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Bryan Ruby
@bryanruby
Information Technologist - Recovering Meteorologist - Multi-Faceted Human
Sioux Falls, SD
Information Technology Officer for National Weather Service 💻 Former Meteorologist 🌤️Editor/Writer/Blogger focused on Technology, Content Management Systems, and Information Systems ✍Can-Am Spyder Rider 🏍️ Chiefs and Kansas fan! Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. 💭
76 Posts
Home Office 2024
I wrote a blog post on what's happening in my home office in 2024. A new standing desk and now space for my vinyl records, CDs, and yes...even cassette tapes. Blog Post It's X
It's time for media to stop saying "X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter". Almost everybody on this planet knows Twitter is now called X. Reading this sentence over and over is getting tiring. Having a difficult time finding my place here on Post. I visit often but never seem to have a lot to post and/or comment on... INFOTECH Pub, We Hardly Knew Ye ChatGPT in 2024: Predictions and Forecasts by Eleanor Hecks #ArtificialInteligence Subscription Model
The subscription model for anything is broke. Keep raising prices, upset your current customers, only offer a discount only when they cancel the subscription. Why not make your current customers happy instead of only pleasing those arriving or departing? This is a stupid game we This time of year, I feel it's important to give good advice to others. Feel free to follow-up with your own words of wisdom. Here is mine. Drinking hot chocolate and licking Christmas envelopes don't quite go together. Winter is Approaching
Despite our above normal temperatures this December, I finally accepted the undeniable truth that the temperatures now are just too cold to enjoy our patio. The patio furniture has been covered and moved into position to face the South Dakota winter with its fury of wind and snow A Thought
I am uncomfortable with those that try to sell this idea of "passive income" with little work required. There isn't a single genuine creator out there that ever found making money from their work to be easy money made. How about we call it want it is? Earned Income. That time of year where I being to doubt the value of a comment section below the articles on my websites. If you do manage a blog or website, do you still have a comment section on your pages? Alternative social media platforms
I'm doing articles focused on alternative social media platform. I'll eventually do one about this platform but for this month... Twitter Alternatives: Spending my time on Bluesky this Month “It’s Always about the music, never about anything else.” — Eddie Van Halen Expanded article on socPub compared to the one I wrote for my personal website. #CMS #Drupal Drupal 10 and the socPub Family of Websites | socPub I upgraded my personal website from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10. #CMS LinkedIn Premium
"Based on your recent activity, we'd like to give you a special offer - a one month free upgrade to LinkedIn Premium." Special Offer? I've been offered this "special offer" every other week since LinkedIn Premium was first offered. Give me a free year and then we'll talk! People with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are mostly just listening to AM/FM radio. The older I get the more positive I have become. Yea I know, this surprised me too as I expected it to go the other way when I was younger. The negative of being positive though is recognizing that the world could use a lot more positive people. Out with the Old, In with the New
I'm finding the old ways aren't working and perhaps joy can be found again by doing something new. With this theme on change, instead of blogging only when I'm inspired by great ideas or events, I decided to blog every few days as I take part in the 100 Days to Offload challenge. What Retirement Account Options Are Available for Tech Businesses and Their Employees? I have a love-hate relationship with the Firefox browser.
