When I get into a handheld device mood I don't go half way, apparently! After getting the Anbernic RG353M I started thinking about filling the "larger, more powerful device" niche. I think a Steam Deck was always in the cards, but I thought of it as a more remote purchase, as I wanted to get the "bu...

The Preamble

A little backstory about me: I've always been a video game player. From my earliest memories playing Pac-Man or Breakout on an Atari VCS (AKA the Atari 2600) through Ghostbusters on the Commodore 64, a myriad of DOS games, a plethora of Super Nintendo Entertainment System games, Ninte...

So I am a naturally curious person. I can see some rough view numbers for this blog on the admin dashboard, but I was hoping for better view stats. So I went snooping around in the plugins section.

I found the official Grav Views plugin, and thought: Great, let's go!

Dear viewer: always read t...

For someone who was determined to get this blog up and running then forget about it, I sure have made a fair number of posts. Today I decided that getting a TLS cert and some login security absolutely had to be done!

So some high-level talk about this webhost: It's a mess. I have installed and orp...

So I have been having a rough go at running a blog lately.

Running a self-hosted Ghost install turned out to be an exercise in extreme frustration, and ended in a VERY satisfying ghost uninstall. But the blog bug had bitten me. I needed to self host a blog that I could ignore after an initia...