Another Update so soon! :O Yep, I’ve made more changes since the move to the new server so I want to make another Update post!

New Site Features and Improvements

I’ve added a cool new thing to the site and also made some changes to make it even faster and more secure!

Cosi’s Commerce Store

Since I talk about a lot of products, I figured I would set up an AStore with Amazon where you can buy some things I like or talk about and support me in the process! It’s all handled through Amazon so it’s secure.

Welcome to the first of a series of update posts I’ll be doing occasionally! This week, the site and email has been migrated to a new host

New Host

I’ve moved the site off of Ghosted and my Email off of ProtonMail. Now I’m using NearlyFreeSpeech and Gmail. Overall this should allow me to provide the same site for way less money and have more control over it.

Why switch? While Ghosted was a quick and simple way to get Ghost up and running, there was a few things that made me want to switch.

I launched a cool new variety radio show/podcast on Anchor.fm! Check it out at the show page.

Funny titles aside, welcome to a new year with a new redesign for the site! Keep reading to learn about the changes or skip to the bottom for a tl;dr changelog.

What’s New

Theme

The theme is changed from Caffeine by Kelvin Nguyen to Mapache by GodoFredo. Both themes are good but I liked the more modern style and easier customization of Mapache.

Example: Caffeine required code editing to change Social links and logo while Mapache does it with Ghost’s simple Code injection making it easier to update.

So if you know me, I have a “habit” of constantly moving my site cause “reasons”. This time, hopefully this will be permanent now that I got great software and money to keep it alive!

Great Software: Ghost

In the past I have done many different CMS, Blog, and Static services for my sites. Wordpress, Blogger, Weebly, Webs, and even Tumblr are some of those many.

Another one I used is Jekyll. I used it more than the others as it’s static (aka fast) and can be freely hosted via GitHub Pages. While this is nice, one big issue is Mobile publishing. Git on phones is not the easiest to do and managing the site became an issue but of course, I’m not going back to the other ones as while they have great mobile tools, many of them are really slow.

Hey guys, over the past few years I have maintained various blogs and social media accounts on platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, Medium, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. They are all great platforms but overtime I switched to Google+ for everything and re-sharing those G+ posts to my other accounts.

Today, I’m switching this up so keep reading if you want to know what’s changing and where to look for content I share!

WELCOME TO HOME SCREEN SUNDAY!

Welcome to Home Screen Sunday, a series every Sunday where we look at home screens from me or even others and explain how it works. It can be Android, iOS, or even Desktop!

LET’S DO IT!

For this week, we are using a pre-release icon pack that has a lot of unique stylings! Let’s take a look at the Strip UI Icon Pack and my homescreen.

WELCOME TO HOME SCREEN SUNDAY!

Welcome to Home Screen Sunday, a series every Sunday where we look at home screens from me or even others and explain how it works. It can be Android, iOS, or even Desktop!

LET’S DO IT!

For today’s entry, we are looking at my Windows 10 Start Menu arrangement. Not exactly a home screen but close enough!

REQUIREMENTS

Okay, this weeks setup is a little bit different. You will need Windows 10 to use it and that is currently only available in a Technical Preview as of this writing. Do I recommend that you download it just for this setup? Probably not, but if you already have it installed or were going to the go ahead.

So this past week, I have been trying to learn something new. That new thing you may have heard of is called VIM, but if you haven’t I will explain below!

What’s VIM (or Vi)?

VIM (or Vi IMproved) is a text editor for basically every operating system out there including Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2, BSD, and tons more including even mobile devices like Android even though that would be stupid. Why? Well because VIM is keyboard-driven! Everything is done with keyboard shortcuts and no mouse at all. Heck you don’t even use the arrow keys to move because they want you to be more efficient!

An Apology

Sorry for no HSS/Home Screen Sunday post last weekend. I am sorry if you expected it and it didn’t happen.

Why?

The reason why I missed it is because my dad was in the hospital on the Friday before and we all thought he had a heart attack but in reality, he had some really bad indigestion from Chili. Stupidest reason ever, right? However it made our life a little bit of a mess over that weekend.