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Ryan Sechrest

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<p>Software Engineer developing in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PHP</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JavaScript</span></a>. Parent of two little humans. Rower because it beats running. Gamer when everyone&#39;s in bed. Obsessed with the minutiae of code and life. Advocate for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalAutonomy</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Privacy</span></a>.</p><p>👉 Follow for project updates, dev insights, tech discoveries, and other musings.</p><p>🇺🇸 🇩🇪</p>

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    I&amp;#39;m trying to write copy for a small business website and it&amp;#39;s challenging, because I spent so long in a corporate environment, I forgot how to talk normally. It starts out sounding choppy yet authentic, but after several rounds of editing, I find myself wondering what I meant to say in the first place.

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    Before I delete an account from a service, I like to request my data to see what&amp;#39;s in there. Reviewing my #Discord export, I&amp;#39;m surprised to find there is a section dedicated to &amp;quot;frecency,&amp;quot; i.e. how often I used specific: stickers, emojis, application commands, applications, guilds and channels, and emoji reactions. Looking at emojis, it tracked: total uses, recent uses, and assigned some kind of score. Just... why? On the upside, I did learn that the 😂 emoj...

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    I have a manually-created, static website, and while it&amp;#39;s small enough to manage without tools, it&amp;#39;s a bit cumbersome to remain consistent when making global changes. After reviewing a number of static site generators, I decided to give Eleventy a try. It was incredibly simple and intuitive to use. I documented the set up for my fellow Fedora Silverblue developers on how to build a static website with Eleventy and Tailwind CSS. https://blog.ryansechrest.com/2026/02/build-a-sta...

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    For years I&amp;#39;ve used apps like Caffeine and Amphetamine to keep my Mac awake, but today I learned that there&amp;#39;s also a built-in command called `caffeinate` which provides basic functionality. #mac #command #terminal