Travis Fantina

July 2024 Music Recap

One of the things I miss most about Spotify is Wrapped. I always feel a pang of envy at the end of the year when people are sharing their Wrapped stats, to the point where I've thought about trying to hook into Tidal's underdeveloped API and

Why Cybertruck when you could Cyberduck! I think I've been using Cyberduck for 100% of my FTP needs for at least 15 years. Such a rock solid piece of software.

SQL is the way, SQL is always the way! I killed myself for hours this morning trying to query/clean some data in Rails, started writing raw SQL and had it sorted in 30 minutes!

Apparently I destroyed my fingerprint while climbing over the weekend- my MBP fingerprint no longer seems to work. It's a small feature but very missed when it doesn't work.

Morning Jog in Guelph. Rainy days like yesterday are perfect!

I just modified the Journal theme to allow for microblogging.

The UW Encampment

I've been watching with admiration and humility as students around the world have set up encampments demanding their schools disclose and divest from Israeli/defense industries. While the situation in Palestine has been gut-wrenching; it's been heartening to see the reactions of these brave students. Media

On “Rewilding The Internet”

I’ve been hearing this term a lot lately and, frankly, I think it is a fairly myopic view. If you live in a walled garden such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, The Artist Formally Known as Twitter, etc. then yes, it's easy to the feel that the internet

Back up and blogging? Sort of.

In conjunction with me finally overhauling my website I've decided to get on the blogging train. I've had a personal blog on and off since at least 2005. I started when I was 12 or 13 just adding text to a an HTML file and copying it into Geocities then Tripod then Dreamhost.