Blog Posts

Sweat the Small Things

Today, I had an issue with my Hugo and PaperMod powered blog. Hugo and PaperMod are the only 2 dependencies in my blog and I figured I'd pull them...

Mar 19, 2025 • 3 min read • By Danny

A New Path

So, the election happened. Ignoring policy differences, I think my biggest grievance is we chose an angry, immature man to run the most powerful...

Nov 6, 2024 • 3 min read • By Danny

Ergonomic Keyboards Pt1

I started work as a software engineer about 7 months ago now. With many long hours sitting and staring at the screen, I realized that my hands and...

Apr 20, 2024 • 10 min read • By Danny

Migrating to Hugo

This is my first post using Hugo, a static site generator, with the PaperMod theme. I migrated from a self-built Svelte-Kit based JAMStack. This gave...

Mar 13, 2024 • 2 min read • By Danny

Gamedev Log September 2023

I started doing game development again this month. I have chosen to use pygame-ce as my framework so that I can work in Python. When I last started...

Sep 26, 2023 • 3 min read • By Danny

Video Encoding for People in a Hurry

This a quick opinionated guide towards encoding your videos for your data hoarding habits. HandBrake is an open-source tool that is widely used by...

Apr 25, 2023 • 5 min read • By Danny

How I Made This Site (2023 Edition)

Despite how long this site has been up, I actually started in March 2023. This is not an explicit tutorial, but you could probably follow along and...

Apr 24, 2023 • 10 min read • By Danny

uses

This page is inspired by Wes Bos' uses page and all the others from uses.tech. This page will continually be updated as I change my uses and setup...

Apr 9, 2022 • 4 min read • By Danny

Legitimacy of the Supreme Court

I love the Supreme Court. I got to see the building last fall. I have read "The Nine" by Jeffrey Toobin. As a liberal, I love RBG. I love the little...

Mar 25, 2022 • 4 min read • By Danny

Reader to Creator and Execution

I keep talking and thinking about how I can reach a creator state. It turns out, I am the biggest blocker for reaching that creator state (no...

Mar 18, 2022 • 3 min read • By Danny

Top 20 of 2021

Here are my top 20 things (besides my wife and buns of course) from 2021. This list is by no means perfect or comprehensive and in no particular...

Jan 8, 2022 • 11 min read • By Danny

Amateur Research

"DO YouR OwN resEarCH" as they say since the start of the pandemic. I have been. My #1 source for all COVID-19 related news has been from The New...

Dec 10, 2021 • 4 min read • By Danny

Tweets Collected Part 1

I am going to start a collection of what would be Tweets or Twitlongers. All of these will be thoughts too poorly thought out to be it's own post,...

Dec 9, 2021 • 3 min read • By Danny

Goals

I have a few different goals with this blog. This is the number one goal. How am I doing this? By writing a lot. This post will come up just one day...

Dec 1, 2021 • 3 min read • By Danny

What is This?

What is the purpose of this website? The combination of the URL & blog name, the sidebar description and this nobody writer all reveal nothing about...

Nov 30, 2021 • 4 min read • By Danny