Blog Archive
Writing about software, tools, tech, and whatever else I'm thinking about. Mix of reviews, tutorials, and longer thoughts.
- feb 2025 In Defense of New England Winters
- jan 2025 Why New England Suits Me
- jan 2025 Notes on Volunteering at the Food Bank
- dec 2024 Document Scanners I've Used Over the Years
- nov 2024 How I Ended Up Here
- nov 2024 On Morning Routines
- sep 2024 Notes on Slow Computing
- apr 2023 A Year of Documenting Lunches
- oct 2023 Finding the Right Desk Lamp
- mar 2023 Every Note-Taking Method I Have Tried
- nov 2022 A Brief History of the Filing Cabinet
- jun 2022 Books About Infrastructure I Keep Recommending
- jan 2022 Plain Text for Almost Everything
- oct 2021 Trail Notes from the Foothills
- aug 2021 Notes on Choosing an Office Chair
- feb 2021 On Keeping Archives
- dec 2020 On Being Named in a Lawsuit I Didn't Ask For
- sep 2020 Getting Involved with CERT
- apr 2020 Small Tools for Ordinary Problems
- dec 2019 Personal Backup Strategies
- mar 2019 Working Offline More Often
- nov 2018 On Compartmentalization
- jul 2018 Some Thoughts on Everyday Pens
- mar 2018 Digital Clutter and What to Do About It
- oct 2017 What I Learned About Gravel
- mar 2017 The Tedious Art of Naming Files
- 2016 Why I Stopped Using Most Apps
- 2016 Notes on Batch Processing Scanned Documents
- 2016 Thoughts on Personal Databases
- 2016 What I Mean by "Digital Generalist"
- 2016 A Case for Plain Text
- 2016 The Problem with Read-Later Lists
- 2015 On Abandoning Projects Gracefully
- 2015 Cassette Digitization: A Few Things I Learned
- 2015 Local-First Software and Why It Matters to Me
- 2014 Field Notes on Field Notes
- 2014 When Automation Isn't Worth It
- 2014 Rethinking the Personal Website
- 2013 Why I Prefer Older Neighborhoods
- 2013 Some Books I Keep Coming Back To
Most of the older posts haven't been migrated to this version of the site yet. I'll get to it eventually. Some may not be worth preserving. — K. Vadala