Use Bandcamp, but Do Not Trust Bandcamp

To prevent burying the leede. Buy your music, but make sure you download it in the best format you can and keep it backed up. Do NOT trust services like Bandcamp, Amazon, or Apple to keep your music you purchased. My Relationship with My Music Library I have made it no secret I love music. I love consuming it, decorating time with it, DJing, making it, all of it. Outside of a very brief stint in the 1990’s with Limewire and in the 2010’s with Spotify, then Apple Music I have always been buy on buying and having my music collection. ...

April 29, 2025 · 5 min · Ame the Squirrel

The Day I Lost One of the Most Important People in my Life

This post is written in mourning. Today I lost one of the most colorful humans in my life. Steph was absolutely the most amazing, delightful, and powerful women I have had the opportunity to love. Since the early 2000’s with all those nights at nightclubs, to the nearly decade as partners, to her help with my transition, she has changed my life for the better over and over and over. ...

March 13, 2025 · 2 min · Ame the Squirrel

Pomodoro for Success

One of the most annoying ADHD superpowers is many ADHDer’s are able to easily adapt to new techniques and systems, but that nothing seems to work forever. In one of the many ADHD books I have read recently, there was a specific callout that the brain craves novelty so much that it’s healthier to expect routines to work for a limited time. The recommendation was to give yourself a lot of grace for when your habits start to fall apart and instead use the flexibility to pick up something new, or old to keep evolving your system. ...

February 25, 2025 · 9 min · Ame the Squirrel

Jumping Onto the Uses Bandwagon

Another quick update for the website! While reading some articles about how to do cool stuff with sqlc I found yet another “Uses” page where the blogger shows off their list full of favorite tools and toys. Since I like to share cool tips and toys and tricks I thought i would make one too, now in the Uses Section of the sidebar. Mine isn’t as nice as this one, but I aspire to get it to that point eventually. Check it out if you want to know what cool stuff I am into these days.

February 23, 2025 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel

Full Text Feeds

I have updated my templates so that my RSS feeds are full text! There is absolutely no reason to drive you to this site if you can read it in the comfort of whatever reader makes you happy. Sorry it was not beforehand, it’s not the default for hugo.

January 29, 2025 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel

Life After Facebook

What a dramatic title for this post! Let’s be honest. I didn’t use facebook that much to begin with. But this post is about life after Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and to a partial extent YouTube as well. I am letting go of Web 2.0. But Why? I am letting go of my “Web 2.0” social media and moving on to more decentralized things like my own hosted blog and Mastodon for several reasons. ...

January 29, 2025 · 6 min · Ame the Squirrel