development. It sounds silly, but it's true. I can build an API, a database, or