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Hello there, web surfer. I am Toby Mackenzie of Northeast Ohio. Welcome to my little stop on the information superhighway. I hope you enjoy your visit. Come on in. Find out more about me or my web development career. Visit my web-pipe to find out what's happening in Toby land.
Me in brief
- I currently live and work in Akron.
- I work on websites for a living, as a LAMP-stack developer.
- I am introverted / quiet / shy.
- I like computers, music, hiking / nature, gardening, shows / movies / books, old video games, &c.
- I value freedom of expression, autonomy, equalization of power, environmental preservation, sharing of knowledge and effort to better all, &c.
My online presences
Blog: select posts
- Site partially static (2024 in WWW)
- Bumping version tags with git (2023 in WWW)
- CSS Wishlist (2023 in WWW)
- Ideas: Cascading Behavior Sheets, a declarative alternative to JS (2022 in WWW)
- WordPress dark mode for admin, quick and dirty (2022 in WWW)
- Ideas: compute furnace (2021 in Thoughts & Ideas)
- Fighting form spam (2021 in WWW)
- Simple MySQL backup script (2020 in WWW)
- Automatically reconnect PDO when connection times out (2020 in WWW)
- Letsencrypt: Shared verification web-root for all domains (2019 in WWW)
- Forcing HTTPS and progressive enhancement (2019 in WWW)
- Website Snow Script (2018 in WWW)
- 10k Apart: Notable Mention (2016 in WWW)
- Ideas: Remotely hosted personal site with home data store that syncs as client (2016 in WWW)
- Line Mode Browser, or progressive enhancement all the way back (2015 in WWW)
- Cogneato: A New Job (2010 in WWW)
- mail to person, not address (2007 in Thoughts & Ideas)
- Capitalocracy (2006 in Thoughts & Ideas)
- multiple votes (2006 in Thoughts & Ideas)
- Waste Handling (2005 in Thoughts & Ideas)
- First Post (2003 in Personal)
Shout-outs
- my family, friends, and co-workers
- the color green
- tea
- Columbo: classic TV detective
- Phillip K. Dick: classic sci-fi writer
- The Expanse: great TV and book space sci-fi series
- Resident Alien: sci-fi comedy
- interested in Onyx Mira eInk monitor: nice looking but expensive, waiting for color version (must syntax highlight)
- Cleveland / Ohio sportsball: Cavaliers, Guardians, Browns?, Blue Jackets
- interested in StarLabs StarLite: Linux first convertible tablet with good specs, reasonable price, user replaceable parts (planned), Coreboot. Also interested in their Byte mini PC.
- interested in framework, who makes laptops that are user serviceable / upgradable, with parts readily available from their marketplace. Waiting for touch.
- interested in the Librem 5 phone by Purism, a Linux phone but expensive and old hardware.
Quotes
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of god's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
- Marin Luther King, Jr.
Beltalowda βπ»
- The Expanse
β¦ artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
- Evey, V for Vendetta
Having something requires giving something else up.