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Posts
- Best Headphone & Microphone Combo for Office, Gaming, and Music for Under $100
A budget headset built from studio headphones, a modular microphone and a few adapters, for work meetings, music and gaming for under $100.
- Boosting Your Mastodon Server's Visibility: A Guide to Federation and Relays
How a new Mastodon server gets noticed: directories, follower scanning tools and relays that improve federation.
- Building a Strong Online Community: A Guide to Automating Your Social Media Communications
How I plan to automate announcements across YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Discord, Mastodon and more, so more time goes to content and community.
- Discovering the Magic of Mastodon: A Journey into the Decentralized Social Networking World
What Mastodon and the fediverse are, why I started my own instance, and what I like about a decentralized network.
- Improving Indoor Air Quality with UV Sanitation Systems and High-Quality Filters
My experience with a UV-C light in my HVAC system and room air filters to fight mold and improve indoor air quality.
- Introducing Twitch-and-toot: The Open-Source Solution for Mastodon Stream Alerts
Twitch-and-Toot is an open source tool that posts to Mastodon when a streamer goes live on Twitch. This is the story of how I built it.
- Must-Have Tools for 3D Printing and PC Repair: My Recommended Starter Kit
The tools I recommend for starting out in 3D printing and PC repair, from a ratcheting screwdriver to thermal paste.
- Open Letter to President Biden about the Possible Ban of TikTok
An open letter I wrote in March 2023 about what a possible TikTok ban would mean for creators and small businesses like mine.
- Stream Daemon: The Secure, Open-Source Stream Automation Engine for Modern Creators
Stream Daemon is a secure, open source engine that watches your live status on streaming platforms and announces it across your social networks.
- Why I Use Multiple Phones: A Personal Dive into Device Diversification
Why I carry an iPhone, a GrapheneOS Pixel, a Samsung and a Librem 5, and what each one is for.
Journal
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