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Hollow Rock Nature Park Birding
We add some gorgeous birds to our life list in this small gem of a Durham's Hollow Rock Nature Park.
Jason Burns
IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
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German Vegetable Soup with Bacon
Kat made the following recipe for a Soup-er Bowl party and it came out really well! Here's the original recipe. And if you don't read German, here's what Apple Translate did with that photo above.
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Asparagus Bane
I was describing Spargelfest in Germany to a friend and they asked me, "What makes white asparagus different?" I said, "They take a Bane approach. It's cultivated in darkness." Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born
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2025 Summary
I'm doing this again. A year in review for 2025. If you want to catch last year's, you can find 2024 here. Pray that brevity finds me, for your sake. 2025 brought new challenges and plenty of adventure. Challenges Psychic Damage The first challenge of 2025
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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Sometimes you want to post an AIM status update with lyrics of your current mood. Well, I've got a publishing platform, so here goes.
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Debian 13 Trixie Upgrade
One Weird Trick to make Linux distro upgrades easy on your critical services. Upgrading from Debian 12 to 13 on a Docker host.
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Air-Gapped Cyber Resilient Infrastructure
During Nutanix .NEXT 2025 in Washington, DC, I had the honor of presenting a main stage demo to ~4,000 attendees. I can write a bit more about what it took to get this demo ready, but for now I'm just happy to share that the presentation is
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Bliss Alta Motionblinds Home Assistant Integration
Do you have a Bliss Automation - Alta Window Fashions roller shade or other device that you'd like to add into Home Assistant? Then this is the place for you! Background Part of de-Amazon-ing my house, or "un-Bezo-ing?", "de-Jeff-ing?" is to control all my
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Home of the Brave
Sometimes I drive around the country and talk to people. There's no law against it. * Scott Carrier, "Home of the Brave - The End of the World", Feb. 2015 These two short sentences stopped me dead in my tracks. I had to wonder, "Who is
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Nested YAML Frontmatter for Obsidian Book Notes
The author spends 3,000 words changing 3 lines to remove nested YAML frontmatter. Along the way, he learns the value of writing down the process and fact checking AI.
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Can you quit Vim?
The note taking application Obsidian makes me nearly spit my coffee out with a fun pop-up message about exiting Vim.
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Money Makes the World Go Round
Weakened Friends - Spew I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Maybe you would like the live version after the album version.