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OnlyHaveCans 🏳️‍⚧️
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Linux nerd, DevOps/Platform Engineering, golang, rust, nix, tech lover. music and/or noise maker, TTRPG lover, voracious reader.

Keeping the internet going at DNSimple.
I am a squirrel
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Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@onlyhavecans
I remembered to share my post here! Part three of my saga about how I engage with one of my favorite hobbies in 2025... MUSIC. This one is how and where I buy music!

this one was requested by somebody on socials which is why I remembered to share.

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Buying Music in 2025
A post
squirrels.wtf
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I didn't post a standard post as I was sick, but I was still journaling A LOT and ended up with a DOOZY of a post.

It is fascinating to reference back through weeklies as my thoughts on things evolve and I find more related writings.

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This Week in Squirrels: 2025-W40
A weekly wrap up of my thoughts, experiences, and finds.
squirrels.wtf
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
After this stressful week I didn't have a tech post in me. I will continue the Forgejo series soon, but for now, a counterpoint to my article on how I stayed with kindle books, and why I buy music instead.

Why I Choose Ownership over Unlimited Access

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Why I Choose Ownership over Unlimited Access
Sneaker Pimp’s “Becoming X” … Yep, that’s the whole post. The entire reason I buy almost every track of music I enjoy is because of Sneaker Pimp’s “Becoming X.”
squirrels.wtf
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Oh, for fuck's.

THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT.

DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON A LIST IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO THE GOVERNMENT WANTS LISTS OF.

PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL THE LISTS IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON THEY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PROSECUTE EN MASSE. FLOOD THE ZONE.
September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I picked to start writing about my Forgejo migration! I thought this was going to be a post or two, but after a huge intro and thinking about all the things I want to share, it is going to be a series.

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The Great Forgejo Migration: Introduction
Welcome to the Great British Bake-Off, I mean Forgejo migration! I intended this post to be the whole story of how I took a week to migrate nearly 60 repositories to my own forge and set up CI/CD and ...
squirrels.wtf
September 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Which blog post should I finish up and share today?

A somewhat indulgent long form on why & how I buy music over streaming music

or the first of many posts on my forgejo+renovate migration
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Another weekly post!? I am on a ROLL!

I am actually far more excited about the fact that I have a completely new theme and restructured a bit of my site.

I am hoping I get a cool page card when I share this and not some hot mess. Wish me luck 😆

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This Week in Squirrels: 2025-W37
A weekly wrap up of my thoughts, experiances, and finds.
squirrels.wtf
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Since I haven't been all that back on posting I decided to compile all the thoughts/journally/whatever I had during the week and post in on my blog instead. I am going to try to make this a regular thing.

I just really needed to bring back livejournal 😆
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This Week in Squirrels: Intro
Welcome to a brand new series of posts. This blog started as the continuation of my LiveJournal, and I am returning to my roots for this series. I miss blogging my thoughts. This blog went pretty quie...
squirrels.wtf
September 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Daymn. I thought a sunday evening would be a good time to open socials but all I have is market collapses in my feed.

uhhh how about that... linux? yall? Nope?
welp, this is what we get now. I hate it
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
We are not going anywhere. We always have been here and always will be. #TransDayOfVisibility
March 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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We are very lucky to have incredible women who make our team stronger and more resilient every day, 😍 Carla, Stella, Ame, Stephanie, Alyse, Laetitia - Thank you!
March 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I am still putting a bunch of work into my own site, including a "uses" page and a new article! Check it out

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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 rec...
squirrels.wtf
February 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Buying a low end pair of Shure in ear monitors has made me think that the shift to wireless was a mistake.
January 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Bots and trolls are two of the worst things to happen to the internet. Complete waste of time.
January 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This is in no way the most egregious thing facebook has done in the last few weeks but this is by far the most confusing to me. How does this new "free speech" and "no censorship" agenda intersect with flagging everything linux?

www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.
www.tomshardware.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The more depressed I become the more I miss project and team management. I don’t know what to feel about that.
January 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Putting a 🏳️‍⚧️ in my name here. Normally I don’t lead with “oh also I am trans” but it’s clear to me that this is what society needs me to do. It needs me to be very clear and open about my queerness.
January 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My nerd hot take of the week
More cli tools should have color output, and should let you force it on/off so I can pipe everything to bat in the end
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Company layoff is impacting me, so I'm back on the market ya'll. I'm actively looking for DevOps/SRE/OSS and adjacent type positions as an IC or manager. Ideally, I want to build dope stuff with dope people. <3
January 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I just saw HOPE is scheduled within a week of DefCon this year. weLP looks life DefCon is canceled for reals.

Part of me wants to know why 2600 would book over a group as petty as frat party hackers but far more of me does not care.
January 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The future of AI is whatever makes them the most money.
January 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have been thinking a lot about how 2024 is the year Obsidian got "boring," and how that is a good thing.

When I first got into obsidian every plugin I touched was updated many times a week and app updates were flowing too. Now it's monthly updates for either at best.
January 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM