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"What am I chasing this time?"

~ Mia-Lynn

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The Quiet Middle

The quiet shift most people never see happening

Content Warning: The following post discusses addiction and substance use. It includes references to mental health struggles and may be difficul...

A Word on Suicide

A Reflection on Suicide and Survival

Content Warning: The following post discusses suicide and mental health struggles. It may be distressing to some readers. Please take care of yo...

Automating my Minecraft Server with SaltStack

Because manual configuration is for NPCs

Minecraft is fun. Managing Minecraft manually? Absolutely not. Not in 2025. Not with my attention span. Also not when SaltStack exists and can do i...

GNOME Theme Switcher

Sync Legacy GTK Themes with Dark/Light Mode in GNOME

If you’re using GNOME, you’ve probably noticed something annoying: when you flip between dark and light mode in GNOME, most apps change — except th...

Hide Applications in GNOME

Keep your App Grid Clean and Sane

If you use GNOME, you’ve probably noticed the app grid tends to show everything. Some of it’s useful. Some of it’s… not. (Looking at you, “Help” an...

Growing Out of Survival Mode

There’s a peculiar silence that arrives when chaos ends. Not the peaceful kind, it’s more like standing in a room after the music cuts off, ears st...

On Chaos and Quiet

My brain is a mess. I say that like it’s a bad thing, but honestly, it’s my favorite thing about me. Ideas explode, worries creep in, random though...

Fragments of the Open Web

On Freedom, Control, and the Spaces We Built

The internet used to feel like a wide-open field. Messy, unpredictable, alive. It was a place where you could wander endlessly, trip over strange c...

The Art of Overthinking Everything

I overthink. A lot. It’s practically a hobby at this point. I’ll replay conversations in my head like a director trying to fix a scene that’s alrea...

OSI Model

Explaining the OSI Network Model

In networking, layer models have been established to break down complex processes into individual steps. Each step or task is represented as a laye...