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Moving In With Bear

Despite everything, it's still my blog

【Tips】Swift package Access Level: Sharing Code Across Targets Securely

Learn how to share code between multiple Targets within a Swift Package without exposing it publicly. We explore the `package` access modifier to bridge the gap between `internal` and `public`.

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition TL;DR:I answer the Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition! This blog post has approximately 385 words and may take 2 minutes to ...

Playing Tennis in the Netherlands: A Guide for Newcomers

Welcome to the Netherlands! If you’re a newcomer like me and love tennis, or even if you’re looking to pick up a racket for the first time, you’re in luck. Tennis is popular here, and there are ple...

Provisioning Machines using MCPs

Today’s state of the art is K8S, Terraform, web based UIs, and CLIs. Those days are numbered. On Monday, I created my first fly volume using an MCP. For those who don’t know what MCPs are, they are...

Installing Pihole on Fedora Server 42

I've installed Pihole probably a dozen times at this point. The installation guide that Pihole provides is super helpful, but I've had to do some additional steps to get it working in my environmen...

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge TL;DR:I answer the Blog Questions Challenge! This blog post has approximately 589 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was written in response ...

Six String Memories

.guitar { max-height: 400px; mix-blend-mode: luminosity; object-fit: cover; transition: all .5s ease-in-out; &:hover { mix-blend-mode: revert; } } It must’ve been 2005 when I started playing guitar...

Weekly Update #20250504

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0). This update also required refreshing the theme (Ananke). I’ve documented my e...

Toronto Fish & Chips

Over the past year I’ve been on a small adventure to find some excellent Fish & Chips in Toronto, Canada. While I haven’t found the perfect chip shop I have gone to a handful of the most popular pl...

Pure Independence

When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychological cost. The wild thing about all this effort is how easy it is to overestimate ...

Hop, Skip, and a Jump North

I talk about my trip to Linuxfest NorthWest

Presidential Tariffs’ Impact on Topton Motherboard Pricing

My curiosity about the impacts of the Presidential tariffs incited me to place an order for a Topton motherboard from AliExpress. I will be sharing updates as that orders progresses.

Linkfest #34: Neanderthal Sunscreen, Triskaidekaphobia, and a Self-Zippering Zipper

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next “Linkfest”, in which I sift through the contents of the entire known Internet to extract gleaming geodes of science, culture and...

The reason why i don't use AI or even code completion

When I code, I don't use AI and I don't even use code completion, this post is about why not.

You only take what you bring: notes for April 2025

Two things to read. Plus guides for getting started in consulting (find a client), writing (get over oneself) & analysis (find insight in data).

Awesome Yet Challenging Experiences with Proxmox

After hearing a lot of praise for Proxmox both online and in my courses (from both fellow students and instructors), I decided to experiment with it in my homelab environment. I also wanted to get ...

Where does your Ansible code come from?

2025 MariaDB Database Performance Meetup (London, UK)

A few months ago, Anna Widenius, the CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, reached out to me about hosting a meetup in London to discuss database performance. AWS, my employer, has offices in most major c...

Introducing Design Tokens Language Server

Design tokens are the single source of truth for UI styling. The `design-tokens-language-server` makes working with design tokens a seamless experience in your everyday development workflow.