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Fuck Cancer

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This is a culmination of tweets I sent in 2019 as I was documenting the process of caring for my mother in Florida while she was dying from stage 4 cancer. This post isn’t really for anyone else, I just wanted to keep a longer-lasting record for myself. My mom was diagnosed with throat cancer & possibly brain cancer today. I’m still a little shocked. She’s a terrible human being, but I...

How iOS Helped Me Navigate My Mother to Safety During Hurricane Irma

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the gigantic hurricane that battered the Caribbean islands and Florida, and continues to travel up the east coast, affecting as far north as the Great Lakes. I live in San Diego, California, clear on the other side of the country, but my family just moved my mother from New Jersey to western Florida a month or so ago. When...

Replace Your iPhone Alerts and Ringtones with Awesomeness for Free

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I recently spent some time replacing all of the alerts and ringtones on my iPhone to be sound FX and music from my favorite NES games, and the quality of my life improved dramatically. I wanted to do this for two reasons, the first being to break the Pavlovian stress reaction I have when my phone makes a sound (“Ugh. Someone’s calling me.” “Ugh. What NOW??”). The...

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I'm a tech nerd from NY/CA now living in Lisbon, Portugal. I run Grokability, Inc, and run several open source projects, including Snipe-IT Asset Management. Tweet at me @snipeyhead, skeet me at @snipe.lol, or read more...

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