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Hello there, web surfer. I am Toby Mackenzie of Northeast Ohio, USA. 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
- dogs: mans best friend
- Columbo: classic TV detective
- Phillip K. Dick: classic sci-fi writer
- The Expanse: great TV and book space sci-fi series
- 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
- Bangle.js 2 smartwatch: hackable, open source
- 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, coreboot.
- interested in Minimal Phone: Android smartphone with e-ink display, keyboard
Quotes
To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone
β¦ artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
- Evey, V for Vendetta
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Howard W. Campbell Jr, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Having something requires giving something else up.