Connor Hicks

Writing an application that runs on many servers in separate locations around the world is no easy task. You have to deal with access to application data, routing, inter-service communication, and many other things. The situation quickly becomes much more complicated than having an application server with a pool

I've been running a homelab for about 5 years now, starting with a single Raspberry Pi to experiment with Linux. It's evolved into something quite useful, and the latest iteration is something I'm interested in sharing more about. I fondly refer to this setup

I’ve been quite impressed with this thing. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’m trying (so far successfully!) to stay off social media, and I’ve been partly scratching the itch left behind by taking more photos and taking more time to curate albums on my

In the past few months I have gotten married, sold my company, and (mostly) recovered from a hint of founder burnout. Everything that's happened in my life recently has made me want to change the way I use technology. More than ever, I want to avoid social media

I installed the new iOS and iPadOS betas, and then proceeded to not notice much of anything to differentiate them from 16.6. The iMessage interface has a new menu for apps/photos/etc, and you can now long-tap on the iPad lockscreen to do essentially the same customization

It seems to be good vibes similar to the early days of Twitter (and Hachyderm). Bluesky SocialSee what’s next. If you see this first, here's my remaining invite code: bsky-social-bkopxhi

We tried to go winter camping this weekend, but discovered the exhaust for our diesel heater had become damaged so we had to abort. Our consolation prize is a hike with a surprise bald eagle encounter!

Snapchat's "My AI" is becoming properly useful for me simply because its quickly accessible on my phone's lockscreen. You can place a shortcut to a specific person in Snapchat on your lockscreen, so now with one tap I can chat with a moderately helpful

This is our first hybrid event since the pandemic started! I really enjoyed hosting, and I especially love this meetup series since we're working across the Wasm startup ecosystem to run these events together and showcase the best that Wasm has to offer. There were also some appearances

I've been looking for more ways to get outside in the winter given that we don't go camping as often. Someone reminded me of geocaching, and after looking it up, it seemed like an awesome community. I went out and did my first find today! It&