The election is this week. It’s wild how little elections in the past have mattered, yet they were painted as some high stakes game. With Project 2025 waiting in the wings, our democracy is actually actively being threatened. How good are our checks and balances? How resilient is our government to tyranny? Do we really want to find these answers out the hard way? Your vote this year can give answers.

I’ve been using “Arc Browser” as a daily driver for a few months now, and overall I have to say that the user experience is better than decent. The tools available within Arc make for quite a usable browser.

That said, Arc does nothing to protect your privacy. It looks like I’m switching back to Brave, I guess. At least until I can find something better.

I’ve had a relentless cough now for almost three months. In that time I’ve had pneumonia, multiple colds, and bronchitis. It’s not a great year for me to respire. Guess I’ll stop.

I think I’ve found a text editor that’s going to tear me away from vim. Helix is honestly really awesome. It’s not a 1:1 vim drop-in, but it’s definitely “inspired by” to a significant enough extent that migrating isn’t painful in the least. On the contrary, migrating to helix is awesome. It’s written in rust, multi-platform, and has some awesome features. 10/10, do recommend.

I’m sitting here on my laptop writing this, updating my blog to conform to the latest Hugo requirements, and holding my wife’s foot. She’s banging out an 18 page essay for her class and I’m just sitting next to her and cuddling her, enjoying her presence, touching her skin in soothing ways that say “I adore you”. It is a simple weekend, but a wonderful one. It seems like every week that passes we get closer, and if I have to leave town for work, it doubles the closeness that grows.

I’ve learned a thing or two about this fickle material. The first thing I’ve learned is; Holy balls does it warp. If you’re printing something rectangular, you’re probably going to either need “mouse ears” or five layers of raft in order to compensate for irregular material cooling. Yes, that’s why warping happens. Material is cooler in one part of the already established material than the rest, so the cooler part contracts and causes the part to warp.

Caffeine might be the most nefarious thing we humans have normalized. What a drug, right? It makes you feel like you’re exercising just being stationary. It increases your sitting heart rate. It gives you a burst of energy. It also strongly counteracts feelings of tiredness.

Well, those are the good things about caffeine. The negative points are all over the map, though. They range from the inconvenience of existing without caffeine for a day to the worst migraine you’ve ever experienced when you try to quit cold turkey.

Holy fucking shit. I just overhauled the theme I use on this blog with a ton of overrides to make it compliant with Hugo v0.130, and now I’m getting a warning about YET ANOTHER deprecated setting. I really need to look at the Hugo roadmap to see if I can get ahead of this theme nonsense. It’s unreal, truly. I appreciate the performance gains I’ve noticed over time, but the constant smacking down of conventions that have worked well enough for as long as they have is getting pretty tiresome. Especially when so much of it feels really arbitrary.

Do you remember where you were the day the planes hit the twin towers? I sure remember where I was.

Shit was crazy.

Never before had their been such an audacious action taken against US sovereignty. The red, white, and blue, violated within her borders by those who wish to do her harm. Ironically, they didn’t do nearly as much harm as voters did afterward.

It has now been 8356 days since the temporary provisions of the Patriot Act have been instated.