What's real and what's hot air in the potential sequel to the worst presidential release in my lifetime. | Continue reading
Support local theatre for no other reason than it's good for your soul to watch people create cool stuff. | Continue reading
Fight spam in your RSS feed with Feedbin's new features. | Continue reading
Fixing a 13 year old iMac with a 8 year old operating system. | Continue reading
I don't always do a hockey playoff bracket. But when I do, I always pick the Jets to win the cup. I'm loyal to a fault. | Continue reading
I banged my head against the virtual wall for a week trying to figure this one out. Turns out it's a very simple fix. | Continue reading
There's a lot of features hidden in the Apple TV hardware and software that make it a lot more interesting to use. | Continue reading
Twitter was where I met a lot of friends. Friends and connections that helped me to start a business. These days, I don't know what I'd do if I was just starting out? | Continue reading
2024 is maybe kind of we'll see the year of video podcasting? | Continue reading
Give me more behind the scenes podcasts. | Continue reading
This is a very long post that will be interesting if you enjoy the meta commentary behind choosing blogging software. | Continue reading
This is a very serious post and not just a test of Ghost's ability to embed a Mastodon toot. | Continue reading
I'm re-publishing an email I sent here for transparency and archival purposes. | Continue reading
What I post where, who it's for, and why I post there. | Continue reading
Like most people, I've been flailing around on social networks these days. I used to be a Twitter ride or die, but turns out Twitter basically dies when an egotistical man baby buys it and burns it down along with $20 billion dollars in the process. So as of early 2024, here's wh … | Continue reading
I love the way the web still works without any social media influence. Here's the internet rabbit trail that led me to creating this post. | Continue reading
I love the way the web still works without any social media influence. Here's the internet rabbit trail that led me to creating this post: I was adding a link to omg.lol, a blog and email hosting service that's cute AND easy AND (relatively) cheap, to my newsletter. While browsin … | Continue reading
I love this verse in Phoebe Bridgers' song, Chinese Satellite, from her 2020 album Punisher | Continue reading
I love this verse in Phoebe Bridgers' song, Chinese Satellite, from her 2020 album Punisher: You were screaming at the Evangelicals They were screaming right back from what I remember When you said I will never be your vegetable Because I think when you're gone it's forever But y … | Continue reading
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek talked up profitability and the annoyance of having to work with pesky... (checks notes) human beings. | Continue reading
Via this week's Hot Pod newsletter, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek talked up profitability and the annoyance of having to work with pesky... (checks notes) human beings: Creating a great audio ad is something that's quite costly and quite expensive for marketers to do...What generative AI … | Continue reading
This week Apple announced a price increase on their media services. Here's my thoughts. | Continue reading
This week Apple announced a price increase on their media services: In the U.S., Apple TV+ is now $9.99 per month, up from $6.99 per month. Apple Arcade+ is up $2 at $6.99, and Apple News+ is now priced at $12.99 per month, up from $9.99 per month. Apple One Individual an … | Continue reading
You totally should buy a PS5 though. | Continue reading
There's been some low rumbling from certain members of our household, namely the ones who play video games, that in addition to a Switch, Xbox, Meta Quest, computers, and iOS devices we should also own a Playstation 5 so that we could enjoy the new Spider-Man 2 game which is excl … | Continue reading
Filing this one under the evangelical persecution complex, from Slate where the Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker: At the time, the decision was embarrassing enough, as it rested on the fiction that the coach, Joe Kennedy, was reprimanded for “private religio … | Continue reading
I recently upgraded my home internet from Fibre+ 750 to the new and improved Ignite Internet 1.5G. The former was provided by Shaw, the later is now by the still merging Rogers together with Shaw corporate entity. Having swapped out the Ignite WiFi Gateway (XB6) router for the ne … | Continue reading
Summary: I'm trying to export my Eleventy posts to a format that can be imported into WordPress and keep getting an error when I try to build it. What I Want to Do TL;DR Get my Eleventy content (blog posts) into whatever format to be able to import them into WordPress, ideally wi … | Continue reading
Shuhada' Sadaqat, professionally known as Sinéad O'Connor, died this week. A lot of the conversation is around the force and power of her voice, rightfully so. One of her best performances in my mind is "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" from the soundtrack for In the Name of … | Continue reading
For anyone following along with my anxiety ridden indecision about upgrading my work computer, our collective long international nightmare is over. For context: June, 2023: When to Upgrade My Mac - 5 Months Later January, 2023: When to Upgrade My Mac - One (mini) Month Later Dece … | Continue reading
Instagram launching their Twitter clone Threads - I'm @iChrisv2 on Threads - built off the social graph you have on Instagram is such a smart play. Despite having a massive amount of users on Facebook, they're not leveraging that platform to boost Threads in part because that wou … | Continue reading
Kristin Du Mez, author of the excellent Jesus and John Wayne, recently wrote about the demonization she gets online and why she responds the way she does: I’m asked frequently how I hold up being so often targeted by these types. On the one hand, it can be frustrating because it … | Continue reading
You can do your own google searching, but in my opinion Substack has the worst smell of email newsletter providers. An app's smell is the vibe of the thing. Pretty self explanatory. I don't have time to explain why these apps below are better than Substack because I'm such a prol … | Continue reading
Like many U2 songs, when I first heard Kite on All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2000 I think I liked it but it didn't stand out as a great song. It wasn't until watching the U2: Elevation Tour - Live In Boston concert DVD in late 2001 - which is somehow available for free on Yo … | Continue reading
Anyone who knows me knows that I take forever to decide on hardware upgrades that are for myself and / or my business. Scarcity mindset combined with feeling selfish while trying to feed my family combine to overthinking things to inaction. It's Déjà Vu All Over Again So here we … | Continue reading
When Apple announces new versions of macOS and iOS (and to a limited degree, tvOS), I always get interested or curious about features, but often forget them by the time the upgrade is actually pushed out into the world. So I’m blogging my list of things I’m looking forward to: Re … | Continue reading
Whatever your thoughts on the series finale of Ted Lasso, or if you thought season 3 wasn't up to your standards, or season 2 and 3 didn't live up to season 1, you can't deny that this series went so much deeper than any of us expected when Apple TV announced they were making a s … | Continue reading
I had a dream last night about being at a church meeting of some sort. Groups of people sitting at the same round tables that have been in use for decades. Built to last. It was the lounge, but it wasn’t the lounge. There’s some familiar faces, but in that dream way where you don … | Continue reading
It breaks my heart - and frustrates my mind - when Christians label non-events as persecution that have no business being categorized as such. It degrades the perception of the word - crying wolf when there’s no wolf to be found. Loss of privilege is not the same as persecution. … | Continue reading
Natasha Lomas' article, Twitter is Dying, really brought home how much quicker it is to tear something down than the years it took to build: The simple truth is that building something valuable — whether that’s knowledge, experience or a network worth participating in — is really … | Continue reading
This week U2 released Beautiful Day (Songs of Surrender), the 4th single from their upcoming Songs of Surrender, a 40 song collection of reworked versions of their songs being released March 17th, 2023. Songs of Surrender on Apple Music Beautiful Day (Songs of Surrender) on Apple … | Continue reading
Rach Smith, in a post titled AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search, nails what most of us want out of AI: What I would use the shit out of, though, is a chatbot that has been trained on all the information in the CodePen knowledge base. Have … | Continue reading
The stories coming out of Christian Centre Academy / Legacy Christian Academy / Mile Two Church (see further reading below for more on what's going on) about alleged abuses are deeply concerning. As a way of standing up for Cate Erickson, who's been leading the call for accountab … | Continue reading
Each time I use Arc, a new web browser based on the Chromium engine, and I see the notification in the corner telling me that "Arc is ready to update!", it puts a little smile on my face. Thank you to The Browser Company of New York for not burying it in a menu or deep inside a S … | Continue reading
The Oatmeal with a great comic - sweary or clean - on how difficult it is for each of us to change our beliefs, even when confronted with overwhelming facts. The examples are USA focused, but the message remains true. Be sure to check out the Inspiration section at the bottom for … | Continue reading
Season 3 of Ted Lasso is coming March 15th, 2023. I'm watching the first two seasons with a couple of my kids for their first time, my 3rd time through. Still holds up. Anxiously excited to see how they wrap up the series. Direct link to the video | Continue reading
Ever since El0n added the view count to tweets, I've been thinking about how I supposedly I have just over 2,700 followers on my twitter account, but some of the tweets I write get maybe 400 views if they resonate well or get liked / retweeted at all. Most get between 100 - 200 v … | Continue reading
Just over a month ago - but way back in 2022 time - I wrote about trying to decide if I should upgrade to a Mac Studio from my current 2019 16” MacBook Pro. Now a month later here in early 2023 Apple announced an upgraded Mac mini with an M2 Apple Silicon based system. Now that r … | Continue reading