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

Fix Crashing on AMD GPU on Debian 12

This year I replaced my work computer with a AMD Ryzen 7 8700G running Debian 12. This was mostly ok, but I was getting the most random and rare hard lockups. I was super confused and frustrated as all my burn in tests came back clean with no issues. I even tried a short stint on Ubuntu 24.10 to see it it would help, but it still happened. Then I tried a GPU benchmarking tool and it hard locked my computer every time it tried to load. Since this was a work computer I hardly ever really engaged the GPU seriously. Turns out the GPU was fine, but the drivers were not. ...

November 23, 2024 · 2 min · Ame the Squirrel

Where are I and AI

After Writing about AI and cohorts I wanted to spend time putting down where I am with AI, hopefully this is a post that grows and changes as my feelings do. Also sorry for the grammar in the title, I think it sounds clever. As a Consumer As somebody who consumes a lot of books, art, & music I want hand created content for a few reasons. Reason 1: I Buy Stuff I pay for content; I buy books by the droves, I purchase music directly,1 and I commission art from artists2 as well as have an active Patreon subscription I am always struggling to cull back. ...

November 22, 2024 · 5 min · Ame the Squirrel