AndrewOConnorTech

As a part of one of my goals, blogging more about the code I’m writing, I wanted to set up a public place to track some of the issues. This is not a complete list by any means but it’s enough to get started. I’ve added a repo over on my GitHub that’s just issues. … Continue reading “Tracking site issues on Github”

Alright it’s time for the June check-in. My last post was the May check-in, but hey the one before I think technically this is progress. It has been a busy month. They all are. That’s kind of a separate thing on it’s own but let’s just get into it.  Goal 1: Track exercise daily Well … Continue reading “June Check-In”

Can you believe it’s almost June? Summer is almost here. It’s my least favorite season to be honest. I don’t like to be hot, and even in Seattle it gets warm enough where I don’t like it. However this summer we have the World Cup, the Tour de France, and I’ve grown to like baseball … Continue reading “May Check-In”

I had a very unique podcast experience recently. I was listening to the regular edition of The Vergecast and the show roughly followed this flow. As always, it was a good episode of a good podcast and I highly recommend it for your weekly tech news. Directly after listening to that, I listened to a … Continue reading “Finding the Joy”

Something I’ve noticed is that lately (perhaps the past ~5 years) is that I listen to far less music than I used to. The easy theory is that podcasts have taken their place but I don’t think that’s true. I’ve been listening to podcasts since 2008, and subscribe to fewer now than I have in … Continue reading “Music”

I spend a lot of time doing markup and CSS for emails. Obviously the capabilities are more limited there than they are on the web. One thing I wish we could do more of are transitions. Here’s an example of what I mean. On hover, the gradient transitions. See the Pen Button with CSS Hover … Continue reading “Button Transitions”

I was looking at my subscriptions and noted I have the Apple One Premier plan. I don’t use Apple Fitness Plus (tried it but its not for me), and I do use Apple News a bit but think I could do without it, so I knocked down my plan. What is nice about the Premier … Continue reading “Storage”

In case you missed it, Mastodon released an official way to add “Share to Mastodon” to sites. Here is the blog post which summarizes the feature. It’s nice that we have this on Mastodon and I can appreciate it’s not an easy problem to solve given the unique domain nature of the platform/protocol. I’ve updated … Continue reading “Share to Social on Mastodon”

A relic of a time-in-internet past, is forums. My personal opinion is that Reddit centralized forums but given the upvote/downvote nature, is open to a lot of problems social media has. For me, it’s the negativity pile on. I just don’t need more grumpiness in my life. However, I stumbled upon an old forum I … Continue reading “Forums”

Well look at that. One month into 2026 and it felt like a decade. I sense that’ll be a theme going forward, with 99% of the issue being the current administration’s inability, or desire, to properly govern. I don’t want to spend a ton of time on this but it’s worth noting that every day … Continue reading “January Vibe Check”