From small town Montana kid to Cloud Architect, to now founder and entrepreneur. I have resigned my position and started my own business Integritas Cloud Solutions. This journey has been wild! I c...

On my original (hosted on Blogger…so 2010’s), I had a fair amount of technical posts, but I was not happy with the quality, nor the content (as they were more related to my on-prem work that I star...

UPDATE 11/2025: The delicate folding hinge broke inexplicably only months after owning it, so I went back to a slab OP13…only to then sell that I buy a Samsung S24 Ultra! I swore I would never leav...

Introduction I have been a major Android fan since the OG Moto Droid from Verizon in 2009. A short, and regrettable stint with iPhone in 2011-12, was the only time I wasn’t rocking a Android. I hav...

UPDATE 11/2025: For 2 years I have been perfecting my vault use and maintanence. I will be writing a new guide on this soon, as well as how I use Todoist alongside Obsidian to manage/organize my li...

UPDATE 11/2025: I will eventually be migrating this blog to Astro. I built my company website with it, Integritas Cloud Solutions. Now that I’ve migrated to GitHub Pages, here is my process for wr...

I have spent many hours over the past decade+ trying a host of note/knowledge and task management systems. The big ones everyone tried, like Evernote, OneNote, phone notes, markdown management apps...

This is my walkthrough of how to easily publish a site with GitHub pages and Jekyll. I am using the Chirpy-starter, which is just based off of the Chirpy Jekyll theme. There are a lot of Jekyll the...

I am finally spending the time to migrate off of Blogger and Google Sites onto the more dynamic and flexible system of Jekyll + GitHub Pages. I will be testing and refining this over the coming wee...