Andrew Healey

I’m convinced that writing is dead. I’ve been writing for decades. In the 90s and early 2000s, while learning tech, I tinkered a lot while blogging about the journey. It cemented what I learned, shared knowledge with others, and gave me a helpful career reference point. During Marine bootcamp, my rack mate Kuchenbecker let slip that I knew tech. Voila. I was named scribe. While recruits slept, I got to build a Microsoft Access recruit-tracking app so Drill Instructors could track metrics. Give a nerd a computer and they’ll use it. I sent short letters to family checking in and saying hi. The DIs would’ve blown a gasket if they’d found out about this little “integrity violation.”

This rebuild has been a long time coming. I finally carved out some time to work through my Obsidian -> Gitea -> GitHub -> Cloudflare Pages pipeline. Obsidian has become my Personal Knowledge Management platform. Editing all the content in the same place I take notes, brainstorm, and organize my life really is a comfortable setup. Gitea has become my playground for automations without incurring the personal costs or data sovereignty concerns over on GitHub. Since this is where my projects live, it only makes sense to keep it there.

Recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons replaced the right Ctrl key with a “Copilot” key. But instead of implementing it as a single, remappable scancode like any sane manufacturer would, they hardwired an absolute mess into the firmware. What actually happens when you press it: The embedded controller fires a rapid sequence: Left Shift down (0x2a) Left Win/Meta down (0xe05b) F23 down (0xe06e) F23 up (0xe0ee) Left Meta up (0xe0db) Left Shift up (0xaa) It’s a hardwired Win+Shift+F23.