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The Weekly Cache #3

Bristol Baseball, The War of Art, Fantastic Four, Kurzgesagt, Vibe Code is Legacy Code, and more.

Bristol Motor Speedway for the Braves vs. Reds game.

New

I published a couple of new posts, including Power Apps Naming Conventions, and using Context Variables to simplify multi-step Power Apps logic.

Travel

The family and I went to Bristol, TN, to watch the first-ever MLB game at the Bristol Motor Speedway, where the Atlanta Braves faced (and beat) the Cincinnati Reds. Read more about our adventure here.

Books

I finished reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The book was quite different than what I expected. It was a short, easy read. The first part was about Resistance, the enemy of creativity.

"There's a secret that real

Braves vs. Reds at Bristol Motor Speedway

Life

A brief recap of our weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, where we watched the Atlanta Braves defeat the Cincinnati Reds after rain delays.

The family and I went to Bristol, TN, to watch the first-ever MLB game at the Bristol Motor Speedway, where the Atlanta Braves faced (and beat) the Cincinnati Reds.

Braves vs. Reds at Bristol Motor Speedway

If I were to sum up the trip in one word, I think it would be "Exhausting".

We drove up to Briston on Friday and stayed outside of town in a nice place surrounded by farmland. A nice change of pace after leaving a stadium with a record-breaking 90 thousand people.

We arrived Saturday afternoon, a few hours before game time.

Right on schedule,

Auto Dark Mode with CSS

Development

How to automatically switch between light and dark themes in your CSS based on the visitors system settings.

If you want your site to automatically switch between light and dark themes based on the visitor's system settings, you can use a @media query and the prefers-color-scheme feature.

css:root {
    --color-background: #eee;
    --color-text: #000;
}

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    :root {
        --color-background: #333;
        --color-text: #eee;
    }
}

body {
    color: var(--color-text);
    background-color: var(--color-background);
}

The Weekly Cache #2

Clearing the Cache

Updates to website theme and structure, guides section added. Superman movie, War of Art book. OpenAI reflections, health and AI impact on jobs podcasts.

What I wrote

I didn’t write anything new as I was focused on updating the site and moving old content. I have a couple of ideas in mind to write about soon.

What I did

I spent time updating to a new theme that distinctly separates the four areas of my site:

The landing page introduces me and my work.
The blog is where I share typical blog content.
The newsletter now has a nice introduction, a preview, and a list of prior editions.
Guides are where I can share documentation. Things that are updated over time and don’

Neal Shusterman's Scythe: Death in a Utopia

Book Notes

Neal Shusterman's Scythe: A thought-provoking sci-fi novel exploring mortality in a world where death is controlled by trained grim reapers.

I finished reading Scythe, book 1 of the Arc of a Scythe series, by Neal Shusterman.

What if humanity conquered death, but we had grim reapers overseeing the population?

The story is set in an AI-governed world where the "Thunderhead" ensures simplicity and fairness, eliminating politics, money, war, and violence.

People don't die. They age, but when ready, they can "reset" to their chosen age, keeping their memory and experience. If there's an accident, they reset. Everyone has nanites that prevent pain and accelerate healing.

Scythes are trained grim reapers who "glean" people, killing them in any way. Gleaned individuals

The Weekly Cache #1

Clearing the Cache

Installing Linux with WSL, moving to Ghost for blogging, programming in Ruby, reading Scythe and AI Snake Oil, watching Superman, and discovering Tollbit for AI monetization.

What I wrote

Installing Linux onto Windows with WSL - Steps for installing WSL, Linux, uninstalling Linux, and checking versions.

What I did

I moved my personal blog to Ghost, hosted through MagicPages.co, which looks promising. I’ll be migrating content for a while. I like it and have used Ghost before, without the newsletter component.

I switched from an iPhone 14 Pro to a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, moving from iOS to Android. I do this every few years to keep things new. I’m familiar with Android, and not much has changed in the OS recently.

What

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