Since the last time I wrote, a lot has happened: * I read "Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential" by Tiago Forte, which is quite good. I wrote a follow-up post describing how I use my second brain.
I've been using ChatGPT periodically for the past few years. Chatting with an LLM is generally a faster way to get answers to my questions than searching the internet. Just as I don't want Google to have my search data, I don't want OpenAI
I'm back! I fell off my blogging habit for a bit, hope you didn't miss me too much. This week I set up a Python package eufree that reads weight measurements from my Eufy smart scale and sends the result to a custom TRMNL plugin for
This week, I played around with the Xteink X4. It's a fun little gadget but it's not displacing my Kindle. My full review is here. I also wrote a short post describing my motivation for blogging. It's a little political, I want power to
This past week, I updated my TRMNL post, and open sourced a TRMNL client for Kindle focused on battery life. I also ordered myself an Xteink X4 that I'm excited to tinker with. Let's go e-ink!
This week I turned an old Kindle into a TRMNL: I wrote up some notes here. I'm in the process of optimizing battery usage so hopefully I can run the TRMNL for months on a single charge. Hope you're having a nice week!
This week I jailbroke my Kindle, installed KOReader, and set up Calibre-Web. It was a busy week! I've posted my notes here. Now it's time to put my feet up and read a book!
I've done it - I've switched my phone over to GrapheneOS! I was a little nervous making the switch thinking it might disrupt my day-to-day communications. I've been pleasantly surprised that there have been no major disruptions. I wrote up some notes here. Let
This week I wrote a super-niche (boring) post describing how to sync Fastmail contacts and calendars with Android. After battling with Google's OS on my phone, I decided it was time to try GrapheneOS. I'm a few days into using GrapheneOS and I'm enjoying
This week I moved my to-do list from Obsidian Tasks to Super Productivity! Combining task management with time tracking is Super Productivity's super power. I wrote up some notes on how I'm using the tool here. A few other tweaks I made this week: * Started managing
It was a fun week! I set up Uptime Kuma to monitor my blog and newsletter. It works beautifully for my needs, I'm a big fan. I also wrote a post exploring some of my feelings around using large language models. Let me know what you think!
Third time's the charm: I've moved to my third newsletter platform - I'm now using Ghost. I've been super impressed with Ghost and wrote a post comparing Ghost to the previous tools I've used. Let me know what you think
It was a busy week! I wrote three posts: 1. How to configure Immich to avoid vendor lock-in: Immich: Photo Portability 2. A blogroll with some of the sites I follow online. 3. A guide showing how to run Kubernetes in the cloud for $4.10/month using hetzner-k3s. I
This week, I’m migrating my newsletter from listmonk to Keila (hence the new look). I wrote a post about how I’m self-hosting Keila with docker compose and Cloudflare Tunnels, hope you enjoy it. All my best, Andrew
About four months ago, I left Gmail for Proton Mail. Honestly, Proton Mail didn’t quite work for me. So I’ve switched to Fastmail, and I’m happy to say it’s ticking all the boxes! If you’re curious to read more, I wrote a short post recommending
It was a busy week! I scraped a bit of data from the IndieWeb to see which apps are most popular. I’ve enjoyed exploring the data here. In lesser news, I’ve started using Umami for web analytics, and I learned about POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site,
This past week, I happened upon the IndieWeb: "When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your
This past week, I put together a back-of-the-envelope calculator to compare investing in solar panels vs stocks. I think it looks pretty sweet; I used Observable Plot for the graphs. Let me know what you think! Cheers, Andrew
I recently switched from Gmail to Proton Mail (I wanted more privacy). This week I wrote a review of Proton products. TLDR: * VPN: Yay! * Mail: Okay. * Everything else: Nay. In general, I’m trying to get as much of my data out of Google’s watchful eye as possible. I’
Welcome to the first episode of Marder He Wrote! This week I decided the blog needed a new catchy name, did I kill it? I also wrote a couple of posts: 1. My lackluster experience as a Meshtastic user 2. Some thoughts on my blogging approach (WIP) Feedback always appreciated!