Misc on An Untitled Blog

Anyone out there hiring? + 10 pointless facts

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I was thinking about making a personal update, then saw a post on Joelchrono’s blog about the 10 useless facts about me challenge, so I thought I’d combine both of those into one post.

Fairly recently, I left my job to relocate back to my home state of New York, and have been looking for work more locally. I kind of expected work to be a bit hard to come by, and planned accordingly, but that still doesn’t make the job search any less of a slog. If by any chance there’s anyone hiring - either in WNY or hiring for remote positions - hit me up. I’ve got experience with the standard Microsoft stack (both your local DC setup, as well as the MS cloud), Linux, VMware, and networking equipment (nearly exclusively Cisco).

Making Pickles and Sauerkraut (the lazy way)

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve made three long posts about decentralized social media, followed by making a client that works on decentralized social media, so I’ll call all that good for now and talk about making some pickles and sourkraut. And not just canned cucumbers and cabbage, but the actual fermented stuff, which is surprisingly easy to make.

Defaults

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I ran across a neat trend of sharing your default apps, and a collection of posts doing so. It’s made some interesting reads and I thought I would join in and post my own favorites.

My Devices

I have three different devices: a PC running Debian, a tablet I just got setup running Debian and a Waydroid container, and a phone running the Graphene fork of Android.


	PC	Tablet	Phone
📨 Mail Client	Proton Web	Proton App	Proton App
📮 Mail Server	^	^	^
📝 Notes	Joplin	Joplin	Joplin
✅ To-Do	n/a	n/a	Tasks (F-Droid)
📷 Photo Shooting	n/a	n/a	AOSP Camera
🟦 Photo Management	File Manager	n/a	AOSP Gallery
📆 Calendar	n/a	n/a	Simple Calendar
📁 Cloud File Storage	IceDrive (web)	IceDrive (web)	IceDrive (PWA)
📖 RSS	Nextcloud (web)	Nextcloud (web)	Nextcloud News App
🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts	n/a	n/a	AOSP Contacts
🌐 Browser	LibreWolf	Brave	Fennec Firefox
💬 Chat	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)	Matrix > Signal > Telegram > G Chat (Web)
🔖 Bookmarks	Unsynced	Unsynced	Unsynced
📑 Read It Later	PDFs w/ Syncthing	PDFs w/ Syncthing	PDFs w/ Syncthing
📜 Word Processing	LibreOffice	LibreOffice	n/a
📈 Spreadsheets	LibreOffice	n/a	n/a
📊 Presentations	LibreOffice	n/a	n/a
🛒 Shopping Lists	Joplin	Joplin	Joplin
🍴 Meal Planning	n/a	n/a	n/a
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance	n/a	n/a	MoneyWallet
📰 News	Nextcloud (Web)	Nextcould (Web)	Nextcloud News App
🎵 Music	VLC	VLC	Innertune
🎤 Podcasts	VLC	VLC	VLC
🔐 Password Management	Keepass	Keepass	Keepass

Subdomain Change

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

TLDR

Even though it’s only been three months since I created my blog here, I’m going to change the domain from www.mecca1.net to nate.mecca1.net instead. Nothing’s should break, www.mecca1.net will forward to nate.mecca1.net for now. Still, if you’re following me through RSS or you have my site bookmarked it might be worth swapping out the URL.

Longer Update

My domain predates my blog by about six years, so when I created my blog a few months ago I opted to just use the www subdomain. Since I use my domain for multiple things I didn’t like the idea of using the root record for my blog and opted to leave it blank. The best way to describe my thought process was along the lines that my domain is my own corner of the internet that can be built in any way I want, and that by leaving the root domain blank I can have it branch out in a whole bunch of different ways instead of being one main thing and a few spin-offs. “www” is also fitting as it would be the “world wide web” facing portion it.

First Post

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I think I’m going to start a blog here. I got this domain with some DNS records just collecting dust, and have an interest in writing stuff casually. I figure I’ll write about projects I work on or opinions about things in my field whenever something interests me enough to talk about it. I probably won’t write too much about myself personally though, if you’re reading this you probably A) know me already and somehow got roped into reading this, B) we’re working on some sort of project and you’re interested in reading about my writing about it, or C) find my writing about something interesting or useful (the latter being the most unlikely). In any of those cases you probably aren’t interested in what I had for breakfast.