This website is a virtual proof that I'm awesome https://irisfelshman.com/ Sometimes going back to the start is what you need to do to get to the future. - When I was out of my first tech job, because they were bought, I took a python course. This is the spring of 2016. After that, I became basically the ‘Python expert’ in the team that I joined, and wrote a lot of scripts - including an RPM, and a... Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-10-02-python-in-depth/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-10-02-python-in-depth/ :| - It’s been a minute! … I found something frustrating about windows, and NixOS, so figured I’d make a post. For Windows: in another episode of ‘Posting about bullshit I’ve found out on the internet’, Windows has an option to reduce fan noise built into it. As someone who really, really... Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-08-17-why-is-windows-like-this/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-08-17-why-is-windows-like-this/ Just a little tip! - So I have a 1TB Nextcloud instance. This is what I use to store all my personal files, and back up purchases. However, sometimes I download files, and it’s a large bank of things, and half of them are named “ 1.txt” or something. Let’s say you buy a large... Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-07-13-automate-renaming-your-files/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-07-13-automate-renaming-your-files/ some frivoloty, for once! - There’s a thing my friends have noticed about me: I buy laptops. It’s the thing I do, more than anything else, that makes me subject to capitalism. (Well … there’s also phones. However, in the last month I have had no less than three people ask me if I had... Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-06-27-the-minibook/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-06-27-the-minibook/ it took me longer than I hoped for this, heh. - Long time no talk! I’ve been good, honestly. Took a long amount of time offline and I don’t hate coding anymore, which is /pretty great/!! Still on sabbatical, but I caught covid. … And I made a small technical string to do something I wanted to do, so I figured... Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-05-22-adjusting-wav-files/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-05-22-adjusting-wav-files/ A step back to take a step forwards. - After a grandparent of mine died near the end of last year, I decided to take a step back from work for a good period (6m-1y, though we’ll see what I can take and how I can rejoin the workforce). And I’ve found that it’s been really, really useful, actually.... Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2025-01-07-sabbatical/ https://irisfelshman.com/2025-01-07-sabbatical/ Pretty easy, all in all! - This website is made with a Jekyll offshoot called ‘Beautiful Jekyll’. This is because I really wanted a static site for security, but didn’t like how my website design stuff worked out, especially with the fact that I had to do so much of it by hand. This is a... Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2024-05-26-updating-beautiful-jekyll/ https://irisfelshman.com/2024-05-26-updating-beautiful-jekyll/ So I wrote a post like this about my framework laptop. We are now a year and a half into the future, and I’ve bought windows for that laptop. I couldn’t deal with it. However, I bought a mac mini for a project. The project didn’t work, but I still... Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2024-02-08-jack-on-linux/ https://irisfelshman.com/2024-02-08-jack-on-linux/ I don't own any desktops. - Hi. I’m mostly writing this because I just bought a laptop that I don’t think anyone else has ever used, because as far as I can tell it has 0 (0) reviews on the internet. The Lenovo 10w. I kind of like it. And using it for the last week... Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2024-01-14-windows-arm-in-2024/ https://irisfelshman.com/2024-01-14-windows-arm-in-2024/ I would like to be able to "read" "text" on HiDPI screens. - I have too many laptops. One of them is a Framework, which I bought solely to use Linux, because I have the freedom to use something else when it’s annoying. … But at this point I’m close to just buying a Windows license anyways. Basically, the main source of my... Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2023-06-09-desktop-linux-sucks/ https://irisfelshman.com/2023-06-09-desktop-linux-sucks/ A rose by any other name would be as tangled. - I’ve been working in tech for a long while now. Over ten years! (That’s seventy in dog years!) And one thing I’ve noticed is that, especially when you immediately get into tech, there’s a lot of concern over the exact tools you’re using. The impact of choosing python over ruby,... Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2023-01-11-tech-doesnt-matter/ https://irisfelshman.com/2023-01-11-tech-doesnt-matter/ I think it's actually realistic now! - So I bought a Framework Laptop. https://frame.work/ Mostly this is because I want every tech product in the world (tm). But also, I’ve gotten into a point in my life where I can actually buy things not because they make the most sense, but because I want to. So with... Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2022-08-05-music-on-linux/ https://irisfelshman.com/2022-08-05-music-on-linux/ It sounds harder than it is. - jq is a command-line processing language for json! AWS has a bunch of CLI commands you can run that output in … pseudo-JSON! How do you sort that? Well … there are a lot of great posts on stackoverflow for it. I’ve gone through and am going to share the... Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2021-07-10-jq/ https://irisfelshman.com/2021-07-10-jq/ Money makes the world go 'round? - So. I quit my job, and did the things I said I’d do. But then I also … just kept interviewing, instead of taking a longer break. Which in retrospect seems like somewhat of a mistake. And in the middle of recovering from surgery, I … got another job. I’m... Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2021-07-09-back-in-devops/ https://irisfelshman.com/2021-07-09-back-in-devops/ Creation - and dedication. - I officially quit my job. (Over these next two weeks, I’m transferring knowledge to people and preparing for the time after.) I scheduled my last day to be December 31 - it seems almost artful, to take a break during COVID, and figure out what I want to do from... Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2020-12-18-new-beginnings/ https://irisfelshman.com/2020-12-18-new-beginnings/ Reasoning with the gaping maw of despair. - It’s interesting, how things always seem to be for a purpose to humans; how things seem to coalesce to a specific plan at a specific time. We always read into things. As humans we diagnose and spot patterns, and make the chaos of the world make sense. We are constantly... Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2020-10-08-on-COVID/ https://irisfelshman.com/2020-10-08-on-COVID/ I wrote a new - new game, for Narrascope’s Game Jam (a Narrative Fiction weeklong meeting of people who write and consume it). It’s 15,000 words, and has statistics you tweak by making choices, and various things you can unlock. I made this earlier, but forgot to post about it... Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2020-08-08-another-game/ https://irisfelshman.com/2020-08-08-another-game/ or, We must imagine Sisyphus productive - I’ve been starting to write medium posts about things, and start to submit posts again. After I graduated college the first time I wanted to be a writer, but I also had something like -$20,000 in my bank account. So that was a trifle unrealistic. But one thing I’m noticing... Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2020-01-31-submitting-work/ https://irisfelshman.com/2020-01-31-submitting-work/ existentialism - I’ve made a new game. 3k words, 2-3 days’ work. probably 10 minutes per playthrough, but I said what I needed to say. Let me know what you think! Game Link Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500 https://irisfelshman.com/2019-11-18-new-game/ https://irisfelshman.com/2019-11-18-new-game/ Just a picture I took of the rain, on this beautiful Chicago fall. Respect the rain, and the feeling it makes when it goes through you. <3 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400 https://irisfelshman.com/2019-10-05-rain_pictures/ https://irisfelshman.com/2019-10-05-rain_pictures/