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I’m An Engineer
From time to time when I was a kid, my grandparents would take me to Santa’s Land, a Christmas themed theme park in southern Vermont. On one of those trips, I remember buying a mechanical Christmas tree toy in the gift shop. The tree was made of three aluminum triangle-ish segments that were mounted to […]
My Decision to Move to US Mobile: Nine Months In
About nine months ago it was time for new phones, and I decided that it was also a good time to leave Verizon after being a Verizon post-paid customer for probably 15 years. The Verizon network is the best bet in this area, especially in the more rural areas I often visit (or at least […]
The Samsung Desktop Experience
I stumbled on this Gizmodo article last night and learned something about my phone that I didn’t know. Apparently every Samsung phone (at least in the Galaxy series) since the Galaxy S8 has a feature built into it called DeX, or the Desktop Experience, that allows you to use the device as a desktop by […]
Emmet Toolkit
Last night I was watching a YouTube video on some new web framework, trying to decide whether it was worth it to learn yet another new tool. The framework was meh, but as the presenter was giving his demos, he was using someting called Emmet in Visual Studio Code to quickly create his HTML markup. […]
Goodbye Cable TV–Don’t Let the Door Hit You In the Ass on the Way Out
I can still remember how excited I was when we first got cable TV as a kid. My grandparents had had cable for a while, and I loved watching Nickelodeon when I’d visit them, so I was psyched that I’d now be able to watch it whenever I wanted. Our first cable box was one […]