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A few years ago, one of my big goals for the year was to watch less TV and read more books.

I like a lot of nerdy sci-fi, dark fantasy, and dystopian media that my wife doesn’t particularly enjoy, which means I’d typically end up watching my shows after we watched our shows together and she went to bed.

TV shows keep me awake in a way that re...


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Over a decade ago, I decided I wanted my article URLs to live at my site’s root path / instead of a subpath (like /blog or /articles) “for SEO purposes.”

That made sense when I had a few dozen articles and hosted with WordPress.

Today, I have nearly 3,000 articles generated as a flat HTML files with


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As part of my ongoing updates to my personal site, I decided to add icons after all external links.

Today, I wanted to show you how I did it. Let’s dig in!

Why?

I do a lot of linking on my site, and it’s not always obvious when a link will k...


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This morning while I was taking my dog to the groomers, the song Violence by Rise Against came on my playlist.

And I started crying.

Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?
...


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Last week, I learned that the punk band Rise Against has an acoustic symphony album called Ghost Note Symphonies.

We’ve had rainy acoustic music weather here the last few days, and one song on the album really stood out to me: Miracle.

(Here’s


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