Once upon a time, I was a regular blogger. I found that serializing my thoughts into text was a useful process for me and like to think that on occasion those who stumbled across my writings on various (mostly technical) topics provided some value

Earlier this week our apartment was broken into and a lot of our electronic devices stolen. We lost TVs, computers, laptops, phones, a tablet, VR headsets and assortments of associated cables attached to those devices. I was at work when my wife called and